Do you guys see what the media is doing right now with the hero Rick Santelli?

[burythehatchet]

They are pumping his opinion up like 98% of the world agrees with him. They are actively selling the exact opposite of what people feel.

I don't know if everyone is seeing how incredibly important this is. The media is actively distorting the reality of what if happening by casting a wall street insider as the spokesman for the masses.

MSBNC needs to stop. Where the fuck are Keith and Rachel?

[BarbaRosa]

1. C-Span played that clip three times this am

Righty Friday, what can one say?

[burythehatchet]

15. When C_SPAN becomes part of the echo chamber, someone very high up is

executing a strategy. We have got to organize to defeat these vermin.

[Justitia]

2. Multi-Millionaire Santelli's company TRADES IN REAL ESTATE FUTURES

He's one of the fucking slimeball hypocrites that created this clusterfuck.

"There are more millionaires per square inch on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange than any other place on earth."
That is what CME (Rick's company) likes to brag about.

This sleazeball's personal fortune is in jeopardy, so he's trying to make the remaining 99% of Americans not in his tax bracket look like deadbeats.

He is fucking scum.

[KharmaTrain]

3. He Works For GE...What Did You Expect?

Now if this blowhard had spewed this crap on Faux, he'd be on Olbermann's "Worst Persons", but since it was over the networks of General Electric, it was "news"...kinda like a "You Tube" moment. And it's a pile of shit...but it sure made good teevee.

The media can't distort the reality of a person losing a job or a home or seeing others suffer. Most of us know someone who is faced with a dire financial situation and this asshat just pisses us off. He's no hero, he's a selfish, arrogant ass clown who just showed the world how insensitive and arrogant the rich are. If anything he'll become the poster boy for the abuses of the financial world. The scene of the trading floor behind him just pisses people off more.

[predfan]

4. Let me get this straight............Santelli is standing on the TRADING FLOOR and

bitchin' about bailouts? I'm no economist, but I equate trading floor with Wall Street, and I equate Wall Street with bailouts.

But that's just me.

[Turbineguy]

5. As usual, they miss the point

Of course nobody wants to pay their neighbor's mortgage. So will we be doing that?

My house value has dropped enough in the past 18 months to pay my neighbor's mortgage for 8 years.

[predfan]

6. That's exactly the point; if a rising tide raises all ships, so then does a

sinking real estate market drop those housing values. If the house on either side of you is in foreclosure, what's that do to you?
You're screwed, that's what.

[Pirate Smile]

14. Right. My neighbors house is on fire but he smoked in bed (or maybe not but the Wall Street/

Trading Floor ranters want to act like they all were irresponsible) so let it burn, baby, burn. It will cause a lot of damage to my house too but I don't care because that "loser" deserves it.

So stupid.

[ejpoeta]

7. that guy was on today show this morning. there was another guy there too

but i don't know who he was. the santelli guy was bloviating and yelling. the other was calm and countering the other one very well, i thought. it's like if he yells louder and over the other guy, he'll be right??? wtf!!

[Peacetrain]

8. Kind of like that Coulter person.. they just keep yelling hoping that

no one notices what they have done before that

[Uncle Joe]

12. They set that so called debate up by saying it would be heated, meaning they would allow Santelli

to interrupt the other person as he was trying to make his point. It might as well have been "The McLaughlin Report."

[nc4bo]

9. Yes and I'm really sick of hearing his screeching every time I flip a channel

The mediawhores are working overtime, desperately trying to change the opinion of millions of Americans.

Pit one against the other, divide and conquer and just maybe they can chip away at Obama's popularity.

Fucking scumbags.

[burythehatchet]

13. That's what they do. Turn us against each other. I think the bastard may get some

unwanted attention now.

[Medusa]

10. Top Story on Today; complete with cameo by Brian Williams

Yes, Brian Williams showed up this morning on the Today show to "cohost" along with Matt Lauer to interview this asshole who screamed at the top of his lungs throughout the interview, apparently a member of the "the more I yell, the more it's true" camp.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Corporate media propaganda at it's worst and yesterday when the Dow Jones only dropped

seventy some odd points, they focused on what it settled at as being the low record in the past six years, not the fact that it only dropped about seventy points, a pittance compared to previous swings.

[GoCubsGo]

16. Yes...

They're doing the same thing they did with the auto company bail-outs. They're piling on the least guilty parties in all of this, while ignoring the real culprits. More divisiveness. More class warfare. More lies and distortions. Nothing new here.

[FarCenter]

17. Rick Santelli is in Chicago, not Wall Street

He's about 800 miles west of Wall Street.