Santelli on tea bagger protests: ‘I’m pretty proud of this.’
Santelli on tea bagger protests: ‘I’m pretty proud of this.’
In February, former derivatives trader and current CNBC host Rick Santelli famously called for a Chicago tea party to protest Obama’s housing plan. Now, Santelli’s rant has helped spawn disingenuous “grassroots” tea party protests across the country. This morning on CNBC, Santelli squawked about how proud he was of his followers:
SANTELLI: I’ll tell you what. I think that this tea party phenomenon is steeped in American culture and steeped in American notion to get involved with what’s going on with our government. I haven’t organized. I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes, so I’m not going to be able to get away today. But I have to tell you, I’m pretty proud of this.
“You’re like a cultural phenomenon at this point,” CNBC host Joe Kernen told Santelli. Watch it:
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If I had a face like his I’d want to hide it behind a scrotum too.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:23 amSo…anyone seeing any huge teabagging demonstrations where they are? I’m in a Republican enclave and have seen nothing.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:23 amSANTELLI: I’ll tell you what. I think that this tea party phenomenon is steeped in American culture and steeped in American notion…
– - How’s that for some prepackaged clever wordplay? You’re a peabrain, Rick.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:23 amHAPPY TEABAGGED WEDNESDAY ALL!
April 15th, 2009 at 11:24 amI would have been VERY proud of these folks had they
April 15th, 2009 at 11:25 am1) Organized it themselves
2) Done it 7 years ago
3) Kept the extremist fringe element home
4) Known what they were really protesting
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April 15th, 2009 at 11:25 amTHIS GUY SHOULD BE RUN OUT OF TOWN!
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April 15th, 2009 at 11:25 amSantelli on tea bagger protests: ‘I’m pretty proud of this.’
April 15th, 2009 at 11:26 am– - By the way, protesting government spending is meaningless unless you say what you’d cut.
“I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes, so I’m not going to be able to get away today”
So the only people “protesting” against taxes today are people out of work who don’t pay taxes?? Run that by me again?
April 15th, 2009 at 11:26 amA cultural phenom? More like an indication of all that’s wrong with this culture…
April 15th, 2009 at 11:27 amRight right right, Ricky…
Quite the ***cough*** “geuwine social phenomenon”…
ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson, was live within twelve hours.
Huh… ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008…???
Gee… a website named “ChicagoTeaParty.Com”, organized SIX MONTHS EARLIER.
ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.
http://www.wikio.com/news/Zack+Christenson
April 15th, 2009 at 11:27 amIt’s hard to type with Dick Armey’s genitals on my face.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:28 amA planned “protest” is scheduled today from 4-6 at the Kalamazoo Court House, which is right on the way home from work.
I’ll let you know tomorrow how many “protesters” really show up.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:29 amYeh, those people the dupes are protesting for, the 1%, need tax breaks like I need a Limbaugh Oxycodone addiction
April 15th, 2009 at 11:29 amamazingly, none of these whiners that complain about a single mom trying to raise children in a slum and surviving on WIC and food stamps are willing to quit their jobs and do what she does
they make it sound so great, but there must be SOME incentive keeping them from joining the welfare rolls. if there is, then their whining about ‘no-one will work harder if they have to pay taxes on higher earning’ is completely false
April 15th, 2009 at 11:30 amThe Birching Kochtopus
April 15th, 2009 at 11:32 amMy greatest regret about the last 8 years is that I didn’t do more to subvert the great evil that was the Bush administration. My greatest regret currently is that I now have to watch these idiots try to subvert our efforts to clean up the mess left behind by the great evil that was the Bush administration.
F*** the Republikkkan Reich and its vision of Amerikkka.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:34 amBS, these fake grass-roots campaigns go there start in Russia where they used them to control and manipulate the political landscape…its not a phenom by any stretch of the imagination.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:34 amOne good thing might come out of these clowns going to these teabaggings. Just think about all the money thats going to be pumped into these city`s local economy. Especially the local gun shops.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:34 amSantelli revolted over people bailing out neighbors, a fraction of the trillions in big money boy handouts.
