Comments on: Rick Santelli’s Planted Rant ?

By: gotothomas

gotothomas — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:46:09 +0000

Ok the dust has settled. Where is Rick Santelli? After he did not show up for his appearance on The Daily Show, he seems also to have disappeared from CNBC along with Pimco Ads. Then again I may just not be watching CNBC often enough.

45ACP should comment more often. I would love to hear his take on other issues. His two posts were perfect. If he would be so kind as to contact me, gotothomas@aol.com, I would enjoy making his acquaintance.

By: dr van nostrum

dr van nostrum — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:35:54 +0000

When the guillotines get sharpened, the first ones with their heads in on the block will be the socialist mouthpieces and doe-eyed morons like this guy.

By: dr van nostrum

dr van nostrum — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:34:15 +0000

Oooooh, “craziest,” “sleaziest,” “notorious extremist”….

Can’t wait for the libel-case takedown of whoever this commie nutcracker is. Glad I linked to it from patrick.net. I assume Santelli’s, the Koch’s and several others’ lawyers have too.

Commie tool.

By: Castro Is Cool Again

Castro Is Cool Again — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:39:27 +0000

Playboy has removed the story. They not only got it completely wrong about The Daily Bail but it seems they didn’t do their research about the Koch and FreedonWorks claims.

To all those who believed in me, thanks.

And to my critics who actually believed I was part of a nefarious network of right-wing astroturf sites, get your heads examined for tinfoil.

And thanks to Barry for posting my response yesterday. It means a lot that you stood up for me.

Steve,

The Daily Bail

Publisher and Writer

By: sellthekids

sellthekids — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:20:12 +0000

so has anyone mentioned that Playboy removed the article?

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/03/is_this_why_playboy_took_the_a.php

By: aperian

aperian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:50:27 +0000

barry……

if you want to do a case study on how to destroy readership just keep going on the road you are on. pissing on rick santelli will destroy this site………

By: kelly p

kelly p — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:43:18 +0000

Hey 45acp, You prefer slavery to violence? Besides, why would you want to keep the experience of riots all to yourself. It is part of the “bottoming process”

By: Tom K

Tom K — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:43:10 +0000

“THE BIG PICTURE – Macro perspective on the capital markets, ECONOMY, technology & digital media.”

I suppose I deserved to be called a troll for believing the ECONOMIC stimulus bill and Obama’s budget proposal have as much to do with the ECONOMY as “lesbian historical literature” and “modern catfish farming”.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it odd to draw the line between housing rescue+bank bailouts and stimulus bill + U.S. budget, especially given the enormous price tag and fanciful GDP projections of the later.

~~~

BR: Tom, I don’t think you are a troll (Scott, behave!).

But I am only one person, and you did use a questionable tactic — Its “guilt because you are not doing a post on ______” — that can be thrown at anyone.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:16:04 +0000

45ACP wrote:
Ever seen a food riot? Well, I’m a 69-year-old retired former U.S. Army paratrooper – and I have. Trust me, you don’t want to see one much less be in proximity to one. There’s a significant probability that it can happen here, I think on the order of 10% to 15%.

Want to take that chance? Neither do I. So stop pissing inside the tent and start pissing outside of it.

Help each other, and the President, so we can get out of this deep hole. There will be plenty of time for you to beat the shit out of each other later (if you must), after we’re back on solid ground.

Best post ever.

As for your earlier comment regarding the quality of posts here: that’s just how the internet is. The best forums on the net (like Slashdot) let people downgrade idiotic posts so that the majority of people don’t have to read them. Unfortunately there’s no moderation system here, but the posts here are still roughly 1000x better than most websites.

By: Greg0658

Greg0658 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:48:56 +0000

and this is a good a place as any to present what I just yelled at the tv and Joe @ CNBC

Our Illinois State Treasurer is to guest appear .. on jump out to commercial break “is he corrupt enough” to get the job. A better statement maybe “does he play b-ball well enough”.

I myself have been on that rant. Can I say stuff like that to 100’s. Does it change when its millions?

When does a donation to a political candidate change from a gift to a bribe?
What amount of money changes a gift to expecting a direct return on investment?