Rick Santelli on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show 2/23/09 (click the link to hear it):
SANTELLI: He started that press conference saying, “I don’t know where he lives, I don’t know where his house is.” This is the Press Secretary of the White House. Is that the kind of thing we want? Is that —
LIDDY: It’s a veiled threat.
SANTELLI: It really is. […] I don’t really want to be a spokesman, but I really am very proud of a) the response I’m getting, which is overwhelmingly positive, and b) discourse, that is debate. That if the pressure and the heat I’m taking from the White House – the fact my kids are nervous to go to school – I can take that, okay.
What Press Secretary Gibbs said:
GIBBS: 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 schoolSantelli and those who facilitate and promote this sort of hyperbole should be rewarded with all the scorn, derision and ridicule such behavior deserves.
It is much less hyperbole considering that political appointees were digging though Joe the Plumber's tax records and having CPS investigations opened on him for simply questioning Obama.
ReplyDeletePhelps, no, not you too. Santelli was not being threatened in any way. It is complete ass hattery for him to go around saying so and that his kids are afraid to go to school. As for Joe boy, Obama's campaign didn't order democrat sympathizers in Ohio to dig through the guy's records. A few idiot dems in government did that dummy move on their own and as I recall, some paid a price for doing so. Santelli is being a moron on this, engaging idiotic and extreme hyperbole and for what reason I don't know. I don't know which is scarier, that he says it and does not really mean it, or the reverse.
ReplyDeleteAs for Joe boy, Obama's campaign didn't order democrat sympathizers in Ohio to dig through the guy's records. A few idiot dems in government did that dummy move on their own and as I recall, some paid a price for doing so.
ReplyDeleteAnd Tony Soprano never tells someone, "go kill so-and-so." They just get the idea on their own.
And they didn't pay a price for what they did. They paid a price for getting caught.