Rick Santelli: American Hero

[Shady]

Mr. Santelli is a true American Hero.

YouTube

Speaking truth to power!

[Oleg Bach]

Shady, the sound is not connected for me at this end - sure looks interesting..will look or actually listen to it later - I assume that when you hear the audio it will be a man going for broke who is telling it like it is...Hero? Damned right he is - most people know what is true - but most dare not say it...especially if the majority is sticking to the illusion. It is like my ant analogy - a million ants could be eating poop - ONE ant discovers honey...that one ant would be considered the evil one and sometimes this messiah ant is destroyed even though it can lead the rest of the hill to salvation in a better life...The concept is - the majority is always good and the indiviual desenter is evil - most of the time it is the single hero that is good and the majority is wrong and cowardly. You are taking your chances of being eaten alive by a million ants - but someone has to take the chance - when you do - and do it right - that one ant survives.

[msj]

This seems to be an appropriate spot for this:

Rick Santelli’s Planted Rant ?

But his rant somehow felt wrong. After we’ve pissed through over $7 trillion dollars in Federal bailouts to banks, brokers, automakers, insurers, etc., this was a pittance, the least offensive of all the vast sums of wasted money spent on “losers” to use Santelli’s phrase. It seemed like a whole lot of noise over “just” $75 billion, or 1% of the rest of the total ne’er-do-well bailout monies.

Looks like Playboy magazine found the honey pot.

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Wasn't that whole thing planned is a propaganda campaign to make the news instead of report it? Yah Shady I can see how you would love that.

[Shady]

Wasn't that whole thing planned is a propaganda campaign to make the news instead of report it?

Of course. Rick Santelli used his super secret psychic abilities to deduce the Obama housing plan 6 months in advance, and then plan accordingly.

Also, I think Santelli had something to do with 9/11, and the Kennedy assassination.

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Of course. Rick Santelli used his super secret psychic abilities to deduce the Obama housing plan 6 months in advance, and then plan accordingly.

Also, I think Santelli had something to do with 9/11, and the Kennedy assassination.

If this was 2000 this might have played but it aint and there are thousands of people who digg into this stuff.

"But was Santelli’s rant really so spontaneous? How did a minor-league TV figure, whose contract with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation? Why were there so many sites and organizations online and live within minutes or hours after his rant, leading to a nationwide protest just a week after his rant?

What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party” rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfing”) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because it was."

[Oleg Bach]

Of course. Rick Santelli used his super secret psychic abilities to deduce the Obama housing plan 6 months in advance, and then plan accordingly.

Also, I think Santelli had something to do with 9/11, and the Kennedy assassination.

Kennedy was killed by his VP - 9 11 - was financed by Saudi Arabia. No tin foil hat stuff there!

[Topaz]

I saw that guy on TV news and he's just another Republican that's coming down on Obama. He got his 15 minutes of fame but IF HE really wanted to help his country why not ask to see someone in Obama government to give HIS views instead of making an ass of himself??

[Shady]

"But was Santelli’s rant really so spontaneous? How did a minor-league TV figure, whose contract with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation?

Because Robert Gibbs and the White House, decided to increase his profile, for whatever reason, by attacking him by name at nationally televised daily White House press breifings. That kind of stuff gets in the news.

And now it seems the strategy is to attack the messenger, and not the message. Because they can't. Truth to power.

[punked]

Because Robert Gibbs and the White House, decided to increase his profile, for whatever reason, by attacking him by name at nationally televised daily White House press breifings. That kind of stuff gets in the news.

And now it seems the strategy is to attack the messenger, and not the message. Because they can't. Truth to power.

No becuase his "spontaneous" tea party rant and the websites which all of a sudden were organized after his rant had been planned weeks and months in advance. No one is attacking the messenger they are asking questions about why the news instead of being reported was generated and I think that is a question the news men and stations should answer. You are only the Fourth Estate if you are separate from the other three. So Shady why was the news generated and not reported? Why was it planned weeks in advance?

[Shady]

Why was it planned weeks in advance?

It wasn't. Your rant is wrong, and has been proved wrong, and I suggest you apologize.

CNBC: Santelli not tied to political Web site

NEW YORK (AP) — CNBC says reporter Rick Santelli is not connected to a Web site that used his name to promote a series of political protests against President Barack Obama.

Santelli's name was stripped from headlines on the home page of http://www.reteaparty.com Monday after its operator was made aware of CNBC's dissatisfaction. The site was operating within 24 hours after the reporter's self-described rant on Feb. 19, when he said the president's plan to help people in danger of home foreclosure was "promoting bad behavior."

Anthony Astolfi, a California Web developer who was active in Republican Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign, said he stayed up all night putting the "reteaparty" Web site together. He and others online are using Santelli's statement to promote a Boston Tea Party-style protest against the government plan.

Using Santelli's name was the most effective way of drawing attention to his site, Astolfi said. He denied it was an attempt to mislead people into believing Santelli supported what they were doing.

AP

Not only that, but Playboy has taken down their story off their website. If you follow the original story link, it now sends you to a page stating "We're sorry, we couldn't find the page you requested."

Playboy

It serves you right for getting your "news" from porno magazines.

[punked]

It wasn't. Your rant is wrong, and has been proved wrong, and I suggest you apologize.

CNBC: Santelli not tied to political Web site

NEW YORK (AP) — CNBC says reporter Rick Santelli is not connected to a Web site that used his name to promote a series of political protests against President Barack Obama.

