Gibbs Questions Jim Cramer’s Credibility

Could be I am overly sensitive but it is unnerving to watch the administration attack private citizens with a vengeance greater than the attacks on political opposition

Concerned:
The administration is not attacking. They are defending.

The Administration Is not Attacking They are Defending!

This so called administration, being made up of tax cheats and liars, ARE scared…They see the demise and possible impeachment of Obama and the arrest of some very high democrat congressmen and senators.. The media is running cover for these individuals now..Like the Russian scholar is saying , O-dumb-ah will be declaring martial law soon, as more and more people see him as corrupt

Freedom of speech…..
Property rights….
…life….pursuit of happiness….
deceived people elected a destroyer

Attacking a private citizen? Whaat is private about Cramer? He makes a lot of money claiming to have the answers to individual finances and public policy issues in the most public forum available. When he raises issues they have to be addressed. Remembertoo that the comments are from the WH press office, who are doing there job, not from law enforcement, nor from the policy makers who are presumably trying to do their jobs without wasting time on answering hot air merchants.

I don’t like Cramer and rarely agree with his assessments on the economy but President Obama really needs to kick Gibbs to the curb. It’s impossible to believe that 100% of the media will ever be completely on board with any administration, and the attacks (and based on his tone they are attacks not defense) launched by Gibbs are completely unprofessional and not in harmony with how I feel about the current administration. I voted for Obama and think he’s doing a fine job so far but Gibbs is a man that has to go (or be placed on a very short leash).

“Could be I am overly sensitive but it is unnerving to watch the administration attack private citizens with a vengeance greater than the attacks on political opposition”
What are you talking about? You are being overly sensitive. Gibbs is responding to a simple question, not attacking anyone. What a bunch of drama queens here.

Gibbs is creepy. He fits right in with the Bamster.

Just another scam by the Obama team to try to get someone (Rick Santelli or Jim Cramer this time) so their Socialist policy will not attract to much attention.
They know the American people will not buy what they are selling,but if the focus can be diverted from the facts their mission has been accomplished.Wake up people!Freedom of speech is under attack.Go Rick and Jim keep telling it like it is.

Gibbs is unaware of controversy surrounding Chas. Freeman but knows all about Jim Cramer’s credibility, or lack thereof.
Disturbing lack of priorities exhibited here.
Posted by: mad | Mar 4, 2009 9:26:48 AM
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Exactly. Obama is waaaay too thin skinned to be president.

Jake …. what happened to the White House ignorant blog …. I thought it was your most honest to date.

Cramer attacked the Pres – Not the other way around!
I like Cramer’s zany style, but he is off the reality mark!
Pres Obama is on the right road! We will get out of this mess if we continue to follow the lead.
This is NOT a time to panic – it is a time to be smart!
I’m so glad I voted for Obama! Whew! It was one of the best darn decisions I have EVER made!

Hey Jake, thanks for the context re: Jim Cramer. I think it’s important that these shysters be called out for their obvious wrongheadedness and advice, as Gibbs mentioned, so I appreciate you doing the research to find out what he meant. Thanks again.

Nice to see the talking points are again distributed: Attack Gibbs for attacking “private citizen.” From what orifice did the GOP pull this criterion?
Jim is a smart guy, but he’s a stock picker and hedge fund manager, not an economist. He, like Rush, is now a gasbag showman.
Nice to see the GOP is encouraging a dignified approach that ignores people like these, but they no longer have immunity.

Kramer is a Shamwow salesman

It’s not about shouting all the time, thinking they know it all, why didn’t they see this problem before it happened, all they have to now is go away and let Obama clean all their mess,I remember asking people then to buy house, not telling them that prices are too high, now they all want to play economic guru, dope heads.

Mr. Gibbs needs to get his head out of the sand! Better yet, retire!

The notion that Obama “inherited” this mess is a lie by ommission at best. Whether you care to admit it or not, he voted for most of the stuff he “inherited”. He was a US Senator prior to this new job he’s taking a stab at. Be honest with yourselves. Like Dr. Phil says you can’t fix what you don’t acknowledge.

