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Going Beck? Santelli Breaks Out the Chalk…Er…Whiteboard

What do Glenn Beck and CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli have in common? Well, other than being closely linked with the birth and rise of the Tea Party, they both have an apparent love for writing boards.

See Santelli use a whiteboard to discuss how inflation tops 8 percent for “everyday” prices (via CNBC):

Most Blaze readers already know about Beck’s longstanding love affair with chalkboards. But when did Santelli get into the act?

Oh, we should also point out that Santelli isn’t the first to “go Glenn Beck,” as Business Insider puts it. GOP strategist Karl Rove was doing this back in Dec. 2011:

And yes, we know that a whiteboard is not quite the same as a chalkboard (and not nearly as, uh, “snazzy” as some of CNN’s toys) but that’s not stopping us from seeing shades of Beck in the Santelli segment.

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  • G-WHIZ
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:34pm

    Many years ago, I had a DeVry computer-teacher who said sometimes goeing primitive helps…”The chalkbord I use in class does not need to ‘boot-up’ and cannot be effected by any virus, unless the user catches a cold(virus)…You may now laugh!” If you understood his class, you held up a [1](one)…if you did not, you held up a [0](zero). Instead of laughing, we all held up ones[1]…then he laughed! {:o)

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  • Littlebit1776
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:09pm

    Oil production in Colorado Down 70% Golf Cost Down 30% Thanks to Oboma (and Salazar) the only real production in the US is in ND. MT. SD. And Oboma is trying to take credit for that.(even thought he is try to stop the oil production) The fact of the madder is We Will Not be able to get the price back down because of Obama and the FED they have injected over 7 trillion(FED) and 2 trillion (Oboma) into the world economy and what dose that do? It makes the US dollar worth SH$$. And the true inflation is between 8-81/2%. Do the math!!!

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  • rosecityken
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 10:00am

    rove was using his little whiteboard on gretas show in the 2010 midterms…at that time glenn was still solely chalkboard. and as someone else pointed out russert used a white board before glenn was even using chalkboards or had a tv show. we are missing the point…the headline should be ” santelli: the only person worth a crap at cnbnc schools the front desk yet again!”

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  • 11:11
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:50am

    i don‘t know about you but i can’t stand carl rove he’s such a phony, he‘s the guy that nobody likes at work but gets invited to office parties cause he’s got “something” on someone) sorry mental venting anyway sometimes people really need visuals to get the point across , i like it!

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  • PUMABydesign001
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 7:44am

    REALITY CHECK FROM A BECK FAN TO GLENN: About the chalkboards, get a hold of yourself man. They pre-date you. What is going on and that which is at stake in the here and now is far bigger than your ego. No time for that or I will have to re-evaluate my subscription to GBTV.
    ABOUT RICK SANTELLI: Love it when Santelli exposes the lies with his reality checks and setting the record straight.

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    • MS-GlenNBC
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 11:12am

      Nice to see you questioning with boldness….

      Although… Many of us have already Checked Out of the Beck Hotel..

      You can stab him with your steely knives, But they just can’t kill his EGO.

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  • GB__The Holy Warmonger
    Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:52am

    Tim Russert 2000 Presidential elections, used white board on the air to help explain issues. Did Glenn even have a TV show then?

    And Glenn Beck was the first to publicly discover and decry over reaching government………

    Can the Blaze next run an article listing Beck approved conspiracy theories? Anyone else remember Beck constantly saying he wasn’t a “conspiracy theorist” like it was a bad thing? Now it has to have the Beck stamp of approval or “you” are a nut case and mocked and ridiculed by the 3 stooges.

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  • christos
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:48pm

    Wrong Karl Rove uses the dry erase board like Mr. Rick Santelli,Glenn uses a -chalk- board,a -chalk- board uses -chalk- dry erase boards use erasable markers,,,ok

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    • mortensign
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 12:30am

      EXACTLY… I don’t know what on earth is going on with Glenn and gang… This is a Karl Rove thing… lot’s of people use this stuff… can I just say, and I never in a million years would ever think I would NEED to say it: “can you guys just get over yourselves???”

