{"id":8056,"date":"2009-02-21T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2009-02-21T08:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T13:08:33","slug":"msnbcs-santelli-draws-ire-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8056","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC’s Santelli draws ire of Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it the other day, MSNBC’s Chicago trading floor reporter, Rick Santelli let loose on the air Thursday over the “stimulus” bill. I could recite some his points, but it’s much better if you watch him give them;
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\nWell, it must have had some effect because yesterday, press secretary Gibbs mentioned Santelli by name six times (from the Washington Times<\/a>);<\/p>\n

A day after President Obama’s housing foreclosure plan was battered by a cable network reporter, the White House on Friday launched a bullish retaliatory attack, saying CNBC reporter Rick Santelli’s “rant” was uninformed and dangerous.<\/p>\n

“I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives, or in what house he lives,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said, mentioning the reporter six times by name and holding up a copy of the fact sheet the White House released to back up its foreclosure plan.<\/p>\n

“I would encourage him to read the president’s plan and understand that it will help millions of people, many of whom he knows. I would be more than happy to have him come here and read it. I would be more than happy to buy him a cup of coffee – decaf.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe they should buy us all some de-caf coffee (maybe it’s already in the stimulus bill to buy us some de-caf), because everyone I’ve talked to gets just as exercised about the whole thing – including people who voted for Obama.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gibbs refused to accept the stock market as a valuable measure of White House policies.<\/p>\n

“I think it is very safe to assume that what is being priced into the day-to-day fluctuations of the market is not just what happens or is announced at the White House or on the road by the White House,” he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, he’d say that, look at what the market has done since the election;
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\nInvestors don’t bet on the economy in the stock market based on day-to-day events, they bet on what they think the future looks like – and the future under Obama looks grim. Obama says so himself almost every day.<\/p>\n

Firing back at Mr. Gibbs on Friday, Mr. Santelli – more staid than during his Thursday performance – said all he was asking for was more specifics and that he appreciated the offer to read the plan. But he chided Mr. Gibbs over the massive $787 billion spending bill, spanning hundreds of pages, which Congress passed and Mr. Obama signed within a matter of days – and before most lawmakers had a chance to read it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Santelli also said he was happy to be invited to the White House, though he had a slight change for Mr. Gibbs’ plans for coffee: “I’m not really big on decaf, though. I think I prefer tea.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s Santelli on Hardball with some doofus who tries to make Santelli’s rant political instead of based on economics;<\/p>\n

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Instead of addressing the points of Santelli’s rant, Matthews minimizes the accuracy by claiming Santelli is partisan and “iconized” like Limbaugh and Hannity. Pathetic partisan hack that Matthews is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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