{"id":11385,"date":"2009-02-22T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/white_house_press_secretary_robert_gibbs_goes_after_rick_santelli\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T01:00:48","slug":"white_house_press_secretary_robert_gibbs_goes_after_rick_santelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11385","title":{"rendered":"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Goes After Rick Santelli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Santelli, the CNBC reporter who went into a certifiable rant against the Obama housing plan Thursday, found himself in the White House bullseye 24-hours later: the object of scorn and humorous derision from the president’s press secretary Robert Gibbs.<\/p>\n

“I’m not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives,” Gibbs said during the daily briefing. “But the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgage, stay in their jobs, pay their bills to send their kids to school, and to hope that they don’t get sick or somebody they care for gets sick that sends them into bankruptcy. 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.”<\/p>\n

Read or watch it all. Put this down on a growing list (Tim Geithner’s first appearance announcing his ‘plan,’ Tom Daschle’s nomination collapsing etc.) of rookie mistakes by members of the Obama administration. Whether you agree with Santelli or not, it is just plain poor judgment to go after him in detail by name in this manner. Of course, it is a dream set up for CNBC abd NBC (which of course had the Santelli story on again last night). It also ensures that the story will have even more legs than it already does–KSH<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Santelli, the CNBC reporter who went into a certifiable rant against the Obama housing plan Thursday, found himself in the White House bullseye 24-hours later: the object of scorn and humorous derision from the president’s press secretary Robert Gibbs.…<\/span><\/p>\n

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