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=seeds of jan 6 insurrection:<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/06/us/capitol-riot-paths-to-insurrection/amy-kremer.html">https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/06/us/capitol-riot-paths-to-insurrection/amy-kremer.html</a>

<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">cnn</div><div style=""><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kremer started writing two Blogspot blogs from her home in the northern Atlanta suburbs — “Southern Belle Charm,” where she posted cookie recipes and decorating tips, and “Southern Belle Politics,” where she weighed in on the political fights of the day.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In one October 2008 post, recently unearthed by Mother Jones magazine, Kremer pushed the racist birther conspiracy theory that President Obama wasn’t born in the US — the same issue Trump would later use to enter the political arena — writing, “I truly do not think Barack Obama is eligible to be President of this great country. If he is eligible and really doesn't have anything to hide, then why not just produce the vault copy of his birth certificate and put the issue to rest?”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She bemoaned the fact that no member of Congress objected to the certification of Obama’s electoral college vote count.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“All of our Senators and Representatives are more concerned with their own agendas and political careers than they are with doing the job of representing the constituents that sent them to Washington in the first place!” Kremer wrote in January 2009. “The whole thing just makes my stomach churn.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="">Kremer found a much broader platform for her political beliefs on Twitter, where she sent dozens of messages a day and chatted with other conservatives during the early days of the Obama presidency. A day after listening to a televised rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli calling for a new Tea Party, Kremer dialed into a February 2009 conference call with about two dozen conservative activists who had met on Twitter. On the call, the group planned some of the first Tea Party rallies around the country.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">February 20, 2009</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Twitter</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Tea Party thing seems 2 be taken off! Thanks Mr. Santelli! We need 2 plan for one in SE...Savannah, Charleston, FL? Anyone? #tcot #sgp</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the movement snowballed, Kremer partnered with two other activists, Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler, to form Tea Party Patriots, a nonprofit to connect conservative activists around the country.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group’s early days were marked by scandal and division. Within months, Kremer had decamped from that group to join Tea Party Express, a rival organization where she organized rallies and embarked on several bus tours around the country. She ended up in ugly legal battles with her Tea Party Patriots co-founders over the group’s intellectual property and allegations of defamation.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kremer’s electoral record at the height of the Tea Party was mixed. Her group helped build the conservative energy that flipped the US House in 2010 and US Senate in 2014, stymying Obama’s legislative agenda.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">November 1, 2010</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I feel sure tomorrow that a tsunami is going to hit Washington, DC. These people, these</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">jokers, in Washington continue to ignore us.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the same time, Kremer personally campaigned for several far-right GOP candidates who went on to lose general elections, such as Delaware Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell. And a large majority of the Tea Party Express’ fundraising went to operational expenses — including nearly $311,000 in payments to Kremer between late 2009 and mid-2014 — instead of directly supporting candidates.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In total, Kremer and her consulting company have been paid at least $380,000 in salary, fees and travel expenses by federal political campaigns and PACs since 2009, according to Federal Election Commission records.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But conservative activists who have worked with Kremer say that she’s motivated by passion about her beliefs. Sal Russo, who served alongside Kremer as an organizer of the Tea Party Express, described her as a hard worker and influential voice.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She didn’t pretend to be a political expert or anything close — just a mom and a very effective spokesperson for us. She is tireless.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sal Russo</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div>=<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/rick-santelli/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/rick-santelli/</a>
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...<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">seeking authentic feelings</h2>Dissent – and the freedom to do it – is a crucial element of democracy. Political leaders are rightly influenced by public opinion. But it’s important to know when protests are sparked by special-interest groups seeking to manipulate <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122417690325" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">officials’ perception of public sentiment</a>.As a journalist who has covered politics for 20 years and now studies how people process uncertainty, I note that the questions about the current protests raise echoes of the Tea Party movement a decade ago.In February 2009, the Obama administration was grappling with a severe economic crisis caused by a collapse in the mortgage market. A reporter on CNBC, Rick Santelli, <a href="http://www.takepart.com/feature/2015/10/30/tea-party-history" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">began to complain</a> that one part of the federal bailout plan, the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, might let people out of their mortgage obligations even if they should have anticipated they wouldn’t be able to afford them and would face foreclosure.Santelli made this point on TV while standing on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">surrounded by very wealthy traders who egged him on</a>. It was compelling entertainment, and the speech spread rapidly through conservative media. Radio host Rush Limbaugh replayed it on his show; conservative strategists admired it, and millions of conservatives heard it.Santelli called for a modern-day “tea party” to object to unfair government rules.Within months, a coalition of anti-immigration reform activists, fiscal hawks, regulation opponents and social conservatives pulled together behind a common set of grievances: Barack Obama’s alleged profligate spending, his willingness to let certain groups get ahead in the economy over other groups – policies that many of them viewed as <a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0731121415593275" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">putting racial minorities at a perceived advantage</a> to white people.Calling themselves the Tea Party movement, most members were Republicans – but the Republican Party wasn’t speaking for them, so the nation’s two-party structure itself became a common enemy, too. When the Tea Party held its first protests, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tea-party-protesters-rally-against-gangster-government/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">thousands of people</a> showed up. As the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-16-me-tea-party16-story.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">protests spread</a>, motivated partisans who <a href="https://ssrn.com/abstract=1940196" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">look for opportunities</a> to change attitudes and behaviors, <a href="https://time.com/secret-origins-of-the-tea-party/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">backed by a conservative political funding machine</a>, developed a way to capture the protest energy and channel it effectively.<figure class="align-center zoomable" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative;">
<figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; cursor: default;">Authentic protest – like how the Tea Party movement began – is a longstanding American tradition. <a class="source" href="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Obama/52b9365b811044239c20d453e5021a0e/15/0" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">AP Photo/Matt Rourke</a>]</figcaption></figure><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Enduring sentiments, new moments</h2>Social scientists who <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2782114" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">study new movements in politics</a> find that the underlying sentiments are as old as civilization itself: Who gets the stuff that the government gives out? What’s fair? Who’s jumped the line?What, then, makes a movement into something real?It starts with a galvanizing event, like the Tea Party’s public protest gatherings, when hundreds of thousands of people <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-tea-party-and-the-remaking-of-republican-conservatism-9780190633660?cc=us&lang=en&" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">saw that other people were willing to work together for a cause</a>.The movement needs a common enemy – in that case, Obama, his policies and a political structure that permitted them – and the potential for real change, not just politically but <a href="https://watson.brown.edu/ir/files/ir/imce/honors/Bid%C3%A9_Final2015.pdf" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">socially as well</a>. For those joining the Tea Party, the goal became clear: They could take over the Republican Party.Fairly quickly, the Tea Party was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/us/politics/tea-party-trump.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">co-opted by wealthier interests</a> hoping to channel its energy toward slightly different ends – although much of the movement resisted the corporate takeover of its message. Public opinion surveys <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-16-me-tea-party16-story.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">backed up the intuition</a> that the movement had force.<figure class="align-center zoomable" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative;">
<figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; cursor: default;">[pix A North Carolina protest was ostensibly coordinated by ReopenNC, whose website was registered by a Florida resident and focuses on selling T-shirts and stickers. <a class="source" href="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Virus-Outbreak-North-Carolina/6f1a91fd730246c9a8a77db03ef8e161/66/0" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">AP Photo/Gerry Broome</a></figcaption></figure><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">A viral ideology</h2>In mid-April 2020, it appeared, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/16/coronavirus-arrests-rise-police-enforce-stay-home-orders-states/5142415002/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">a new movement was rising</a> to express frustration with the restrictions and uncertain endpoint to the pandemic, and the economic toll the lockdown has caused.In the space of several days, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52359100" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">there were protests in a dozen states</a>, ranging from a crowd of more than 2,000 who gathered in Olympia, Washington, to several dozen in Annapolis, Maryland.The available evidence suggests that the demonstrations were organized by paid <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">political operatives using Facebook and new websites</a> to encourage conservatives to protest in specific places against specific governors who had imposed strong public health restrictions on economic activity. This context <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/19/pro-gun-activists-using-facebook-groups-push-anti-quarantine-protests/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">indicates that one real intention</a> of the protests was to create the illusion of an organic movement that had arisen to object to the restrictions. Evidence is to the contrary: Polling shows that <a href="https://www.thepublicopinion.com/ap/politics/ap-norc-poll-few-americans-support-easing-virus-protections/article_48fbd75b-8602-5bf1-8993-d7ea1bde6403.html" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">just 12% of Americans</a> think their local restrictions have gone too far – and 26% think they don’t go far enough.Sparked by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_cannot_believe_that_people_are/fnstpyl/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">citizen inquiries first posted on Reddit</a>, independent investigative reporter Brian Krebs has confirmed that most of the web domains that had been registered around the idea of “reopening” the economy <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-domain-surge/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">belonged to a very small number of people</a>. He used <a href="https://research.domaintools.com/research/domain-search/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">a cybersecurity search tool</a> to search for “any and all domains registered in the past month that begin with "reopen” and end in “.com.” He <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQnx-RvMM7BrpX1ysgjqzu8XkaDeu0w4gJgTtzB3dfk/edit" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">found that many of them were created on the same day</a>.He found that many of these websites, whose registration records you can see yourself at Whois.com, were owned by anti-gun-control groups that are run by the same family of brothers that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/conservative-activist-family-behind-grassroots-anti-quarantine-facebook-events-n1188021" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">organized the demonstrations through Facebook groups they run</a>.Several others of the “reopen” websites were registered with addresses or phone numbers used by <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/freedomworks-rich-donors-armey-kibbe-super-pac/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">longstanding conservative enterprises</a> like Freedom Works. A <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate-urls/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">surprising number</a> belonged to an activist who told Mother Jones that he registered the domains to keep conservatives from using them to counter the recommendation of public health officials.<figure class="align-center zoomable" style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative;">[pix
<figcaption style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; cursor: default;">The ‘Reopen North Carolina’ website focuses on selling merchandise. <a class="source" href="https://reopennc.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">Screenshot of ReopenNC.com by The Conversation</a>, <a class="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; display: inline; max-width: 100%;">CC BY-ND</a>]</figcaption></figure><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">The threat of fake grassroots</h2>For the people who took part, the protests were no doubt real.But media coverage can <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/22/21227928/coronavirus-social-distancing-lockdown-trump-tea-party" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">inflate or distort their size and meaning</a>. On its main protest story, ABC News put a headline suggesting protests had “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/protests-coronavirus-stay-home-orders-spread-country/story?id=70242988" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">spread</a>” to new places.But that creates a sense that these protests grew quickly, spontaneously, and organically. The fact that protests happened in different places at different times doesn’t actually mean they’re spreading. When organized by the same small group of political operatives, sequential protests reflect the creators’ skill at mobilizing people – not a naturally rising level of frustration that ultimately pushes people to act.Many political movements use these tactics. The problem comes from how the media presents the resulting events. On April 21, a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/21/us-nurses-who-died-coronavirus-honored-white-house-protest/2996839001" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">labor union organized a protest by nurses</a> at the White House – and media reports noted the event was created by a particular group with a specific purpose. That’s different from how the media treated the “reopen” gatherings.By covering a contrived protest as though it is an organic movement, the media could, even unintentionally, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2015.07.003" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">create the illusion</a> of a <a href="https://qz.com/901411/political-protests-are-effective-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">popular force</a> that <a href="https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1130&context=joursp" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">doesn’t really exist</a>.That could result in politicians feeling nonexistent or exaggerated pressure to make decisions that threaten Americans’ public health.<div>=</div>cNBC's Rick Santelli on coronavirus: “Maybe we’d be just better off if we gave it to everybody, and then in a month it would be over”<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/cnbcs-rick-santelli-coronavirus-maybe-wed-be-just-better-if-we-gave-it" rel="bookmark" class="teaserlink" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Paul Krugman explains Rick Santelli: "He hates the poors"(Credit: BillMoyers.com)Way back in early 2009, a man named Rick Santelli, a conservative talking head for CNBC, unleashed a very passionate rant about how President Barack Obama was mismanaging the economy, rewarding “losers,” and imperiling the future of freedom. In the midst of his rage, he called for a new Tea Party. His call was heeded.In the time since, Santelli has enjoyed his reputation as the “godfather” of the Tea Party movement, calling his rant “the best five minutes of my life.” During these years, he’s also made a whole bunch of predictions — almost all of them concerning impending economic doom due to the policies embraced by Obama and the Federal Reserve. None of these predictions have come true.So when CNBC’s Steve Liesman went after Santelli on Monday for being consistently wrong about topics on which he’s a supposed expert, he did not lack for material. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that Santelli didn’t take the criticism with dignity or grace. Here’s video of their interaction:And for those who cannot watch video, here’s a transcript of Liesman’s succinct explanation of why Santelli should not be taken seriously:It’s impossible for you to have been more wrong, Rick. Your call for inflation, the destruction of the dollar, the failure of the US economy to rebound. Rick, it’s impossible for you to have been more wrong. Every single bit of advice you gave would have lost people money, Rick. Lost people money, Rick. Every single bit of advice. There is no piece of advice that you’ve given that’s worked, Rick. There is no piece of advice that you’ve given that’s worked, Rick. Not a single one. Not a single one, Rick. The higher interest rates never came, the inability of the U.S. to sell bonds never happened, the dollar never crashed, Rick. There isn’t a single one that’s worked for you.'But while this rare moment of seemingly unscripted authenticity on CNBC was shared all across the internet, and was especially cherished by Santelli’s many critics, Paul Krugman couldn’t help but notice something. Despite the fact that Santelli is so thoroughly dismantled by Liesman, the Tea Party’s self-proclaimed founder still got a round of applause from the traders when he screamed he had been “right all along.”“Think about that,” Krugman writes. “Liesman is of course right about Santelli’s record, and as I’ve pointed out many times this goes for all the inflationistas. So any trader who believed him would have lost money hand over fist. So why the applause?”Krugman’s explanation doubles back to Santelli’s earlier, Tea Party-launching rant, the one in which he so vehemently slammed the Obama administration for seeking to help “losers” whose homes had cratered in value. Simply put, Krugman says, Santelli is still beloved by traders and their ilk because he is “their kind of guy.” And what kind of guy is that?“[H]e hates the poors,” Krugman snarks, “he hates people who want to help the poors, he was trashing Janet Yellen for suggesting that she actually cares about the plight of the unemployed. And the traders feel the same way. So they like Santelli even though he’s been wrong about everything.”It’s class war, in other words — with Santelli, and his adoring traders, knowing which side they’re on. It’s probably not yours.Elias Isquith is a staff writer at Salon

