Rick Santelli says White House threatened him, then blames his wife as he backtracks
Rick Santelli went on the air with ex-con G. Gordon Liddy and said the White House was threatening him after his Wall street-wingnut-frat boy rant on CNBC.
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 what it --
LIDDY: That's a veiled threat.
SANTELLI: It really is. You know what? This isn't about left or right. I wasn't for any of the bailouts under the last administration. But I don't realize or recall reading the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution where it says that once you vote for somebody in November, you put duct tape over your mouth and you can't say a word for the next four years. That's just not right.
LIDDY: No, it isn't. And that's a veiled threat, you know, "We know where you live," and so forth.
SANTELLI: It really -- it's quite scary.
I watched him on the TODAY Show this morning, which gave him plenty of air time and when Matt Lauer confronted him by saying it's very silly to think the White House was threatening him, he actually blamed his wife. Kinda shows you the make up of these carnival on air bullies. He actually blames his wife. What a phony.
These same Wall Streeters whining about average Americans getting a bailout have themselves been saved by the government already -- otherwise, these clowns would be going lining up at the soup kitchen. But if American families are being helped, people like Santelli are appalled. What kinda populism izzat?
LAUER: Let me take this a step further. Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, commented, called you out in the briefing room, and after you heard his comments, you said that he was threatening you. Are you serious about that?
SANTELLI: Listen, let's put it this way. Matt, you're married, are you not?
LAUER: Yeah, I am.
SANTELLI: OK. This is more about the feelings my wife had when she watched the body language and listened to what he was saying, and I think you understand --
LAUER: But this is the White House press secretary. Do you think he's going to threaten you on national television?
So now his wife is a body language expert like Bill O'Reilly uses, and she found hidden meanings in Robert Gibbs comments. Talk about Zombie excuses.
SANTELLI: Well, let's rephrase the question. Do we think it's normal to be named by name, as opposed to the general media at large, say the cable guy or some of the comments? I find, my wife finds, and many of my friends find that the direct confrontation and pointing me out by name just is not ordinary, and I'll leave it at that and let people make their own judgment.
LAUER: And I completely understand your supporting Rick, and Rick, I'm sure your wife is a lovely person. However, what Robert Gibbs said was, basically, he was -- and I'm paraphrasing here -- he was saying he's not sure that as a former trader and current television personality, you're living in the same kind of neighborhoods where people are struggling to pay their mortgages. He wasn't threatening you.
SANTELLI: Well, listen, I'm not saying threatening. And just to be pinpointed specifically, I find very unusual, and I think that it's more of a decision for you as the press or all the people on the lawn that giggled at the joke about caffeine -- and it was funny -- but how would they like to be pinpointed specifically? I think that's the issue at hand. I don't want to make more out of this. You know, here I am, and I want to continue to do what I've always done, and that is, question motivation, whether it's the Fed chairman, and we know --
LAUER: Right, but the only thing I would say -- the only thing, Rick, I would say --
SANTELLI: -- that he wants the economy to cure down the road, but is it true?
LAUER: But the only thing I would say , Rick, is if you go out of your way to call out the president of the United States, you have to expect that his representative may go out of his way to call you out. Isn't that go -- doesn't that go with the territory?
SANTELLI: Well, what we're really saying is calling out -- as a member of the press, do I not get to ask a question or question the system? I understand that. I just --
LAUER: And as the press secretary, doesn't he have the right to ask you a question?
SANTELLI: He certainly does. It would be nice if he did it face to face, but I don't know that he needs to throw out my name. I just have an issue with that.
Didjer wife tell you to call Americans "losers?" Or is anything that comes out of your mouth less than bullshit?
This is the second time he's dragged his family into his problems.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
SANTELLI: He certainly does. It would be nice if he did it face to face, but I don't know that he needs to throw out my name. I just have an issue with that.
I wasn't aware that he went face to face with the Obama administration before he ranted. Did I miss something? Come on, he was offered a cup of coffee.
