Rick Santelli Rips Guest For Calling Tea Partiers 'Freaked Out White Men Who Are Unemployed'

Segami

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Thu Aug-11-11 01:54 AM
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Rick Santelli Rips Guest For Calling Tea Partiers 'Freaked Out White Men Who Are Unemployed'

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Brilliant LIVE moment from Squawk Box this morning as Santelli responds to Whitney on air over her comment about the Tea Party. Don't skip this.

Whitney:

"Call it Tea Party, whatever you will, the fringe element is I characterize (as) freaked-out white men who are unemployed and have been unemployed for three years and they�re scared to death. Three to four million of them are about to roll off unemployment benefits in the next three to four months. This is only going to get worse."

Whitney said extending unemployment benefits, which already have been pushed to 99 weeks, is not the answer.

"You feel better about yourself when you�re working. Kids feel better about their parents when they�re working. Having a job is more than having a paycheck. To push for the extension of unemployment benefits is going to and should unleash absolute backlash against this administration because that�s a horrendous idea."

Then it's Santelli's turn, and the fun begins.

For those who aren't aware, Whitney made a famous call on 60 Minutes that there would be hundreds of municipal bankruptcies in 2011, which hasn't happened, and she's taken some heat in the financial press for being wrong. Santelli inserts the blade and twists.

http://dailybail.com/home/uncomfortable-cnbc-moment-rick-santelli-rips-meredith-whitne.html

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WCGreen

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Thu Aug-11-11 02:01 AM
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1. Santelli's a well paid spoke person there to gin up populist anger

on the right...

He's a shill, a prick capitalist and will have nothing to show for his life but a pile of completed order of shuffling crap from here to there and skimming a little off the top.

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Cali_Democrat

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Thu Aug-11-11 02:18 AM
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2. Whitney is right

The Tea Party fringe are indeed freaked out, manipulated white men who are unemployed. Their unemployment benefits are going to run out and they're angry.

They're angry that they're unemployed. They're angry that they have to admit to themselves that they are living off the government. They always thought that it was only minorities that had to deal with this and now they realize the truth...they are in the same boat.

Maybe now they can finally admit that the people pulling the strings don't give a shit what your race is, they will screw you over regardless in the name of profit and Reaganomics.

BTW, Rick Santelli is a FUCKING DOUCHEBAG.

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BlueCaliDem

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Thu Aug-11-11 03:02 AM
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3. Whitney was right for the most part

just as you've noted, but she's wrong about "Machiavellian Democrats" need to pay attention to them?? Really, Whitney?

How about not taking these punks seriously, defusing their "anger" by cutting off their government assistance instead, and let them feel the other side of "freedom"?

But you don't, and should NEVER, coddle bullies. Period.

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ScottLand

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Thu Aug-11-11 04:26 AM
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4. I thought she was going to say the Tea Party is all white, which I

take great exception to. Who do you think is selling them those T-shirts and funny hats? At least some of the vendors are African-American.

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BEZERKO

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Thu Aug-11-11 07:25 AM
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5. Rick Santelli is a sack of shit!

Print it, and run with that!

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butterfly77

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Thu Aug-11-11 07:43 AM
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6. POS!!!

Edited on Thu Aug-11-11 07:52 AM by butterfly77

What about men of other races who have been unemployed for more than 3 years he didn't give a fuck about that are white men suppose to be employed!

White men have not just become unemployed for 3 years,this has been going on in 2002,3,4,5,6,7,...and their unemployment is not anymore important than men or women of other races and cultures. Santelli,thinks he is entitled because he is a white man but fuck everyone else.-----!

Will they be THUGS when they hit the street like the people in London...

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