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griftopia:

santelli 2/20 rant sparked not by tarp but homeowner bailout 75B$ (1/10 of tarp and 1/100th of total bank bailout p 18 cuba used to have manisions

santelli helped make problem (year before food riots india, haiti and Mx b/c of speculation 19 chic bd of trade.

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fox effect:

CNBC financial reporter rant chicago even tho stock mkt benefitting from B2 bailouts policies 2/19/09  104  he was PO'd b/c govt was going to help ppl in trouble on mortgage cnbc shut down santelli activism, picked up by fox ,

fox said anti war protesters stupid and unAm, but small TP rallies got pos coverage, invited to "celebrate w/ fox news"  apr 6-15th 107 promos for TP day coverage 110  health care and AGW bills pending, shifted sit

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NB: bs

In February 2009, a blog posting on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a> website suggested that Sam Adams Alliance was involved in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli" title="Rick Santelli">Rick Santelli</a>'s call for a "Chicago Tea Party" against President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s housing rescue plan. The Playboy blog making this allegation was removed without explanation within two days. An article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Points_Memo" title="Talking Points Memo">Talking Points Memo</a> based on the Playboy allegations was similarly pulled from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Points_Memo" title="Talking Points Memo">TPM</a> website without explanation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_Alliance#cite_note-9">[10]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_McArdle" title="Megan McArdle">Megan McArdle</a>, writing for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a>, suggested that the items were removed because it had "absolutely no verification of a fact ... central to its core thesis."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_Alliance#cite_note-10">[11]</a>

The day after the Playboy piece was posted online, and before it was removed, Sam Adams Alliance posted a response on its website, "It would have been nice if we knew about it".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_Alliance#cite_note-11">[12]</a> On Monday, March 2, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli" title="Rick Santelli">Rick Santelli</a> also posted a notice online asserting that he had never had any dealings with, and had no connections to, Sam Adams Alliance.

[but she lives with former freedomworks guy]

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http://exiledonline.com/exposing-the-familiar-rightwing-pr-machine-is-cnbcs-rick-santelli-sucking-koch/all/1/

By <a href="http://exiledonline.com/?s=Mark%20Ames%20and%20Yasha%20Levine" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mark Ames and Yasha Levine</a>

Last week, CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli rocketed from being a little-known second-string correspondent to a populist hero of the disenfranchised, a 21st-century Samuel Adams, the leader and symbol of the downtrodden American masses suffering under the onslaught of 21st century socialism and big government. Santelli’s “rant” last-week calling for a <a title="z" href="http://chicagoteaparty.com/" target="blank">“Chicago Tea Party”</a> to protest President Obama’s plans to help distressed American homeowners rapidly spread across the blogosphere and shot right up into White House spokesman Robert Gibbs’ craw, whose smackdown during a press conference was later characterized by Santelli as <a title="z" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/matt-lauer-calls-out-rick_n_170252.html" target="blank">“a threat” </a>from the White House. A nationwide “tea party” grassroots Internet protest movement has sprung up seemingly spontaneously, all inspired by Santelli, with rallies planned today in cities from coast to coast to protest against Obama’s economic policies.

But was Santelli’s rant really so spontaneous? How did a minor-league TV figure, whose <a title="z" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-rosenthal-23-feb23,0,6124753.story" target="_blank">contract</a> with CNBC is due this summer, get so quickly launched into a nationwide rightwing blog sensation? Why were there so many sites and organizations online and live within minutes or hours after his rant, leading to a nationwide protest just a week after his rant?

What hasn’t been reported until now is evidence linking Santelli’s “tea party” rant with some very familiar names in the Republican rightwing machine, from PR operatives who specialize in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns (called “astroturfing”) to bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders. As veteran Russia reporters, both of us spent years watching the Kremlin use fake grassroots movements to influence and control the political landscape. To us, the uncanny speed and direction the movement took and the players involved in promoting it had a strangely forced quality to it. If it seemed scripted, that’s because it was.

What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society.

As you read this, Big Business is pouring tens of millions of dollars into their media machines in order to destroy just about every economic campaign promise Obama has made, as reported recently in the <a title="z" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561083268377547.html" target="blank">Wall Street Journal</a>. At stake isn’t the little guy’s fight against big government, as Santelli and his bot-supporters claim, but rather the “upper 2 percent”’s war to protect their wealth from the Obama Adminstration’s economic plans. When this Santelli “grassroots” campaign is peeled open, what’s revealed is a <a title="z" href="http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003054985" target="blank">glimpse of what is ahead</a> and what is bound to be a hallmark of his presidency.

Let’s go back to February 19th: Rick Santelli, live on CNBC, standing in the middle of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, launches into an attack on the just-announced $300 billion slated to stem rate of home foreclosures: “The government is promoting bad behavior! Do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages?! This is America! We’re thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July, all you capitalists who want to come down to Lake Michigan, I’m gonna start organizing.”

Almost immediately, the clip and the unlikely “Chicago tea party” quote buried in the middle of the segment, zoomed across a well-worn path to headline fame in the Republican echo chamber, including red-alert headlines on Drudge.