His 15 minutes were fun until he was called out on it.
is intended to be a factual statement
EVEN if he's telling the truth, the question to Santelli is: So do you normally transmit your wife's anxieties into your work?
thats what I was thinking after watching the clip. anyway, I didn't see him mentioning his wife, when he was thumping his chest. he's exposed himself to be a whimp.
Normally I hate name calling and childish vitriol pointed at our enemies. But this guy is a DOUCHEBAG!!!!!
Think of the poor douchebags...this guy is far lower than a douchebag.
colostomy bag. But I agree, I generally don't like straight up name calling either. I will make an exception for him.
I do think a tax audit is in order.
Hiding behind his wife.
Why is Liddy allowed to have a show? He's a creep extraordinaire. And a convicted felon.
Unrepentant convicted felon.
I didn't even know that he was married to Gordon Liddy.
I suspect a ball gag.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I suggest a ball gag.
...
If I pulled a stunt like that and blame the wife... I'll have to be doing my own laundry for a week.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
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a much better idea what kind of man Rick Santelli is.
Greedy, slimy Rethuglican liar.
Coincidence? I think not...Rick Santelli is actually Rick Santorum in disguise!
For lack of a better response, this Santelli person strikes me as having a screw loose. He was on MSNBC at one point today I think, and I was uncomfortable.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
cocktail of nervous tics. The greedy little bastard must have Tourettes. Raving and ranting one minute, whining and sniveling the next.
Audit him and his wife and reserve a padded room at a "rest" home.
That's very possible. That or mood swings.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
in the "good ol' days". Nowadays, they can probably just can afford crappy crank from a Jersey truck stop.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Oh man, that's the last thing we need, a bunch of drug addled greedy fools in the driver's seat of our economy! :(
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Too late.
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First he uses a public format to thump his chest in the name of free press and free markets, then he whimpers behind his wife's back because someone called him out on his disgraceful tirade. Santelli, you're a puss!
Now the leadership has some backbone and the wuzzes of the world just sound stupid. Bush and his posse would have actually used Santelli's paranoid statement for traction.
Jeanne
Santelli is a complete pussy, and if it wasn't for Dylan Ratigan saving his ass those couple of times, he would have been forced to commit to being a total fraud. Blaming his wife for his reaction. Going on Liddy's show to shill for the Republican party, all while claiming this centrist mantle. He's no different that Lou Dobbs, who says he's for the worker, yet wants the worker to suffer the most. For Santelli it's "no, you don't get any help from the govt. because you did something foolish." With Dobbs it's "the average worker doesn't deserve a union... oh, but I'm on the side of the average worker."
Complete nonsense!
When did we get this whole body language expert business? Honestly.
This remains my all time favorite body language piece, written by my friend (and secret crush) Steve Benen. UnFreakingReal.
I don't recall seeing this idiot grandstanding all over the media, during the Bush Grand-Theft bailout.
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Hey, it's Stephen Colbert's financial planner!
I would trust Gorlock over Santelli any damn day.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Excuse ever!!! What a dipshit!
And what a punk, little girly-may, as Ahnold would say.
OK, you got your 15 minutes of fame, compounded it by adding 15 minutes of shame; now, like a flame, go blow....
is more like 15 months.
Just look at (not) Joe the (not) Plumber.
At least that is the story told at the beauty shop and by my Repugnant neighbors.
Perhaps there is a brain cell or two amongst the Goopers of the world.
that somebody smack this unhinged adolescent in the puss but I'm afraid that it would hurt his wife's hand as she wipes the tears from his little, reptillian eyes.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
Oh geez.
My wife? My wife?
It was pretty funny (while sad.)
far left loon >.<
Actually it was Liddy that said, "He threatened you." I don't know why he's putting it on his wife.
Anyone know if the Wingnuts have updated the 'Clinton Death List' to include Socks? In the end, that damn cat just knew TOO much to live...
was freaking hysterical!!!
I know you were joking, so just know that is only slightly related, but, poor Socks. :( I had a cat that resembled him slightly during the Clinton years, only she was female. She died at the tail end of Clinton's tenure. Rest in peace, kitties.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Santelli needs to seek psychotherapy quickly.