If we aren’t careful the rest of the world will start to think we don’t know what we are doing, and that TV and radio stars are running our country. OH WAIT they all ready do Russian Foreign Misiter Panarin just said he sees us going down in 2010 because we have no rudder and are braking up. Guess he and Mr Cramer along with Rush Limbaugh got a memo I did not get.

you guys might remember that even the best pundits and the best managers and the best hedge fund types make their mistakes. and even the best politico types and the best Presidents make their mistakes.
the one thing we the citizens and investing public have to remember is that a lack of truth+transparency got us here and will get us here in similar situations if we don’t ask questions and get facts.
question everyone!

These critics of Obama, such as Limbaugh, Cramer or anyone else who dares to challenge this administration, need to be arrested and put in a political prison. This type of traitorous activity cannot be allowed in this country. Cuba and North Korea have the right idea and I urge Leader Obama to act now. I hope that Leader Obama will use the vast power of the government, including those Clinton era FBI files, to harrass, stop and arrest these traitors. Act now and we can ivestigate later.

I listened to Cramer a few years ago when he was push9ng Sirius satellite radio, I bought but missed the program less than a week later when he reversed himself. Listening to Cramer cost me a couple of thousand dollars, never again.

uh oh looks like the GOP is poised to grasp hold to a new leader of the Party.
Move over Joe the plummer, sara P and elrushbo.

“the broader population?
Is he kidding? What broader population would that be Mr. Gibbs? Those who haven’t lost their jobs, 401(k), pension funds, retirement savings? Because each and every member of THAT population is affected and has been affected, severely, by the spiraling downturn in the financial sectors, markets, etc.
It’s obvious Mr. Gibbs is clueless; I am just hoping the rest of the administration has a bit more on the ball or we may be in for much more serious economy trouble than we can imagine.

Angie in PA:”87 PERCENT OF AMERICANS DO NOT BLAME PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR THE ECONOMY. BUT SAY HE INHERITED IT.”
Ultimately though, by the next election he will own it. Unless the Republicans whine loudly enough they successfully burnish the image of being the stalwart roadblock that stops anything from getting done. Then it’ll be theirs (judging from current polls, this is the road they’re headed down now).

Another pro Obama/DNC spin job by Tapper and Co.
When are we going to get some REAL journalists in this country?

“Unless the Republicans whine loudly enough they successfully burnish the image of being the stalwart roadblock that stops anything from getting done.”
It’s what’s already been done that is destroying American wealth at breakneck speed. From the time he was elected he has declared his hostility to capital (higher taxes on gains, dividends, interest, and overseas income). As a result, capital has left the building. What, exactly, would you expect would happen?

A man who has never managed a single business, created a single job or had any insight into a capitalist system that didn’t involve undertones of a Marxist ideology — knows much better than a man who has made economics his life. Please…Obama is an economic lightweight that has hurt the market, hurt those invested in the market (retirees, teacher unions, etc) and who has no clue on how the markets work. He has spent his life demonizing those who create jobs, add value to consumers and generate our prosperity. Not to worry…Obama knows government bureaucrats that will do a better job at building your children’s future than free markets. You should find comfort in the fact that a Marxist ideologue will do the right thing for this economy.

CannonRay:”A man who has never managed a single business, created a single job or had any insight into a capitalist system that didn’t involve undertones of a Marxist ideology — knows much better than a man who has made economics his life.”
You may be surprised to hear that the President actually has a substantial staff, and that this administration (like most actually, the last one was a real outlier) listens to well regarded professionals in matter of policy like this. Kramer is an entertainer, and a stock picker, but he is not any sort of economic guru.

How many times did the Bush administration take on a tv pundit or radio personality? I’m sure they did, I just can’t recall the the news articles where Rove, Andy Card, and others had daily phone calls to discuss the continued bashing of critics. I can’t imagine I missed it. The hew and cry would have been equal to a tsunami. Yet, Begal, Carville, Emanuel, Axelrod, Gibbs and Pleuffe(sp?) have daily phone calls to do just. Strategize on public critics of the administration. Very odd how things are overlooked when you have a (D) after your name. Very odd indeed.