A protest may be in order, but it’s not for Santelli’s rant.
Throw the red and blue money changers out of our hallowed halls of government.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:35 amI’ve been looking and looking but the only news website that has anything to do with the teabaggers on it’s main page is Fox! Sure must be lonely in Fox’s world.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:35 amIf only Santelli were protesting as Bush ran the American economy into the ground – then he’d have something to be proud of!
There’s going to be a teabagging demonstration in Charlotte, NC 2-4 pm! According to the local news – THOUSANDS – are supposed to show up – ROTFL! It will be interesting to see how many show up with SOCIALISM signs.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:35 am“I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes…”
What a freakin’ stupid bullshyte line. Yet I can practically hear right-wingers delusionally growling agreement.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:36 am“You’re like a cultural phenomenon at this point,” CNBC host Joe Kernen told Santelli.
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“You’re like a NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT at this point…”
There, fixed it for ya, Joe… so much better now, huh?
April 15th, 2009 at 11:37 amI don’t think that a corporate-sponsored, conservative media water-carrier attempting to energize lower and middle-income ideological extremists to protest on behalf of lower taxes for the wealthiest 5% of Americans truly qualifies as a “cutlural phenomenon.”
April 15th, 2009 at 11:37 amAgreed. The person is paying taxes because they worked [income] I think he should quit his job or work for min wage.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:38 am“I ordered the Arabian goggles, not the Dirty Sanchez and not a tea-baggin’”
April 15th, 2009 at 11:41 amisn’t ironic, santelli advocated for these tea-parties and now he can’t get away, his excuse being he has to work today to pay taxes, how much money does he have off-shore?
April 15th, 2009 at 11:42 amSANTELLI: I’ll tell you what. I think that this tea party phenomenon is steeped in American culture and steeped in American notion to get involved with what’s going on with our government.
Because there was an infitessimal number of people stuck in temporary comas in the US during the previous 8 years , Ricky ?
April 15th, 2009 at 11:43 amAs a former derivatives traitor Santelli is one of the pigs that helped destroy the economy. He had his rant months ago and so you’d think he’d have been aware of these parties being organized. He’s such a hard worker compared to the people losing their homes but he couldn’t bother to do his taxes say last weekend so he could attend a protest.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:43 amIt’s really all just about him, isn’t it? The ego has landed!
April 15th, 2009 at 11:45 am“I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes…”
Why start now?
April 15th, 2009 at 11:46 amSantelli: Still deathly afraid of a comedy show host….
April 15th, 2009 at 11:47 amWant to have some real fun today? Show up at a FOX News sponsered protest with a mini-cam and do some interviews.
Ask three questions:
1. What are you protesting?
2. Do you make over 250,000. per year?
3. Aren’t you actually getting a tax break from this administration?
I’m quite sure that hilarity will follow and will show this protest for what it really is. “We lost the election, we’re bitter as hell, and the GOP offers no alternatives”
April 15th, 2009 at 11:47 am“I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes, so I’m not going to be able to get away today”
Personally, I am surprised that (p)Rick still has a job.
I look forward to his further reporting on these little gathering. In particular, I want to know how many people suffer knee-burns from teabagging on astro-turf.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:51 am“I’m going to have to work to pay my taxes”
No you aren’t. You don’t work for a living. You’re a talking head spewing nonsense.
“You’re like a cultural phenomenon at this point”
April 15th, 2009 at 11:55 amYep. As carefully marketed as the pet rock and with just as much cultural significance.
If this is something he’s proud of I think that goes to show that he’s never accomplished anything.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:55 amI’m not sure how proud you can be of a ‘movement’ that started with a millionaire media primadonna complaining to a bunch of commodities traders that not enough people were getting kicked out of their homes due to foreclosure — which was then picked up and given 24/7 coverage by the nation’s preeminent right wing GOP propaganda network.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pmProud, do try and pay attention:
According to the MSM, looks like less than 100 at each clan rally.
