Posted on 02/22/2009 8:55:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
According to CNBC’s Rick Santelli, he didn’t launch into his self-described rant on the floor of the Chicago_Board of Trade against President Barack Obama’s mortgage bailout plan the other day with any other agenda than to vent his belief “the government is promoting bad behavior” through the program.
Santelli said over the weekend it was only just occurring to him how his newly raised profile from his call for a Chicago Tea Party -- which seems to have resonated with many Americans, made him a viral video star and drew a White House rebuke -- might be parlayed into other opportunities, as discussed in my Feb. 22 Chicago Tribune column.
“I don’t think in those terms, but maybe_I_should now,” Santelli, 52, a full-timer on CNBC since 1999 whose current contract is set to run out around the end of this summer, said from his west suburban home. “I have three daughters. I have the whole college thing and what not. You’re absolutely right.”
Santelli, who doesn’t have an agent, said he already has heard from several publishers, a prospect that interests him. (“I’m kind of a closet writer and a closet oil painter,” he said.) And he_previously has enjoyed doing talk radio. That said, he noted, “I’m pretty happy with what I do.”
If nothing else, his value to CNBC has increased demonstrably with the exposure it has brought to the cable network owned by General Electric’s NBC Universal. His video has set a record at CNBC.com, scoring many times as many page views as the site’s previous_leader, a 2007 rant by Jim Cramer.
“I’ve been associated with them 14 years, 10 years on the payroll, and you never see me much in commercials and what not,” Santelli said. “Boy, has that changed in the last 36 hours.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblogs.chicagotribune.com ...
Yes, and keep tapping.
Santelli in 2012’
Maybe we should start a collection now for his legal defense fund.
There were more than a few Obamabots on the Trib site to denounce him as per the usual talking points:
He’s a trader himself
He’s a wealthy white male
He was irresponsibly spreading panic himself
He didn’t complain enough about this whole thing being Bush’s fault
He didn’t complain about this whole thing being Wall Street’s fault
He didn’t rant about the gathering storm years ago
I’m just wondering when the “Joe the Plumber” dirt-dishing is going to commence. The fact that some of the Obama partisans in state gov’t that leaked confidential information about Joe the Plumber ACTUALLY got fired over it may have had a chilling effect on others.
I just want so very badly for something we can do to protest this madness!
Some kind of “tea party” is an excellent idea.
But specifically something that tens of millions of Americans can do.
Granted, maybe the only “tea party” that really matters is the 2010 elections.
tag line for free use............
Check out the trader who gets into the camera at 1;22 and says “let’s not pay our mortgage, I heard it’s a moral hazard.”
There has been a groundswell of anger amongst the middle class for a long long time. The welfare state, crime, public education, immigration, particularly illegal immigration, racial preferences/pandering.
The GOP loses power when it failed to recognize this and act on it.
This has to be dealt with soon, there is not time to deal with this at the next election.
They will blink or it will be a real mess. Making no predictions, but it will not be pretty.
Don’t think this can take longer than 6 months without a real conflict.
Channelling Howard Beale ;-)
Mr Santelli deserves a louder voice than that pissant network will ever give him.
Roger Ailes, are you listening?
He will only be able to "meddle with the primal forces of nature" for so long.
Here’s a thought:
When they finally throw that lying thug Burris out of the Senate, Santelli can take over.
find later
I saw that and I loved it.
Frankly, I am more than tired of everything treated as a Marketing Opportunity. Once the notoriety is obtained can a book deal, endorsements and speaking fees be far behind? (Case in point, the worthless, dysfunctional Octomom) Next thing you know he'll be pimped out promoting Starbucks or some other inane product.
Hope he stays put and continues in his fine and accurate commentary.
Or to hire a few security guards???
They’re going to find that overdue library book from 1987. You wait and see.
‘We really, really tapped into a nerve’
Yes, you did—you incited confidence and righteousness in those that are destined to oppose the leftist cannibal’s that have infested our capital city!
The Kenyan is a leftist slug and needs to be fiercely opposed—NOW, AMERICA!
If our glorious Republic is to survive Barry’s era then we must hit early and often—we must keep them back on their heals from now until they fall backwards out of power in 2 and/or 4 years.
Keep it up, Americans!
Speak out, whenever you can!
We have to balance the left or we’ll be in it up to our eyeballs!
Anyone know how Santelli is registered and who he gave money to?
I hope he’s prepared to be audited four years in a row.
he claimed onaor that he voted for McCain..so he’s a RINO :)
“he claimed onaor” corrected as: “he claimed on-air”
bflr, thanks for the post.
or “The emperor has no clothes” folk tale.
Santilli has a point, of course, but he’s missing the forest for the trees. The point of Santelli’s “revolt” is that 75 billion dollars is being spent to help “struggling” families repackage loans (and many of these folks are “under water” due to their own duplicity or stupidty, true) but this is a mere pittance in the terms of the gargantuan amount of money being thrown at the banks, the Wall Street wizards, and the rest of the rocket scientists who are the root of this problem. At the end of the day, of course, the question is the same question that’s always been at the heart of economic politics: Which side are you on? And the answer, if you look at the hard data, is that most Americans are Grassroots Populists: those who think Wall Street and the government are colluding to rip off taxpayers, and who think the crumbs of aid for so-called “losers” that Santelli is ragging on is way too small — not way too much.
The gap, of course, is in the portrayal. If you watch television or read op-ed pages, the Market Populists get most of the attention. Indeed, Market Populism is portrayed as the “centrist” mainstream sentiment in the United States. Meanwhile, Grassroots Populism (ie. seething populist anger at Corporate America) is depicted as the ideology only of a tiny fringe. It’s as if the media is a funhouse mirror on society — a bizzaro world where up is down, black is white, and free market fundamentalism is portrayed as a mass-based movement.
RANT ON RICK! WE LOVE YOU!
The other lightweights on cnbc are fuming at Sanelli becoming the face of CNBC.
Today they were attacking Santelli again. Essentially anyone in the studio is a left wing appologist for Obama.
(today was all envirowacko socialistm, they even had reid and poedesta on for interviews)
They, cnbc, have a “rebel yell” commercial.
(IOW if you are against obama then you are a racist confederate)
I wish fox business channel was up to snuff.
Have they dug up anything in his personal life or taxes, etc?
Traffic tickets?
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