Cramer IS an idiot…he’s been touting Tenet stock for years and it’s gone from $52 a share to about 78 cents! But Gibbs isn’t much better in terms of job performance. This guy is supposed to be the face of Team Obama but he is a boob. He laughs wildly at inappropriate times like some sort of nutcase. Gibbs is almost as unprofessional and unpolished as, um, um, ahh…Geithner…

Give Obama a break! He cannot do much of significance to affect the economy one way or the other in less thant two months in office. The economy has been suffering from fundamental problems for far too long. If Mr Cramer is expecting anything to change from Obama’s 44 days in office, he cannot be an economist of any worth!

What should give everyone pause is that Obama is making these sweeping policy changes without any tax advisors. So while I have no knoweldge that Obama is listening to his advisors, and no one else can make that claim unless you are an advisor, I can make the claim that he does not have a full compliment of advisors and that is a problem.

Yesterday Obama said: “What you’re now seeing is a profit and earnings ratios get to the point that buying stocks is a good thing if you have a long-term perspective on it.”
Shouldn’t a President of the US know that “P/E Ratio” means “price-to-earnings ratio,” not “profit and earnings ratio?” There is a difference.

Axey:”I’m sure they did, I just can’t recall the the news articles where Rove, Andy Card, and others had daily phone calls to discuss the continued bashing of critics. I can’t imagine I missed it.”
Are you serious? Putting aside the hit job on Valerie Plame, or their trademark slander the messenger attacks on everyone from Richard Clarke to Paul O’Neill, Bush himself flat out accused the NY Time of treason for their reporting. The ‘with us or against us’ ‘bring it on’ rhetoric was regularly targeted against any domestic criticism. It is laughable to suggest they were somehow above the current administration’s approach of responding to critics – a current approach which does not yet question patriotism nor accuse critics of a capital crime.

In other news, Evan Bayh has called upon President Obama to veto the Omnibus Spending bill.

In his book Das Kapital, Karl Marx wrote ominously in 1867:
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to Communism.”
It helps to have willing accomplices in the White House and in Congress.

Peach: What specifically is your obsession about an estate tax starting at assets valued over $3.5 million / $7.5 million joint? George Bush’s tax cuts very clearly impose the estate tax – do you know why he didn’t make the temporary estate tax cut permanent? As far as job generation go, the estate tax is a no brainer to prevent stagnation of wealth and encourage incorporation.

Obama keeps lying and saying he inherited the worst economy. It’s so provably untrue that he must be assuming most folks won’t look it up.
The January unemployment rate was 7.6%. The revised gross domestic product showed economic activity declined at a 6.2% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2008. Those two statistics demonstrate that far from being the worst in history, this recession still isn’t as bad as 1982 recession which saw 10.8 % unemployment and a 6.4% decline in GDP.

The President, his press secretary or any administration officials should not be attacking radio and tv hosts or anyone for that matter. It’s amateur hour at the White House.
As for Mr. Cramer, he is correct to say that Obama’s goal is wealth redistribution. That’s obvious. That’s why this centrist Democrat did not vote for him. My party has taken a sharp turn left away from the mainstream of this great country.
Capitalism is what made America a great land of opportunity. You win some, you lose some. Having the chance is what counts. Despite what Newsweek mag rag says, socialism is not a good thing for the U.S., it’s European models have failed and are nothing to emulate. Newsweek’s Wash editor and the co-author of the pro-socialism cover story is Evan Thomas, whose grandfather was 6 time Socialist Party Presidential candidate Norman Thomas who once said:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of “liberalism” they will adopt everey fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened”
Wake up America!
I suggest giving up kool-aid for Lent.

It’s a shame that Obama is proposing making the death tax go from its current 0% to 45%.
Yes, we all want our family’s money and generations of savings to go to the federal government. **rolling my eyes**

Cramer is a clown, and Gibbs is full of it. Which one is better?

Cramer is a total idiot who gives bad financial advice. I often wonder why he has a job on MSNBC… Still, I think the White House has bigger fish to fry than go after idiots like him. And I’m sure they would if the press corps would stop asking them to respond to the comments of news personalities. I don’t remember the press corp asking Bush’s press secretary to respond every time a financial journalist slammed the administration. To my ears, this reeks of media irresponsibility.

