This is getting comical to the point of being surreal. To think that CNBC analyst Rick Santelli (and he seems to be their new, “big thinker” as they are featuring him all day now) is going to be posing questions to the Republican presidential candidates in tonight’s debate, as if he is some kind of great mind with a handle on all things economic, is ludicrous. I thought Jersey Shore was bad. The financial news has gotten to be like a bad dream.
It's CNBC's debate. What other CNBC talking heads will be there, and who would you rather see than Santelli?
ReplyDeleteSantelli seems like the a decent choice to ask the Repub candidates questions about the economy.
The other debates didn't have 'great minds' asking the questions. They just picked people from the sponsor's organization and ran with it.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteI think Mike's point is that it's incompetence, wrapped up in ineffectiveness, smothered by ignorance. And, you're right, Santelli is the perfect choice to represent that sentiment.
We have a prevailing paradigm that is blinking FAIL in every feedback loop except corporate profits and executive pay, and a media that is unwilling to undertake a robust examination of the paradigm. They simply continue to analyse from within the comfy confines of what they think they know.
Santelli is probably the perfect foil on that ship of fools. What a bunch of losers.
ReplyDeleteGod help us if one of them is elected. Obama is bad enough without picking from deeper down the barrel.
@Tom:
ReplyDeleteYes, God help us. Santelli will almost certainly get a policy post.
I think Mike's point is that it's incompetence, wrapped up in ineffectiveness, smothered by ignorance.
ReplyDeleteI would call it a conspiracy, anything else is being generous.
The Marxian Superstructure at work. Telling us to do things counter to our best interest!
@Shaun
ReplyDeleteIt's a multi-faceted phenomena. An elite banking cabal extracting juice from the rind, with cover from the confederacy of dunces. :>)
Maybe John Carney can write the questions for Santelli to read???
ReplyDeleteCarney, are you out there???? HELP!
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"DeRanger" Santelli - watched too many John Wayne movies when he was a kid.
ReplyDeleteWell Norman, it looks like your buddy didn't do much to "shape the race".
ReplyDeleteMinor role at best.
Perry really looked bad, holy shit.
I didn't watch.
ReplyDeleteOf course, CNBC is a total joke. How about Cramer also being involved?
ReplyDeleteBut this is entirely appropriate for Republicans, since their entire party is just a freak show anyway.