Jon Stewart Lays the Smackdown on Rick Santelli, CNBC

After it came to pass that CNBC analyst Rick Santelli’s seemingly spontaneous tirade on the floor of the Chicago Commodities Exchange, calling for a Chicago Tea Party and lambasting the President’s plan to bailout homeowners was anything but spontaneous and was in fact part of a viral marketing campaign instituted by some of Conservatism’s most nefarious powers-that-be, CNBC’s already tenuous grasp on respectability was loosened significantly if not completely erased. Of course, like most political news stories these days, Comedy Central’s John Stewart is the only one with the stones to call it like it really is, and in this encapsulates the overriding sentiment of the majority of broke Americans: rich people made money by convincing, sometimes by deception or worse, poor people to borrow and spend it, but are now trying to claim complete innocence. But thankfully poor people aren’t as dumb as they used to be.

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