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Rick Santelli: The Man Who Talked Back
Source cannot be posted | February 23, 2009 | James Pethokoukis

Posted on 02/24/2009 10:05:35 AM PST by Lorianne

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1) Clearly, CNBC reporter Santelli tapped into something last week with his housing harangue from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. A YouTube video of Santelli has been downloaded more than half a million times, and commentary on the diatribe is burning up the blogosphere. He even made Meet the Press. Lots of pundits are comparing him to Howard "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Beale, the crazed anchorman from the 1976 film "Network."

But there is a big difference, I think. Beale was telling anesthetized TV viewers to wake up to a world and reality gone horribly wrong. (Unfortunately, they all woke up to the Carter administration.) Santelli, though, represents not a call to mere awareness but a call to action for those folks who, as Democrats like to put it, "work hard and play by the rules" -- and who now are watching those that didn't get rewarded.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; cnbc; santelli

1 posted on 02/24/2009 10:05:35 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/02/23/rick-santelli-the-man-who-talked-back.html


2 posted on 02/24/2009 10:05:49 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Santelli actually understands business.

The Obama-loon collection cannot even spell it.


3 posted on 02/24/2009 10:07:56 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Lorianne

you have no clothes mr emperor


4 posted on 02/24/2009 10:13:05 AM PST by PfluegerFishin
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To: PfluegerFishin

Santelli is smarter than Obama’s economic team combined.


5 posted on 02/24/2009 10:22:16 AM PST by ground_fog
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To: PfluegerFishin

Mr. Emperor has the purse strings through his lady friend in congress.

“We don’t need no stinkin clothes!”


6 posted on 02/24/2009 10:22:16 AM PST by Sundog (Atlas Shrugged needs to be required reading . . . Which character are you?)
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To: ground_fog

Maybe zero’s team should watch “Trading Places”. At the end it’s very educational on how the markets work (and Jamie Lee Curtis is cute).


7 posted on 02/24/2009 10:47:32 AM PST by Caribou (All Red State Radio: http://www.ktok.com/main.html)
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To: All

"Who loves ya, baby?"

8 posted on 02/24/2009 11:32:32 AM PST by Liz (Problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people*s money. M. Thatcher)
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To: Lorianne
Someone told me that even Howard Dean chimed in and attacked on Santelli. I was on CNBC.

I didn't view it myself but it must have been hilarious. Howard is dumber than a bucket of worms.

I a battle of wits, Howard is definitely unarmed!

9 posted on 02/24/2009 3:18:12 PM PST by wmileo (I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
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