Within hours of Santelli’s rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008 by Zack Christenson, a dweeby Twitter Republican and producer for a popular Chicago rightwing radio host Milt Rosenberg—a familiar name to Obama campaign people. Last August, Rosenberg, who looks like Martin Short’s Irving Cohen character, caused an outcry when he interviewed Stanley Kurtz, the conservative writer who first “exposed” a personal link between Obama and former Weather Undergound leader Bill Ayers. As a result of Rosenberg’s radio interview, the Ayers story was given a major push through the Republican media echo chamber, culminating in Sarah Palin’s accusation that Obama was “palling around with terrorists.” That Rosenberg’s producer owns the “chicagoteaparty.com” site is already weird—but what’s even stranger is that he first bought the domain last August, right around the time of Rosenburg’s launch of the “Obama is a terrorist” campaign. It’s as if they held this “Chicago tea party” campaign in reserve, like a sleeper-site. Which is exactly what it was.

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 <a title="z" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/the-sam-adams-project/" target="_blank">“Sam Adams Alliance,”</a> 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.

On the same day as Santelli’s rant, February 19, another site called Officialchicagoteaparty.com went live. This site was registered to Eric Odom, who turned out to be a veteran Republican new media operative specializing in imitation-grassroots PR campaigns. Last summer, Odom organized a twitter-led campaign centered around DontGo.com to pressure Congress and Nancy Pelosi to pass the offshore oil drilling bill, something that would greatly benefit Koch Industries, a major player in oil and gas. Now, six months later, <a title="z" href="http://elizabethcrum.blogivists.com/2008/08/11/david-goliath-and-the-new-media/" target="_blank">Odom’s DontGo movement</a> was resurrected to play a central role in promoting the “tea party” movement.

Up until last month, Odom was officially listed as the “new media coordinator” for the Sam Adams Alliance, a well-funded libertarian activist organization based in Chicago that was set up only recently. Samuel Adams the historical figure was famous for inspiring and leading the Boston Tea Party—so when the PR people from the Chicago-based Sam Adams Alliance abruptly leave in order to run Santelli’s “Chicago Tea Party,” you know it wasn’t spontaneous. Odom certainly doesn’t want people to know about the link: his name was scrubbed from the Sam Adams Alliance website recently, strongly suggesting that they wanted to cover their tracks. Thanks to google caching, you can see the SAA’s before-after <a title="z" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080120181121/samadamsalliance.org/about/id.394/default.asp" target="_blank">scrubbing</a>.

Even the Sam Adams’ January 31 announcement that Odom’s fake-grassroots group was “no longer sponsored by the Alliance” was shortly afterwards <a title="z" href="http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:l8t8mmvSmeYJ:www.samadamsalliance.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D926%253Ablogivists-moving-on%26catid%3D1%253Alatest-news%26Itemid%3D56+site:www.samadamsalliance.org+www.samadamsalliance.org+%22eric+odom%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us" target="_blank">scrubbed</a>.

But it’s the Alliance’s scrubbing of their link to Koch that is most telling. A cached page, erased on February 16, just three days before Santelli’s rant, shows that the Alliance also wanted to cover up its ties to the Koch family. The <a title="z" href="http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:fRoZx4D9IQUJ:www.samadamsalliance.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D916%26Itemid%3D79+samadamsalliance.com+koch&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us" target="blank">missing link</a> was an announcement that students interested in applying for internships to the Sam Adams Alliance could also apply through the “Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program” through the Institute for Humane Studies, a Koch-funded rightwing institute designed to scout and nurture future leaders of corporate libertarian ideology. (See <a title="Sam Adams Koch Connection" href="http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sam-adams-alliance-koch-connection.jpg" target="blank">hi-resolution screenshots here</a>.) The top two board directors at the Sam Adams Alliance include two figures with deep ties to Koch-funded programs: Eric O’Keefe, who previously served in Koch’s Institute for Humane Studies and the Club For Growth; and Joseph Lehman, a former communications VP at Koch’s Cato Institute.

All of these are ultimately linked up to Koch’s Freedom Works mega-beast. Freedomworks.org has drawn fire in the past for using fake grassroots internet campaigns, called “astroturfing,” to push for pet Koch projects such as privatizing social security. A New York Times <a title="z" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/politics/17mom.html?r=1&ei=1&en=9fc511a24ef86ae0&ex=1104320536&pagewanted=print&position=" target="blank">investigation</a> in 2005 revealed that a “regular single mom” paraded by Bush’s White House to advocate for privatizing social security was in fact FreedomWorks’ Iowa state director. The woman, Sandra Jacques, also fronted another Iowa fake-grassroots group called “For Our Grandchildren,” even though privatizing social security was really “For Koch And Wall Street Fat Cats.”

If you log into <a title="z" href="http://www.freedomworks.org/petition/iamwithrick/index.html" target="_blank">FreedomWorks.org</a> today, its home page features a large photo of Rick Santelli pointing at the viewer like Uncle Sam, with the words: “Are you with Rick? We Are. Click here to learn more.”

FreedomWorks, along with scores of shady front organizations which don’t have to disclose their sponsors thanks to their 501 (c)(3) status, has been at the heart of today’s supposed grassroots, nonpartisan “tea party” protests across the country, supposedly fueled by scores of websites which masquerade as amateur/spontaneous projects, but are suspiciously well-crafted and surprisingly well-written. One slick site pushing the tea parties, Right.org claims, “Right.org is a grassroots online community created by a few friends who were outraged by the bailouts. So we gathered some talent and money and built this site. Please tell your friends, and if you have suggestions for improving it, please let us know. Respectfully, Evan and Duncan.” But funny enough, these regular guys are offering a $27,000 prize for an “anti-bailout video competition.” Who are Evan and Duncan? Do they even really exist?

Even Facebook pages dedicated to a specific city “tea party” events, supposedly written by people connected only by a common emotion, obviously conformed to the same style. It was as if they were part of a multi-pronged advertising campaign planned out by a professional PR company. Yet, on the surface, they pretended to have no connection. The various sites set up their own Twitter feeds and Facebook pages dedicated to the Chicago Tea Party movement. And all of them linked to one another, using it as evidence that a decentralized, viral movement was already afoot. It wasn’t about partisanship; it was about real emotions coming straight from real people.

While it’s clear what is at stake for the Koch oligarch clan and their corporate and political allies—fighting to keep the hundreds of billions in surplus profits they’ve earned thanks to pro-rich economic policies over the past 30 years—what’s a little less obvious is Santelli’s link to all this. Why would he (and CNBC) risk their credibility, such as it is, as journalists dispensing financial information in order to act as PR fronts for a partisan campaign?

As noted above, Santelli’s contract with CNBC runs out in a few months. His 10 years with the network haven’t been remarkable, and he’ll enter a brutal downsizing media job market. Thanks to the “tea party” campaign, as the article notes, Santelli’s value has suddenly soared. If you look at the scores of blogs and fake-commenters on blogs (for example, Daily Blog, a slick new blog launched in January which is also based in Chicago) all puff up Santelli like he’s the greatest journalist in America, and the greatest hero known to mankind. <a title="z" href="http://dailybail.com/home/2009/2/19/absolutely-must-see-cnbc-bailout-video-a-call-to-arms-from-y.html" target="_blank">Daily Bail</a>, like so much of this “tea party” machine, is “headquartered nearby” to Santelli, that is, in Chicago. With Odom, the Sam Adams Alliance, and the whole “tea party” nexus: “Rick, this message is to you. You are a true American hero and there are no words to describe what you did today except your own.  Headquartered nearby, we will be helping the organization in whatever way possible.”

