Santelli: The White House sort of made a veiled threat against me, didn’t it?
posted at 6:09 pm on February 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
I don’t know what’s worse, the possibility that he’s making this accusation in good faith or that he isn’t. Watch the clip of Gibbs calling him out for his rant. Clearly, all he means is that if Santelli’s rich and lives in a mansion then he can’t be expected to understand the problems of the average homeowner who (supposedly) needs help from Obama’s mortgage plan. The left pulls this faux-victim garbage all the time, drawing sinister insinuations from conservative rhetoric when obviously none are intended. Sad that this guy would stoop to the same thing.
Update (Ed): We talked about this on my show today, and it’s ridiculous. Santelli has a legitimate complaint about Gibbs using a class warfare attack against him with that comment, but in no way was Gibbs threatening Santelli. It would be nice if the Right didn’t mimic the worst habits of the Left, as Allahpundit says, especially on paranoid-victimization routines.
Was Gibbs’ comment “unpresidential”? Yes, but he was asked to respond to Santelli, and he did, more or less in campaign mode. The comment from Gibbs didn’t come without prompting from the press.
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After posting here for almost 4 years, I don’t agree with everything our blog hosts (AP or ED) put out there.
But to walk into his own house and talk the way you two do to our host…well if you had talked to me that way in my home, I would pile rock, dirt and sandbags up around you both and make you part of my berm for the next firefight.
Now…say you’re sorry for saying the things you say…or &^$#@!
Not Over.
1GooDDaDDy on February 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM
please stop digging. It’s embarrassing.
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Isn’t an implied unwarranted investigation (joe the plumber) a threat? I’d be pissed, and I’d immediately hire a PI to crawl up Gibb’s/Obama’s ass.
marklmail on February 24, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Let’s get this right.
There was no “yet,” and no “we don’t know where Mr. Santelli lives yet.”
I went back and watched the original video, and this is what Gibbs said:
“I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hrs 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 mortgage . . .”
That is all he said. He shouldn’t have named Santelli (the reporter posing the question had not, though he had named Rush), and of course he shouldn’t have spoken with such contempt. But he didn’t say, “We don’t know where he lives yet,” or even, “I don’t know where he lives yet.”
Alana on February 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM
The word key is pretty funny.
Guardian on February 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Alana on February 24, 2009 at 7:14 PM
you’re exactly right Alana, but why did Mr. Santelli’s house even get mentioned?
Fighton03 on February 24, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Santelli pissed about the bailout
Santelli takes down Kramer
Santelli v Liesman
flyfisher on February 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Wake up! Santelli is based in Chicago. He knows who is capable of doing what, and he knows what he is talking about.
jay12 on February 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM
Do you not remember Kramer going positively primate over the pre-TARP I behavior of the Fed and Bernanke? Skip to 1:55 for the screaming.
The only distinction is that Kramer is talking about the Bush administration and appointments.
spmat on February 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Rick Santelli, a member of the press, made a criticism of a presidential policy and the press secretary makes a direct reference to Santelli’s own residence by using words like “where he lives… what house he lives in”. Regardless of the intended meaning, the targeted nature of the secretary’s reply leaves him open to attack. If the press secretary wished to avoid this criticism, or this misunderstanding by Santelli ( but mostly by the person giving the interview, this Gordon fellow), the secretary should have acted far more professionally, because acting professionally is how people can avoid being misunderstood from the beginning.
tartan on February 24, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Good work. Appreciate the effort.
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Only about 7% are struggling, and most of them are people who had no business signing up for those mortgage loans in the first place. And the rest of us aren’t interested in having our tax dollars used to pay down the loans of deadbeats and speculators and illegal aliens and people who were too lazy or stupid to read and/or understand the terms of the contracts they signed.
AZCoyote on February 24, 2009 at 7:22 PM
C’mon, Rick. When did Dems ever go after a private citizen merely for questioning Barry?
Christien on February 24, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Wasn’t Gibbs responding to a question about Santelli at the presser? Nothing wrong with him disputing the charge, which for liberals means resorting to page 1, section 1 of the class warfare playbook. He probably would have gone for section 2 (calling your opponent a racist at the drop of a hat) if he could have gotten away with it.
But I can see how Santelli might be more sensitive to being called out than say, me, who wasn’t called out. Maybe if Gibbs would just mock the ACORN thugs for breaking and entering or their ‘housing is a right’ platform it might make Santelli feel better (it would for me). Whatever the case, he’s still on target and was more than fair in the interview, so I’m not seeing the outrage on this one.
