Posted on 09/19/2010 9:54:59 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Rick, if you're reading this, you awakened the Sleeping Giant. The Nation owes you a debt. Or at least a Boilermaker. I'm buyin'.
Pretty easily, if by "social liberal" is meant a laissez-faire concept and not a brief for welfare.
I like him.
He never really has tried to take the spotlight or control a movement. He said what he said and let go. How many people would have the humility to do that?
No. The town hall confrontations came during the summer. This rant came before maybe a couple of months before tax day earlier in the year.
FWIW, I think Santelli’s positions on social issues are more libertarian than liberal. The MSM likes to deliberately confuse the two.
Santelli said it right. He was the lightening rod to a nation groping for a response.
I wanna know who is going to step up to the plate for act 2 and announce to the sheeple we are going to abolish the IRS and the income tax.
Until we accomplish that, we are ALL slaves to this so called government of WE THE PEOPLE.
Were we supposed to be getting paid. Tell David and Charles Koch to pay up.
I heard that rant that morning and it truly was a rallying cry
for people who were then already tired of the Marxist and his minions
trying to take down this country with their spending frenzy
and their support of all that is WRONG with America..namely
the unions and the great unwashed who take, take, take!
I really couldn’t believe someone on the floor of the stock
market would be so honest...and obviously neither did his
fellow broadcasters. They were just about speechless! LOL!
GV thankx!!!!
The chyron on the bottom of the video showed this:
The Highest Dow Jones closing: 14,164 in October 9, 2007.
I actually watched that one.
I am glad they put the man yelling at Specter in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=662R2awSwPQ
Specter got his just desserts.....
As Santelli stood in the middle of LaSalle Street outside the Board of Trade building Friday, traders saluted him, called him a hero, gave him the thumbs-up.
"You know, before the rant, I was really a lot more under the radar screen, but since Feb. 19, 2009, my daughters now hate to go out anywhere because, 'Dad, that guy is looking at you. He knows who you are!'"
Santelli lives with his wife and the two youngest of his three daughters in west suburban Wheaton. Yes, he confessed, he and his wife, Terri, have donned sunglasses and baseball caps to surreptitiously participate in Tea Party rallies near their home, not talking to anyone, not claiming any credit, just admiring democracy at work.
Original FR thread in response to Rick Santelli's rant on February 19, 2009:
CNBC Floor Commentator Outburst "Obama are you Listening?"(SILENT MAJORITY ALERT)
The rant that inspired the modern-day Tea Party movement! Here's the video:
YouTube video: Rick Santelli's "Rant of the Year" (CNBC, February 19, 2009)
Santelli is one of my heroes!
If this poster is the fellow running for office in his tagline, I’d vote for him in a heartbeat! Way to go, sir!
“America finally sees the knife the RATS and RINOS are plunging into it’s heart and is fighting back! It’s like seeing the American revolution again without the bullets. (So far)” Yep!
Remember, it's the reporter's description and not Santelli's. For all we know Santelli simply doesn't see a problem with gay marriage, for example. That would make him a "social liberal" in the eyes of the reporter. (And gay marriage really isn't a threat to capitalism, rather one has little do with the other).
In any case, good article. And nice to see a boy from Little Italy make good.
Santelli is the de facto founder of the TEA party movement. If he didn’t make that rant, nobody would have budged.
Wrong. Positive capitalism's (not greed, which is a vice) cornerstone is Marriage, Family and Life.
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