It's the only thing Frankenstein monsters like Peelousy fear!
Posted on 02/20/2009 10:37:36 PM PST by dixiechick2000
Last year a casual neighborhood visit from Obama, during a photo-op door-to-door campaign, produced Joe the Plumber. Now, from an equally unlikely source (CNBC), comes Joe's blood brother -- Rick Santelli. The issue is still the same: spreading the wealth.
In case you’ve been sequestered on a murder jury the last few days, Santelli did a five minute rant on CNBC ripping Obama's bailout plans. See the video here.
The audacity of this obscure CNBC correspondent! This upstart, Rick Santelli!
His network colleagues, NBC’s Brian Williams and talk show host Matt Lauer, interrogated Santelli on air, with negative results.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Santelli doesn’t know what he’s talking about and invited him to the White House for a cup of decaf coffee. (The implied smack is that Rick the Trader needs to calm down.)
Here’s Santelli’s background :
A veteran trader and financial executive, Santelli has provided live reports on the markets in print and on local and national radio and television. He joined CNBC from the Institutional Financial Futures and Options at Sanwa Futures, L.L.C. There, he was a vice president handling institutional trading and hedge accounts for a variety of futures related products.
Prior to that, Santelli worked as vice president of Institutional Futures and Options at Rand Financial Services, Inc., served as managing director at the Derivative Products Group of Geldermann, Inc., and was Vice President in charge of Interest Rate Futures and Options at the Chicago Board of Trade for Drexel, Burnham, Lambert. Santelli began his career in 1979 as a trader and order filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a variety of markets including gold, lumber, CD's, T-bills, foreign currencies and livestock.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree. Santelli has been a member of both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.
Now, here’s Gibb’s background :
Robert L. Gibbs (b. March 29, 1971) is an American political consultant, and the current White House Press Secretary. Gibbs was the communications director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama and Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Gibbs, who has worked with Obama since 2004, was press secretary of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and has previously specialized in Senate campaigns, having served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and for four individual Senate campaigns, including those of Obama in 2004 and Fritz Hollings in 1998. Gibbs was also the press secretary of Representative Bob Etheridge. On November 22, 2008, Gibbs was announced as the press secretary of the Obama administration.[4] He assumed the role of press secretary on January 20, 2009, and gave his first official briefing on January 22…
While a student at North Carolina State in 1991, Gibbs became an intern for Congressman Glenn Browder. Gibbs quickly rose through the ranks of Browder's staff, rising to become the representative's executive assistant in Washington, D.C. Gibbs returned to Alabama in 1996 to work on Browder's unsuccessful Senate campaign that year.
So, let’s see if we have this straight. Political hack since college, Robert Gibbs, invited seasoned financial executive Santelli to the White House where Gibb's (the bureaucratic factotum) will lecture Santelli (the trader/financial executive) on the markets. Rick said he’ll come.
If they sell tickets, put me down for a dozen.
I'd pay to see that!
We’re gonna need a LOT of popcorn!
“If they sell tickets, put me down for a dozen.”
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Rather than passively watch, I think the time is rapidly approaching when we’d be much better served to stand shoulder-to-shoulder, Spartan-style, with the likes of Rick Santelli.
Good grief, this sounds like an “Alice-in-Wonderland” version of The Offsprings’ ‘Come out and Play’!
The political hack VS the dude who actually plays the game?
The world IS upside down.
With hot tar, feathers and pitchforks.
“With hot tar, feathers and pitchforks.”
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Too much to carry.
I’ll bring my 12ga short-barrel, extended mag pump action and Kimber .45 ACP.
Bump dat!
I know.
Isn’t it delicious? ;o)
I watched the clips with Gibbs...he seemed more of a used-car salesman, than a White House spokesman. In this case....its not just Rick who is calling the White House out....almost 90 percent of the true financial experts in America...are calling them out. You have to go to some think-tanks with paid financial consultants for the Democrats....to get a counter argument.
I think Rick has hit the button on this entire discussion. You’ve got idiots trying to fix something and they are simply making the problem worse, rather than better. Rick also doesn’t have much good to say over the SEC. He knows that they haven’t done their job in twenty years.
Don’t let ‘em silence you, Rick!
rick santelli is my boy; spokesman for all of us
Let’s see... so far we got the following outstanding invitations...
- Hennety & obama for a beer
- Santelli and obama for a decaf
The next’s got to be
- Rush and obama for a cigar!!
That Gibbs had the audacity yesterday at a Press Conference to invite Santelli to read the bill. Does that airbag not realize that the bill was signed by legislators that DID NOT read the bill! Sick and getting sicker.
- Rush and obama for a cigar!!
No cigars for frustrated basketball wannabes.
It's the only thing Frankenstein monsters like Peelousy fear!
“You’ve got idiots trying to fix something and they are simply making the problem worse, rather than better.”
I don’t think they’re trying to FIX anything.
What they’re doing is deliberately destroying what exists so that it can be rebuilt in their image.
The Obammunists aren’t misinformed, naive or ignorant. They know exactly what they’re doing and what their goal is....
You sir, have hit the nail squarely on the head. The apparent incompetence, is simply a smoke screen to allow them to implement their socialist agenda.
They are not fools, though frequently, they appear to be. They know exactly what they are doing. They create one outrage after another, until we simply cannot keep abreast of them. These people must be stopped, before it is to late for our Country.
bump!
I agree bump!
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