A.C. McCloud on February 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM
That’s a very good point. We’ve already seen the effects of Dear Leader’s supporters taking it on their own to silence critics. “I know where he lives” has long been a crack meant to send a message either as a threat to the critic or to supporters to “take care of it.” Makes one wonder about the thought, if any about that line.
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Gibbs is the world’s biggest goober. His mouth moves and his lips articulate in hopes of a thought popping out. In this case, which I watched in real time, Gibbs was searching his cranium for a response, glommed on the bit abouot Santelli’s house and where it was…like, was Santelli’s house in foreclosure???…in order to make time to think of something , perhaps relevant, to say.
This was no threat, unless it was to Gibbs’ ultimate short tenure as White House Press Secretary. Gibbs is just terribly insufficient at this gendre. He only was good at laughing and talking sports on Morning Joe. This series of ‘what and where about Santelli’ was just a stupid, but horribly normal, stumble and mumble by Gibbs the Goober. I only watch him to see him get all stuck (‘tharn’ a la “Watership Down”) and paralyzed in the headlights.
It’s almost a miscarriage of justice to assume Gibbs meant something threatening. Gibbs is just a little. too. stupid.
marybel on February 24, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Anyone else noticed that everyone associated with the Obama administration is incompetent? Gibbs has not shown the skills necessary for his job. Now Ari was an excellent press secretary.
TXMomof3 on February 24, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Ever notice how these types of “ambiguous” statements and gestures are associated with Obama and his administration? Lipstick on a pig, the various middle finger incidents, etc., etc. Sort of a pattern, yes?
If Bush’s press secretary had said something ambiguous like this, how do you think it would be spun? Gibbs, and this adminstration in general need to be much more careful how they speak.
And to say Gibb’s display wasn’t an attack, is simply absurd. After all if it wasn’t a threat, than it was clearly telling everyone the guy was a rich ******* (you know, the kind of person who caused all this trouble to begin with, wink, wink). That’s not an attack?
You’re going out of your way, to defend Gibbs, AP.
Dreadnought on February 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Gibbs is a parody of a comedy of a tragedy.
I enjoy.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
If Santelli really wanted to parody the left he would have his attorney come out and claim his client had “received threatening phone calls and death threats”.
Isn’t that what lefties do whenever they end up in the spotlight for doing something embarrassing?
jeanneb on February 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
And they’re calling him out like he’s a terrorist. Actually, worse.
You don’t think that was an attack. Weird.
Jim Treacher on February 24, 2009 at 7:26 PM
AP…are you guys going to put up a speech thread?
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Another tinfoil hat kook.
getalife on February 24, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Thanks for announcing your presence but we know what you are.
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
I don’t think Gibbs threatened him, but Obama didn’t threaten Joe the plumber or Michael Steele, yet looked what happened to their personal data.
Must be nice to have minions that don’t even need orders.
aikidoka on February 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
You’ve got a problem with me stating the obvious? Allah regularly takes little swipes at traditional values and conservatives. I don’t know, and am not responsible, for what anyone else said, but what I posted was factually accurate. I won’t call Allah a liberal, but he’s often comes off as less than conservative. And I am hardly the first to point that out. If calling him a RINO hurt his feelings, then maybe I should apologize. I simply call them like I see them. I hope he didn’t take it personally any more than I took it personally when he took a shot a me a few months ago. This country is going to hell in a speedboat, so sometimes I don’t understand his seeming willingness to defend the other side while simultaneously mocking those who are fighting for conservatism. I like Allah, enjoy his work, and I really appreciate what he does. But I often don’t understand his thinking. I am a Southern evangelical alpha male. I suspect I would have difficulty relating to Allah, an admitted New York athiestic beta male. But there is no animus.
And for the record, I almost never comment on our hosts. I have commented on the “birth certificate truther” label and within this thread. But as far as I can remember, those are the only two issues I have taken issue with enough to take a jab at Hot Air. If they don’t like Santelli’s rant, then I contend they are out-of-step with a huge percentage of Americans, particularly conservative Americans. And I am an attorney who believes constitutional issues are minor, particularly when it comes to the qualifications to be president of this great land.
flyfisher on February 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Honestly completely aside from my personel views of the stimulus and in particular mortgage rescue aspect of it, i really don’t care about what a guy who as far as i can tell only speaks for the views of derivatives traders thinks about any form of financial rescue package. Those guys need to keep there heads down and hope people forget what they did to the price of oil around the world the last few yearss and the amount of people who were severly hurt financially by it. So politely stfu and go away now RICK
Equanim1ty found on February 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM
For all the reasons others have said: This administration was built (literally) on trying to destroy the opposition, by whatever means; whether or not the opposition is someone running against Obama, or just a citizen who criticizes Obama, or even simply asks him a too-revealing question, like Joe the Plumber.
