Radio host Mike Gallagher blames President Obama for not being able to sell his house after 3 weeks
By John Amato Wednesday Mar 11, 2009 4:00pmThis article just highlights how out of touch the Limbaugh National Committee really are:
Nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host Mike Gallagher lamented this morning that his failure to sell his own house, that he recently placed on the market, was due to the psychological effects burdening the wealthy resulting from the class warfare propagated by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.
Gallagher was attempting to make the case that the economic policies of Democrats in D.C. have driven fear into the rich, which has translated into the wealthy being too scared to spend their money. As a result, wealth is not having the ‘trickle down effect’ on the nation’s working class who rely on the nation's upper class for jobs.
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"I decided to put my house on the market. Three weeks. And it’s a house – and I’m not bragging – it’s a house with a ‘wow factor.’ You walk into the house and you go, ‘Wow.’ It’s got all the nice little bells and whistles, it’s got the electric shades that go up and down, and the sound system, and the beautiful pool. I’m a lucky guy. Three weeks – not a single phone call."
Dripping with irony, Gallagher, a fierce proponent of ‘individual responsibility,’ recently lambasted home buyers facing foreclosure who had purchased homes they could not afford and were seeking bailout money or to have the federal government intervene and stop foreclosures. Last week, Gallagher highlighted the story of a bus driver who had purchased an $800K home, which is now only worth $600K:
"I dare you to feel sorry for her…how about this, honey? Pay your mortgage!"
In short, Gallagher believes in individual responsibility and the importance of micro-economic behavior when it comes to people who can’t afford their mortgages, but attributes (Democratic) macroeconomic governmental policies for his inability to sell his own house.
Gallagher, by the way, did not mention the listing price of his home on the air.
Maybe people are making responsiblitiy a high priority? Gallagher, not the comedian is complaining becasue his house has been on the market all of three weeks without even telling us what his selling price is. Welcome to the horrors that all of Americans are facing, but at least he isn't in foreclosure.
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Fuggin WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!
Somebody call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHMBULANCE because poor Mikey couldn't sell his house.
Such misguided people. Its almost as if there's no hope.
It could be worse though.
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"... at least he isn't in foreclosure."
He probably will be soon. Why would you sell a house with such "wow" factor, if you didn't need to. As ad revenue dries up for talk radio, I'd expect the wingnut radio brigade to be on skid row very soon. And good riddance to them.
I don't know, uh, maybe it's not worth as much as he is asking for it?
If you want to sell your house, don't walk around naked with a bowl of jello singing songs about sexy sheep when your real estate agent is trying to show the damn thing to prospective buyers. Also, take some time to scrub your walls clean of the "I HEART Rush" and "GOP IS GOOD BY ME" graphitti that you smeared all over the place with your own feces.
Whining baby.
Isn't there a watermelom someplace waiting for this a-hole to smash it with a mallet? I think they got their roles reversed.
I'm beginning to think "Conservative" is a type of birth defect, in which the person is born without a normal sense of hypocrisy.
Excellent Description.
No, don't go there because then they'll want handouts
Try 9 months and getting 15k below asking, douche.
If this piece of slim had any brains he would know that putting
a house on the market with a personal flush
Is a bad Idea. Sit on your home for a few years or accept
the losses. I have accepted mine
that you meant to say piece of "slime".
All you needed to read was..."to the psychological effects burdening the wealthy".
Only Republicans can find such deep wells of compassion for the wealthy while ignoring the plight of the poor.
how hard it must be making millions for talking shit to a mike a couple of hours a day...
Us peons have it easy. Thank goodness I am not rich, could you imagine the burden? What would we do with all that free time during the day, and all that extra income to waste away... but someone has to do it, and Gallagher took on such a burden like a champion. What a selfless awesome humanitarian!
maybe his house isn't as great as he says it is.
A dead body in the pool.
The f-ckin' electric window shades get stuck in the middle.
The sound system sucks...
...You are right. I hate electric shades (or any labor device that costs more to fix than to replace) and I prefer to chose my own sound system.
And why is he selling at all?
Or is he?
No one lies the way a Conservative Radio host does.
he moved his lips right? So he was lying...
HGTV make overs. A couple grand's worth of cheap and cheerful can work wonders, Mikey. Lisa LaPorter will have it knocked out for you in a week.
LOFL
Before I forget: Happy Birthday John! Thanks for this great forum of the exchange of ideas and differing viewpoints!
Now......the rest of the story (We will miss you Paul Harvey):
This moron actually expected to be able to sell a home in three weeks time or even to have interest during a housing market bust as we have? Doesn't matter if you are a rich or poor, no one is buying unless its ultra cheap.
