Video: Latest Rick Santelli Rant - 'BBB' Rating without Tea Party

Some people just flat-out shine when times are toughest. CNBC's Rick Santelli is one of them. In February of 2009, his rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange birthed the Tea Party. He's had countless righteous rants since then. He's at his best when he's fed up. He seems to make more sense the angrier he gets. This one might actually be a cut above. Here, he sticks up for the Tea Party in response to people like John Kerry, David Axelrod, and MoveOn.org who call this a 'Tea Party downgrade.' Santelli asserts that if it wasn't for the Tea Party, our S&P rating would now be BBB instead of AA+.

He also makes easy work out of the guy who tries to debate him - Steve Lies. At the end, Lies looks apoplectic.



h/t Rebel Pundit

Video: Rick Santelli School's Washington Post's Golden Boy

Ezra Klein is a writer for the Washington Post who many consider to be the leftwing media's rising star - the next Paul Krugman perhaps. He supported single-payer and was the founder of Journolist which essentially was a way for all of the leftwing media types to get together online and collude on how best to attack the right and come up with the best narratives each could use in furtherance of that effort. Anyway, on Morning Joe, Klein went up against the man credited with starting the Tea Party with his righteous rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange back in February of 2009, Rick Santelli.

It's easy to spot Klein's elitist smugness but what makes this great is his elder - Santelli - thoroughly schools him.

Via The Blaze:



Here is the legendary Santelli rant referred to in the exchange with Klein:

VIDEO: SANTELLI GOES OFF ON LIBERAL LIESMAN

CNBC's Rick Santelli is best known for being the guy who started the Tea Party movement by yelling from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He hasn't stopped railing on insane government spending and liberal monetary policies. His latest righteous meltdown occurred while having to deal with one of the proponents of the latter, Steve Liesman. The irony in this exchange is not the spelling of Liesman's last name, it's that he's literally proven wrong by facts that slap him in the face and like most liberals, has far too much pride to admit he's wrong.

During this exchange, Santelli goes over the edge when he corrects Liesman, who wants to focus on the tax side of the debate. Santelli cuts right through it all and shouts multiple times, "STOP SPENDING". Liesman has no coherent response to that concept and Santelli lands another blow that rocks Liesman, telling him to "go back to Russia". The off-camera anchor then piles on, asking Liesman about changing the name of his rule book, making reference to "the Little Red book" already being taken.

Liesman is thoroughly punk'd and simply cannot humble himself.

Click HERE for the latest Santelli Rant.

Here's a better version; it cuts right to the chase.



h/t to Free Republic

VIDEO: CNBC'S RICK SANTELLI GETS FIRED UP AGAIN

From the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the man who lit the fuse for the modern day Tea Party movement got fired up again. This time he dukes it out with Steve Liesman. Santelli is sounding the alarm as loudly as he can and justifiably so. Liesman is either playing a role or has put a firewall between himself and reality that is impenetrable.



h/t to HAP