      PS… And while I’m at it… I hope they played the whole discussion from the Blaze News about Romney appearing to be similar to Reagan. They’ve got Rick all wrong… if they can’t tell by now, Rick is a very disorganized, ill-funded, Social Justice Catholic. Class Warfare, period. They are all campaigning for BO.There is no way for Newt or Rick (or Paul) to get enough delegates… unlike Sarah Palin, the yapping poodle, I don’t need a year long vetting process. Can we decide on Romney and get on with the end game WHICH IS GETTING BO OUT!!! Conservative radio & Fox (and I’ve been a DIE-HARD fan)… has just been drinking the koolaid WAY too much. We need to unite, send lots of $$$ and make a run for NOVEMBER. Glenn is miffed cuz Romney won’t be on the show, frankly, I don’t blame him at this point. Talk about knowing when to get off the exit ramp, it’s now. We cannot chance the GOP convention to choose for us, someone UNVETTED and with no time to take on BO. Doesn’t anyone else understand, Romney is conservative enough, just like Reagan was, let’s move on.

      Let’s top saying the words “contraception” or “Sandra Fluke” or “Rush Limbaugh”… it’s wasting precious time vetting BO and conve

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    • RoyBaty
      Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:14am

      Beck can’t hold a candle compared to Limbaugh when it comes to discussing himself. I love them both but Glenn has far more humility.

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  • bobbie22
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 11:17pm

    thank you Rick Santelli, for your wake up call. 3 great years and still going. keep it up love you

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  • SFsuper49er
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:30pm

    Why do people make a big deal over chalk boards. Kids learn with them everyday ! Are adults to good for them ? Are there no chalk boards on collage?

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  • BlazeMom
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:14pm

    Rick Santelli for President!! I adore this man’s truth!

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:51pm

    Chalkboards are wonderful. Well… IF the information contained within is honest. I remember a Beck chalkboard that “explained” the “left” and “right” “extremists.” I believe it was soon after his radio interview knee-capping of CONSTITUTIONALIST Debra Medina, for “questioning with boldness” (ironically, Beck’s tagline at the time). His chalkboard grouped Constitutionalists together with the likes of leftist Van Jones. When, as most folks know, any leftist, unconstitutional Central Government Planner area on a chalkboard diagram SHOULD have been populated with folks like Rick Santorum (who Beck SUPPORTS). The deception is so obvious, one hardly knows WHO to blame for it’s success… the deceiver or the deceived?

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  • Just in time
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:01pm

    It‘s an effective tool for those that don’t listen. White board, Black board what you want to do is convey a message

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:17pm

    FAKE-conservative/libertarian Glenn Beck HAS NOTHING TO DO with the real tea party. He has, however, helped dupe many naive “tea partiers” and corralled them into FAKE-TEA GOP groups like FreedomWorks. His SOLE OBJECTIVE is to preserve progressive government, while CLAIMING to reject it. He has proven this with his exuberant support of LEFTIST Rick Santorum over CONSTITUTIONALIST, free-market economist and veteran Dr. Ron Paul… who btw, HAS COME TO REPRESENT THE VERY VOICE OF THE REAL “tea party.”

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    • BenInNY
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:02pm

      As someone who was there right at the beginning – I was disgusted by Campaign For Liberty’s attempts to piggy-back on/recruit us. Instantly turned me off to them. To claim the origination after the fact generally based on one R. Paul event sharing the name of the tea party (was it in MA?) is tenuous and deceptive at best. I wish Santelli had used the name of ANY other historical event on that day. Took me longer to learn of and dislike Paul’s non-monetary policy positions than it did for me to recoil from his supporters, however.
      Yeah, I’m part of the tea-party dating back to 3/09 and 9-12 Project the following month, but don’t ever make the mistake of lumping me in with supporters of Paul. When the tea party shifts that far I’ll gladly drop the label and retain 9-12.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:33pm

      And FAKE-conservative/libertarian Beck’s co-opting of the original tea party into his REPUBLICAN 912 project was next to nauseating. I remember his “march” on DC – where he told the naive folks to “leave their signs at home.” This, as anyone could see, was an OBVIOUS tactic of positioning himself as their “voice.” For, WITHOUT all of the RON PAUL, END THE FED, OBEY THE CONSTITUTION signs… FAKE-conservative/libertarian Beck was free to mold their grievances into ANYTHING he wanted. And he did EXACTLY that.

      But at least he’s shown the world who he REALLY is, with his SUPPORT of LEFTIST Santorum. That’s a little tough to explain away. And his awkward, clumsy rejection of Ron Paul’s Constitutional liberty is almost comic. To… relentlessly position yourself as a noninterventionist, Constitutionalist Libertarian… while simultaneously rejecting THE VERY CANDIDATE THAT PERSONIFIES THIS… should be enough ice water to wake the SOUNDEST of “sleepers.”

