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    Rick Santelli Rant a Fraud?

    By stillidealistic on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 12:04am |
    At risk of being a "too frequent" poster, ran across this and couldn't help but bring it to your attention, just in case you've missed it.

    Apparently there is some question about whether or not Rick Santelli's rant was as random as it seemed, or rather the carefully planned trigger for the "anti-Obama" campaign.

    According to Playboy Magazine  (now don't have a heart attack! I ran across it through another channel and went back to the original source rather than send you on a circuitous route to get to it! - I can hear it now...What is Stilli doing reading Playboy???)  the website that  launched the "Chicago Tea Party" revolt (www.ChicagoTeaParty.com) within hours of the rant, got it's domain name back in August of last year, and has been associated with some interesting characters in the Republican Party.

    What we discovered is that Santelli's "rant" was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a "Chicago Tea Party" was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks. The scion of the Koch family, Fred Koch, was a co-founder of the notorious extremist-rightwing John Birch Society."

    The article that sent me to this link has some other links you may find interesting.

    Hmmmmm...it's just a lttle smelly.