CannonRay:”The market is reacting in real-time to Obama’s policies and leadership.”
I’ll add you to the list of folks to ask for opinions in 2012 (or likely even next year) what you think the market is saying. When there is a rally to above it’s level on inauguration day, by your simple logic it will be a clear endorsement of Obama, his leadership, and economic policy. Simple black and white. I’m sure he’ll be happy for your vote in 2012.

Peach: We’re witnessing the most expensive learning curve in America’s history.
– You’ve obviously missed the learning curve President Bush enjoyed. Afganistan, Iraq, Katrina…and those were before the “sub-prime” issue.

Axey:” Someone helped me remember the times Bush personally attacked a tv pundit or radio personality. ”
Rush Limbaugh has clearly established himself as a leader of the GOP (Congressmen and even the Chair of the Republican National Committee have been forced to tow Rush’s line). If you cannot find an instance of Bush questioning a Democratic leader’s patriotism, you are not looking too hard.
The comments about Cramer were by the Press Secretary during one of the very common press sessions. It’s not like Obama is really giving this any thought.

Concerned in Ohio,
You’ll notice that Gibbs was set up by, who else? NBC. He was asked to respond to Cramer’s comments — what was he supposed to do? In the future I hope he ignores these questions (but of course then he will be critiqued for dodging questions and “contributing to an atmosphere of secrecy”). And I wouldn’t worry about poor little Cramer or NBC — they are loving the publicity!

You’ve obviously missed the learning curve President Bush enjoyed. Afganistan, Iraq, Katrina…and those were before the “sub-prime” issue.
Posted by: Heather | Mar 4, 2009 11:30:04 AM
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Surely you meant to include Congressional Democrats who voted in large measure for both wars, didn’t you? And I will note the Intelligence Committee saw the same intelligence as the president.
As to Katrina, I can see you’re also forgetting that both a Democratic mayor and Governor run that city and state. I watched as they admitted on the day before the storm hit they had just gotten off the phone with the president at 10:00 in the morning and he ORDERED them to make the evacuation mandatory.
Now, maybe it’s just me, but when a Level 5 hurricane is barrelling down on my state and I’m under sea level, I don’t need the president to tell me what to do. But the Democrats who ran that state sure did.

====Posted by: jhw539 | Mar 4, 2009 11:31:24 AM====
You sure Obama isn’t giving it any thought? You wouldn’t want me to look up and report back to you what Obama has personally said about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, now would you? And if it comes from Obama’s press secretary, it comes from Obama. Obama isn’t questioning the validity of what they are saying, he is mocking them. Is that really how you want the president of the US to act? Especially when he promised hope and change? To continually compare Obama’s performance to Bush’s performance, i.e., Bush did it, the left is recognizing that Obama isn’t changing anything. There is some progress in that, I suppose.

Axey:”You wouldn’t want me to look up and report back to you what Obama has personally said about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, now would you?”
Do you read my replies? I clearly put out the rationale for Obama replying directly to Rush. Can you respond to my reasoning, or do you just ignore it and keep ranting?
I am amused by your view that Obama is personally prepping his press secretary on every possible question… Why do you think he has a press secretary?

Instructions: cut and paste the text below, then choose ONE of the options in each set of brackets. Do NOT copy these instructions. You may change the order, but please do NOT change the words “private citizen”; you may be surprised, but we have focus-grouped, and “television personality” and “investment counselor” do not inspire the same degree of sympathy.
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It is [pretty, very, somewhat] [disturbing, concerning, troubling, unnerving] to see [Obama, the administration, the WH] [attacking, lashing out at, targeting] a private citizen instead of [keeping their eye on the ball, dealing with our more important problems].

“I just love reading about posters who think the rich should pay more taxes”
68 percent of Americans believe they deserve to take their neighbors’ money, are anxiously awaiting a government handout and have a favorable opinion of the president.
We’ve become a nation of slackers and aspiring welfare recipients.

