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Rick Santelli On Difference Between Tea Party And Occupy: ‘Don’t Break Windows’

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by Tommy Christopher | 1:38 pm, February 16th, 2012

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CNBC personality Rick “No, Not The Google Guy” Santelli may not be a household name, but he is well-known to Tea Party supporters and detractors alike as the guy who launched the movement onto the national radar by ranting, to the approving jeers of a crowd of stockbrokers, about how the real villain in the financial meltdown was your loser neighbor and his extra bathroom. On Tuesday, he offered advice to the “vandals” of the Occupy movement: “if you want to make a difference, don’t go break windows.”

Santelli began by praising the Tea Party. “While the vandals are on the street corners,” he said, “the Tea Party conservatives, they’re working the statehouses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House. See, they understand, they’ve read the Constitution.”

“If you want to make a difference, don’t go break windows. Okay? Break some phony arguments that things like austerity are going to put you in a hole.”

Finally, something that Rick Santelli and I can agree on. You shouldn’t break windows if you want to make a difference. And you especially shouldn’t encourage others in your movement to break windows as an explicit form of political expression. You know, like this guy did:

Maddow reports on a number of incidents nation-wide where it appears people opposed to the health care bill are using violent means to express their displeasure. All of the incidents (five) involve bricks being thrown through Democratic party office windows, one with an anti-Obama message attached to it (a Barry Goldwater quote, to be exact: “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice”). The FBI is also reportedly investigating threats made against Louise Slaughter’s family.

Apparently, all this brick throwing is the idea of Mike Vanderboegh, the former head of the “Alabama Constitutional Militia ” who on his website wrote that “we can break their windows…before we have to resort to rifles to resist their well-intentioned tyranny.”

The real punchline, though, is this:

Michael Vanderboegh, the Tea Party leader and former militiaman who is calling for an armed march on Washington for April 19, and who urged people to break Democrat party office windows, is on government disability!

I also agree with Santelli that we should break phony arguments, like the argument that anyone is arguing that austerity is going to put you in a hole (although I thought it was my “loser” neighbor, not government spending). We were already in a crater when Santelli did his rant heard ’round the world. The argument is that things like austerity harm an economic recovery, which is a plainly obvious fact. I’m glad we had this talk.

Here’s the clip, from CNBC:

(h/t The Blaze)

Occupy, Rick Santelli, Tea Party

Anonymous

Wow Tommy, that was quite a stretch.
Anonymous

occupiers shouldn’t rape other occupiers, they should just rape the constitution…
Jonathan Cantor

you like the word rape too much
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Martin/100002745709781 Ryan Martin

wow tommy what a convincing argument. there were 5 broken windows at dnc offices. hooligans! next the tea party is gonna invade a city hall some where and trash it huh? O wait, occupy already did that in Oakland.
Mo Fokker

“Michael Vanderboegh, the Tea Party leader and former militiaman who is calling for an armed march on Washington for April 19, and who urged people to break Democrat party office windows, is on government disability!”

Reminds me of the teabaggers who would shout “keep your hands off my medicare” at townhall meetings.
Anonymous

it is their medicare, money is taken out of their paychecks. you welfare babies don’t really know how it works…
Anonymous

I just love the game of Logic Twister, liberal columnists have to play in order to equate the Tea Party to OWS.

Its almost like they think people have no other method to see whats going on other than what they read from the spindoctor columnists….
DoNotMindMe

Tommy = Lame
AIiveStiIIKickin

Rush got it right when he called the Occupiers “Human debris”
Nothing but bums seeking a free ride.
RW

How about reporting on what really matters instead of keeping your readers in the dark?

“For the second year in row, Timothy Geithner admitted before the Senate Budget Committee that President Obama’s budget takes no action to meaningfully reform entitlement programs, putting us on an “unsustainable” fiscal course.

“Even if Congress were to enact this budget,” Geithner said, “we would still be left with–in the outer decades as millions of Americans retire–what are still unsustainable commitments in Medicare and Medicaid.”

– Washington Free Beacon via Drudge

an “unsustainable” fiscal course – that is what Rick Santelli was ranting about. That is what the Tea Partiers recognize.

We are all going to go down with this ship. Will the last one off please turn off the lights?
Anonymous

LOL. Another fantasy piece by Tommy…
Anonymous

Please, Tommy goes and spends two days collecting video on OWS which really showed nothing at all other than a bunch of people paid by the unions to try and disrupt CPAC and he has nothing to report other than how he was smart enough to comply with police orders..

