Friday, February 20, 2009

Tea For The Tillerman

An apopletic CNBC's Rick Santelli nearly has a heart attack on the floor of Chicago's CBOE. Santelli [live shot]: "The government is promoting bad behavior... I have an idea." [To the tillerman Obama so into the Internet and politically-motivated websites] "Why don't you put up a website to have people vote on the Ineternet as a referendum to see if we want to subsidize the losers' mortgages or would we like to at least buy cars and houses in foreclosure and give them to people that might prosper down the road - people who could carry the water instead of drinking the water?"

Cheers from the traders on the floor. One: "How about we all stop paying our mortgages? It's a moral hazard."

Steamed Santelli: "We're thinking of a Chicago tea party in July. All you capitalists who want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing."

Anchor: "What are you dumping in this time?"

Santelli: "Derivative securities."

Watch the video. CNBC, not one to miss a pimping opportunity, is polling people to see if they're game. So far 93 percent are on for July's Chicago Tea Party...

Shiver me timbers! Oooh, baby, it's a Wild World... Shakespeare: "What's past is prologue." Are we about to witness another American Revolution?

"Friends! Brethren! Countrymen!--That worst of plagues, the detested home foreclosure scam, shipped for this port by Obama and Company, is now arrived in the harbor; the hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and to posterity, is now called upon to meet at Lake Michigan at nine o'clock THIS DAY (at which time the bells will ring), to make united and successful resistance to this last, worst, and most destructive measure of administration."

Related: Boston Tea Party agitators

2 comments:

  1. And when they're done, maybe we can find a fortune teller who reads lakes.

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  2. Some of you reading this are old enough to recall the term, "Silent Majority". It looks like the SM group may have just been pissed off enough to become quite vocal.

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