More Mortgage Bailout CNBC Video: Things Get Very Heated Between Santelli and Liesman. Santelli Launches ChicagoTeaParty.com
This is more video of Rick Santelli and Steve Liesman from yesterday. Things get heated and Liesman tells Santelli to shut up as they shout over each other. The question is simple: bailout your asshat neighbor or not?
How accidents can chage the course of history. I'm sure we will hear the details in the fullness of time, but $20 bucks says Rick Santelli had no intention whatsoever of disclosing his private idea for a Chicago Tea Party on the air yesterday. I've watched the video several times and it is certain that his emotion got the better of him and he let forth his siren call in frustration. It's very unlikely that Rick or anyone else can yet grasp the magnitude what has now been unleashed. Sadly for him, I believe his life has been forever altered. If this unfolds as I suspect it will, a taxpayer revolution was born yesterday and he is the self-appointed leader.
Once his guard was lowered and his heart was in control, he shared an idea so fundamental and so in-tune with America's thinking that within 12 hours an official website had been launched at chicagoteaparty.com and a revolution born. On CNBC's website this morning, there is a very popular poll. The question is straightforward: would you join Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party?
A mind-blowing 200,000 of you have already responded to the poll. Let that sink in. CNBC polls normally tally 15,000 respondents according to their site. Currently 95% of voters have said 'yes'. This is pure supposition, but I suspect that if it were held on a Saturday and somehow all 310 million of us lived within 100 miles of Chicago, that 200 million Americans would attempt to attend such a tax revolt. Let's not kid ourselves, we have all wanted to do something symbolically defiant to our government at some point in the last few months, and a modern day Chicago Tea Party is pretty much the coolest idea we've ever heard.
Santelli gave birth to the most beautiful accident in the history of our republic. Finally, someone with a pulpit has taken their moral responsibility seriously and done something.
Santelli Videos Part 1 Santelli's Rant that Started a Revolution: Chicago Tea Party is Born
Santelli Videos Part 2 Argument with Liesman Gets Heated: Thursday CNBC
Santelli Videos Part 3 Hardball with Chris Matthews: Friday Night MSNBC
Santelli Videos Part 4 Today Show with Brian Williams and Liesman: Friday Morning NBC
Santelli Videos Part 5 Two Videos: White House Press Secretary Attacks and Santelli Responds
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Reader Comments (23)
Let' s do this s%#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Santelli says the Tea Party will dump toxic derivatives and yet Acai Berry seems to think he's not bothered by them. The anti-Ricksters aren't even coming up with cogent arguments anymore.
If the latter chapters of Atlas Shrugged come to pass I'm not going to be one of the ones in Galt's Gulch ... it's an outcome to fight, not embrace. This Chicago Tea Party's a great way to start.
I feel sorry for the fools who keep pushing Obama's plan simply to justilfy their liberal slant and the poor decision to vote for Obama, yes Steve Liesman, I am talking about you, you fool.
But many there are who follow in the footsteps of Lucifer, and adopt as their own his rebellious cry, "I will not serve"; and consequently substitute for true liberty what is sheer and most foolish license. Such, for instance, are the men belonging to that widely spread and powerful organization, who, usurping the name of liberty, style themselves liberals.
For, to reject the supreme authority to God, and to cast off all obedience to Him in public matters, or even in private and domestic affairs, is the greatest perversion of liberty and the worst kind of liberalism; and what We have said must be understood to apply to this alone in its fullest sense.
From ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
See more on how this works here:
http://watchingmarcitz.com/2009/02/22/obama-hurts-100-million-to-help-9-million/
just so you know, i wrote about renters in my first article about this bailout:
"But bailing out an irresponsible neighbor who purchased more house than he could afford is understood by everyone. Particularly our most maligned housing sub-group, renters, all of whom made an intelligent choice NOT to participate in the real estate bubble, yet now are being asked to subsidize the mistakes of those who did. Considering that renters already get shafted by the unfair tax subsidies given to homeowners, this proposal accomplishes nothing further than reminding them how worthless they are in the eyes of Washington."
http://dailybail.com/home/2009/2/19/insane-america-obama-wants-you-to-bailout-the-asshats-who-li.html
But what the hell is with the media?? There are over 100 MILLION renters, many that want to buy a home, and they also pay taxes. They will have kick in for the $75B too. Think they want to pay to 'shore up' somebodies home 'value'? That just means they get to pay *more* for home later.
Steve Liesman is the only watchable person on CNBC. Rick is reasonable most of the time, but he lost his mind on this one.
Obama's been in office all of 1 month, and he is to blame? Wow, you right-wing whack jobs are really in LA-LA Land. Have fun there.