Rick Santelli vs. Matt Lauer About Chicago Tea Party on Today

[mlooby2]

Typical Lauer.

[The442nd]

Matt Lauer is Obama's left testicle

[jabberwolf]

Matt - he NEVER said he was threatened,

YOU said that he was threatened.

And Rick, was right right right. And the secretary is a fucking parrot and doesnt know economics or has worked in investing.

[bkdmd]

BHO is calling for shared sacrifice, but he rides around in new million dollar buses that he bought from Canada companies and he vacation on Martha's Vineyard. If he believed what he says, he would practice what he preaches. No one on the left practices what they preach. How many on the left think their income taxes are too low, but won't pay what they think is fair until everyone is forced to do something taht they won't willing do when given the choice?

[fuzzyone99]

What kind of a narcissistic pussy goes on national tv to rant about the allegedly unbalanced fairness of the president's policies and then expects to not be responded to?

Dylan Ratigan's biggest flaw is that he spends too much time engaging in apologetics for the banksters before passionately coming around to loud cries for sensible regulation and reform, the only real solution - yet one that so many people spend so much time denying and urging the pols to avoid.

[miazagora]

Robert Gibbs was a smarmy jackass.

[miazagora]

Matt Lauer is a metrosexual TV FOOF.

[joe1026]

Lauer is just jeolous that in his long carrer he has never said anythingworthy enough of being widely quoted or viewed on youtbe for that matter.

[daveofcincinnati]

God matt lauer needs the decaf here.

[toltec19]

america stop this arguing and kick out the jews!

[dawaves22]

What a p--ssy Rick. "Face to face"??? right....

Dude needs to man up and take the heat, otherwise don't be calling out the president and expect no retaliation. The president is not backing down to this moron spewing moronic hypothetical crazyness to the masses (eg. "who wants to pay for their neighbor's house..." bullshit rant). Obviously the answer is no if you phrase it like that, but that's not what the mortgage bailout was meant to do. Freakin idiot 'freemarket' thinker

[Jennifereaton23]

@dawaves22 you call it hypothetical crazyness, but if you look into government policies and entitlement programs you will see it is fact. We as a nation are paying for those who won't as opposed to those who can't and it is becoming a bigger and bigger issue each and everyday. i am sorry that you cannot see it, but i usually find people who can't have entitlement issues of thier own.Please get some truth and factual insight before posting.

[dawaves22]

@Jennifereaton23 Wow another teabagger looking at the thumbnail and not the F-n crater. Entitlements are puny compared to the waste/fraud in Medicare/Social Security/Defense. When will you ppl get it? Stop trying to stop the 1% and go after the 80%. You're being suckered by whatever FAUX NEWS tells you that is "important". Wake the F UP!!! You guys are being conned into not looking at the bigger picture. Morons!!!!

[mathman43]

@dawaves22 You're an idiot. Because you're an unproductive loser, you have a chip on your shoulder. In your heart, you know Santelli is right. This country is filled with people sucking off the system. Stop enabling them! Did you know that Canada has no foreclosure problem at all? Why is that? A card laid is a card played. They signed a contract and they have to make good on it.

[dawaves22]

@mathman43 Unproductive loser? right....d-bag teabagger....Try starting 2 successful businesses and then we'll talk on equal terms loser.

"Sucking off the system"? So you want to live in a world where the silver spooners get to run the country? Try reading a few more books and learn about how the real world works. Let me guess, you were probably brought up in an upper middle class family so you don't feel you need to be "enabled", right? So what about the millions of ppl born poor? Moron.

[mathman43]

@dawaves22 Hey, dummy I've got a master's degree in math and I've done 8 ironman triathlons. You don't get a finisher medal in an ironman based on connections or if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. You don't have the mental or physical strength to even think about doing one. We're not even close to being on the same terms. I'm an alpha male and you're a beta(at best). Do your homework: in the first two years of foreclosures unemployment was at 6%.

[dawaves22]

@mathman43 hahha "alpha male"? what a dou-che bag. here's an elitist prick who is god's gift to man and can run and bike fast. whoopdi-do M'fker. waste of time if you ask me. You're so dumb it's ridiculous mathmutt. So in 2008-2010, the US had 6% of unemployment? Hahhaha, wow. Oh let me guess, FAUX NEWS told you. Google "unemployment 2010", click the first link, moron.

You really need to read more. The mortgage market was rigged towards the poor too, idiot

[mathman43]

@dawaves22 I'm talking about 2005-2007. Thats when foreclosures started. What you don't seem to understand is that we're surrounded by quitters. When people make a bad choice, they think they can just walk away. I've purchased stocks that have tanked. I take my lumps and try to make money on the next. The Greatest generation wouldn't be doing this crap. By the way, are you one of those soft, doughy liberal males with no testosterone? All the viagra in the world won't help, mate.