If it isn’t Santelli, then it’s Limbaugh, if it isn’t Limbaugh then it’s Cramer. This White House is spending more time attacking individuals and the past administration then they are doing something constructive. It appears to me that this White House has a very thin skin. Just think what will happen when all these Mickey Mouse Socialist Programs blow up in their face, Iran is threatening Israel and the rest of the Middle East, Hillary is cowering in a corner somewhere, and Russia and China see a weakling, what then? It is scary to think about.

Peach:”I just thought that was worth repeating.”
You would – it’s not true and uses a deliberate ignorance of reality in the interests of sloganeering.
It’s also cute how when Obama does tax cuts (as a good chunk of the stimulus was, including $70 billion in an AMT cut that only the upper middle class will benefit from) it’s spending. And it’s spent when the bill is signed not, you know, when it is actually spent.

Bush deficits bad.
Obama record setting deficits good.
So, why after all the crying and whining about Bush deficits, are Obama supporters singing the praises of Obama’s obscene spending deficits?

Drudge is headlining the Politico article that details how the Obama administration is deliberately targeting Limbaugh. It’s being planned INSIDE the Obama White House.
Imagine if that was Nixon. Ooops – different standards there I see.

For those posters who are saying the expiration of the Bush tax cuts will only effect the rich, you might want to check your facts.
Even Geithner has admitted it will effect all Americans. Well, those 58% of us who pay federal income taxes, anyway.

jhw539, You don’t have a clue. You must understand what he says at one time is most likely not what he ment. The BUSH TAX CUTS are all going to be repealed. The estate tax exemtions affest the “EVIL RICH PEOPLE” in America. Class war fare at it’s best. Lazy people hat rich people. Which one are you?

dsimms:”I know he said he wasn’t going to raise taxes on those making less than $250k but if he lets all the tax cuts expire you and everyone will get a tax increase but he want call it that.”
? Obama’s budget only proposes having the highest bracket tax cuts expire. The remainder would be renewed. This is out there in black and white. The way the brackets work out, individuals making more than $200k will see a tax increase, while it is joint filers over $250k who will see a return to the tax levels of the 90′s Republican Revolution Congress. Is that what you’re ranting about – that individuals will see the marginal rate for earnings over $200k increase by 3-5%?
As a sidenote, this maybe a tax increase on me if I still have full time work coming in, but I am hardly going to complain!

dsimms:”The BUSH TAX CUTS are all going to be repealed. ”
Lets make a deal – if in 2012 the tax levels for those earning under $200k have not increased you’ll vote for Obama. If they have, I’ll vote Republican. Sound good? It’ll be a decision based on reality rather than what you insist Obama is going to do (but oddly forgot to put into his budget summary – he actually put quite the opposite in his budget summary).

When was the last time an administration attacked a “private citizen? Let’s see, the most onerous recent example would be Cheney exposeing Ms Plame to punish her husband for writing a critical op-ed piece. Good enough for you?
The neocons are chomping at the bit to blame the economic meltdown on Obama, some of them didn’t even wait until he was sworn in. This is just one more example. The fact is, Obama is right. The stock market is the LEAST important element to this mess right now. Employment, consumer spending, those are the keys. The stock market fallows, it doesn’t lead.

jhw539, I think you may want to do a little more reading. His budget does not deal with the tax cut expirations. The tax on the people making more is a new tax rate plus the denial on certain exemtions. The Bush tax cuts will all expire in 2010.

Turn8: You don’t keep up with the news much, do you?
Armitage, who worked for Colin Powell, was the one who blabbed about Valerie Plame. Look it up — it’s well documented.
And Powell knew that his employee was the one who first leaked about Plame and didn’t tell the president or apologize.

dsimms:”His budget does not deal with the tax cut expirations. The tax on the people making more is a new tax rate plus the denial on certain exemtions. The Bush tax cuts will all expire in 2010.”
His submitted budget is for the 2010 budget year and deals DIRECTLY with the revenue stream from these taxes. But if you are so confident that there’s a nefarious bait and switch going on, you are safe to pledge that if the Bush tax cuts (income tax brackets on people making less than $200k) DO NOT expire by 2012, you’ll admit you’re wrong about Obama and vote for him. Right?

The Bush tax cuts will automatically expire in 2010 unless congress renews them or makes them perminate. They have no plans, so without them being renewed they will be gone and your taxes go up.

jhw539:”His submitted budget is for the 2010 budget ”
I mean his submitted budget summary – the line by line details aren’t submitted to Congress until the spring of course.