Obama and everyone around him has contempt for the American people, and they go out of their way to intimidate and belittle private citizens (well known or not), by name.
Their minions do the dirty work (like the woman in Ohio who went through the government records to leak things about Joe the Plumber), and they not only don’t mind, they love it.
They know when they mention someone by name that their supporters are going to go right ahead with the plan of personal destruction, and they count on that. They give the green light for it.
I just wanted to make it clear exactly what Gibbs had said, before people got too carried away with this “yet” business.
Alana on February 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM
It wasn’t a threat so much as a starting point for political discussion and therefore political counterattack.
We don’t know where this new Joe the Plumber wannabe lives and how much he makes, but now that he made himself a target why don’t you reporters find out for us? You know, check him out…Joe the Plumber style.
econavenger on February 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
You don’t really know what you’re talking about, do you? Those traders are not in the oil pits and they do not have the kind of influence to spike a market like that.
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Equanim1ty found:
Rick Santelli is not a trader; he is a financial journalist who repeatedly issued warnings about these products over the past years, and in fact is barred from owning any type of securities due to the regulations of his network.
blue13326 on February 24, 2009 at 7:37 PM
GIBBS: BROWNSHIRT.
reliapundit on February 24, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I meant to say:
And I am an attorney who believes NO constitutional issues are minor, particularly when it comes to the qualifications to be president of this great land.
flyfisher on February 24, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Steak tartare like that pays the bills here. Count on it.
He’s an Eeyore. It’s his place and his style. You must have missed the Fred! threads. My head exploded at least fourteen times.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 7:40 PM
If they don’t like Santelli’s rant, then I contend they are out-of-step with a huge percentage of Americans, particularly conservative Americans.
Who says I didn’t like his rant? I did. But for him to suggest or agree with a suggestion that what Gibbs said was a “threat” is just ridiculous and the kind of victim-card nonsense we see from the Left.
Ed Morrissey on February 24, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Hey. It seems to have worked for the left for years. When in Rome… ???
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM
That’s what you think and you entitled to your opinion and having stusied the derivative markets in undergrad and postgraduate degrees i know what i think, although if you want an example of where derivatives trading has had a serious effect on an economy take a look at “Black Wednesday” and the activities of one George Soros, these guys have no scruples
Equanim1ty found on February 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Hey Ed. ;)
seejanemom on February 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM
So you think it was a bit snarky but nothing more?
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Oh yeah, I remember. I tuned much of that.
flyfisher on February 24, 2009 at 7:44 PM
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.
Santelli later became 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 the firm Drexel Burnham Lambert. Drexel Burnham Lambert was a major Wall Street investment banking firm, which first rose to prominence and then was driven into bankruptcy in February 1990 by its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market.
His previous job before joining CNBC was as a vice president at the Institutional Financial Futures and Options at Sanwa Futures, L.L.C., where he handled institutional trading and hedge accounts for a variety of futures related products.
Equanim1ty found on February 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Yes, but there is a big difference between Soros and the traders you just attacked in your rant. I agree that Soros can move a market, but those guys lose their shirt and their jobs if they try and lose such a play. Slam Soros all you want but make the distinction clear.
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Ed Morrissey on February 24, 2009 at 7:41 PM
I think most folks would call it hyperbole.
The Opposition Party can’t afford to take the High Road anymore, Ed. The stakes are simply too high.
HYPERBOLE 1
seejanemom on February 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Good times. Good times.
I still wanna wrench his little neck, though. ;)
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Last year a liberal Seattle publication, The Stranger, posted pictures of GOP signs in front of houses and listed their addresses, under the guise of a Halloween edition about scary yards. They say it was all in jest and a misunderstanding, and offered a psuedo-apology. They reposted the article with the addresses redacted (content warning: clicker beware http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=740442).
Joe The Plumber, and Sarah Palin are only the most recent examples of how the left treats those who stand up. Look at how quick Joe’s private records were publicly posted vs. how many institutions have bent over backwards to protect BO’s.
