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THE STRANGE NEXUS OF CNBC, RICK SANTELLI, THE TEA PARTY, RUSH, DRUDGE AND CRONY CAPITALISM
Breitbart ^ | 10/30/2015 | C. Edmund Wright

Posted on 10/31/2015 11:04:24 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

Prior to February 19, 2009, CNBC was an obscure niche network watched mainly inside Merrill Lynch offices ...

At the same point, in February 2009, the term tea party was only a vague memory out of middle school history - with no particular relevance to politics today - with the exception of a few mentions by Ron Paul that never resonated widely.

Meanwhile, crony capitalism (or crony socialism or cronyism if you prefer) was a problem, but it ... was kind of practiced in the dark and certainly not celebrated openly.

That all started to change shortly after 9 am EST that day, and it's no coincidence. These dynamics are connected dominos in a media/political continuum. So how did this all happen?

Enter a dude named Rick Santelli. The then obscure CNBC commentator and Chicago Mercantile floor trader had a small following for his morning rants, primarily among traders and investors who shared his libertarian small government bent - who also happened to watch Squawk Box. Small universe.

But on Thursday the 19th, with the Obama administration promoting a plan to force mortgage payers to bail out deadbeat mortgage clients, Santelli just went off from his post at the Merc. His 4:53 second soliloquy - carried live on Squawk Box - was met with raucous cheering from other traders on the floor. Santelli's sarcastic ire was aimed at a government that was too big, too powerful and too corrupt - and actively picking winners and losers. (snip)

... the money line was an off the cuff threat to "hold a Chicago Tea Party on Lake Michigan."(snip)

That audio was then picked up by those connected to the Rush Limbaugh Show ...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnbc; drudge; rush; santelli
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To: abb; expat_panama; 1010RD
I remember that day. I was at work so I didn't see it live. Boy did that Santelli rant have an impact. Thanks for the original post.
61 posted on 10/31/2015 4:50:27 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: abb

Thanks for posting that....the FREEP thread really does kind of validate that this was an explosive moment, after which nothing was ever the same again.


62 posted on 10/31/2015 5:38:12 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: Lorianne

you are of course alone on this thread, alone on FR for the most part. Your second sentence was so foolish I stopped reading, and will not read any more of that drivel. You have some odd bur in your saddle that is causing you to miss all the major points in an attempt to discredit a widely applauded piece and to miss an unmistakable trend.

And what tinder. OBAMA DUH DUH DUH. Can’t believe you asked that. Well, yes I can.


63 posted on 10/31/2015 5:38:12 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: abb

there’s a bitter one on this thread that thinks you and I are wong.


64 posted on 10/31/2015 5:38:12 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: itsahoot

yeah, that Barry Farber and his 7 listeners really started an amazing movement..and just think, it only took 27 years to kick in.

....just brilliant......


65 posted on 10/31/2015 5:38:12 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

FReepers pound hell out of the media (authors). That’s what we do.

Thin skinned “authors” who come on Free Republic to pound hell out of their FReeper critics usually don’t last long.


66 posted on 10/31/2015 5:54:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Well I’m used to that!
I’ve stated my case.

I think your article is a bit like saying that the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria started WWI. Well, no it didn’t. It lit the fuse but a whole lot of things transpired before that event.

I look at the larger picture, not one event.


67 posted on 10/31/2015 6:21:51 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: itsahoot

Yes, I mailed a few tea bags myself. What is your point?


68 posted on 10/31/2015 6:26:29 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Masterful article! Very proud for you, here! Awesome thinking and research, Ed!

Cruz advanced the ball rhetorically, in the CNBC debate, though well outside of the debate loop of those actually targeted by the panelists.

I have to say it is Trump who leads by real action. It was Trump who got the crucible in the FOX debate. It was only Trump whom FOX cornered to extract guaranteed support of the Republican nominee. He acted instantly delivering an insult to Kelly and boycotted FOX, all in smash mouth style.

It brought Ailes to a conference and forthwith Trump now appears only on Hannity, or O’Reilly. No more Brett Baier, and no more Me again Kelly. No more swill about FOX being “great”.

Mainly, it was Trump who lit a stick of negative dynamite under both FOX and CNBC, in public opinion, exposing their price gouging for the debate ads, bumped time to a quarter of million dollars per 30 SECONDS!

Trump hits hard!

Never mind that it was Trump who master minded the CNBC debate time limit, down to two hours.

Now comes CNBC, in Kelly style, after not just Trump, but Rubio, Bush, and Carson, while landing a stooge like Kasich to take down Trump and Carson, as he was anxious to do.

Cruz capitalized on the bonanza. He watched Trump’s polls sky rocket for leading the way on genuine push back of Marxist media.

Cruz, though relatively untouched by panelists in these debates himself, is quick to observe and he picked up the winning ticket and capitalized on it.

The *action* has been exhibited by the leader of the pack—
Donald Trump.

Trump But, Trump pulled off the action.


69 posted on 10/31/2015 6:27:58 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Nice piece.


70 posted on 10/31/2015 6:45:38 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: nathanbedford

It is a deformed form of capitalism. It makes use of capital and private ownership.

It isn’t free enterprise, but it is a kind of capitalism.

It is closer to the economic program of fascism, which, in critical ways, lives up to its name, “national socialism.”


71 posted on 10/31/2015 6:54:14 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I don’t believe it’s my skin that’s thin.......


72 posted on 10/31/2015 8:01:41 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: GOPJ; BillyBoy

Hilarious that it happened in Chicago.


73 posted on 10/31/2015 8:04:35 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Whatever. But you’ll do well not to continue badmouthing our posters or trashing our leading candidates. Continue as you have been and you’ll find yourself sitting out for the duration. My skin and your welcome are wearing thinner with every insult.


74 posted on 10/31/2015 8:08:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: RitaOK
Masterful article! Very proud for you, here! Awesome thinking and research, Ed!

Thanks for your kind words...but hey, only Mark Levin gets away with calling me Ed! LOL

Yes, Trump deserves a lot of credit for the open push back, and yes, when Cruz defended everyone, and not just himself, that was another dynamic altogether. I tried to make it clear that in the long sense, Trump certainly deserved the credit, but in the short term, the specific game changer moment of that debate was Cruz's eidedic memory recitation of all the dumb questions to everybody.

75 posted on 10/31/2015 10:07:58 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: Rusty0604
Yes, I mailed a few tea bags myself. What is your point?

That we have been outraged by taxes for a very long time. Every candidate runs on lower taxes yet we have 73,000 pages of tax law.

The tax return on a post card is very old indeed.

76 posted on 10/31/2015 11:55:46 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

You just keep getting nastier. Does it relieve your pain?


77 posted on 10/31/2015 11:57:47 PM PDT by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
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To: austingirl

Even Maria Bartiromo is an obvious liberal but she is being heralded as some sort of conservative on FOX now, citing the next Fox debate she will be moderating will not be like CNBC and I have no reason to believe it will be any different at all.


78 posted on 11/01/2015 8:58:35 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Impy

Good point,... I mean ... Chicago?


79 posted on 11/01/2015 10:20:14 AM PST by GOPJ (Imagine if the GOPe fought Dems as hard as they fight Repubs. - freeper bray)
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