It’s not difficult to imagine how Santelli hooked up with this crowd. A self-described “Ayn Rand-er,” one of Santelli’s colleagues at CNBC, Lawrence Kudlow, played a major role in both FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth.

So today’s protests show that the corporate war is on, and this is how they’ll fight it: hiding behind “objective” journalists and “grassroots” new media movements. Because in these times, if you want to push for policies that help the super-wealthy, you better do everything you can to make it seem like it’s “the people” who are “spontaneously” fighting your fight. As a 19th century slave management manual wrote, “The master should make it his business to show his slaves, that the advancement of his individual interest, is at the same time an advancement of theirs. Once they feel this, it will require little compulsion to make them act as becomes them.” (Southern Agriculturalist IX, 1836.) The question now is, will they get away with it, and will the rest of America advance the interests of Koch, Santelli, and the rest of the masters?

UPDATE: <a href="http://exiledonline.com/astroturf-revolution-dispatch-koch-activists-teabag-media/">Yasha Levine crashes media teabag party in Santa Monica.</a>

This article first appeared on <a href="http://www.playboy.com/blog/2009/02/backstabber.html">Playboy.com</a> on Feb. 27, 2009.http://www.cnbc.com/rick-santelli/<div class="profile img-profile" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); overflow: hidden; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="title" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); margin-bottom: 20px; line-height: 22px;">CNBC On-Air Editor</div></div><div id="group1" class="story" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); line-height: 24px;"><div class="content" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); margin-top: 10px; clear: both;"><div class="group-container last" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); width: 530px;"><div class="group" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); overflow: hidden;">Rick Santelli joined CNBC Business News as on-air editor in June 1999, reporting live from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. His focus is primarily on interest rates, foreign exchange and the Federal Reserve.  Santelli is a regular contributor to CNBC's "<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/squawk-on-the-street/" target="self" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(32, 119, 182, 0.2); text-decoration: none;">Squawk on the Street</a> " (Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). A veteran trader and financial executive, Santelli has provided live reports on the markets in print and on local and national radio and television. He joined CNBC from the Institutional Financial Futures and Options at Sanwa Futures, L.L.C. There, he was a vice president handling institutional trading and hedge accounts for a variety of futures related products.Prior to that, Santelli worked as vice president of Institutional Futures and Options at Rand Financial Services Inc., served as managing director at the Derivative Products Group of Geldermann Inc., and was vice president in charge of Interest Rate Futures and Options at the Chicago Board of Trade for Drexel, Burnham, Lambert. Santelli began his career in 1979 as a trader and order-filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a variety of markets, including gold, lumber, CDs, T-bills, foreign currencies and livestock.He is a graduate of the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana with a Bachelor of Science degree. Santelli has been a member of both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade.</div></div></div></div>=wfluff<div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px;">Rick Santelli is an editor for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CNBC</a> Business News network.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-santellibio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Board_of_Trade" title="Chicago Board of Trade" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago Board of Trade</a>. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund" title="Hedge fund" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hedge fund</a> account for futures-related products. He is also credited with being a catalyst in the early formation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tea Party movement</a> via a statement he made on February 19, 2009.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Early life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Financial" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Financial</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.2 Media</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Political_and_economic_views" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Political and economic views</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#.22Chicago_Tea_Party.22_remarks" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 "Chicago Tea Party" remarks</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Responses" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1.1 Responses</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Early life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The grandson of four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_people" title="Italian people" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Italian</a> immigrants, Santelli was born near Taylor Street in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago</a>'s old Italian neighborhood and at age 6 moved with his family to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard,Illinois" title="Lombard, Illinois" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lombard, Illinois</a>.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] After graduating from<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_High_School" title="Willowbrook High School" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Willowbrook High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Park,Illinois" title="Villa Park, Illinois" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Villa Park, Illinois</a>,[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>] Santelli graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign" title="University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-santellibio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> and was a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Sigma_Phi" title="Alpha Sigma Phi" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Alpha Sigma Phi</a> fraternity.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>In the early 1980s Santelli got an up-close-and-personal education in futures trading, foreign exchange and customer relations from his then mentor and employer, RJ Abrams. Abrams filled customer orders in the Japanese Yen pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for all the major brokerage houses, most of which no longer exist. Santelli's job was to keep customer orders, mostly entered on paper via Telex machines arranged according to price and to interface with customers.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Financial<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Financial" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>After graduation in 1979, he joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Mercantile_Exchange" title="Chicago Mercantile Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago Mercantile Exchange</a> and the Chicago Board of Trade as a commodity trader and order filler for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Burnham_Lambert" title="Drexel Burnham Lambert" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Drexel Burnham Lambert</a>; he eventually became the Vice President of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_rate_future" title="Interest rate future" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Interest Rate Futures and Options</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-santellibio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Media<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In the 1990s, Santelli felt that the financial industry was changing in a way "not beneficial to me and my family",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-fivequestions-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a> and accepted a full-time job with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CNBC</a> in 1999.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-santellibio-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Political and economic views[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political and economic views" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>