AP, I am sure you would say I’m parsing sentences just like people did with the infamous “I did not have sex with that woman, (pause) Monica Lewinsky”, supposedly by pausing Clinton was talking to Lewinsky vs about her, thus he didn’t lie.
Re-listen to Gibbs, “I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable. . . I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives” and then he goes on about the poor poor pitiful poor losing their houses. Just like the Stranger wasn’t “directly” advocating their liberal readers find these conservative houses by writing “Do you have what it takes to drive a stake through the heart of zombie Dino Rossi or blast a shotgun into the chest of zombie Dave Reichert or fight off the reanimated ashes of Steve Litzow, swirling out of that terrifying urn?”, Gibbs wasn’t “directly” advocating to these poor people losing their homes that they locate where Santelli lives. If you don’t think that this is indeed a veiled indirect threat then tuck your head back into the sand Mr. Ostrich (aka Allahpundit et al).
Mr. Santelli’s address and private information will be made public, maybe not nationally, but public nonetheless.
nwnelson on February 24, 2009 at 7:49 PM
I think what there was an implied threat there, but maybe I am overreacting to what Gibbs said. But after what Obama supporters did to Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, maybe I’m looking for it. Also, I lived in Chicago during Obama’s first senate run. I watched it carefully. The man his people are ruthless. They don’t care who they trample to get their way. But I suspect you understand that.
flyfisher on February 24, 2009 at 7:49 PM
“I think he’s referring to the fact that Gibbs said “we don’t know where he lives, yet”
So was that a callout to Obama’s minions ala JTP, Palin?
To go to it seek and destroy.
I wonder how many of Ricks files have been pulled already?
DSchoen on February 24, 2009 at 7:50 PM
Equanim1ty found:
What’s your point?
You cite his pre-1990 CV for what reason? He’s been a financial journalist for the past decade.
blue13326 on February 24, 2009 at 7:50 PM
I’m used to a President who makes us feel good about ourselves, who talks to us as equals, all on the same side. Most presidents seem to have more or less done that.
Now I’ve got a President and an administration that ridicules and talks down to the populace, singling out individuals where desired. We get to hear how we are bitter clingers, childish, or cowards, and things like that. We get preached at.
It’s very demoralizing. I’ll be happy when we get an administration who are on the side of the American people again, who love America and its people, and who don’t go on these little jihads against private citizens.
Alana on February 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM
What did the guy do? Mumble “mmm hmm” when Liddy brought it up? Oh he’s such a victim.
Ronnie on February 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM
But this guy is a rock star with the walk and the “Ya’ll havin’ fun out there” and the posse to prove it. Very presidential, don’t you think?
genso on February 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Rich and lives in a Chicago mansion? Are you/Gibb talking about Obama? This is confusing./
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Oh – and one other thing. To hell with decorum.
Alana on February 24, 2009 at 7:53 PM
It’s an attack in so far as it’s an effort to mute.
Spirit of 1776 on February 24, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Nah, he was threatened, called out by the Pres. of the US. Don Corleone didn’t yell either.
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Agree. And “attack” is stronger than a “threat.”
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I’d agree with that. It’s kinda hard to attack when your kneecap is in a thousand pieces.
Unfortunately, it’s gonna take the GOP too much time to realize that, I think. They’re not really good at Chicago style stuff. Except maybe pizza.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 7:57 PM
He announced to the entire country that he thinks Rick Santelli should drink decaf. Hell, that attack wasn’t even veiled. That was just gibbs belittling a member of the media for speaking against The One. How could anyone who writes this blog be so ridiculously naive as to say Rick’s playing the victim-card?
Ronnie on February 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Time to walk the dog and take out the garbage. Should take about an hour.
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Hey, at least Santelli isn’t claiming that “he inherited a trillion dollar deficit” like the Charlatan in Chief will claim tonight in his SOTU address.
Anyone want to bet on who in the MSM calls him on this pernicious lie?
Buy Danish on February 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM
OOPS. Forgot the link to the Orwellian lie, courtesy of the true believers at DU.
Buy Danish on February 24, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I agree with all that you say. Every appearance is another installment in, “Barry Knows Best.” Tonight will be no different.
