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The numbers keep going up and its still early in the morning.Would you want to join Rick Santelli's "Chicago Tea Party?" * 122741 responses
Yes
92%
No
5.8%
Not Sure
1.7%
WH lashes out at CNBC's Santelli
Politico ^ | February 20, 2009 | JOSH GERSTEIN
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.
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Broke Cowboy said:It seems this Santelli guy has struck a chord that might continue onward - and the new administration does not like it.
I wonder what type of personal investigations and possible smear action he will undergo at the hands of the new government - past experience shows it does not pay to p!ss them off.
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Broke Cowboy said:If a bailout rewards people who did not make their bill payments - what are the feds going to do for those who do pay their bills?
Raise their taxes?
Nice reward. (sarcasm)
Interesting-- the poll is gone today??
guess that "they" didn't like the results