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  • Meet Joe the Plumber's Brother: Rick the Trader

    02/20/2009 10:37:36 PM PST · by dixiechick2000 · 25 replies · 1,505+ views
    American Thinker ^ | February 21, 2009 | Lee Cary
    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...
  • The White House Encourages Santelli, On Purpose

    02/20/2009 5:55:40 PM PST · by Lorianne · 52 replies · 1,360+ views
    The Atlantic ^ | Feb 20 2009 | Marc Ambinder
    This is very simple. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs went out of his way today to blast CNBC's Rick Santelli for his "rant" yesterday against Obama's mortgage assistance plan. The early press reaction asks why the White House would give Santelli free publicity and elevate him to Official status? Easy: they'd rather the opposition be identified with Santelli and stock brokers than with, say, a Joe the Plumber type (but who actually is a plumber and who has serious real reservations about the mortgage plan). Let opponents of the plan get into a tizzy, and let them have Santelli...