LOL, stupid losers!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:02 pmProud says he blows goats.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:02 pmSantelli is a moron. He has always been a moron and he will most likely always be a moron. Only morons would follow his lead. Enough said.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:02 pmHow many threads have you used this line in? There’s zero fear and nothing but contempt for these tea-baggers.
They’re a joke and rightly being treated as one.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:02 pmProud Says:
Why are you libs getting so upset about the tea parties?
Because they’re not a real grassroots movement, no matter how Fox News tries to present them. They’re being advertised by Fox News, paid for by the Koch family, and organized by Dick Armey.
Anything else you need clarified?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:03 pmProud should check his paystub. He probably got a fifty cent tax cut.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:03 pmWell, it’s noon. Any minute now the sparsely attended photos will start trickling in on the webs.
Prediction: the largest one will have no more than 5,000 people and it will be no more than 3 that come close to that cap.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:04 pmProud, it’s not fear or hate, it’s disgust and derision.
No one is trying to derail the protest as far as I can see. We are commenting on it.
Your disrespect for the legally elected President of the United States shows you to be a traitorous scum.
Have a nice day, don’t forget to wipe your mouth after you have your tea!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:04 pmDude, Fox has been PROMOTING them. That isn’t journalism.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pmBrian Crooks @ #12—-
I did NOT need that visual! ;)
April 15th, 2009 at 12:08 pmProud Says:
Just as I expected from the “elite” left. Nothing but childish insults.
*cough* As I said:
Because they’re not a real grassroots movement, no matter how Fox News tries to present them. They’re being advertised by Fox News, paid for by the Koch family, and organized by Dick Armey.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:08 pmdeebaser, it seems that “fear” is the trolls’ talking point, Proud’s not the only deluded troll using it. How can the trolls not understand that we’re ridiculing the teabaggers for not having a clue what they’re protesting?
“Your Dear Leader Obama and the media have done everything they can to derail the protest, but have failed.”
Proud, can you give us one example where “the media” has attempted to derail the protest? Links? And enough with the stupid ‘teleprompter’ bullshyte, that’s so effing lame.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:08 pmI listened on C-SPAN TO THE CREATOR OF THIS WEBSITE AND REALIZED HOW THIS MARXIST SPINMEISTER GOT THE “EMPTY MAN” OBAMA ELECTED. IT IS AMAZING THAT HE DOES NOT GET IT! WE THE “AMERICAN PEOPLE” ARE TIRED OF THE LIES OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THE DEMOGOGUERY THAT THEY PROMOTE. THE USE OF VOTER FRAUD BY ACORN, THE HUGE PORK, THE HUGE DEBT TO CHINA, THE USE OF JUDGES TO OVERTHROW THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, AND FEDERAL FUNDED POLITICAL PATRONAGE SYSTEM THAT WE SEE WITH THIS TELEPROMPTER EMPTY SUIT OF A PRESIDENT.
MARX STATED IN DAS CAPITAL AND ALSO IN LENIN’S WRITINGS THAT THE COMMUNIST PARTY NEEDED TO CONTROL THE MEDIA AND CONDITION THE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT COMMUNISM BY INTERJECTING DOUBT OF CAPITALISM INTO THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE. AS WE LISTENED THIS MORNING, THIS WEBSITE FOUNDER BELIEVES THAT ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THE CONSTITUTION, IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST. YET, THIS WACKO AND THOSE IN THE WHITE HOUSE WANT TO CREATE A DOMESTIC PARAMILITARY FORCE THAT WILL BE LARGER THAN OUR US ARMY. IT IS CLEAR, THAT THIS WEBSITE IS FUNDED BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY TO PROMOTE FEAR AND CHAOS IN OUR SOCIETY. WE WILL ARISE AGAINST THIS TYRANNY OF THE OBAMOIST.
