By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--February 21, 2009
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The White House on Friday launched a bullish retaliatory attack on cable television reporter Rick Santelli, saying his "rant" against President Obama's housing foreclosure plan is uninformed and dangerous.Santelli's rant was "dangerous"? Can anyone tell me how many times President Obama used the words "economy", "crisis", and "catastrophe" together over the last month? Talk about a confidence builder. Typical liberal response, "You don't know what you're talking about. Maybe Santelli does and telling the public what he knows is not with the Obama program.
In a briefing with reporters in which he ridiculed Mr. Obama's own Transportation secretary's idea to tax drivers' mileage and all but said Mr. Obama's successor in the Senate, Sen. Roland Burris, should resign, press secretary Robert Gibbs saved his harshest barbs for Mr. Santelli. "I'm not entirely sure where Mr. Santelli lives, or in what house he lives," Mr. Gibbs said, repeatedly blasting the reporter by name. "I would encourage him to read the president's plan and understand that it will help millions of people, many of whom he knows. I would be more than happy to have him come here and read it. I would be more than happy to buy him a cup of coffee decaf."Not exactly a classy response, let alone presidential. Say what you want about President Bush, aside from the Adam Clymer slam, his administration never attacked a lone reporter who ridiculed his policies. If he did, he wouldn't have had much time for anything else.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight