I just came across an interesting CNBC interview with Rick Santelli, the Wall Street guy who got the tea party rolling in early 2009 with a rant, also aired on CNBC. Five years later, the tea party fringies are still out there but Santelli has been totally discredited in the mainstream business community.

You can watch the video here. Make sure not to miss the last two or three minutes.

Here’s a bit of what Solomon Kleinsmith of Centrist Review had to say about the clip:

“If you want to see an awesome example of right wingnut behavior, and an utterly incorrect perspective that is ignored because of ideological blindness, watch this segment. It showcases the outlandish antics of the circus side-show that is Rick Santelli – yes, the guy who is credited with sparking the wingnut magnet Tea Party movement — with comments made on a show similar to this a few years ago. 

“Like so many extremists, he sidesteps his track record of measurable inaccurate predictions and baseless claims and just yells his ideological fairy tales louder and louder, as the seemingly sane people on the panel (of whom I have no clue to their ideological disposition, having not watched the show) watch on with faces ranging from partially hidden disgust, to mocking disbelief.
If you can’t stand watching this train wreck of a human being, fast forward to about 10:55 and see one of those reasonable people absolutely own him, from a substantive perspective anyway, as Santelli continues to yell.”

 

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