I WANT EVERY AMERICAN (WHO IS A LEGAL CITIZEN) TO COME TO A TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY PARTY IN THEIR AREA. THIS IS A FIGHT FOR OUR ECONOMIC REALITIES! THE CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE CONTINUE TO DESTROY OUR VALUES AND FAMILIES IN THE NAME OF GLOBAL CORPORATIONS LIKE VW, CISCO, MICROSOFT, SIEMENS, ETC.,WHO WANT TO OUTSOURCE OUR JOBS AND THEN TO INSOURCE THESE EUROPEAN AND ASIA CORPORATIONS TO GAIN THE BENEFITS OF OUR GRANDPARENT’S SACRIFICES.
THE TIME TO WAKE UP IS NOW! JOIN A TEA PARTY AND LET THESE LAWYERS AND LOBBYIST KNOW THAT WE WILL NOT TAKE IT ANY LONGER! IF IT MEANS PEACEFUL MILITIAS WILL BE FORMED TO COUNTER BALANCE THIS MARXIST ADMINISTRATION, THEN SO BE IT. HOWEVER, WE WILL FIGHT AND PROTECT OUR FAMILIES AND OUR VALUES.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:09 pmProud says he not only blows goats, but the local dogs are very happy with his service.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:10 pmRTDROZEK
Flagged for stupidity and all caps.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:11 pmRTDROZEK Says:
*Ding!* The tinfoil companies thank you very much for your purchases.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pmRTDROZEK Says:
Wow. “What an eccentric performance!”
April 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pmHere is what I and most progressives I know are doing today in support of our president and his policies ….as we mail in our tax returns today I am adding 10% overpayment so as to help the Obama administration fund the programs we voted for…..I highly suggest all do the same if we want success in these times of great need.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pm“MSNBC does nightly infomercials for Bambi,…”
WTF are you talking about? Again, links?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pmTo paraphrase an EugeneDebs’ line, the repugs will go through leaps and bounds to prove their stupidity. :)
It looks like they are shipping the same teabag plants around town. HAHAHAHAHAHA
This is very amusing. Dumbasses holding signs about taxation.
WOWOWOWOW what extreme idiots.
It’s raining cats and dogs in steely damn’s state.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pmSays the maestro of childish insults…waste of breath…go have some tea and chill…
April 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pmStupid trolls think we are mad and hateful over this tea bagging junk….I find this entire clusterf*** funny…..Only thing that bother’s me is all those damn staples, bag’s and string littering the landfill’s…Bet the tea industry is happy for the sale’s..Happy posting all..P.B. & J
April 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pmRTDROZEK, were you asleep during the 8 years of Bush’s reign of terror?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pmWitch1 Says:
Only thing that bother’s me is all those damn staples, bag’s and string littering the landfill’s…
…wouldn’t worry about it, it appears that there is hardly anyone attending.
HAHAHAHA!!!!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pmI hope it’s Lipton tea they’re wasting…leave the really good stuff for us ‘Uppity Liberaaaaaaaals’!!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:24 pmRTDROZEK Says:
Stick a sock in it, d ou che bag.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pm#66 Buckie Boy,..Yep! I think your correct….Blessings
April 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pmFOX will be the only network to truthfully cover the protests.
Where where you when Jim Jones was relocating to Guyana?
April 15th, 2009 at 12:28 pmI forgot what site I was on but this one teabag troll kept referring to our President Obama as bambi. Needless to say, the troll got waxed real shiny by the posters. Fun-nee as hell.
The teabagger proud is just like this driving-while-troll idiot on this other blog.
YUCK!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:32 pmProud Says:
Schuster, Olbermann, Madcow all are using the phrase tea bagging real classy journalism from your side.