[mathman43]

@dawaves22 Proceeding from my previous post: People were foreclosing when the unemployment rate was 6%. They are quitters! They're also selfish as hell. They didn't put any money down and didn't pay any principal on the loan. Some weren't even paying the interest on the loan. Face it, they were trying to flip the house and they walked away. A card laid is a card played. Stop apologizing for the losers.

[dawaves22]

@mathman43 Let me spell it out so your 'alpha' pea brain can understand. Financial corporations rigged wall street and global mutual funds to purchase AAA rated SUPER RISKY pools of these bad loans. Every mortgage banker was hawking this stuff b/c there was no regulation and every Joe/Blow bought into it b/c "WHY PAY RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN" mantra was ubiquitous. So these idiot Banking/Insurance institutions melt down b/c people knew they couldn't own up to the promises made to investors...

[dawaves22]

@mathman43 ...so Wall St crashes, the economy tanks, corporations downsize, this leads to record layoffs nationwide. Even GOVERNMENT positions are getting the pink slip!!!

So this clown a$-$face Rick Santelli is all up in arms b/c Government is "Taking over". No Moron!!

Had "Government" been proactive in putting in the rules to minimize corruption in Wall St, this whole stupid recession would not have happened. Oh no, but it's the PEOPLE's fault you say! No idiot, people do things that make...

[dawaves22]

@mathman43 ...sense to them. Who doesn't want to own a home and 'live the American Dream'. Do you really think these forclosure people knew that the economy was going to go down the toilet b/c of Wall St's corruption?

There's plenty of books written about this period. Better yet, since you're so busy swimming and running, just watch the PBS Frontline and 60 minutes specials on what happened. This way you won't miss your swim meet at the pool with the other 'Alpha males'. hahahhaha what a c-nt.

[johnnytuups]

@dawaves22

you're so tough online.

[lanate11]

Matt Lauer is avoiding the real economic issues to talk about the superficial issue of Gibbs v. Santelli. Typical Leftist operative tactics: defending the power of the Establishment. Lauer and his anti-freedom friends in Big Media are a threat to America.

[chris100358]

Wow... wow! is Matt Lauer BALANCED???? REALLY???? I cannot believe the condescending attitude this little media ferret has.... And now Ladies and Gentlemen... They all tried to step on this movement.... ignore it.... but only NOW realize that the tidal wave that was sweeping across the deep waters of America is running into the shallows of the primaries and fast approaching the FIRST Shoreline of November, is much more significant than they ever thought. DU-uh what IS Dat HUGE Wave?!? ha ha

[chris100358]

Wow... wow! is Matt Lauer a BALANCED???? REALLY???? I cannot believe the condescending attitude this little media ferret has.... And now Ladies and Gentlemen... They all tried to step on this movement.... ignore it.... but only NOW realize that the tidal wave that was sweeping across the deep waters of America is running into the shallows of the primaries and fast approaching the FIRST Shoreline of November, is much more significant than they ever thought. DU-uh what IS Dat HUGE Wave?!? ha ha

[DevonMooreMusic]

Matt Lauer = <Matt Damon

[jwv651]

Matt Lauer is a ASS. I stopped watching the today show a couple of years ago because of Mr Lauer.

[FrankeeFraud]

Lauer is a limp-wristed Jewish faggot.

[lisas44]

way to be unbiased media Matt! Great job Dylan and Rick!

[slpyz]

The point is that the supporters of this administration have been known to threaten and intimidate those that do not believe as they do. It would suck if your name was mentioned and then a couple of buses show up in front of your house and start picketing.

[cnow123]

Fuck Lauer... Santelli has, what, maybe a gun and some friends... Obama has a little bit more power to threaten someone. Duh.

[kalolab]

Mat Lauer is a communist supporter, he's in total denial........another liberal idiot.

Would you like Gibbs to make a remark like that about you? Grow up Matt.

[robert61982619]

Matt Lauer is a Cock sucker

[nonthere]

Given what we know about the behavior of the Obama Admin. I would say that it is reasonable for Rick to take it as a threat when called out by name. Hell, Eric Holder wouldn't allow prosecution of the Black Panthers intimidating voters, the SEIU beats up a guy at a tea party and the admin. is filled with people who admire Chairman "You gotta break a few heads..uh..eggs to make an omelet" Mao. I wonder if Rick got a call from the IRS yet.

[illinoisbadges]

Matt Lauer is a typical Democrat!!!

[SPIRITUALPRINCE]

rick santelli they went after you because this aint the land of the free anymore. matt lauer is bought and paid for.

[morespamforya]

oooo u are fucking creative, reading a post 2 posts ago... man are all right wing ppl so retarded that when they copy another guy's jokes they don't even bother to look original??

