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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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: Texas Fossil

I’ll second that!


41 posted on 02/20/2009 12:25:39 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What happened? I thought for 8 years they told us “dissent is patriotic”.


42 posted on 02/20/2009 12:25:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Mr. President, Why am I being punished with a bailout?)
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To: farlander
This guy lies and propagandizes and obfuscates with every breath.

That is the prerequisite for most any job with democrats these days.

43 posted on 02/20/2009 12:25:48 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: Badeye

Call me dubious...particularly since Santelli isn’t living off the government/us.


44 posted on 02/20/2009 12:25:53 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Oh, so now if you have a house and are making the payments- you’re not entitled to criticize the deadbeats looking for gubmint money?

I predicted Santelli would get a “Joe the Plumber” media colonoscopy-. I didn’t expect the WH press secretary to be cheering. Gibbs is a despicable liitle grub, isn’t he?
A pasty twerp punk who probably has to pay for dates.

Who is he related to that got him that job????


45 posted on 02/20/2009 12:25:57 PM PST by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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To: jalisco555
Santelli touched a nerve, didn’t he?

Joe the Plumber - Part II. No one should dare get in the way of the messiah's socialist agenda.

46 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:02 PM PST by jersey117
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Here’s an idea, maybe the government can freely allow private citizens to exercise their first amendment rights to criticize. Didn’t Hilary say that it was patriotic to voice dissent?


47 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:10 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: MrB

Mr. President, I don’t want to be punished with a bailout.


48 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Mr. President, Why am I being punished with a bailout?)
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To: jalisco555

We’ve found out that 0bama doesn’t like to be called a Socialist, and gets real bent out of shape when it happens.

He probably is fuming at Putin as of yesterday.


49 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:18 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I watched the youtube at the link.

Gibbs is a punk. The whole White House crew are punks.

50 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:28 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Does the current occupant of the White House know we have a document called the Constitution of the United States? It’s hard to tell, since he has spent the fist month of this administration weighing the feasibility of destroying citizen’s rights protected under the First Amendment.


51 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:34 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Resolved: Gregg, McCain, Snowe, Spectre: 2010, Collins, Graham: 2014)
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To: rbg81

Rush wondered how long before the troops deployed to Alaska to dumpster dive would be on his case.


52 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:38 PM PST by redk
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I suspect Mr. Santelli’s affiliation with General Electric and NBC News is about to come to an end.


53 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: jalisco555

“Santelli touched a nerve, didn’t he?”

<<<Sure did!


54 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:44 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: jessduntno

Wow, I hope that has gone viral in a big way!


55 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:53 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives.....

Me neither.....but I'd be willing to bet his mortgage and tax payments are current.

56 posted on 02/20/2009 12:26:59 PM PST by edpc
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Flip and spin to class envy and racism...its a pattern.

The guy told it like it is.


57 posted on 02/20/2009 12:27:08 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: Texas Fossil

Count me in too. I up for a some serious hell raising!


58 posted on 02/20/2009 12:27:22 PM PST by Merlinator (January 20. 2009, A National Day of Mourning)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I'm frightened at the direction this White House is taking us with respect to the Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression. It's “cool” to burn a flag, but express disagreement with 0-ba-ma and you will be targeted, your tax history looked up, and any and all private information will be publicly discussed by the PRESS SECRETARY no doubt. Imagine if President Bush had said, “I'm not sure how much Ms. Sheehan loved her son, but those who do love their sons are supporting me.”
59 posted on 02/20/2009 12:27:38 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan (I no longer have a President. I just pray in four years I still have a country.)
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To: Texas Fossil
I liked his outburst. He was dead-on the mark.

Heard it WLS this morning, with discussion following. It was great. A Chicago Tea Party? I'm in!

60 posted on 02/20/2009 12:27:40 PM PST by Skid Marx
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