Rick Santelli is a PUNK who needs to MAN UP!

[wndycty]

Cross posted at: http://tinyurl.com/bwh8wo

Rick Santelli is a PUNK who needs to MAN UP!
Rick Santelli is quickly proving what type of simple PUNK he is. As you know he gained notoriety for his rant against the housing bailout plan and called for a "Chicago Tea Party" on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange live on CNBC. However when White House spokesman Robert Gibbs needled Santelli during a recent press briefing the CNBC correspondent freaked out.

This morning on the TODAY SHOW he denied saying the White House threatened him when Matt Lauer called him out on it, only to imply they were threatening him later in the same segment. He also threw his wife under the bus by claiming one of the reasons he felt threatened was because his wife and friends felt he was threatened.

Oh yeah, he is also upset the White House press corps laughed at him when Gibbs made a joke about him and coffee.

On Monday this week he whined to Roe Conn of WLS-AM during a phone interview, claiming that the White House was trying to intimidate him and threaten his First Amendment rights.

"A press secretary of calling me out by name, asking where I live is a little bit scary," cried Santelli to Conn. "I think that the issue with Mr. Gibbs, I really think that was reprehensible that in country like America no matter who you vote for I think freedom of the press asking questions shouldn't be viewed and reporters shouldn't be called out by name by any administration in the United States of America."

Santelli is a joke. If he is going to throw bombs he has to be prepared for incoming fire, even if it is from the White House. He must have flunked high school civics because the First Amendment does not prohibit the White House from responding when criticized. Since his rant on the CME floor he has continued his battle with the White House, if his freedom of speech were truly being threatened then they would have shut him up a long time ago.

The fact that he is upset that members of the media were laughing at him shows how much of a little weasel he is. He can dish it out, but he obviously can't take it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMoikAtAmqY

[atreides1]

1. Santelli is just another bully

He's big and tough until he gets challemged then the real wussy comes out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Santelli wants what all two-bit propaganda mongers want

The ability to spew his ignorant venom in public without consequences. Too bad, asshole. We're having a public debate, and your credibility is very much in question. The question of your zip code is very relevant, if you're claiming some sort of populist mantle for your elite-serving ideas. Where does Rick Santelli live? In some shitheap mansion, no doubt. Why shouldn't he be proud. After all, that would make him NOT a "loser" like so many ordinary Americans. Clue to Santelli: you can't be a populist rabble-rouser AND a rich, elite "winner." Pick one or the other, you fucking dick-faced jerk.

[wndycty]

4. And his feelings were hurt because the other members of the media laughed at him

:kick:

[Cha]

20. And, he doesn't have

enough brain matter to know that lying & whining just makes it worse. Who knows, maybe he's still stuck in the bush years where people like him could get away with that shite.

[Oceansaway]

3. i can't watch CNBC anymore....

they are ALL frikking shills....jmo...

[Thrill]

5. I saw that interview. I thought Lauer did a great job going after him

and challenging him on his BS.

[wndycty]

6. Yeah. . .I would have had a lot more respect if he wasn't claiming to be threatened. . .

. . .there are economic theories which I may or may not agree with and I can respect those differences, but to see him call out the White House then act like a punk when they respond is what really bothers me.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. What's next? Backwards scrawl on his face ala Morton Downey Jr. or the B girl? eom

[Hello_Kitty]

8. Speaking of which: Anyone have photoshop skills?

A pic of Santelli with a backwards B and smudgy black eye would be hilarious, and appropriate.

[wndycty]

11. That would be funny

:kick:

[City Lights]

9. Little Ricky is a big-mouthed, small-brained punk with bad teeth.

If you can't stand the heat, Little Ricky, stay out of the kitchen.

[vaberella]

10. I think you summed it up best. n/t

[LaPera]

12. A lying fucking REPUBLICAN punk!

[wndycty]

13. Amen

:kick:

[spanone]

14. says the whitehouse is threatening him....sure, they spend day & night working on the rick file

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. I don't watch CNBC. Was Santelli's on-air "persona" anything like this before?

I did see the rant on YouTube etc.

If he's normally some sober financial news dude then I suspect it's his big audition for FOX or something.

[slipslidingaway]

22. Yes...

this is from 2007 when the Fed talked of cutting rates again, Santelli argued that they were in essence doing so as the equity markets were threatening to break a level of support. Also that it would do nothing to help solve the problems and would leave the Fed with less room to have an impact in the future, especially if the economy really started to slow in early 2008. And FWIW Geithner was on the FOMC at the time.

The video says it is from 2008, but the numbers on the screen are clearly from 2007.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDaEkvSQwKQ

[TeamJordan23]

16. As a derivatives trader, he is basically making money on the markets falling. nm

[Hutzpa]

17. Yawn!

:boring:

Can we discuss something else other than this toe-rag of a person, we all know
he is a weasel, lets talk about how people can save themselves from foreclosures,
how they can get jobs, how can the recovery package helped them and what help to
look for in the recovery package.

[mix]

18. hellyeahhe'sapunk

eom

[butterfly77]

19. He's a crybaby...

he's hiding behind his wife and children.

[Still Sensible]

21. No he's a punk that needs his ass kicked!

And I really don't care if it's a figurative ass kicking or not.