Santelli's name was stripped from headlines on the home page of http://www.reteaparty.com Monday after its operator was made aware of CNBC's dissatisfaction. The site was operating within 24 hours after the reporter's self-described rant on Feb. 19, when he said the president's plan to help people in danger of home foreclosure was "promoting bad behavior."

Anthony Astolfi, a California Web developer who was active in Republican Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign, said he stayed up all night putting the "reteaparty" Web site together. He and others online are using Santelli's statement to promote a Boston Tea Party-style protest against the government plan.

Using Santelli's name was the most effective way of drawing attention to his site, Astolfi said. He denied it was an attempt to mislead people into believing Santelli supported what they were doing.

AP

Not only that, but Playboy has taken down their story off their website. If you follow the original story link, it now sends you to a page stating "We're sorry, we couldn't find the page you requested."

Playboy

It serves you right for getting your "news" from porno magazines.

Where is the proof?

[Sulaco]

If this was 2000 this might have played but it aint and there are thousands of people who digg into this stuff.

"But was Santelli’s rant really so spontaneous? How did a minor-league TV figure, whose contract with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation? Why were there so many sites and organizations online and live within minutes or hours after his rant, leading to a nationwide protest just a week after his rant?

What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party” rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfing”) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that's because it was."

Bahahaha!

At worst what is describned here is an opposition party organizing protests. These russkie ignorami compare that to a government in power roganizing demonstrations. But of course this gets better - because what the commies were really good at was discrediting their opposition by blaming its existence on shadowy conspirators from the west and from within the evil Russian bourgoise.

Yes ladies and gentlemen - what we have here is thestandard tyrannical ploy - opposition to the government is besmirched by attacks claiming it is unspontaneous, manipulated, funded by outsiders wishing ill to the government. The question isn't whether these accusations are true - but if they are - what the hell is wrong with that anyway.

Your post isn't merely ironic, it's rustic.

Edited March 3, 2009 by Sulaco

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Bahahaha!

At worst what is describned here is an opposition party organizing protests. These russkie ignorami compare that to a government in power roganizing demonstrations. But of course this gets better - because what the commies were really good at was discrediting their opposition by blaming its existence on shadowy conspirators from the west and from within the evil Russian bourgoise.

Yes ladies and gentlemen - what we have here is thestandard tyrannical ploy - opposition to the government is besmirched by attacks claiming it is unspontaneous, manipulated, funded by outsiders wishing ill to the government. The question isn't whether these accusations are true - but if they are - what the hell is wrong with that anyway.

Your post isn't merely ironic, it's rustic.

So you honestly don't care if the fourth estate plans the news?

[Sulaco]

So you honestly don't care if the fourth estate plans the news?

Much of the fourth estate is losing it's jobs and joining the Obama administration.

[Shady]

So you honestly don't care if the fourth estate plans the news?

Obama was the one who made the news with his housing plan. And last time I checked, it was a constitutional right to criticize the President's policy. If you have a substantive problem with the critique, then so be it, but contrary to popular belief, the Messiah is falilble once in a while. Again, attack the message, but stop attacking the messenger, especially with proven lies.

[GostHacked]

It serves you right for getting your "news" from porno magazines.

Ever read Playboy? More articles than tits. And some great ones as well.

[punked]

Obama was the one who made the news with his housing plan. And last time I checked, it was a constitutional right to criticize the President's policy. If you have a substantive problem with the critique, then so be it, but contrary to popular belief, the Messiah is falilble once in a while. Again, attack the message, but stop attacking the messenger, especially with proven lies.

What proof because Santelli says so isn't proof. The guy went on national TV and said the president of the United States threatened him and his family he is a wack job.

[Shady]

Looks like Jim Cramer was the new media target for the Obama Administration. Today, during his White House breifing, Robert Gibbs decided to question Cramer's authority to criticize the Obama economic plan. I don't think I've ever seen White House press secretary's ever specifically target, by name, journalists who disagree with a particular Administration. It must be a new tactic.

A chill wind is beginning to blow across America, and anyone who doesn't follow lock-step with the Messiah, will be publicly criticized by his minions.

[Sulaco]

Looks like Jim Cramer was the new media target for the Obama Administration. Today, during his White House breifing, Robert Gibbs decided to question Cramer's authority to criticize the Obama economic plan. I don't think I've ever seen White House press secretary's ever specifically target, by name, journalists who disagree with a particular Administration. It must be a new tactic.

A chill wind is beginning to blow across America, and anyone who doesn't follow lock-step with the Messiah, will be publicly criticized by his minions.

Everything new is old. Every change is a change back. In other words - welcome back Nixon!

Edited March 3, 2009 by Sulaco

[Shady]

Everything new is old. Every change is a change back. In other words - welcome back Nixon!

Exactly! Just like Nixon's enemies list. Except that it's not secret anymore.

[punked]

Looks like Jim Cramer was the new media target for the Obama Administration. Today, during his White House breifing, Robert Gibbs decided to question Cramer's authority to criticize the Obama economic plan. I don't think I've ever seen White House press secretary's ever specifically target, by name, journalists who disagree with a particular Administration. It must be a new tactic.

A chill wind is beginning to blow across America, and anyone who doesn't follow lock-step with the Messiah, will be publicly criticized by his minions.

He was asked specifically about Cramer. In fact he was asked to respond to Cramer so he did. Sorry we got an administration which is willing to answer all questions but if the media is so concerned maybe they should just not ask the question.

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