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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris on March 01, 2009, 02:53:15 AM
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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."
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/stillidealistic/2009/02/rick-santelli-rant-a-fraud.php
February 19th: Rick Santelli, live on CNBC, standing in the middle of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, launches into an attack on the just-announced $300 billion slated to stem rate of home foreclosures: “The government is promoting bad behavior! Do we really want to subsidize the losers’ mortgages?! This is America! We're thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July, all you capitalists who want to come down to Lake Michigan, I'm gonna start organizing."
Almost immediately, the clip and the unlikely "Chicago tea party" quote buried in the middle of the segment, zoomed across a well-worn path to headline fame in the Republican echo chamber, including red-alert headlines on Drudge.
Within hours of Santelli's rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008
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ChicagoTeaParty.com was just one part of a larger network of Republican sleeper-cell-blogs set up over the course of the past few months, all of them tied to a shady rightwing advocacy group coincidentally named the “Sam Adams Alliance,” whose backers have until now been kept hidden from public. Cached google records that we discovered show that the Sam Adams Alliance took pains to scrub its deep links to the Koch family money as well as the fake-grassroots “tea party” protests going on today. All of these roads ultimately lead back to a more notorious rightwing advocacy group, FreedomWorks, a powerful PR organization headed by former Republican House Majority leader Dick Armey and funded by Koch money.
MORE (http://www.metafilter.com/79585/A-Vast-Right-Wing-Noise-Machine)
This is hilarious. A bunch of lefties are convinced Santelli's on-air comments are part of a larger coordinated effort to derail Obama's plans for a Brave New World for us all. How dare us common people stand in the way of their grand plans?
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It was probably scripted by Karl Rove too. :-)
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Huh? if it was scripted, that doesn't make it a fraud. I'd say that with the way it spread on the internet, it was a good bit of viral advertising.
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Rightwing "SLEEPER" Blogs :lmao:
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oh boo-freakin'-hoo libtards.
You are all upset that among all the other things conservatives do better than you is organize an opposition. I suspect its because we tend to think things through using minds that aren't engulfed in pot-smoke and cheeto dust.
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Can you believe the audacity of Liberals to suggest that the Tea Party movement is not the authentic voice of the America, but instead is funded by "corporations" and "billionaires"
Are any of you on the payroll of billionaires? Or are you instead fed up with out-of-control spending that punishes people who are entrepreneurs and small business owners, the backbone of this country?
Look at a typical comment on the anti-American website Reddit.com:
"Santelli’s rant may or may not have been spontaneous, but it now does appear that certain groups have taken advantage of it (at best). At worst, it may be a planned event as the bloggers are attempting to show. That huge corporations may be involved is not so hard to imagine. I certainly hope the bloggers keep investigating the background of the (supposedly grassroots) Tea Party movement. Further, I hope they post at other than Playboy.com, simply due to the sake of appearances. Lastly, it's interesting that the bloggers are evidently former Russian nationals, quite used to seeing through orchestrated "movements," as they themselves mention. Most Americans are far more gullible than they care to admit."
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We are barely even a thousandaire lately.
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Typical Soviet style reaction.
It's always some mysterious shadow group of cigar smoking billionaires pulling the strings behind the scenes.
It's he only way they can fool themselves into thinking this is not a grassroots movement by and of the people.
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Merged with existing thread from Politics.