Sunday, March 01, 2009

Mark Ames and Yasha Levine: "Backstabber: Is Rick Santelli High on Koch?" - Playboy Blog

Tempest in teapot whistles,
Master pets dog, Bushevik mob action at eleven
The short answer to the Playboy bloggers' question (above), "yes."  Bloggers Ames and Levine do a reasonably good job of connecting the corporate dots to the propaganda salvoes and careers, such as Santelli's, being launched by and for the wealthy conspirators. Reporter Santelli launches into a tirade on an empty trading floor and corporate media mouthpieces hail half a dozen white male thirtysomething traders hooting and hollering his acclaim as a "mob." Santelli's genius idea that is now starting a "movement" is to do nothing and let two million (a small estimate) homeowners be kicked out on the street.  [Excerpt]  ... Santelli’s “rant” last-week calling for a “Chicago Tea Party” to protest President Obama’s plans to help distressed American homeowners rapidly spread across the blogosphere and shot right up into White House spokesman Robert Gibbs’ craw, whose smackdown during a press conference was later characterized by Santelli as “a threat” from the White House. A nationwide “tea party” grassroots Internet protest movement has sprung up seemingly spontaneously, all inspired by Santelli, with rallies planned today in cities from coast to coast to protest against Obama’s economic policies. ... And it gets juicier, well financed public media shills get involved creating a faux grassroots backlash to Obama's economic stimulus proposal And it grows... Read more

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