Not a good place to be. In Seattle, it's bad, and we're not AS BAD as the rest of the country. Mikey, the pool of Gazillionaires has shrunk. Shrivel up, baby.
the bottom line is that this guy is using his radio show to sell his house.
by our own bootstraps. This wanker is bitching and moaning because he hasn't been able to sell his house in 3 weeks?
Even under a booming economy, I doubt an expensive property like his would have sold so quickly w/o any pre-offer. Never mind during one of the worst housing crisis in the past 50 years...
Hey Gallaher, why not let the sacrosanct free market dictate the price of your shitty investment... asshole.
That's one way to get free advertising. I wonder what the going rate for ad time is on his show. Any chance his bosses will make him fork over the dough? Wouldn't that be a hoot? It might stop these other gas bags from using their air time to push cheap products they are trying to unload.
In normal times (before the housing bubble) 3wks on the market was not a long time.
But I do like plymster's theory; this economic downturn will be so worth it if it gets most of these reichwing talking heads off the air.
Oh to dream the impossible dream.
Mike Gallagher jackass hypocrite
these gop bastards think everything
is just fine as long as everyone else
does what they want and they get it ALL.
but let them face the same shit they have
dished out to the rest of the country and
the poor babies whine and throw fits.
fuck him and the rest of the gop,
especially that whinney asshole boehner.
supply + demand. What a dipshit.
The average days on market now is now between two (62 days in December 08) and three months in DC, you chump. And don't expect to get your asking price, either. Of course, self centered jackasses like you want everything your way irregardless of market conditions and think you are the center of the universe.
Get your head out of your ass, you fucking crybaby and join the real world.
I like that word "jackass." I haven't used it in a long while.
Well, I saw that jackass on some show yesterday....can't remember which one....could have been Insanity's or Cavuto's...but, again, can't remember.
Anyway, whatever show it was, that jackass flat out lied and said that the media didn't cover Warren Buffet's criticism of Obama. Flat out lied, the jackass did. I saw the media cover it; I saw a Yahoo News article; I found a Reuter's article covering it, an article I sent to that jackass.
I think we should find a place in this country to send all of these jackasses to and call it the "United States of Jackasses."
Let's send em all there and then put an embargo on 'em...
We'll see how well their economic policies do...
the property I'm renting sold in five days. 2.5 million. This area voted 86 percent Obama. So suck on it, Mike.
no one wants to take a chance on being unable to rid the house of his lingering stench. It would definitely be a concern.
have a heart
on second thought....
fuck him
hope that fucking piece of property never gets a buyer
Well, we don't know how close to foreclosure he is (Hopefully very close). Why would he be trying to sell his house with all the bells and whistles and electric shades that go up and down in this market anyway? I think maybe he is having trouble making the payments. Well Mikey "I dare you to feel sorry for [yourself]…how about this, honey? Pay your mortgage!" You whining son of a bitch!!
....this guy and talked to him in person. He is an idiot.
The bastards collectively have much to account for. While I doubt we'll see Paris 1789 or Russia 1917 in this country, those are both good precedents for dealing with a rapacious overclass.
Not that I want that....
I don't know, a little of ol' Dr. Guillotine might be nice about now.
http://www.prudentialtexas.com/PropertyDetail...
If you flip through the pics you can see the home studio.
Amazing the information available in the Tarrant County tax records.
They are wanting $223 per sq ft. Most everything else in the same zip code is going for $179 a sq ft or less.
Most likely though with kids in college and having to pay off his late wife's hospital bills, he needs to come up with some cash.
I'm sure there is a market solution for his predicament though.
Can you say GREED? No, change that to Republican GREED!
Since I can't find a Crooks and Liars thread discussing Ari Fleischer's appearance on Hardball today... It should be called, "Ari Fleischer, the Lie Machine."
His appearance on Hardball (03/11/2009) was most interesting. Did anyone else who saw it notice dickbird Ari's statement that because of George W Bush, Saddam couldn't attack us again? The idiot said, "After 911, how could we chance Saddam wouldn't strike us again!"
My God, he and Cheney still want to confuse the people, distort the facts, revise history and disseminate total Bullshit! Saddam? Surely he meant Osama, but I think he said Saddam... I know, I know, it's difficult keeping your lies straight, etc. He kept trying to say that Saddam was the threat and that because Bush stripped away rights of the average American, spied on us illegally, and tortured
Ari kept using the words "mind numbingly" which is obvious he is and the crème de la crème was his excuse that Bush took us to war simply due to an intelligence mistake. He actually claimed that they never claimed Iraq had nukes... they just kept repeating mushroom cloud, etc. What a huge a$$!
America, don't allow them to whitewash Bush's REAL legacy... call them on it everytime they try and distort, or rewrite history!
