this Rick Santelli guy on GEM$NBC is a raging asshole

[FLAprogressive]

[GoCubsGo]

1. The folks at MSNBC just called him out...

They asked him for a solution to the housing problem, and he couldn't give them one. Just a bunch of ranting

[madokie]

6. I turned the teevee off too damn fast I guess

his kind never have any answers and when they do they're as batshit crazy as the loon hawking them are. I have to laugh

[GoCubsGo]

9. They slapped him around pretty good at times...

Apparently, there is a fellow trader that he keeps dragging on camera to use as someone who supposedly agrees with him. They asked if Santelli was "using" him. More sputtering and screaming, but no actual answer.

[Captain Hilts]

2. A raging asshole on MSNBC?!?! Say it's not so!

Why do folks watch that trash network?

[madokie]

3. I had to turn that sob off as quick as I turned the tv on

Yes he is a raving lunitic with the brain of a rabid dog. How could anyone vote for his stupid ass is what I want to know?

[Skidmore]

4. I read on another thread earlier today that he made his fortune on

real estate and mortgages and can't find that thread again. I hope whoever wrote that sees this thread and I encourage them to contact KO or Schuster and help MSNBC make a disclosure about his purile self interest in promoting this crap.

[Justitia]

10. Here's his bio, from CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837966

"A veteran trader and financial executive, Santelli has provided live reports on the markets in print and on local and national radio and television. He joined CNBC from the Institutional Financial Futures and Options at Sanwa Futures, L.L.C. There, he was a vice president handling institutional trading and hedge accounts for a variety of futures related products.

Prior to that, Santelli worked as vice president of Institutional Futures and Options at Rand Financial Services, Inc., served as managing director at the Derivative Products Group of Geldermann, Inc., and was Vice President in charge of Interest Rate Futures and Options at the Chicago Board of Trade for Drexel, Burnham, Lambert. Santelli began his career in 1979 as a trader and order filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a variety of markets including gold, lumber, CD's, T-bills, foreign currencies and livestock."




Derivative traders & Hedge Fund Mgrs are the greedy assholes who made billions out of risky market speculation, used unregulated Credit Default Swaps, etc - causing the collapse of the market, taking us all down with them.

He has a lot of fucking nerve beating up on the people whose finances he has devastated. First he took their pension plans, now he wants them living in cardboard boxes.

[Skidmore]

16. I wish someone would twitter these shows where he is appearing and

call him out on this.

[Parker CA]

5. Gibbs tore this guy up in his press conference earlier. Absolutely destroyed him. n/t.

[ewagner]

7. Is there a transcript or link? to Gibbs?

[G_j]

14. here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/20/gibbs-v-santelli-he-shoul_n_168645.html

[BR_Parkway]

15. here's the video

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1155201977?bctid=13778694001

[Justitia]

8. He's a Hedge Fund Mgr, a DERIVATIVES TRADER - you know, one of the assholes who CAUSED all this.

He has a fuck of a lot of nerve beating down on the 99% of citizens not in his tax bracket, who (unlike him) had nothing to do with this clusterfuck.

Fuck him & his high flying trader buddies.

[FrenchieCat]

11. His ass needs to get fired!

[pierre790]

12. Little Punk

What he did was to commit one of the most serious crimes in this country.

He committed an act of sedition and since he is on record doing it,I OR ANYONE ELSE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCOST THIS LITTLE PUSSY AND BRING HIM TO JUSTICE.

Santelli is now a fugitive and needs to be taken care of like any other criminal.

[spanone]

13. ain't it amazing...a cable news guys knows more than Obama and entire economic team

well goooooolly