[wade8443]

The only believable facts in the press are the sports scores and the obituaries - the rest is entertainment - and I am not amused

[wade8443]

Lauer - bought and paid for

[morespamforya]

just like your mum

[miazagora]

Matt Lauer is a leftist wuss. It was the govt sticking their noses into the housing market and making owning a home a civil right that helped get us into this mess. Then came those atrocious bank bailouts. Then spendulous #1, son of spendulous, GM, and probably another spendulous coming down the pike from Obummer, who knows nothing about managing anything. Stinking leftists and union thugs all over the White House. HIS friends get paybacks with our . Next stop - superinflation.

[oriskany]

And so, Judge Lauer passes another judgment.

Nice journalism, ha ha.

Let me put it another way; if Lauer were a soccer referee he would have to be protected by the local gendarmes and escorted from the pitch.

[macdogq]

Rick is a great leader!!

[1995CRA]

Lauer is a piece of shit.

Lauer is so bias this isn't even funny.

Lets grill Obamas adivsors like this!!!

[jensen1901]

Matt Lauer owns this tool.

[phillipmarch22]

You gotta give Dick Army credit though! He was able to round up what is left of the Republican party for these tea parties. Good job, we all needed a good laugh! Thanks!

[phillipmarch22]

You are absolutely correct! After 8 long nightmarish years, these freaks are coming out of the wood work...Where were they when the village idiot of the last 8 years was driving us it to massive debt. The "Un-Checked Capitilism" of the bush administration and their "trickle down" affect got us close to a catistrophic depression. And these 1/2 brain idiots are just getting off the couch now? Good God, they have lost the other 1/2 of their minds!

[labulldog5]

Do it Rick!

[bretonrlong]

GOOO RICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Itachi1705]

Go Santelli!!!!!

[rakrobn]

Santelli shows what a pussy he is hiding behind his wife.

[mbjl1758]

Santelli - what a nut. His paranoia is downright strange.

[Viajador1]

To all you so called "patriots": Stop listening to Fat Ass Rush and Rupert Murdock's puppet Sean Hannity and get your head out of your neo con asses... your party philosophy failed...and history will confirm it. Now you're trying to hijack Dr. Paul's talking points? Get a life. From True Libertarian.

[jojanjaz1]

Why would you outright consider it a hijack? Why it not be a seeing of the light? Calling it a hijack will only alienate support. Surely, as a "true Libertarian" you'd want to generate more support for the movement, would you not.

Dr. Paul ran as a Republican and got my vote as a Libertarian.

[tannersanta]

Right now the tax rate is lower than when bush was in office, this is a fact that you don't hear from the mainstream media because most, if not all the people in the mainstream are billionaires and want more money

Rachel Madow, Chris Matthews, Olberman, Hannity, O-Riley, Glenn Beck and billionaire Limbaugh are making you people fight for THEIR money and all you like well trained dogs are doing so..

America is dying, so a keep on fighting each other until you realize how stupid you people are.

[martybrasher]

You can't know what your talking about.

These thousands of people at these tea parties are not all millionaires, not even half.

[tannersanta]

Oh I do know, I worked for the IRS.

Indeed, these people are no millionaires, because if they where they wouldn't be out on the streets making fools out of themselves.

The would be trowing money at the media, so the media could convince their dumb down viewers, that a "nig@#%" was raising THEIR taxes.

Wake up my friend, these people are middle class idiots fighting for the "BIG" guys, the same big guys who are practically ass fucking them every day. And the media(fox news) is their prime TOOL.

[oriskany]

Oh I don't know,...if you worked for the IRS, then I am Mickey Mouse.

Your spelling is atrocious and your syntax exposes your background, HOMEY.

The IRS has screening qualifications. I mean, Jesus man, if you're going to lie about something like that at least get someone qualified to proof your work.

[tannersanta]

I was being sarcastic, HOMEY!

I guess It doesn't matter anymore, you're probably another one of those Glenn Beck eaters.

[phillipmarch22]

Amen tannersanta! These tea baggers are nothing but Fox News zombies. Where were these village idiots during the last 8 years? When the Iraq war is all said and done, that little cluster fuck will have cost us 3 TRILLION! Oh, but to spend 900 Billion to help American's? Oh fuck no, that is not patriotic. And these idiots go to church every Sunday to profess how "Christian" they are. I hope they like it hot!

[oriskany]

There are mistakes which a country can recover from and then there are the kind which, if recovery occurs at all, will take decades, possibly centuries.

Clearly you are young. Probably don't have that much invested in this country. That gives you license to gush without thinking.

Unchecked Capitalism is the same as saying unchecked thought, unchecked potential, unchecked possibilities. Whom would you have "check", i.e. arrest any of that?

[phillipmarch22]

No, I am not young, I am 50 years old. And yes, we will recover from the economic cluster fuck that the last Republican administration got us in to. It will take decades for us to recover our reputation that was completely trashed by bush. Don't be scratching your ass, (no matter who is President), when WE get attacked because another country THINKS we have WMD's. He might as well have sent an invitation. Capitalism is great, but un-checked and regulated, GREED will ALWAYS, ALWAYS corrupt.

