I think the Teabagger movement has deeper roots than that and goes back further than the Saantelli rant, all the way back to the 1980s. Maybe further back...
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:52 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