Cody1991 on February 24, 2009 at 8:04 PM
And what is the deficit when he took office BD?
getalife on February 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Obfuscate and impune, impune and obfuscate…you stay classy Mr. Organizer and chief.
moxie_neanderthal on February 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM
The Gibbs answer was like BHO’s speeches. No substance, no details about the 7 % of Americans . . . And what kind of a house Santelli lives in means……is related to…..WHAT ?
It was a non answer, Dodgeball.
And the press just takes it from their Master. . . .Gibbs owns most of them.
JayTee on February 24, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Then Larry Kudlow is also ridiculous. Only you and AP are not.
May you never be in the Government’s cross hairs.
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Santelli was “ranting” about how the WH mortgage “solution” was unAmerican and contrary to our sense of justice that the taxpaying public is being asked to assume the burden of the irresponsible. Santelli was ranting about a policy, not a person; ie., Obama, Gibbs, or anyone else associated with that horrendous package.
Gibbs personalized the attack and diverted from its point. Too many of those foreclosures occurred because people bought homes well above their means, didn’t evidence ability to pay, and failed to understand the terms of their agreements. Or the foreclosed folks think that life is “unfair” because their mortgages exceed the value of their homes.
Gibbs was condescending with his remarks about downloading, hitting PRINT, and reading the document. It’s fair to say that Santelli, whose business it is to know those kinds of details, was more aware of the details than either Gibbs or Obama, for that matter.
The “I don’t know where you live” remark is ambiguous, providing plausible deniability, but it can also be interpreted as a veiled threat. These personal attacks by Obama and his surrogates against any opposition are already noted in how Palin and Joe the Plumber were treated. Limbaugh and Hannity have been at the receiving end of verbal ridicule, not in response to what they said but for having the audacity for saying anything critical of Obama and his administration.
Santelli is a target of Alinsky methods and Chicago silencing strategies.
Does anyone recall the Bush administration calling out Olberman by name for his unhinged rants? Now those were seriously deluded soapbox drivels, unsupported by fact but riddled with inflammatory charges.
onlineanalyst on February 24, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Ed,
I heard Liddy say “veiled” threat, to which Santelli agreed. If Gibbs said, “Well, I don’t know if anyone out there Google Earthed Mister Santelli’s home address…” it still wouldn’t be an explicit threat.
Christien on February 24, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Do we have sock puppetry going on here?
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
From Bloomberg:
“The deficit Obama inherited on taking office last month was $1.3 trillion”.
getalife on February 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Ed, you and Allah sometimes bend yourselves into pretzels in order to appear intellectually honest. This was FAIL.
fossten on February 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Asked, and answered:
You won’t find too many defenders of George W. Bush’s record on spending these days, even among Republicans. But a check of historical tables compiled by the Office of Management and Budget shows that the spending that so distressed Pelosi and Reid seems downright modest today. After beginning with a Clinton-era surplus of $128 billion in fiscal year 2001, the Bush administration racked up deficits of $158 billion in 2002, $378 billion in 2003, $413 billion in 2004, $318 billion in 2005, $248 billion in 2006, $162 billion in 2007, and $410 billion in 2008.
Barry is depending on
foolsUseful Idiots like you to buy into his shameless claim that he “inherited” the profligate spending he just shoved down our gullets as part of his gotta sign it now before we read it or we’re doomed power grab.Buy Danish on February 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
I would put nothing past this administration. We are dealing with a bunch of leftist radicals who believe that any evil they do is actually good by virtue of the fact that they are who they are.
A lot of names got thrown at Bush, Hitler being my favorite, by a bunch of people who share the same mentality of those who key your car for expressing a view different than theirs.
Again, I put nothing past group think, collective fascists.
RobertInLexington on February 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
The Left has them trained. They can’t distinguish between phony claims by the Left and legitimate claims by others so all label all such claims as bogus in order to avoid being called hypocrites by the Left. Like I said, they’ve been well trained and they don’t even realize it.
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Imagine a similar Gibbs reaction to a HotAir post that criticizes Obama:
“I don’t know in what basement this Allahpundit guy lives, or if he’s in pajamas and smoking something, but there are certainly a lot of unknowns about him that would lead me to dismiss his opinions. I certainly hope he’s paying his taxes and contributing to a solution.”
econavenger on February 24, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Michelle wrote a piece back in 2006, “Our Homes Are Not Our Castles.”
Christien on February 24, 2009 at 8:20 PM
BD,
Does that include the cost of wars w left out of the budget?