Threat? You got to be kidding me. Santelli basically believes that he can do whatever he pleases and talk irresponsibly on the air about anyone he chooses, including the president, but then, when he gets challenged, he goes into "lawyer-lawsuit" mode and claims being threatened and will probably seek damages claiming that Gibbs calling him out by name for his statements negatively affected his career.
This is classic right-wing psychotic mentality. They want everyone else held accountable for their actions except themselves.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
PS Everyone is out to get you. Hide under the bed.
far left loon >.<
Well I am making my judgment and you Mr. Santelli are an asshole. You damn well that Robert Gibbs was not threatening you. You damn well that Gibbs was referring to the kind of house and where it is located and the value and what you can live in compared to what a lot of Americans who are being foreclosed ion can live in. Gibbs just didn't phrase it well enough for your paranoid wife.
A white collar Joe the Plumber. Both rant bar room populism, get lots of face time on network TV, and then shriek they're victims when challenged.
I was thinking Palin/Jindal in 2012, but CPAC may go with Joe and Rick.
Santelli is just another Republican hack hypocrite asshole.
Santelli is an ass-wipe so what else is new?
Don't know if he is republican, however he
could be a Democrat since most Democrats
behave just like republicans anyway.
Santelli came from the hedge fund industy
and got out when the going was good.
See :
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837966/
RICK SANTELLI
CNBC On-Air Editor
Rick Santelli joined CNBC Business News as on-air
editor in June 1999, reporting live from the floor
of the Chicago Board of Trade. His focus is primarily
on interest rates, foreign exchange, and the Federal
Reserve.
A veteran trader and financial executive, Santelli
has provided live reports on the markets in print
and on local and national radio and television.
He joined CNBC from the Institutional Financial
Futures and Options at Sanwa Futures, L.L.C.
There, he was a vice president handling
institutional trading and hedge accounts for
a variety of futures related products.
Prior to that, Santelli worked as vice president
of Institutional Futures and Options at Rand
Financial Services, Inc., served as managing
director at the Derivative Products Group of
Geldermann, Inc., and was Vice President in
charge of Interest Rate Futures and Options
at the Chicago Board of Trade for Drexel,
Burnham, Lambert. Santelli began his career
in 1979 as a trader and order filler at the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a variety of
markets including gold, lumber, CD's, T-bills,
foreign currencies and livestock.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois
Champaign/Urbana with a Bachelor of Science
degree. Santelli has been a member of both
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the
Chicago Board of Trade.
Sanelli's lawyer?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
".... make sure that the cheaters on Wall Street and in the housing market and in congress ..... That's Rick's point."
No, that was specifically NOT Rick's point. Rick made it quite clear in his original rant that it was the "losers" in the American public.
what a sniveling jackass dickhead.
takes no responsiblity for his irrespondible
remarks. bend over rick and take what you give....
i am sure it won't hurt...wide stance you have.
Maybe it was his wife who threatened him
She got tired of all the boiled egg shells in bed.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
by Lauer), got to bet a lot of his frat-boy trader bros are LAUGHING THEIR ASSES OFF right now.
Talk about having your stock tank...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"My wife did! It's her fault!" Oh yeah, that will win you points in the bedroom Rick. I hope she has those divorce papers handy.
NOBODY 2012
A husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart..
The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart. 'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife.
'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' he replies.
'Put them back, we can't afford them,' demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping. A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket.
'What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband.
'Its my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' replies the wife. Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and its half the price.'
On the PA system: 'Cleanup needed on aisle 25......man down!'
Another name for rick is dick.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the more I look into the mindset of this guy the less I like him.
still loved loved loved his rant but I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.
"I'll leave it at that and let people make their own judgment."
I've thought about it and I've decided ... you are an idiot.
You pinpointed yourself, Dimwit, when you made this statement on NATIONAL TV!
Their stupidity never fails to astound.
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative.”