<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">"Chicago Tea Party" remarks<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: " chicago="Chicago" tea="Tea" party="Party" remarks="remarks" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>Santelli drew attention for his remarks made on February 19, 2009, about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowners_Affordability_and_Stability_Plan" title="Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan</a>, which was announced on February 18. While broadcasting from the floor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CME_Group" title="CME Group" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Chicago Mercantile Exchange</a>, Santelli accused the government of "promoting bad behavior", and raised the possibility of a "Chicago Tea Party". He suggested that individuals who knowingly obtained high-risk mortgages (and faced impending foreclosure as a consequence) were "losers".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party" title="Boston Tea Party" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tea Party</a> remark was credited by some as launching the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tea Party movement</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-Krugman-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Responses<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=7&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Responses" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h4>Santelli later clarified his comments and addressed concerns that the event was staged.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-santelliarticle-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-ap_santelli-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a>On April 20, 2009, Santelli participated as a panel member in an Economic Leadership Forum hosted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Presidential_Library" title="George Bush Presidential Library" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George Bush Presidential Library</a> Foundation at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University" title="Texas A&M University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Texas A&M University</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-texasAM-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN.com" title="CNN.com" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CNN.com</a> reported that some compared Santelli to fictional reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beale(Network)" title="Howard Beale (Network)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Howard Beale</a>, the protagonist of the 1976 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire" title="Satire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">satirical</a> film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network(film)" title="Network (film)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Network</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> Santelli said:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I think that this tea party phenomenon is steeped in American culture and steeped in the 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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-fox-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></blockquote>Santelli's comments also garnered praise from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">libertarians</a>. Mark R. Crovelli wrote:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the world of financial "journalism," CNBC's Rick Santelli stands out as a refreshing and intelligent antidote to the hordes of perma-bulls, fed apologists, and chart sorcerers that otherwise pollute the financial airwaves. ... The trouble with Santelli, however, is that his political and economic philosophy is inconsistent and incomplete, and does not offer a viable alternative to that being peddled by his Keynesian opponents.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></blockquote>Santelli has also been criticized by the left; for example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot" title="George Monbiot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">George Monbiot</a> said "it is the most alarming example of cheap demagoguery you are likely to have seen."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Paul Krugman</a> said:<blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...Somehow, [the Republican Party] has become infected by an almost pathological meanspiritedness, a contempt for what CNBC's Rick Santelli, in the famous rant that launched the Tea Party, called "losers." If you're an American, and you're down on your luck, these people don't want to help; they want to give you an extra kick....<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-Krugman-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></blockquote><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=8&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Santelli lives with his wife and three daughters in Chicago's western suburbs near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton,Illinois" title="Wheaton, Illinois" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wheaton, Illinois</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_note-chicagotribune1-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=9&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-chicagotribune1-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-chicagotribune1_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-chicagotribune1_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> Rosenthal, Phil (2009-02-23). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-rosenthal-23-feb23,0,6124753.story" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Rant raises profile of CNBC on-air personality Rick Santelli"</a>. chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2009-03-02.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.aufirst=Phil&rft.aulast=Rosenthal&rft.au=Rosenthal%2C+Phil&rft.btitle=Rant+raises+profile+of+CNBC+on-air+personality+Rick+Santelli&rft.date=2009-02-23&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagotribune.com%2Fbusiness%2Fchi-rosenthal-23-feb23%2C0%2C6124753.story&rft.pub=chicagotribune.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-santellibio-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-santellibio_2-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-santellibio_2-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-santellibio_2-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">c</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-santellibio_2-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">d</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837966/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Rick Santelli Profile, Biography, About"</a>. CNBC.com. 2006-11-28. Retrieved 2009-02-21.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.btitle=Rick+Santelli+Profile%2C+Biography%2C+About&rft.date=2006-11-28&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2Fid%2F15837966%2F&rft.pub=CNBC.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2274224/pagenum/2" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Fed-Bashing Three Ways</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate.com" title="Slate.com" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Slate.com</a>, Bethany McLean. November 9, 2010</li><li id="cite_note-fivequestions-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-fivequestions_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Ahrens, Frank (2008-11-23). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/economy-watch/2008/11/five_questions_for_cnbcs_rick.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Five questions for CNBC's Rick Santelli"</a>. washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2009-03-03.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.au=Ahrens%2C+Frank&rft.aufirst=Frank&rft.aulast=Ahrens&rft.btitle=Five+questions+for+CNBC%27s+Rick+Santelli&rft.date=2008-11-23&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.washingtonpost.com%2Feconomy-watch%2F2008%2F11%2Ffive_questions_for_cnbcs_rick.html&rft.pub=washingtonpost.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Etheridge, Eric (February 20, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/rick-santelli-tea-party-time/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Rick Santelli: Tea Party Time"</a>. New York Times: Opinionator.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.atitle=Rick+Santelli%3A+Tea+Party+Time&rft.au=Etheridge%2C+Eric&rft.aufirst=Eric&rft.aulast=Etheridge&rft.date=February+20%2C+2009&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F02%2F20%2Frick-santelli-tea-party-time%2F&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times%3A+Opinionator&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Pallasch, Abdon M. (September 19, 2010). "'Best 5 minutes of my life'; His '09 CNBC rant against mortgage bailouts for 'losers' ignited the Tea Party movement". Chicago Sun-Times. p. A4.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.atitle=%27Best+5+minutes+of+my+life%27%3B+His+%2709+CNBC+rant+against+mortgage+bailouts+for+%27losers%27+ignited+the+Tea+Party+movement&rft.aufirst=Abdon+M.&rft.aulast=Pallasch&rft.au=Pallasch%2C+Abdon+M.&rft.date=September+19%2C+2010&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Chicago+Sun-Times&rft.pages=A4&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-Krugman-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-Krugman_7-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-Krugman_7-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> Krugman, Paul (July 14, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/opinion/krugman-hunger-games-usa.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&r=0" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Hunger Games, USA"</a>. New York Times.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.atitle=Hunger+Games%2C+USA&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft.au=Krugman%2C+Paul&rft.aulast=Krugman&rft.date=July+14%2C+2013&rft.genre=article&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F07%2F15%2Fopinion%2Fkrugman-hunger-games-usa.html%3Fpartner%3Drssnyt%26emc%3Drss%26_r%3D0&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-santelliarticle-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-santelliarticle_8-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Santelli, Rick (2009-03-02). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/29471026" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Rick Santelli: I Want to Set the Record Straight"</a>. cnbc.com. Retrieved 2009-03-03.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.aufirst=Rick&rft.aulast=Santelli&rft.au=Santelli%2C+Rick&rft.btitle=Rick+Santelli%3A+I+Want+to+Set+the+Record+Straight&rft.date=2009-03-02&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2Fid%2F29471026&rft.pub=cnbc.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-ap_santelli-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-ap_santelli_9-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Bauder, David (2009-03-02). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_03_02_CNBC:Rick_Santelli_not_tied_to_political_Web_site" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"CNBC: Santelli not tied to political Web site"</a>. Retrieved 2012-04-27.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.au=Bauder%2C+David&rft.aufirst=David&rft.aulast=Bauder&rft.btitle=CNBC%3A+Santelli+not+tied+to+political+Web+site&rft.date=2009-03-02&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbostonherald.com%2Fnews%2Fus_politics%2Fview%2F2009_03_02_CNBC%3A_Rick_Santelli_not_tied_to_political_Web_site&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-texasAM-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-texasAM_10-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tamunews.tamu.edu/archives/article.php?articleid=7557&month=4&year=2009" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Bush To Host Economic Leadership Forum"</a>. tamunews.tamu.edu. 