Via Think Progress, we learn that CNBC’s Rick Santelli, he of the unhinged “how dare you stop us from screwing the economy” rant, is now fearing for his life:

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 —

LIDDY: It’s a veiled threat.

SANTELLI: It really is. […] I don’t really want to be a spokesman, but I really am very proud of a) the response I’m getting, which is overwhelmingly positive, and b) discourse, that is debate. That if the pressure and the heat I’m taking from the White House – the fact my kids are nervous to go to school – I can take that, okay.

Veiled threat? In what universe is that a veiled threat?

“I know where you live” is an effective veiled threat.

“It’d be a shame if anything happened to your family” is an effective veiled threat.

“I know nothing about your personal life and have no idea how to find you” is not really all that effective of a threat.

To Liddy, of course, everything is a veiled threat, unless it’s an overt threat. This is because Liddy is the type of unhinged wingnut who would really, really like to find a reason to kill someone.

But while we already know Liddy’s the kind of person you never want to make direct eye contact with, or come within several hundred miles of, Santelli’s motivation is a bit more obscure. One possibility is that he’s playing the time-honored martyr card, claiming persecution by an administration that has the temerity not to agree with him.

The other possibility is that he’s just a loud-mouthed  idiot.