Maybe if Mike Gallagher put his name on the house, you know, like a famous movie star, "Brad Pitt's House!!" Then all his rich and powerful listeners would be fighting for a chance to buy it.
All his rich and powerful listeners. Well, maybe the powerful ones? A listener?
You do have listeners, don't you, Mike? If they love you, why won't they buy your house?
This single incident could be used as the definitive example of how really fucked up EVERYTHING about re-Thuglics is. They should just keep this crap up - America is paying a bit more attention than usual right now - and they don't like what they're seeing.
Re-thug-lics -- the party of immature, voraciously rapacious, depraved, despotic, doughy white, cowardly, angry troglodytes, bigots, racists, perverts, xenophobes, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, self-righteous hypocrites, self-hating women, fetid wombs, preeminent whiners and consummate chronic liars.
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The Arsonist party and so called " Conservatives "are a bunch of evil lunatics , they are rotten human beings , plain and simple. The Christian / family values party ? My ass ! They are the exact opposite . Truly you can take what they say or claim and 90% of the time ( or more ) the truth and the facts are the exact opposite . The Repugs have always been turds in the fish bowl but they have been taken over by the worst of the worst and they sure did a number on this country , I believe it was their intent , these people are not so much stupid as they are evil . Truly they are a malignant cancer on our society and in our government as are the complete imbeciles who support and vote for these low life freaks . I have to wonder if Obama knows what he's dealing with in these people , he can't be that blind and naive .
Mike,
This is your house and Obama is no where to be found on the deed.
It is time for you Mike to take personal responsibility and sell your house yourself without any realtor.
It may help if you actually try to sell at market rate.
If you can't sell it, shut up and live in it or move down to the camp grounds and pitch a tent.
have a nice day.................
so mikey, you don't give a rat's ass for other "little people" who have homes with worths that have gone under their mortgages?
then you should understand when i don't weep when i tell you to stfu and lower your asking price 15-30% and hope you get a nibble before you lose your own job because the ad revenue has dried up. of course if that happens and you end up in the same position as the people you scorned above don't take it personal if we do care ok?
we're not like you, you scumbag.
Boo-f**king-hoo. He and thousands of others are reaping the cream of the Bush administrations mismanagement. He has a house that is worth less than it was when he bought it, and no one wants to pay his asking price.
Take an effin' number, Gallagher.
Hey, I gotta watermelon seed in my eye!
Thanks to codylusnia for posting the link to the house. It definitely could benefit from some staging. There are too many fake plants. The furnishings are too fussy and personal, i.e., in the master bedroom, the drapes match the bedspread and chairs - is Mike going to take down the drapes or leave them? His kitchen is outdated. Notice the refrigerator has wood paneling while the stove is stainless. And the wood on the island is different from the stain on the cabinets. That was kind of popular about 5 years ago, but not anymore. And one big thing - it doesn't matter how many "bells and whistles" your house has - the main things are location, square footage, overall condition. Not shades that move up and down (big whoop).
Gallagher is one of the worst. Fortunately he doesn't have all that many listeners. But didn't the housing bubble start to burst towards the end of 2007? Haven't housing prices been on a steady downward trend for around 18 months? And hasn't the banking industry been in the toilet for the past 6 months or so with banks unable or unwilling to make loans? It's actually kind of funny that he's trying to blame this on Obama. Considering the apparent size of this morons ego it would not surprise me if his house was overpriced but even if it's not this is not a great time to sell a house and none of the reasons for that have anything to do with our CURRENT President.
Why do we keep given these right wing nuts time and space on these web sites to spread their deceit..
Rush the pill popper.
Joe the bummer..
Palin who sees or talks to the Russian across the water.
Fox the propaganda King for the Right wing nuts.
McCain which every time he speaks something different comes out of his mouth... Has McCain help any other foreign recieve any of our military contracts lately???
Why was the news media hands off of the most corrupted and criminal administration in our history BUSH with Cheney and his hit-squad...
Bet most people ran from one of Cheney's hunting trips..
I used to listen to this putz on WABC back when there was nowhere else
to go on NY radio. Mike Gallagher actually put out an "all points bulletin"
on his radio show because his kid ran away from home. He was pleading
for his son to come home to daddy right on the air. Can you blame the kid?
Now he's selling his house and using his radio show to plead for a fine
wonderful conservative to take his home, bells & whistles, electric shades,
& bea-u-tiful pool & essentially using his show as a broadcast version of Craigs List.
The same desperation and fear that's in back of everything these guys stand for.
Reminds me of the time after 911 Steve Malzberg, totally panicked,
put out an on air call for gas masks that actually worked for
him and his family for a substantial reward. You could hear
his voice was choking up from the fear he couldn't control.
zillow has the house valued as $521,500 and he has it listed for over $800k
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2800-Cotswo...
reality check for this wingnut please
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