Posted on 03/03/2009 12:59:43 PM PST by abb
Playboy Magazine got its undies in a bundle over the nation wide Tea Party protests held last Friday that were inspired by CNBC's Rick Santelli's free market rant of February 19. As Noel Sheppard noted on March 1, the skin mag published a piece claiming that Santelli was part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to protest Obama's socialist policies.
It turns out, however, that the story has been proven false and in response Playboy has mysteriously removed the piece that first raised the question of the grand conspiracy. Happily, the facts have won over on Playboy forcing it to pull down the fallacious story. In its place, all we now get is a "We're sorry, we couldn't find the page you requested," notice. Story Continues Below Ad ↓
To recap, this is what made Playboy run for its tinfoil hats:
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.
What they "discovered" turned out to be wrong. David Bauder of the AP is reporting that Santelli had nothing to do with the various Tea Party demonstrations. In fact, Instapundit reported that some of the Tea Party efforts predated Santelli's TV rant.
Bauder reports that Santelli and CNBC requested that one Tea Party site remove Santelli's name from its pages because there was no affiliation between them. AP notes that the original site, http://www.reteaparty.com , even had a disclaimer attached declaring the fact that Santelli was not connected with the site.
Now, above I said "happily facts have won over Playboy forcing the mag to pull down the fallacious story" which is all well and good. But the problem is we now have hundreds perhaps thousands of left-wing DailyKosers and such all imagining they know the real story, the one that corresponds to the fake Playboy tale.
So, while the fake story has been scrubbed, the claim of conspiracy is still floating around like a noxious cloud befouling the air.
And, THAT, my friends, is how the left works. Scream the lie, whisper the retraction.
So, while the fake story has been scrubbed, the claim of conspiracy is still floating around like a noxious cloud befouling the air.
And that's all The Left needs to do: get it in front of The Sheep. This is all they will remember.
The American Left: “Protest against Obama, and you’re part of an eeeeeeeeevil conspiracy”.
They’d be funny if they weren’t so retarded.
You sure it wasn't a "PANTY" party?
Fake but accurate. Where have I heard that before?
The link only deals with parts of the article, not the whole thing. For instance, where does the Sam Adams Alliance get their money from:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/the-sam-adams-project/
Everyone should note that the Koch family funds groups like Cato and Reason, and both those support open borders. If you oppose illegal/massive immigration, the Koch family is not your friend.
They trade in porn. What do we expect?
Anybody with functioning neurons could see Santelli was being spontaneous in his rant.
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Really? To me, it looked like he’d rehearsed it, esp. with the responses of the other men around him.
And it doesn’t affect the validity of his message, either way.
Playboy should not sell FAKE STORIES WITH BOOBS.
They ought to go with REAL STORIES WITH BOOBS.
Clear accurate reporting , why not!
Boobs, on the other hand, just need good lighting.
this is what you get when feminists try to define beauty.
Planned or spontaneous means ZIPPO to me. I met a whole bunch of conservative neighbors because of it.
Naaah. Unrehearsed. Don’t forget he’s been on CNBC for probably a decade and has to both gush over what’s happening in the bond market, long end, short end, try to explain “convexity”, plus discuss the various things infuencing the mkt that day, and he’s inevitably quite glib doing so. Not “er, uhhhh, uhhhh” at all, very chatty. Plus he’s generally got to talk over plenty of clamor going on around him, and that day, there were VERY few traders and thus the clamor was light, ergo, he could be heard. Twas a good rant!
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/chicago-tea-party-gets-scrutiny-but-scant-coverage,2965
Chicago Tea Party Gets Scrutiny but Scant Coverage
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30896
21st Century Tea Party Goes Digital
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