- John Stuart Mill
I heard Gibb's comment, and he hesitated before he said, the line, "his house, I don't know where he lives," I thought he was referencing Santelli's rant, "your neighbor's house with the extra bathroom." Neither Gibbs' nor Santelli's were complete thoughts. I think that Gibbs was saying that he didn't know what kind of house santelli lived in, or what his housing circumstances were, but that real americans are hurting and that there is a REAL crisis in the housing sector (regardless of Santelli's thoughts on the topic).
Santelli seems to have a real knack for blowing things out of proportion. he's getting his 15 minutes.
It would be nice if he did it face to face, but I don't know that he needs to throw out my name. I just have an issue with that.
Somebody call the Whambulance.
Calling CNBC - how does it feel to give a total liar and coward so much airtime. Too many people on CNBC are total idiots with no perspective on the real world. Idiots can be tolerated but liars and cowards should be booted. Shape up.
Isn't it more of a threat when you say "I KNOW where you live."? "I don't know where you live" isn't much of a threat.
I see no reason for the White House to treat semi-demented supporters of the criminals on Wall Street and the Banking Crime Families as anything but what they are.
I'm all in favor of naming names and calling these dim-witted pundits to task. Santelli was so far out of line from what I saw that had I been his boss I'd have fired him for disturbing the peace if nothing else.
If you don't wanna be pinpointed then don't make outlandish statements moron...
Rick Santelli is just one of the few people this country can do away with right now
You're tirades have been in the news for the past two weeks. Your a jackass.
I said that I think the FBI is watching him... It's all a conspiracy. First they sent up Lee Harvey Oswald; now they are after you. It's psycho-semantic mind control stuff. The mothership will contact you soon.
God Bless... and knowledge is power.
Be safe and be sure to sweep your house for bugs. The listening device could be anywhere. They make them the size of dust now.
Santelli and his comments. The media had been running with this little Wall Street revolt angle for days and making Santelli into some kind of hero. Gibbs threw some cold water on their ridiculous little play, and pointed out that Santelli clearly hadn't read the bill and had no idea what he was talking about.
And the little bitch goes on tv and complains that he's been *threatened*?
Robert Gibbs rocks. He takes Santelli straight on and the only thing Santelli can come back with is my wife felt threatened. Since when does being invited to go to the White House and have coffee with the president's press secretary count as a vailed threat? Sounds quite awesome to me. I would have loved it if Dana asked me over for a cup of joe.
And who is that other chump of a talking head saying that Santelli represents a feeling that all of America is having?
What is funny.. Is where did the market go when Obama made his speech? SOUTH!
The guy spoke the truth and now is being crucified for it. Imagine being the trader with the target from a White House on your head? He called them out because the market sank for OBVIOUS REASONS. Free markets love government intervention because of how awesome politicians are at solutions.
Then again.. ask the USSR.. government involvement in the private market lead to their...
you get the picture.
this nation does not have a 'free' market.
They have no problem letting working stiffs 'correct' for their mistakes.
And the USSR never had a private market.
Read a history book for chrissakes.
My judgement is made. Santelli is an a**hole.
Typical chicken hawk as soon as he has to tighten his own belt that is when the hate shows. His thinking is
We can steal all the money we want but when
somebody calls us out on it,, NNNOOOO MEANIE
MEANIE MEANIE MEANIE MEANIE .....
How childish and now he has to hide behind his wife/mommies apron strings.
when his wife fucks him...does she allow him to be on his back...or does he like having his face shoved in the pillow?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
The lying Reslug is still hiding behind his Mama's skirt, the little chickenshit weasel.
Does he really think people believe Gibbs threatened him after see the clip of his rant and Gibbs's reply? Memo to all repugs - we are not stupid. How pathetic is it for a grown man to whine and lie!
On the floor next to Santelli when he makes those pleas make 2-3 Million a year. OK to protect them.
What a total pussy. Instead of just giving Gibbs credit for a great zinger, this thinned skinned punk escalates the debate with outright lies while using his family as a shield...a pussy.
during that rant and now he is whining because the answer was yes? I thought that was the whole point.
These right-wingers are such wussies. He blames his wife after demeaning the presidents program and being called on it. What an ass. Are he and Jindal related?
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