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Of course, the people who put this whole artificial “Tea party” nonsense together might have thought twice BEFORE choosing that name… it’s not like the didn’t have time to think about it…
… and ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008 by Chicago radio producer Zack Christenson, was live within twelve hours.
Huh… imagine that… ChicagoTeaParty.com, registered in August 2008…
Gee… a website named “ChicagoTeaParty.Com”, organized SIX MONTHS EARLIER.
ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public.
Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today.
All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.
http://www.wikio.com/news/Zack+Christenson
This “spontaneous phenomenon” s about as “genuwine” as your Newticles®, pal.
“With Newticles®- It’s like nothing ever changed…”
http://www.neuticles.com/
April 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pmRTDROZEK Shits:
All caps like a flaming idiot.
How can President Obama do all this in less than a hundred days?
Look up the word projection, Einstein.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pmProud Says:
MSNBC has been mocking the protests, but I guess in your twisted world that is journalism.
HAHAHAHAHA I know faux is mocking you. And in your little mind that is journalism.
YOU don’t have a clue.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:39 pmProud Says:
Just as I expected from the “elite” left. Nothing but childish insults.
“Dear Leader”
“Bambi”
“teleprompter”
“I guess I could post links from MSNBC to prove my point, but”
“elite”
“childish”
One wonders how one could be proud when referring to oneself as “childish”.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pmRTDROZEK Says:
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I listened on C-SPAN TO THE CREATOR OF THIS WEBSITE AND REALIZED HOW THIS MARXIST SPINMEISTER GOT THE “EMPTY MAN” OBAMA ELECTED. IT IS AMAZING THAT HE DOES NOT GET IT!
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Dude: Why are you screaming with the all caps? For your information, we the people in the majority voted for this president, elected this president and support this president. You lost. You are a loser and on the bench. Learn to deal with it. Your party of thugs caused this mess and you wingnuts need to accept that reality before you can recover from your delusion.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:26 pmProud Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 1:31 pmMSNBC has been mocking the protests, but I guess in your twisted world that is journalism.
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Hey wingnut: The only imitation news is FAUX! The reason other networks seem liberal is that you get your propaganda from wingnuts like yourself! Get a clue. Nobody has tried to stop your temper tantrums Actually everyone is laughing our asses off at the childish antics. Do you realize you are carrying water for corporate sponsors thinking it is a grassroots uprising? The rich have you underlings all riled up to get you to do some work for them. Meanwhile you got a tax cut two weeks ago. Go play with your friends. I think it hilarious.
Proud Says:
Why are you libs getting so upset about the tea parties?
I don’t think “upset” is the operative word here, when we’re all giggling and pointing at the stupidity. It’s not like how y’all got over Cindy Sheehan.
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Proud Says:
MSNBC does nightly infomercials for Bambi, and does the name Soros mean anything to you, he funds the left wing, so what is your point about Fox and the right in general.
I don’t know what you’re talking about with this “Bambi” thing.
Sure, both sides have some money guys behind them. Y’all only have one person you point to, though. The right has a lot more.
If MSNBC was talking about an upcoming rash of lefty protests, and TP was coordinating a series of events, that would be similar. However, they wouldn’t pretend they weren’t involved like all of these people are.
The interesting point here is how FOX Noise and all the organizing groups are trying to pretend they’re not actually involved in promoting and organizing the events that they’re promoting and organizing. Are y’all really proud of this, or are you trying to hedge your bets against the possibility that you’ll end up looking like idiots? Just take a stand here.
Santelli is a perfect example, at top. First he rants about something, his rants take off, then he tries to disassociate himself from it, then he says he’s “proud” of it, without actually even showing up at one.
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Proud Says:
Schuster, Olbermann, Madcow all are using the phrase tea bagging real classy journalism from your side.
Except it’s the “tea party” people who started calling what they do “teabagging” first. Don’t blame your silliness on us.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pmSANTELLI is a JACKASS!
April 15th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSantelli lace and a pretty face….
Sorry, couldn’t help it.
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