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2009-09-26.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.btitle=Bush+To+Host+Economic+Leadership+Forum&rft.date=2009-04-09&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftamunews.tamu.edu%2Farchives%2Farticle.php%3Farticleid%3D7557%26month%3D4%26year%3D2009&rft.pub=tamunews.tamu.edu&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/tea.parties/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Nationwide 'tea party' protests blast spending</a>. By Ashley Fantz. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN.com" title="CNN.com" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">CNN.com</a> Published April 15, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-fox-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-fox_12-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21275.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Fox teas up a tempest</a>. By Michael Calderone. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politico" title="The Politico" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Politico</a>. Published April 15, 2009.</li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Crovelli, Mark R. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/03/mark-r-crovelli/the-trouble-with-rick-santelli/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The Trouble With Rick Santelli"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LewRockwell.com" title="LewRockwell.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">LewRockwell.com</a>.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.au=Crovelli%2C+Mark+R.&rft.aufirst=Mark+R.&rft.aulast=Crovelli&rft.btitle=The+Trouble+With+Rick+Santelli&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fmark-r-crovelli%2Fthe-trouble-with-rick-santelli%2F&rft.pub=LewRockwell.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santelli#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Monbiot, George (2012-06-14). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monbiot.com/2010/06/14/bogus-misdirected-and-effective/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Bogus, Misdirected and Effective"</a>. Retrieved 2013-12-12.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARick+Santelli&rft.aufirst=George&rft.aulast=Monbiot&rft.au=Monbiot%2C+George&rft.btitle=Bogus%2C+Misdirected+and+Effective&rft.date=2012-06-14&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monbiot.com%2F2010%2F06%2F14%2Fbogus-misdirected-and-effective%2F&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li></ol></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">External links[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Santelli&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: External links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); 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white-space: nowrap; background: none;">9–9–9 Plan</a></li></ul></div></td><td class="navbox-image" rowspan="9" style="width: 157px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px;"><div class="floatright" style="clear: right; float: right; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 0.5em; border: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gadsden_flag.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;"><img alt="Gadsden flag.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Gadsden_flag.svg/150px-Gadsden_flag.svg.png" width="150" height="100" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Gadsden_flag.svg/225px-Gadsden_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Gadsden_flag.svg/300px-Gadsden_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px;"><td colspan="2" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; background: rgb(221, 221, 255);">History</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1080px; padding: 0px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_the_Tea_Party_movement" title="Electoral history of the Tea Party movement" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Electoral history of the Tea Party movement</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_America:Feeling_Wronged%E2%80%93_Some_Voices_from_the_Campaign_Trail" title="Right America: Feeling Wronged – Some Voices from the Campaign Trail" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Right America: Feeling Wronged – Some Voices from the Campaign Trail</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tea_Party_protests,2009" title="List of Tea Party protests, 2009" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">List of Tea Party protests, 2009</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tea_Party_protests,2010" title="List of Tea Party protests, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">List of Tea Party protests, 2010</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_March_on_Washington" title="Taxpayer March on Washington" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Taxpayer March on Washington</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_Honor_rally" title="Restoring Honor rally" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Restoring Honor rally</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests" title="Tea Party protests" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Tea Party protests</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px;"><td colspan="2" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; background: rgb(221, 221, 255);">People</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1080px; padding: 0px; background: transparent;"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Armey" title="Dick Armey" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Dick Armey</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann" title="Michele Bachmann" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Michele Bachmann</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Glenn Beck</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain" title="Herman Cain" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Herman Cain</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keli_Carender" title="Keli Carender" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Keli Carender</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Ted Cruz</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint" title="Jim DeMint" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Jim DeMint</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Denninger" title="Karl Denninger" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Karl Denninger</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Gowdy" title="Trey Gowdy" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Trey Gowdy</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Sean Hannity</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Kibbe" title="Matt Kibbe" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Matt Kibbe</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Koch" title="Charles Koch" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Charles Koch</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H.Koch" title="David H. Koch" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">David H. Koch</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Kremer" title="Amy Kremer" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Amy Kremer</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin" title="Mark Levin" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Mark Levin</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Rush Limbaugh</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meckler" title="Mark Meckler" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Mark Meckler</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Sarah Palin</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Rand Paul</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Ron Paul</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;">Rick Santelli</li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West(politician)" title="Allen West (politician)" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Allen West</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tea_Party_politicians" title="List of Tea Party politicians" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">List of Tea Party politicians</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 2px;"><td colspan="2" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="padding: 0.25em 1em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap; background: rgb(221, 221, 255);">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="line-height: 1.5em; border-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; width: 1080px; padding: 0px; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><div style="padding: 0em 0.25em;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A);"><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity" title="Americans for Prosperity" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Americans for Prosperity</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Tax_Reform" title="Americans for Tax Reform" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Americans for Tax Reform</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Liberty" title="Campaign for Liberty" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Campaign for Liberty</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Club for Growth</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomWorks" title="FreedomWorks" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">FreedomWorks</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Opportunity" title="Generation Opportunity" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Generation Opportunity</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Action" title="Heritage Action" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Heritage Action</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxpayers_Union" title="National Taxpayers Union" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">National Taxpayers Union</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Tea_Party_Federation" title="National Tea Party Federation" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">National Tea Party Federation</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Liberty_Caucus" title="Republican Liberty Caucus" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Republican Liberty Caucus</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Conservatives_Fund" title="Senate Conservatives Fund" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Senate Conservatives Fund</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Express" title="Tea Party Express" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Tea Party Express</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Patriots" title="Tea Party Patriots" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Tea Party Patriots</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Nation" title="Tea Party Nation" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">Tea Party Nation</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom" title="Young Americans for Freedom" style="text-decoration: none; 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The CNBC reporter whose rant helped launch America's tea party movement was told off Monday amid -- what else -- one of his epic rants. As Rick Sa...
