Who did you vote for?

February 21, 2009 | Jim Vicevich | | ,

Once again another Chris Matthews moment. The guest is Rick Santelli and here’s the context. Santelli says no government should be allowed to step between two parties in a contract, referring to a homeowner and the lender.

Matthews, always looking to afix blame in a crisis, asks Santelli who’s at fault in the mortgage crisis, the Snidely Whiplash mortgage brokers, or the poor, misinformed smucks who signed the contract. When Santelli gives him the free market answer, Matthews goes nuclear. Stay for the end and see who Chris compares Santelli to.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI3D9kRKXNU

Love the “Barack” thing from Matthews. Oh brother.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

13 Comments

  1. davis on February 21, 2009 at 3:13 am

    Can't we just watch TV on our own without the Vicevich reprocessing and propaganda?



    • Bruce on February 21, 2009 at 5:04 am

      davis – Did you mean to ask "Can't we just watch TV on our own without Vicevich deciphering the propaganda?"  😉



    • Anne-EH on February 21, 2009 at 11:51 am

      With the way the MSM is going, we WILL name folks like Jim to translate what Chris Mathews and the other MSM are saying. 



    • Dimsdale on February 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm

      No davis, I can't.  I don't have the luxury of cable where I live, so I truly appreciate Jim taking the time to share some of the gems he sees on the television.  Keep up the good work, Jim!  If davis doesn't want to watch, he/she can switch the station, as long as we are still able to before the specter of liberal censorship (through gov't harrassment) looms.

      By the way, do you define "fairness" like other liberals, as in the "fairness" doctrine or "fairness" in so called progressive taxation schemes?

      Just askin'



    • rush on February 23, 2009 at 12:59 pm

      Dimsdale.You are a geenius.



  2. Scott Q on February 21, 2009 at 3:52 am

    <cite>davis</cite> says:

    February 21, 2009 at 8:13 am

     

    "Can’t we just watch TV on our own without the Vicevich reprocessing and propaganda?"

     

    If that's the case why are you here then?

    Mathews just can't help being a Democratic butt boy.Once Santelli answer the who you voted for question the attitude of disdain was apparent  in Mathews.

     



  3. Bruce on February 21, 2009 at 4:46 am

    This is classic Matthews – phrase the question so as to eliminate group that he wants to protect and then badger the guest into choosing between only those options presented.

    Santelli is correct in that everybody has a hand in this – the buyer who couldn't afford it, the flipper who watched too many shows on cable TV, the lender using relaxed rules to get their loans out, the lawyers who (apparently) did not exercise due diligence because they were not "required" to highlight the fine print.

    BUT – if Matthews wants the most culpable – it is the federal government via the Carter Community Reinvestment Act, Clinton's amplification of the same and the Dodd/Frank apologists.  These "toxic" loans were created in the first place because of government meddling and pandering to the low income families for votes.  It is a sad commentary that everyone else took advantage of this making the problem worse, but clearly if the government had let private banks set the rules for mortgage qualification, we would not be in the position that we are in today.

    There you go, Chris!



  4. davis on February 21, 2009 at 8:18 am

    I am here for fairness and balance, just like Fox News says.



  5. porschepete on February 21, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Washington panders for votes that is why we still have the Cuban problem.

    The liberals just can't handel the truth that one of thier pet programs has failed.

    I can't help thinking that this recession was manufactured to get thier party in power.

    The only problem is that I would be giving them too much credit for that.

    If you notice when Santelli starts make make his point he is immediately interrupted

    by Matthews.  How rude.



  6. davis on February 22, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Dimsdale, can't afford a dish either? Using dial-up on your computer? And I don't watch the clips I watch the whole gory details and make up my mind, thanks.



  7. Uconnjim on February 22, 2009 at 6:02 am

    Well, if you want to know where it all began read this NY Times article from 1999, Clinton administration. A prophesy foretold: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C…
    And, remember the NY Times is a liberal paper.



    • rush on February 23, 2009 at 12:56 pm

      You can't believe anything you read in the NY Times.



  8. rush on February 23, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Does Jim think all his listeners are stupid.I know Chris Mathews is

    full of it.Why does he think he needs to point it out to me?Is Jim an

    elitist.



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