Hey Ga. [[Peach]]
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News Flash: Since Last Year, U.S. Corporations have been …
Laying Off People, to Keep their Profit Margins Up !!
Toyota is asking for a Bailout form it’s Federal bank and Laying Off People in Japan.
The Global Markets in Asia are Down.
The Global Markets of Western Europe are Down…
Western Europe’s European Union are Bailing out it’s Corporations and those Corporations in turn are Laying Off Workers…
I Guess you will Blame all these Markets Failures on [[Obama's Administration]]
An Administration that has been in Power for a Month and 4 Days…
You can only Sell that Bull- Spit to the Uninformed and Looking for an Easy Excuse People…
Not The Informed…
Sorry

Armitage, who worked for Colin Powell, was the one who blabbed about Valerie Plame. Look it up — it’s well documented.
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So what’s your explanation about why Scooter Libby lied? And who were the two government officials who confirmed it to Novak? And why was Armitage even made aware of Valery Plame’s existence? And by whom? So many questions are still not answered. And we will probably never know because Scooter Libby refused to tell the truth and obstruct justice.

I did a search to find out how Obama’s projections were working out and found out that several organizations have noted that every time he speaks, the market tanks a little more.
Posted by: Peach
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every time you post, the market tanks a little more…
every time Rush opens his mouth, the market tanks a little more…

It is disgraceful and unprecedented for the Whitehouse to directly attack a media person.
This Whitehouse has a steady record of this, and a willingly complicit media.
They are happily walking to the gallows signaling the end of the “third estate”, and the usual checks and balances that were provided years ago before the media became advocates for the democrat party.
It is so evident in that fellow news people, instead of being offended and angry at the behavior of the whitehouse, they act as supplicants and echo the mantra.
We also have the whitehouse coordinating an attack on Rush Limbaugh that was planned since last fall with this adminstration, paul Begala, James Carville, and carried out by the rest of the Obama media.
It is not a guess. It is documented to be true, and they are so bold they do not deny it.
Whether or not you like Rush is not the issue.
We are fast approaching a regime mentality where the dictator must approve, control and direct the news.
The day may come when they go after someone you like and you will then begin to care, but it will be too late.
This is a frightening development in it’s boldness, arrogance and full frontal assault on anyone with a different opinion.
Can you imagine if Bush had taken this tack. He would not have had time for anything other than directly assaulting a multitude of media reports, and unlike Obama, the reports on Bush were more often than not distorted and unfair.

Could you please define “smear campaign”? I’m still chuckling over the ‘smearing’ of Rush by (horrors!) pointing out he’s the defacto leader of the Republican Party at the moment. (Which is true, but he’s sure to fade into the background again as
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They admit that they wish to demonize Rush. They cast everything he says in a negative light and deliberately misinterpret what he says to make him appear a bigot or racist, which if you ever listened to him you would know he is not.
You are happy that they are doing this and the only thing you know about him is what the Obama-media, or the DNC media tell you.
It is ugly campaign tactics orchestrated by Carville, Begala and the Whitehouse.
This is akin to communist dictators controlling all dissenting opinion and directing the news that is and is not reported.
The problem is dems are so amused they are forgetting the frightening precedent this sets.
The media is happily becoming the US version of the “Daily Pravda”.
Each year the media cedes more and more control, and now full control, over to their der Leader.

Jake, that was nice of Gibbs to give you his oppo research on private citizen Jim Cramer, who now is getting the “Joe the plumber” treatment from Obama.
Now, can you be an equal opportunity reporter and post all of the many videos of Obama making past declarative statements which have turned out to be outright lies and broken promises?

====When was the last time an administration attacked a “private citizen? Let’s see, the most onerous recent example would be Cheney exposeing Ms Plame to punish her husband for writing a critical op-ed piece. Good enough for you?====
No. Not even close. Wilson lied. Where has Rush lied? Cramer? Santelli?