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Tea Party Father Santelli Calls His Rant 'The Best 5 Minutes Of My Life'The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.19.2014 | BusinessRead More: Santelli Interview, Video, Tea Party Santelli, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Santelli Rant, Rick Santelli Cnbc, Rick-Santelli-Chicago-Tea-Party, Rick Santelli, Rick Santelli Tea Party, Santelli Tea Party, Business News
Five years after his diatribe helped launch the tea party movement in American politics, CNBC rant stylist Rick Santelli called the episode "professio...
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WATCH: Rick Santelli Loses It Over The 'Fiscal Cliff'The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 12.27.2012 | BusinessRead More: Rick Santelli Fiscal Cliff, Video, Fiscal Cliff 2012, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Obama Fiscal Cliff, Rick Santelli Cnbc, Santelli Yelling, Fiscal Cliff, Rick Santelli, Business News
CNBC's resident screaming head Rick Santelli is at it again, and this time he's got some strong words for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. During a...
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Rick Santelli Loses It On CNBCThe Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.30.2012 | BusinessRead More: Fiscal Affairs, Video, Tax Fairness, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Taxes, Rick Santelli Rant, Costco Special Dividend, Rick Santelli, Wall Street Journal, Costco Fiscal Cliff, Business News
CNBC loose cannon and in-house barn burner Rick Santelli let fly a mostly incoherent stream of rage against the wealthy on Friday morning. As if to...
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CNBC's Rick Santelli: "STOP SPENDING!" (VIDEO)Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011 | BusinessRead More: Tax Cuts, Austrian Economists, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Government Spending, Rick Santelli, Rick Santelli Video, Federal Deficit, Video, Business News
CNBC anchor Rick Santelli -- notorious for his on-air rants -- went on another tirade earlier this week and had one message for the government: stop s...
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Why the Tea Party Is a FraudJonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011 | PoliticsRead More: Taxes, Rick Santelli, Tyranny, Tea Party, Rick Santelli Rant, Politics NewsJonathan WeilerIt's hard to conclude that the Tea Party movement is anything but a fraud given the vast disconnect between the movement's supposed principles and the targets of their intense anger since their inception.
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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011 | MediaRead More: Obama Racism, David Koch, Msnbc, Larouche, Wingnuts, Teabaggers, Manufactured Outrage, Breitbart, Media, Tea Parties, Santelli's Chicago Tea Party, Illuminati, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, John Birchers, Ayn Rand, Nontroversy, Americans for Prosperity, Koch, Direct Mail, CBS News, Rick Santelli, Media Criticism, Racism, Tea Party, Astroturf, Fox News Channel, Andrew Breitbart, Teabagging, Tea Party Protests, Barack Obama Racism, Freedomworks, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Racist, 9/12 Tea Party March, Racism in Politics, Lyndon Larouche, LaRouche Hitler, John Birch Society, Obama Wingnuts, Wingnutosphere, Charles Koch, Cnn, William F. Buckley, Koch Industries, Fox News, Council of Conservative Citizens, Atlas Shrugged, Media Bias, Media NewsMatt OsborneDon't tell me that nontroversy doesn't matter. With nearly as many Americans approving of Palin as Obama, nontroversy really, really matters.
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The Simple Arithmetic of the Mortgage Crisis Debunks Right Wing Media NarrativesDavid Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011 | BusinessRead More: Foreclosures, Darrell Issa, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Barney Frank, Rick Santelli Rant, Mortgage Crisis, Paulson Bailout, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, This American Life, Republicans, Bailout Outrage, Business NewsDavid FidererMany talking heads lack a command of the data, so much coverage of the financial crisis remains vague and anecdotal. For businessmen, the narrative is always framed by the numbers, the bottom line.
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Rick Meet Icarus, Or How the Bright Light of Daily Can Melt the Wax Wings of Cable FameMike Hegedus | Posted 05.25.2011 | MediaRead More: Daily Show, Daily Show Santelli, Jon Stewart, Rick Santelli Video, Rick Santelli Rant, Jon Stewart Rick Santelli, Rick Santelli, Jon-Stewart-Santelli, Daily Show Rick Santelli, Media NewsMike HegedusWhy Santelli canceled on Stewart, or had it canceled for him, we don't know. Likely it wasn't really for the reason doled out by CNBC, "the story had moved on." What story? That is the real problem.
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The Santelli Screed Hits Wrong Target on Mortgage BailoutDean Baker | Posted 05.25.2011 | BusinessRead More: Banks, Housing Crisis, Rick Santelli, Rick Santelli Rant, Business NewsDean BakerIt would be great if Mr. Santelli would speak up about the real beneficiaries from these scams -- the bank executives and wealthy shareholders.
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Rick Santelli Not Connected To Tea Party Website: CNBCAP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011 | MediaRead More: Rick Santelli, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Rick Santelli Chicago Tea Party, Chicago Tea Party, Santelli's Chicago Tea Party, Media News
NEW YORK — CNBC says reporter Rick Santelli is not connected to a Web site that used his name to promote a series of political protests against ...
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The Wingnut RevolutionBob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011 | PoliticsRead More: Barack Obama, Michelle Malkin, Economic Crisis, Rick Santelli Rant, Joe the Plumber, Red Scare, Tax Cuts, Rick Santelli, Barack Obama Taxes, Glenn Beck, Rick Santelli Revolution, Wingnut Revolution, Michele Bachmann, Politics NewsBob CescaWhat the far-right appears to suggest is that ideas that are supported by 82% of Americans are criminal acts of tyranny, and an eventual tax increase of pennies on the dollar for the wealthiest 2% is worthy of opposition by revolutionary means.
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Matt Lauer Calls Out Rick Santelli For Claiming The White House Threatened Him (VIDEO)Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011 | MediaRead More: Matt Lauer, Robert Gibbs, Cnbc Reporter White House Threat, Matt Lauer Rick Santelli Threat, Rick Santelli Rant, Today Show, Cnbc Reporter Rant, Video, Rick Santelli vs. Matt Lauer, Rick Santelli, Rick Santelli Robert Gibbs Threat, Rick Santelli Today Show, Rick Santelli White House, Nbc, Rick Santelli Matt Lauer, Matt Lauer and Rick Santelli, Matt Lauer Gibbs, Lauer/Santelli, Matt Lauer Interview With Rick Santelli, Santelli and Nbc, Media News
Since CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli's on-air eruption last week over Obama's mortgage bailout plan, he's been promoted by his network, become the s...
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Things I Don't GetJames Moore | Posted 05.25.2011 | BusinessRead More: Rick Santelli, Bank Nationalization, Housing Crisis, Rick Santelli Rant, Tarp, Nationalizing Banks, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Nationalization, Nationalization, Wall Street Crisis, Banks, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Banks Bailout, Bailout Outrage, Business NewsJames MooreRick Santelli and others are guilty of extreme hypocrisy, the type that only raises its moral head when it serves a particular constituency.
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CNBC Proudly Replays Rick Santelli's RantNew York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011 | MediaRead More: Rick Santelli, Cnbc, Rick Santelli Rant, Rick Santelli Video, Media News
Once upon a time, cable channels were embarrassed by on-air outbursts or other anchor antics. Now, some are glad to post the video clips on the Intern...
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Rick Santelli Rants Again, Calls Fellow Reporter "Rude" (VIDEO)Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011 | BusinessRead More: Cnbc Rick Santelli, Rick Santelli, Video, Rick Santelli Revolution, Rick Santelli Video, Rick Santelli's Revolution, Rick Santelli Rant, Business News
CNBC's Rick Santelli isn't just fighting with regular Americans. Now he's getting into scuffs with his fellow reporters. In an interview Friday wi...
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Jason LinkinsRick Santelli Gets Schooled By Press, White HouseHuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | PoliticsRead More: Mortgage Crisis, Rick Santelli, Mortgage Relief, Santelli, Rick Santelli Rant, Cnbc Santelli, Cnbc Reporter, Eat the Press, Politics News
MSNBC's First Read offers this brief item, following up on CNBC's Rick Santelli's awesome plan to lead the gentry on a pitchfork-'n'-torch battle with...==