Wasn’t the Tea Party movement actually started by a financial talking head on CNN or MSNBC/ABC/CBS? I don’t remember his name but he went off on a rant on air, while standing in the Chicago stock exchange, and things took off from there. He didn’t even intend to start anything.
Yes; it was Rick Santelli on CNBC one morning. A couple hours after his rant screaming at Obama, and then saying we need another Tea Party, things were in motion. It was great! Of course, he got in trouble with the NBC powers-that-be, but he started it.