CNBC's Santelli Rips Media for Ignoring 9/12 DC March

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Rick Santelli, who has been a target of the Obama White House and is credited with being the inspiration for the 2009 tea party movement, spoke out about how the media ignored the march. But, a year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, he was making the larger point that the government's intervention to thwart a financial crisis had been an ineffectual and potentially dangerous maneuver at the expense of taxpayers.

"I think this one-year anniversary is great, but I think it's great for another reason," Santelli said on CNBC's Sept. 14 "Squawk Box." "I think someday we'll learn that we didn't need to do very much, that time heals all wounds and you don't have to go broke in the process."

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[mtoasty]

The inspiration for the tea party movement was not Rick Santelli, it actually was Ron Paul.

Google Tea Party 2007 and you will go to a Ron Paul website. Ron Paul supporters were having tea party before it was cool. Ron Paul supporters were against bailouts and stimulus packages before it was cool. Ron Paul supporters were against deficit spending before it was cool. Ron Paul supporters were constitutionalists before it was cool.

[tolynette]

Rick is right on the money! Go Rick!

[akprince213]

SEMPER FI FOR RON PAUL 2012

[theunbubba]

@mtoasty

Ron Paul had a newsletter.........It's fleece was white as snow.

[kmitchem4]

look how they laugh him off. these guys new they were fucked and all they could do was laugh!!! How guilty does a mother fucker have to be folks????!!!!!

[GnariusFestivus]

CRUSHED EM!!!!

[StigRossi]

I'm not saying this because of Santelli's beliefs, but I seriously think he has a mental illness of some sort considering his behaviour on television...

[StigRossi]

@mtoasty and unlike a lotta Tea Partiers, Ron Paul supporters aren't racist and aren't for more war!!!

[sage0857]

who cares if the media didnt cover this astroturf movement. 99.99999% of Americans dont care about thier bullshit.

[Omegatide]

@jtrue71 Hello? Do you still think the banks were 'forced' to make loans?

Forced by the goverment????

[jtrue71]

P.S. I was "crying" while both Bushes were in office and Clinton too. And I'm crying now.

[jtrue71]

@omegatide I'm a Libertarian because individual liberty and small government are what made the U.S. a great nation. The further we drift from that, the worse our problems become. The Republocrats are two wings of the same one party rule that is systematically destroying the U.S.