Liberty Maven

The past couple days have been quite interesting due to a live improvised and impassioned rant by CNBC’s Rick Santelli the other day. His rant represents the near-rage many Americans feel about the Obama administration’s latest plan for wealth redistribution and creating further moral hazard.

The story begins with Rick Santelli’s rant:

Amen Rick. Amen. He may be a loud talker, but he speaks the truth, which these days needs to be shouted for anyone to hear it. After the stir he caused with his rant online CNBC posted a poll asking if you would show up for a Chicago Tea Party in July as he mentions in the rant. Apparently, before the poll was removed 94% said they’d be there with about 250,000 votes.

This morning I heard Rick’s rant played and discussed on Glenn Beck’s radio show, Opie and Anthony’s radio show of all places, and several other main stream media outlets.

Listen to Glenn Beck take a call and talk about Rick’s first rant here. Beck claims that this is evidence of the coming peaceful disobedience that is the first step toward a kind of “revolution”.

The next story in the saga comes from the White House. Obama’s Press Secretary commented on Rick’s rant by saying that “he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” This prompted a few responses by Rick. The first one below from MSNBC:

However, perhaps better is Santelli’s appearance on The Kudlow Report where Kudlow is appalled at the White House “attacking the press”. I loved the part when after playing the clip from the Press Secretary, Santelli is standing there smiling holding up the mortgage proposal. This video is available at CNBC. Watch it here.

I’m curious if Rick Santelli will actually have a protest event called the Chicago Tea Party in July. Thanks to the White House helping to make the story bigger than it otherwise would have I bet such an event would draw quite a few people.

I also wonder if Santelli will actually get a chance to sit down at the White House to discuss the mortgage modification proposal?

Keep watching as this saga continues.

(Note: Find out what a Rick Roll is here, if you aren’t a web/youtube geek and already know what it is.)