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 10:07pm

      BenInNY
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 9:02pm

      As someone who was there right at the beginning
      ========================

      Beginning of WHAT though??:
      http://www.ronpaul.com/images/ron-paul-tea-party-2007.jpg

      I‘m not sure exactly ’what’ it was that you were at the beginning of……but it certainly wasn’t the Tea Party,..that’s for sure.

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  • 2theADDLED
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:12pm

    I have a theory what if we gave Obama everything he wanted until the election excluding Constitutional Rights. Let the people feel and experience what his Utopian dream would actually be like.
    Could he sell his Volts and green energy conversion ? No we have no jobs or money to invest in the conversion. He put the cart before the horse. Let him prove that his theology will solve our problems and he has the answers. I think Americans would wake up real quick and realize it is just that a Utopian dream.

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  • KidCharlemagne
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:50pm

    Inflation?…..did I hear someone say inflation?:

    ———————
    “Reality Check: The Fiat Dollar is the real reason for high gas prices”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8WReKlUFP4#

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:24pm

      inflation is in the best interest of the government: They get to pay the bills without raising taxes AND it reduces the effective debt burden.

      better prepare

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  • hi
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:59pm

    I love Santelli and Beck, the Truthtellers!

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  • carbonated
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:25pm

    This guy is awesome. I think he pretty much lit the match that started the Tea Party movement. About the only sane voice at CNBC.

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    • D-Fence
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:49pm

      He would be a great cabinet member for whomever wins.

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:21pm

    Ross Perot pioneered this. Remember the “flip charts”?

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    • db321
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:43pm

      I loved Ross Perot’s Flip Charts – made since to me – Ross also said America could not sustain our Debt of 1 Trillion at the time – he said if America does not get this under control it would cause a monetary collapse of our Dollar.

      We are about to find out if Ross was correct – I think he was.

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    • hi
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:59pm

      Do you remember his running mate yelling,’Gridlock?” Haha!

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    • JohnQCitizen
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:20pm

      Ross Perot was the beginning of the Tea Party in my mind. It was the very beginning of conservaties breaking away from the progressive republican caucus and sought out a better way. Then with his defeat it went from a boil to a mere simmer..until Rick Santelli turned the heat back up by giving a voice to the millions who had been so frustrated since Perot’s candidacy.

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:12pm

    Beck says “it’s not about him.” Yet he names the new channel GBTV? Gimme a break. Also, is the goal to preach to the choir, or convert more Americans to the belief in limited government?

    GBTV strikes me as preaching to the choir, which is pointless.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:33pm

      I have actually run into folks that have ‘discovered’ Beck here recently.

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    • BRQ
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:20pm

      And your solution to Glenn Beck would be to do what?

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:55pm

    Did he say “Mideast” and write “Midwest”? Or do I need to move my lenses up a diopter or two?

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    • copatriots
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 6:20pm

      Nope….you saw it correctly. Rick discussed “midwest” as part of the third bullet point but meant “mideast” for the second one. Oh well……we just learned that Rick is human.

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    • dsind
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:14pm

      i hope tomorrow they‘ll give him a marker that is’nt dried up.
      anyway i like santelli.

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  • copatriots
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:38pm

    Oh come on, Blaze! I love ya……..and I know you’re kissing up to the boss here…….but they’ve used white boards on CNBC for at least a decade. It’s not like Glenn cornered the market on media use of boards for demonstration. It may be new to you but it isn’t unique to Glenn.

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  • piper60
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:35pm

    We can use all the whiteboards/chalkboards on our side we can get.

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:34pm

    I thought he was accusing everyone that doesn’t agree with Him of being a progressive. Now I see it’s just a whiteboard.

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  • Master_and_Commander
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:33pm

    I’ve noticed this trend a lot too… I’ve always said the real experts use the simple methods to explain truth, while its the idiots who use the complex tech…

    For example I was watching this clueless CNN ”expert” the other week try to use a large interactive screen, and she just had no idea how to use the freakn thing. She ended up totally embarrassed herself and nearly ruined the whole rest of the segment. That’s what you get when you try to dazzle people with fancy technology instead of using good old reliable hard facts and information

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on March 8, 2012 at 8:07pm

      Very true, if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull shiite!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:22pm

    So someone is copying Glenns success with the chalkboard/whiteboard? As long as the truth that needs to get out does so, then what does it matter. It’s the truth that matters.

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