On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > I was asked by our weekly paper to give some thoughts on the Tea Party > movement. Here is what I came up with: > > The Tea Party movement combines ignorance, anger, and justifiable > indignation. For some, this ignorance reflects a degree of racism and > ethnic hostility.
The infamous Rick Santelli rant that launched the Tea Party movement is a perfect symbol of the ignorance and hypocrisy that this so-called movement represents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA While Santelli rails on against about the supposed bailout of "loser" subprime home-buyers, in the background can be seen a trading floor where a group of commodities traders are cheering Santelli on. Apparently the rich irony of financial speculators complaining about other people getting bailed out completely escaped these people. Truly sickening.. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