====Something different than capitalism is going on. The lack of intellectual honesty on the right has driven me from being a republican to being a democrate– which is where i started 43 years ago.====
Isn’t that amazing? The same thing happened to me. Well, sort of. I went from democrat to independent to straight up republican. Because of the lack of intellectual honesty on the left. Freaky, huh? How similar yet dissimilar our paths were.

Corrected Entry
Limbaugh hopes Obama’s socialist policies fail. I hope so too. I also hope Kim Jong Il fails, Ahmadinejad fails, Castro fails, Chavez. On a positive note, however, I hope that a cure for liberal derangement is found soon.
Posted by: Sigmonde | Mar 4, 2009 12:46:3
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Yes indeed I second this.
Oh , and by the way. I do recall the non-stop wish for Bush to fail and books describing how to assassinate him. Can you imagine if someone would publish something like that about Obama. Do you think the media would interview them in a non judgmental way as they did when Bush was pres.

OBAMA LIED. THE ECONOMY DIED.
OBAMA SPOKE. WE ALL WENT BROKE.

I find it interesting that the author of this story was able to find support for the Administration viewpoint while avoiding any response from the target of the administrative complaints. It seems journalistic malfeasance and quite unfair on a legalistic basis.
Cramer in response pointed to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, Nasdaq and the Russell Index, all of which are down huge since Inauguration Day. And the only small thing about the MadMo audience, he said, is its 401(k)s, pension plans and annuities after the damage Obama’s proposed spending plans have caused the markets.
The stock market right now is a better barometer of Americans’ wealth than the president and his press secretary seem to realize, Cramer said.

“Yet you continue to regurgitate the orchestrated attacks. How is a long-planned coordinated attack on a private citizen “bipartisan”?”
The Ashley Todd hoax spreader is telling us about orchestrated attacks.
He would know.

Obama tells us our economic situation is a crisis verging on catastrophe and the WH is spending time on a talk show host’s politics.
This is change we could do without.
Posted by: mad | Mar 4, 2009 12:30:31 PM
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Republicans have called for investigations into the collapse of the economy. No wonder the Democrats don’t want to let an investigation go forward: The White House would be forced to admit they have focused more attention on a talk radio host than on the economy. We should demand those e-mails from this administration which promised to be so “transparent”.

President Obama is a….
Protectionist..Yes
Nationalist…Yes
Socialist ….No
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That Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Praeger, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Joe The Plumber Bull-Spit…
Will Never Stick
Keep Repeating that Socialist Bull
Obama is a Nationalist, Protectionst and Preservationist..
Did you not Hear his Address to Congress last Night and that is why His Approval Numbers Jumped Wednesday…
The President Speaks of Making Our Own Products, once more and it starts Here at Home, as it was before Corporate America, NAFTA and Free Trade…
Sold out the American Factory Workers and Gave thier Jobs to Communist Socialist China and Viet Nam…
India, Canada, Mexico and Other Foreign Countries…
I Love that Sound, made In America, once Again….
Yet it is Rush Limbaugh and like some of You…
That call this Nationalist President a..
[[Socialist]]
Borderline Bull-Spit !!
Presodent Obama is a Nationalist and I for One am very Proud that he is a …
[[Nationalist]]

Check out “Obama fiddled with Rush Limbaugh while Wall Street burned” on Politico.
(James) Carville and Paul Begala coordinated this effort with Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emanuel on their morning conference calls. Clearly, Obama wants to use his media contacts to play rough with critics through coordinated personal-attack campaigns.
It’s reminiscent of Nixon’s enemies list, and it comes from the supposed messiah of Hope and Change.
(A)s this administration fumbles one issue after another, …they will only need to expand the personal attacks against critics rather than respond to the criticism itself.

President Obama is a….
Protectionist..Yes
Nationalist…Yes
Socialist ….No
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That Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Praeger, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Joe The Plumber Bull-Spit…
Will Never Stick
Keep Repeating that Socialist Bull
Obama is a Nationalist, Protectionst and Preservationist..
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Did you Low Life’s not Hear his Address, to Congress last Tuesday Night and His Approval Numbers Jumped the Following Wednesday…
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The President Speaks of Making Our Own Products, once more and it starts Here at Home, as it was before Corporate America, NAFTA and Free Trade…
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Sold out the American Factory Workers and Gave thier Jobs to Communist Socialist China and Viet Nam…
India, Canada, Mexico and Other Foreign Countries…
I Love that Sound, Made In America, once Again….
Yet it is Rush Limbaugh and Low Life’s like some of You…
That call this Nationalist President a..
[[Socialist]]

Well Cramer and his audience lost a lot of his money at Wallstreet and they are looking now for someone to blame.
Very cheap.
Stop watching Cramer folks.

