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 Obamas 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 Fridays news briefing.
Ive watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. Im 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 Obamas program would amount to a transfer of money from prudent taxpayers to those who had taken reckless risks.
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Great post! I’m a short drive from the Boston Tea Party.
They know they’re in trouble. One of my coworkers was talking about how bad of a speaker President Bush was, so I showed her several videos of Obama stumbling and bumbling when he didn’t have a teleprompter.
She also couldn’t believe the “57 states” comment — she admitted that we would never have heard the end of it if Bush said that. She also didn’t understand how anyone could say that; it should be so ingrained in our mind, like second nature.
That's certainly true for those of us who grew up in America, isn't it?
I mean disagreements.
They would be wise not to tread there...even politically neutral people would rebel if they lost the freedom of the Internet.
Good to see you’re from Missouri - and that our state is one that’s attempting to affirm the 10th Amendment.
Point taken!
Of course no one has read it.
That would be a Jake "Tap-Tap" Tapper question...
Great to meet you!
I had no idea about missouri’s
Bill! I just past that along to some fellow missourians. Thanks!
Great to meet you, also! As a sign of protest, I ordered some stickers of the First Navy Jack - you can see it on my homepage.
Incoming tag line....
This is the essence of this smelly little Obamian emission. It is menacing against a private citizen by the chief executive, just as it was when it was perpetrated against Rush Limbaugh. And the "Good Germans" of the media suck along in harmony.
“Time to abort Obama!”
His mother screwed up!
"Zee Obama administration makes me happy as a little girl..."
All I know is that the little hairs on the back of my neck stood up when he said that.
Yes. It is about time for the 21st century patriots to revolt. We want out forefathers to be proud.
nump
He probably thought that somebody had to say something.
The honeymoon's over.
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