But here he digs to find that 5 windows have been broken presumably in the dark of night with no substantiating witnesses and Tommy ascribes these crimes to the Tea Party Why? Because 1. for him it feels good, and 2. he can twist it to fit his ongoing narrative… Left = Good… Right = Evil… Tommy does not have a journalistic bone in his body, he gave up on that career awhile back when he chose to become a propaganda writer for the Left instead.
Anonymous

Oh for Christ’s sake Tommy. Really? Congratulations on trolling Google to find some guy who says he’s a Tea Partier talking about breaking windows, while completely ignoring the many actual instances of OWSers breaking windows (and many other things) during their demonstrations (see: Oakland). Not to mention the filth and debris left behind after the OWS rabble are finally evicted the various parks and other venues they “occupy”, while Tea Partiers consistently clean up after themselves.

Do you realize that Jay Carney and the rest of the WH communications team see you as nothing more than a useful idiot? They laugh at you behind your back. They think of you as the pasty middle school geek trying to ingratiate himself with the cool kids. They read this kind of crap and high five each other.
Anonymous

What was the point of starting this article with this? ‘CNBC personality Rick “No, Not The Google Guy” Santelli…’

Keeping it classy and relevant.
david r

We can’t spend our way out of this depression through a bunch of government boondoggle jobs. Try green-lighting the pipeline, and stop slow-balling the drilling permits in the Gulf. Stop telling Boeing where they can build airplanes. Stop giving away bundles of money to companies like Solyndra. We can’t afford all these great progressive ideas at the moment.
Anonymous

If you really want to know what that Vanderboegh guy is up to you need to go where he is breaking windows right now.

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/

What an extremist.
Anonymous

LOL… David, don’t you know that we live in a demand economy, that is what Maynard Keynes tried to tell us before he admitted that he was wrong, but the libs have proven him to be right, so of course the government has to spend monies that it does not have to stimulate demand that will in the end stimulate further demand that will save the Chinese economy which will somehow save our own economy… Never mind that we at some point the interest alone will approach a trillion dollars a year, or that our children will not be free to make decisions that will effect their own economy as we will have already used all available credit… no not to worry, deficits are a good thing… and who cares if the money is wasted or not, it does find it’s way into the economy and stimulates demand… makes groceries and gas more expensive, which helps somebody…. Keynesian’s often talk about the need of inflation to stimulate the economy, it’s kinda like spending, as prices rise more producers will rush in to meet demand, interest rates will begin to rise, credit will loosen as more banks will be willing to lend money…

Don’t worry David, these huge deficits are wonderful, soon we will all be millionaires…
Dedicated_Dad

What “Tea Party” is Vanderboegh affiliated with?
Is he a “leader” of some TP faction/local/etc?
Which one?
Go look it up – I’ll wait…

Oh…

Full of it, aren’t you?

Do you get paid to lie?

By whom?
demandthetruth

Here are THE MOST PERTINENT questions for the Fraud-obama to answer before he tries to con his way back into usurping the oval office again — and THIS TIME the Congress had better get them ANSWERED!!:
1. Where and when did you formally (legally) change your name from Barry Soetero to
Barack H. Obama?
2. What hospital in Hawaii will/can confirm your birth record?
3. With which student status (resident, foreign, etc.) did you apply for student loans at Occidental, Columbia and Harvard?
4.Have you ever traveled to Russia?
5. Having run as the most transparent candidate, why do you block all access to past
records?
6. Since your release on April 27, 2011 of your Hawaii birth record, can we the American
people see the microfiche of the original since you have nothing to hide?
7. How do you respond to the computer, Adobe®, and graphics experts who have declared
your “long-form birth certificate” a forgery?
8. How did you secure a Connecticut Social Security number while living in Hawaii?
9. In transparency that you consistently affirm, would you commit to an
independent DNA test confirming your claimed biological ancestry?
10. Can you explain the motivation for signing Executive Order #13489 sealing all
records of your identity, passports, school attendance, college records,
Selective Service registration, etc.?
11. How did Bill Ayers (he only lived in the neighborhood) have authorization to pick
up your kids from school?
12. As a sponsor (with Hillary Clinton) of Senate Resolution 511 confirming McCain
as eligible for the office of POTUS during the 2008 election, how do you
qualify as Article II, Section 1 Constitutional “natural born Citizen”
with a non-citizen father?
(From article at the online Post and Email today).

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS MR FRAUD!!!
http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

Yeah, Rick said “don’t break windows, you dummy.” Where’s the Olbermann tape saying “Occupy: Stop raping and killing and defecating on camera against a cop car”?
Anonymous

Did Newt, Mitt and Rick Perry legally change their names?