Has anybody heard Rush Limbaugh’s apology to Michael Steele?
Didn’t think so.

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It is disgraceful and unprecedented for the Whitehouse to directly attack a media person.
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I am very happy to see the Limbot clowns attacked. Lord knows the call-ins get hung up on, but they can’t hang up on Gibbs!

If you all want to know what’s REALLY going on, google Santelli and Koch.

When was the last time we saw an administration publicly attack non-elected private citizens? Nixon?
Disgraceful.
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What a crock of bull! Private citizen? Who Rush? Rush is Private? The News Media Private? What an absurd argument

It is unusual to see the WH elevating individual talk show hosts, and ostentatiously claiming they head the Republican Party. It’s also strange that they’ve singled out Santelli, Cramer, Rush, anyone who challenges their policies.
You’ll notice, Gibbs/Obama never actually ANSWER the question. They immediately evade and launch a personal attack. And generally, no one holds their feet to the fire, or calls them out on it. They really are charging through this term unchecked, unvetted, uncriticized, and they’re not answering for their policies to the satisfaction of the people.
Cramer said the people are afraid. Gibbs responds by attacking Cramer. Why didn’t Gibbs state calmly and reassuringly what Obama’s banking and financial crisis solution is, how they’re going to go about it, why it will work, and that people can rest assured there’s a plan of action.
No. Instead of responding to a plea that the people are afraid due to this financial crisis, he turns around and attacks Cramer.
i have no love lost for Cramer, Rush, Santelli, et al. But they have the right to speak their minds without retribution, intimidation or humiliation from the highest office in the land. It is deeply troubling.
This tendency toward a “policing” approach has even been noted by liberal Democrats. No less than George McGovern has strongly condemned the card check program that is Obama’s payback to the unions. Sen. Robert Byrd, D. W.VA, has registered concern that Obama’s flurry of executive orders and actions constitute a dangerous executive power grab.
We’re watching a headlong rush into a wholly different type of governing system than America has known since 1776. In our system, the free press is supposed to guard against that type of usurpation by the authorities, but instead they’re standing aside with their hands in their pockets.
There’s a concerted effort out there to collapse this economy, and every time it tries to spring back, the WH issues another desultory, bleak statement about how things are going to be bad for a long time. McCain’s effort to investigate the causes of this financial crisis and ferret out the forces involved in the economic collapse should be supported and vigorously pursued.

Im baffled as to why the WH press sec is so defensive, or should I say offensive. These guys are making good points about the economy, big spending, and even democrat left wing liberals like myself have to admit that Obama is not keeping campaign promises. Im starting to wonder what I voted for.

moderndemocrat et al
Why did you all vote for Obama? because you believed the hype and got caught up in the moment… in the meantime a real serious politician with gravitas(Hillary Clinton) is taking the world by storm and is credible … I cant say I told you so! Jim Cramer and santellia etc are right so the market goes up for one day… nobody cares abotu the long run… do something now! and get rid of the ridiculous earmarks!

Discredit people criticizing the government is common tactics in socialist and communist countries.
Socialists and communists know that they cannot allow these critics to spread around, and hence they discredit everyone who criticize their policies in the public.

Cramer has lost all credibility with me. The fact that a comedian had to expose such blatant conflicts of interest, pardon the pun, isn’t funny. I’m particularly disappointed because I shelled out the money for Cramer’s Actions Alerts Plus. And when I tried to cancel the subscription, I found out that it is set up to auto renew automatically, and is non-refundable in whole or even pro-rated . I can’t even get a customer service representative from The Street to return my call.
Unbelievable!
Is that even legal?
I should have invested my money with The Daily Show. Jon Stewart has proven to be both more credible and entertaining.