All the articles I read on Obama’s goal to cut the deficit says it is 1.3 trillion.
getalife on February 24, 2009 at 8:21 PM
That’s well-done. I said yesterday that Santelli stands between them and us, and has to be defended.
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Agreed. Ann Coulter is far more courageous.
fossten on February 24, 2009 at 8:24 PM
meant well done.
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Like I said earlier, if it was done to them they’d be wearing depends for a week. Since it wasn’t, “no big deal. Santelli’s just being a dram queen.”
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 8:26 PM
A pass, eh?
I don’t know, did Pres. Bush or any of his cabinet or administration ever address individuals and come out holding documents and such? Has any President. Seriously. I’d like to know.
I don’t care what Santelli said, the Joe the Plumber stuff with state officials illegally going into personal records and the media not having any problem disseminating it and the Obama campaign having no problem with that kind of thing that bothers me. They have no problem going after the average citizen. There’s something horribly not right with it. It bothers me more when we try to make sense of it like there’s something rational to it.
Sultry Beauty on February 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Yeah, Obambi knocked that right outta me.
STOP THE WAR BARACK!! GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN! QUAGMIRE! STOP KILLING INNOCENT BROWN MEN, WOMEN,CHILDREN AND SO-CALLED TERRORISTS. QUAGMIRE!!!
JiangxiDad on February 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Ann simply doesn’t give a flying fig what the Left says about her and she’s big enough to not fear the Government. That makes her fearless and so she speaks her mind.
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM
That’s racist somehow, and I’m reporting you.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Actually it’s ghey bashing, somehow.
fossten on February 24, 2009 at 8:30 PM
dram queen -> drama queen – not drag queen, not that there’s anything wrong with that ;)
TheBigOldDog on February 24, 2009 at 8:32 PM
You guys are SO in trouble with the Lightworker. I suggest you type out your prayers tonight.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Oh, crap.
In light of this, I think we should all surrender in Iraq and Afghanistan.
fossten on February 24, 2009 at 8:35 PM
He got his 15 minutes from his rant.
Hell, if he were a CIA agent, the gop would out him.
Or a whistle-blower, smear him to death.
Man up little ricky.
getalife on February 24, 2009 at 8:36 PM
All I know is, the stuff my 10 year old brings home from school is getting increasingly “interesting.”
God help her teacher the first time I see a “How To Be A Good Citizen” handout with Ogambi’s picture on it.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Video no longer available…
Mr_Magoo on February 24, 2009 at 8:38 PM
What does that even mean? He was attacked, but there was no threat of an attack? Are you somehow under the impression that the threat has to involve physical violence or something? What about the threat that if you challenge us again, we’ll make you into the poster child for everything we’ve trained Americans to hate about the upper class? You didn’t see that? A little bit of, hey, we can make this personal you know?
You know, it’s not like we don’t already have more than enough people on the left willing to berate Rick Santelli for saying “mmm hmmm” when Liddy suggested that he was threatened. Why the hell would you do it here? Out of all the hours he’s been on radio and TV, out of all the topics he’s discussed, this is your post? Sad.
Ronnie on February 24, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Did any White House ‘spokesperson’ say anything like this during the eight years of W ??
No?
but after ONE MONTH Obama, we get what is clearly an attempt to publicly single out and ridicule and likely an implied threat to STFU
do the math………
( to predict what we’re in for )
Janos Hunyadi on February 24, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Comparison politics?
The camps await you.
wccawa on February 24, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Got a clue what a man is, or should be ??? Any clue at all ??
Pudgy Gibbs was speaking for the President of the United States.
Did the allegedly hated and supposedly stupid George W. Bush ever have his spokesman pull something like this?
Janos Hunyadi on February 24, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Affectless assertions that are self-evidently ludicrous. Not that it isn’t enjoyable to watch, but don’t you know any other tricks?
Jim Treacher on February 24, 2009 at 8:51 PM
How about a factual disinternment of the record.
Link to the continue
Tip of the Hat to Mark Levin Fan blog.
The sept 19th 2008 Levin show reviews the record. It is worth a listen.
Levin is a good show and would be even better without the yelling. The basically ends after the monologue because that’s when the insults and caller hangups begin.
moxie_neanderthal on February 24, 2009 at 8:55 PM
So what if Santelli agreed that it was a veiled threat, Allah?
If I look at all this administration had done (in their first month) and is planning to do then YES I would consider Gibbs words a veiled threat.
Deeanne on February 24, 2009 at 8:56 PM
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