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WH lashes out at CNBC's Santelli
Politico ^ | February 20, 2009 | JOSH GERSTEIN

Posted on 02/20/2009 12:17:39 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

The White House is lashing out publicly and personally at a CNBC reporter whose attack on President Barack Obama’s anti-foreclosure plan caught fire on the Internet on Thursday.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs jumped at the chance to go after the CNBC journalist, Rick Santelli, when a question about his bracing critique was asked at Friday’s news briefing.

“I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school,” Gibbs said. “I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader that it was good for Main Street. I think the verdict is in on that,” the press secretary said, poking directly at the cable journalist, who reports from the trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade.

Gibbs insisted Santelli was misinformed when he said Obama’s program would amount to a transfer of money from prudent taxpayers to those who had taken reckless risks.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: achillwind; acorn; chicagomafia; cnbc; concreteshoes; fanniemae; freddiemac; gibbs; liberty; mortgage; obama; obamunism; santelli; staterunmedia; teaparty; threat; tyranny
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To: Rockitz
“this turns out to be pure and simple pay back for their loyal irresponsible followers”

So true. So is the “pay by the mile” idea versus a gasoline tax. You see, most densely packed cities clogged with traffic vote democratic. Because you are in stop and go traffic, you burn more gas per mile. Hence “pay by the mile” will (in general) favor Democratic areas versus Republican areas.

Sick and wrong.

161 posted on 02/20/2009 12:52:07 PM PST by Gabrial ("Change" = Highway Robbery)
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To: central_va

He said he didn’t want to take a bath every hour...so no going to DC, LOL.


162 posted on 02/20/2009 12:52:10 PM PST by dawn53
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To: DJ MacWoW
"I believe that Obama has a personality disorder.

Oh, now you're really getting me going.

How many times during Bush's presidency did we hear arm-chair psychologists "shrinking" Bush on national television? He was diagnosed and labeled everything from a dry-drunk to suffering a Oedipal complex to being dyslexic to suffering from drug addiction.

Now, Obama is a guy who has written TWO books. On what subject? Himself. Before the age of 44, he had written TWO AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. How large much a person's ego be to compel him to write two books about himself? If there's ever an example of someone suffering from a Messianic complex, it's Barack Obama (by the way, people sure weren't afraid to throw that charge around against Bush).

I think Obama has abandonment issues, severe narcissistic tendencies and perhaps even some hints of anti-social behavior. And, given his penchant for cocaine and cigarettes and even his Blackberry, he clearly has an addictive personality.

In short, Barack Obama is a therapist's dream come true.

163 posted on 02/20/2009 12:52:12 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Fu-fu2

I haven’t been to the Taste in years. Too big a crowd, way too expensive. But I would go to this, and bring all of my friends. It would be a ‘taste’ all right, one that would be hard for them to swallow.


164 posted on 02/20/2009 12:53:11 PM PST by Skid Marx
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To: Blue Turtle

See this from Sept.2008...I just started a thread see link at post #159.


165 posted on 02/20/2009 12:53:37 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Chicago style thugocracy!

"I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives"

Nice. He could have thrown something in about where his wife works or where the kids go to school but that would have been too obvious.

166 posted on 02/20/2009 12:53:44 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: 1rudeboy
I rarely watch CNBC when in my office but happened to have it on yesterday and watched it live (CNBC played it over and over throughout the day). I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Watching Gibbs’ threatening response tells us Santelli was directly over the target. Marxists sure are thin skinned.
167 posted on 02/20/2009 12:54:42 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: XR7

Redo the math — it’s probably around $25 trillion - a he11 of a lot of $$.


168 posted on 02/20/2009 12:54:56 PM PST by expatpat
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To: DJ MacWoW
“I believe that Obama has a personality disorder”

No, Obama is a chronic heavy smoker, never saw a smoker that was all there...

169 posted on 02/20/2009 12:55:17 PM PST by thinking
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To: Big_Monkey
In short, Barack Obama is a therapist's dream come true.

And America's nightmare. With a court jester as VP.

170 posted on 02/20/2009 12:55:50 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Does Gibbs have wife and kids?

Jusst askin


171 posted on 02/20/2009 12:57:04 PM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW ,)
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To: Skid Marx

“I haven’t been to the Taste in years. Too big a crowd, way too expensive. But I would go to this, and bring all of my friends. It would be a ‘taste’ all right, one that would be hard for them to swallow.”

Same here, but I will be attending this year also!


172 posted on 02/20/2009 12:57:30 PM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: thinking
Did you see this?

Barack Obama is a narcissist

173 posted on 02/20/2009 12:57:43 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: XR7

What about the one’s who have paid off their mortgage loan? Your suggestion would be very unfair to them......


174 posted on 02/20/2009 12:58:37 PM PST by expatpat
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To: expatpat; XR7
According to this PDF file, page 110, US home mortgages are about $10.5 trillion.
175 posted on 02/20/2009 12:58:46 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Havoc has been back since September. Or was it April?)
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To: All

This is for Gibbs, send this message back... don’t worry, there’s much more where this comes from. (RNC ping)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-YoB5mnZs


176 posted on 02/20/2009 12:59:46 PM PST by AliVeritas (And while the rest of the nation was still sleepin', they'll be bidding America goodbye.)
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To: rbg81

“Hope Mr. Santelli doesn’t have a mysterious “accident””

He at least needs to make sure that his federal tax returns are properly documented. An audit is probably headed his way.


177 posted on 02/20/2009 12:59:57 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Robert Gibbs is a pimp


178 posted on 02/20/2009 1:00:33 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (I hear the words of Jefferson louder and louder as each day passes)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

The class hatred among the Obamanistas is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

Only dyed-in-the-wool Commies worry about what kind of a house a man lives in!


179 posted on 02/20/2009 1:00:40 PM PST by Palladin ("...the one with the big ears--he AIN'T my President!"...Etta James)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Further proof of Obama’s thin skin and vindictiveness. This is an unprecedented attack on a private citizen by the president.

I wonder how long before Obama mobilizes his leftist brownshirt army of ACORN, Organizing for America, & Moveon.org to launch a campaign against Santelli.


180 posted on 02/20/2009 1:01:15 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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