Keith Olbermann Worst Rick Santelli's Rant

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In fact, it's best if you only put in an hour or so per day!" - Rick Santelli, on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show Monday, suggested that the White House was threatening him and that his kids were unnerved. Via ThinkProgress:

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.


Santelli made similar comments on Mike Gallagher's radio show. In saying that he did not know where Santelli lived, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was pretty clearly suggesting the CNBC reporter was out of touch with ordinary Americans, not threatening him.

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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.

"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."

Ouch. But from there it got almost more personal. Gibbs picked up a hard copy of the housing plan from the briefing room lectern and implored Santelli to "download it, hit print and begin to read it." Gibbs added: "I would be more than happy to have him come here and read it. I'd be happy to buy him a cup of coffee, decaf." The press in the room laughed
The substance of the debate wasn't avoided either. Gibbs, striking an defiant and occasionally emotional tone, insisted that nothing in the president's proposal to keep 9 million people in their homes would help speculators, people trying to flip houses, or those who bought a house they knew they couldn't afford. He added that preventing foreclosures would be beneficial even to those whose mortgage payments were stable, keeping neighborhood property values from spiraling downwards.

Gibbs expanded his critique to cable news in general, saying that the campaign coverage was completely out of touch:

"If I hadn't worked on the campaign but simply watch the cable news scorekeeping of the campaign, we lost virtually every day of the race," he said. "If I would have just watched cable TV, I long would have crawled into a hole and given up this whole prospect of changing the country."

The politics of the exchange are as telling as the substance. There are plenty of Republicans who have aired critiques of the Obama housing plan. And the president's communications staff has long insisted that they neither care nor respond to the punditry of people on cable news. So why respond to Santelli? Maybe Gibbs was worked up by the CNBC reporter's widely-aired rant, or maybe it was something more calculated. There are few people less popular today than derivative traders or Wall Street loud-mouths. Choosing Santelli to be the poster child of the opposition is smart politics for the Obama White House, just like making Rush Limbaugh the face of the anti-stimulus movement was during that debate.

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[dkleitsch]

Is Keith Olbermann really brain dead, or is he just having a bad day?

[motina10]

Keith Olbermann is an idiot. Obama is bailing out the banks!

[whoo689]

We artificially rose home prices with the housing bubble because we kept giving more and more low or free houses to poor folks. We encouraged banks and lenders to give out more bad loans, and this only expanded the bubble. But we didn't let the market work.

If we let the market work, there'd be NO bubble! And if there would be, it certainly wouldn't burst with the impact it's had today. It would be a much smaller burst with stabillization not long after. Let home prices rise on their own

[whoo689]

The "projects", short for housing projects, were given to blacks for free, and look where they are now. High crime, rampant drug use, drug dealing, high dropout rates among teenagers, gangs, the works. High out-of-wedlock birth.

When are we gonna wake up and realize public housing IS NOT the answer?? You help these people obtain the incomes necessary to afford a mortgage, a regular one. It's much more efficient. Besides, artificially keeping home values up w/ bailouts is stupid.

[whoo689]

Sam Donovan needs to be fired. All HUD employees should be axed. Abolish that worthless Cabinet agency. It should be the first to go. It's nothing but a waste. Urban renewal is a joke. We shouldn't hand out houses for free. Public housing just leads to poorly kept neighborhoods.

And where was HUD when all these people back in 2005 or 2006 were having their homes taken away for eminent domain abuse? Why didn't ANYONE ever give HUD the teeth to fight those corporate assholes off?

[whoo689]

Keith Olbermann and the left-wingers who think santelli was being "an asshole" need to wake up. Your Infinite Compassion Doctrine for everyone and anyone poor is so absurd. If we question the poor or hold them accountable EVER, you accuse of being "insensitive" and say that we "hate the poor." If we wanna encourage responsibility among the poor, YOU say "No!" You just turn a blind eye to bad behavior if someone's poor. The welfare state is an insult and definitely not a cure for poverty.

[whoo689]

Keith, how about YOU get back in the real world? Even if the housing bailout isn't what Santelli says it is, isn't it still a GOOD idea not to bail out the losers? Isn't it good NOT to bail out and reward bad behavior? You're such a hypocrite, Keith.

Rather than agreeing with him, you play this double standard game. So it's ok to bail out the poor if they act stupid, but bankers should be punished? Let's punish them all! I advocate a true free market, not preferential treatment.

[whoo689]

God I hate Keith Olbermann. And I'm not a right-winger, either! The guy is just annoying. He bashes only conservatives and Republicans all day long (when he gets political) and never once has them on his show to try to challenge them (or challenge himself, better yet). He never confronts the people he attacks. He's just sitting behind his desk like a COWARD!

This guy is not much better than the idiots on Fox. And he has a smugness about him which makes his personality stink.

[bbbbmer]

rick santelli is a braindead moron! somebody SHOULD put him out of his misery....