[oriskany]

Why do YOU think Obama was elected?

Oh yes, it IS germaine to the issue.

[phillipmarch22]

Why was President Obama elected? Because he was a Democrat. Because of the depth of this recession, my quess is that things will start looking up mid 2010. The only reason McCain won in the primaries is because he was the only Democrat running in the Republican party.

[oriskany]

No cupie doll for you.

Obama was elected out of SPITE.

[phillipmarch22]

Spite for what?

[hhv94]

Santelli is taking Gibbs comment out of hand but its his own opinion. Even if I personaly dont agree. But thats his paragotive. Lauer just called him out on a public comment Santelli made in public which is natural since we are talking television here.

[harrykegelbone]

Hey Matt I'm a lib just like you... Sing with me It'll be fun:

I could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers

Consultin' with the rain.

And my head I'd be scratchin' while

my thoughts were busy hatchin'

If I only had a brain.

Wheeeeee... I found a penny.

[MerKWorK]

Matt Lauer is a fucking tool...and Robert Gibbs can't speak a sentence without more uh's and um's than real words. Uhhhh, uhhhmmm...I'm not sure Uhhhh, uhh I will have to uh , consult the President um, on that one. Ummmmmmmm Uhhhhhhhmmmmm, next Question!

[nuclearG1]

Matt Lauer - doing his job like all the other media-paid talking heads: supporting the Globalist agenda by taking sides AGAINST anyone who is FOR the people.

A weak attempt to make people side FOR the system and AGAINST the people.

Who cares why Robert Gibbs says - he's another Ari Fleischer SUCK-UP who will SPIN and LIE to support his BOSS MAN Obama.

Gibbs has already been caught spinning, dodging and weaving his way around a direct answer, Screw him.

Santelli is THE MAN!

[columbiathedalles]

Matt Lauer-

you are just part and parcel of the big government propaganda. You are not the unbiased media.

[negativ90]

Anger is brewing, TEA party mania!!!!! Say no to big government and taxation without representation. Matt Lauer is a socialist

[aeg64]

Santelli is an idiot- nice hiding behind your wife's apron strings. If you don't like being pushed back- don't puch first.

[breakneck12]

I can't stand Matt Lauer.

I wish that deer would've fucking gored him to death.

[badger5566]

What is wrong with Nazi broadcasting company? Are they criticizing someone who, God forbid, CRITICIZED the President of the United States?

[brancate]

Matt- you really should go fuck yourself. God forbid anyone say anything say one word against B.O....You go RICK.

[iconaclastor]

The whitehouse spoksman mentioning Santelli by name shows me that it touched a nerve with Obama because they could of ignored him instead since he never mentioned the President by name in his "rant" (media term) or really a pep talk.

[brancate]

you are right and Matt Lauer SUCKS. so does most of the slanted media...we are getting ready for a revolution.....WE THE PEOPLE.

[MEAGHER79]

Funny how the media doesn't cover all the tea parties?

[jillduncan2008]

Explains why the media never asks the difficult questions..."he called me by name and that scared me"....give me a break!

[jwmis]

Santelli and Most of the CNBC mouths are doing a lot of back pedaling in their crappy reporting and sucking up to other CEO's.... To carry that thought further, Cramer not only should be off the air, he should be doing a little time behind bars for some of his comments on video....

[versd2003]

Gosh, the mainstream media oulets are so baised to the left, Rick has a valid point and the media and the adminitration are trashing him.

[stantheindian]

Give a man a fish your considered a good humanitarian, ask why the man has no fish your considered a socialists.

[srogersrules]

Hilarious. I wonder where Rick and all of his supporters were when Bush was bailing out Wall Street (as Obama is doing now)? No problem giving billions to banks, but help a few people out who are having trouble making their mortgage and the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Where were all these people crying about "spending money the US doesn't have" when Bush and the Republican controlled Congress were DOUBLING the national debt.

[kkbuffy01]

We wouldn't be in this mess had NBC, CNBC, MSNBC done their jobs. Instead they acted like "Campaign Central" for President Zero thus keeping the truth hidden from the public. Is it any wonder their ratings are in the toilet?

[brancate]

OMG finally we are waking up !!!!!

[nickscarp]

Matt Lauer is an irrelevant pussy.

[brancate]

you are 100% oh no now they will be after you...Hey Matt YOU SUCK>

[Cobrax30]

Santelli has a right to his opinion.

The mainstream media is SO liberal biased its pathetic

[noquitter702]

Gibbs a throw back from the Naxi mind set

[Meyisawkasa]

ur a bitch Rick and now ur spoiling ur pants. what a pathetic soul!