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Rick Santelli Takes 60 Seconds to Describe the Difference Between Tea Party and Occupy Movement

During an interview on Squawk Box, on-air editor of CNBC Business News Rick Santelli quickly broke down the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement:

While the vandals are on the street corners, the Tea Party conservatives they’re working state houses, the governorships, the mayorships, the Senate, the House. See, they understand, they’ve read the Constitution. If you want to make a difference, don’t go break windows, okay? Break some phony arguments that things like austerity are going to put you in the hole. What put you in the hole is borrowing 38 cents of every dollar you spent. That’s what put you in the hole, pure and simple. Everything else is political spin.

Watch below:

 

(h/t: Noel Sheppard/NewsBusters)

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  • sensible99
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 11:08pm

    Without the free market there would be no need for business news.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 6:47am

      Free market…Keyword FREE

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    • kessi7
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:33am

      Oh man, what a day this has turned out to be. Sarah Palin has been all over Fox News today, including making a surprise appearance on The Five, setting between Bob Beckel and Eric Bolling, who has been teasing her appearance on his Fox Business News show Follow the Money, which brings us to what currently has everyone buzzing.

      This is a supposed transcript from the interview she did with Eric, from
      BOLLING: Governor, a lot of people are saying it can’t happen. I don’t necessarily agree with them. If one of the nominees, one of the GOPers, doesn’t get enough delegates, it could go the a brokered convention.

      If it does get to that and someone said, Governor, would you be interested, would you be interested?

      PALIN: Well, for one, I think that it could get to that. And I — you know, if it had to — if it had to be kind of closed up today, the whole nominating process, then we would be looking at a brokered convention.
      http://fathersmind.blogspot.com/#!/2012/02/madame-president.html

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    • 83plus
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 2:35pm

      And people have said the Tea Party groups are dangerous while OWS people have actually vandalized stuff.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 5:54pm

      It’s only a matter of time before Santelli and Kudlow go over to Fox Business. It’s a better format, far less shrill and much more down to earth than CNBC.

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    • stonebridge
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:48pm

      Turned off “The Five” after dope Bob B called murdering Che a “freedom fighter”. Haven’t watched it since, nor will I. They should have given Beck’s spot to Stossel. Nothing like a former liberal who finally got it to irritate the crap out of the left. And Palin lost me when she jumped on progressive Newt’s (the real politic Wilsonian) bandwagon. Doesn’t jive with what she claims to be, so I question why. Shame that the Republican establishment won’t back a true conservative, because they think a “moderate” is the only chance to beat O. People are tired of posers, and want the truth and someone who lives what he claims to believe. THAT’S the tea party. Occupy will support any mask, no matter how false, if it gets them the “stuff” that they think they’re getting cheated out of.

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  • supressorgrid
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:00pm

    The Tea Party picks up it’s garbage,the OWS is garbage.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Wonder when he is coming to FBN?

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:46pm

      love santelli, love the CME… LOVE THE FREE MARKET

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 11:32pm

      Love Santelli. But no need to come to FBN. Remember, they just outted the Judge.

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    • marion
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:25am

      With all due respect, he needs to stay where he is otherwise that place would be a total disaster. Had he been over at FBN, there is a good chance the TEA party wouldn’t have been initiated.

      Think about it. “One of them” getting fed up with the “garbage” on the Liberal channel, straightens them out and viola!

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    • str8blues
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 5:42am

      @pattybbb1 The Judge was “outed” because he didn’t get ratings. They gave him an opportunity. It didn‘t work out because he didn’t draw in viewers and bottom line……If nobody is watching…..the show must be looked at and/or pulled from the lineup. Nothing personal……Its how business works. Don’t be a loon. Think!

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    • republic2011
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:24am

      Have an idea.. . Since the Tea Party picks up their garbage and OWS is garbage… maybe we should get them together and the Tea Party can put the OWS folks where they belong… in the garbage. Problem solved.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:51pm

    “What put you in the hole is borrowing 38 cents of every dollar you spent.”
    And whose policies did that? Socialist policies of MASSIVE defense budgets beyond any rational sense of efficiency? How about extravagant tax rate reductions on the wealthiest? Or what about conservative free trade policies? Are THOSE the MASSIVE-deficit running policies you were referring to, perchance?

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    • georgiavietvet
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:25pm

      THE THIRD ARCHON…………… you are an absolute, brain dead, obammy D!(K SUCKER. you arent smart enough to research the questions and find out the truth. you will follow obammy off the cliff and into the fiery pit of hell. you are a fool……………………………………………..

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    • GovtIs4JusticeplusDefense
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 10:59pm

      Hahaha! REALLY! What percent of GDP do we spend on our military? What do we spend on all the entitlement programs? Shrink the government and spend more on what the government is supposed to be doing, and next to nothing on what it isn’t. We’d have a balanced budget and be debt-free in less than a decade if we DOUBLED defense spending and reformed Social Security, welfare and Medicare. But everybody wants something for nothing and more for having more kids.

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    • jocko
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 11:20pm

      The difference between a Constitutional American and a cursed progressive is that Americans realize what is fair is we all pay the same percentage, not that we steal what they earned. Yes, we take care of those who can’t take care of themselves.

      If you don’t believe in our Constitution, then get the hell of our Country!

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 6:48am

      Who passed NAFTA?
      Mr Slick Willie

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    • marion
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 11:35am

      HIDDEN_LION, NAFTA at least keeps the jobs in the same hemisphere. Is it perfect? No, but its main purpose, which needs some tweaking, is to reduce the number of illegals coming across the borders because the jobs are in their own country. It is a lot better than across half the Pacific Ocean, right?

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  • amerbur
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:33pm

    The Media, the democrats and the RINO’s have done all they can to portray hardworking, freedom loving, Americans, as a group that gets in the way of “Progress”. Well you know what? We are still here and we ARE standing in the way – because America is “progressing” toward the edge of a cliff. We have given warning, we have placed barriers by voting for those that will say stop. I congradulate those in Congress that have had the courage to stand for what is right. We are here. We are working. We are surviving. Our prayers are rising to our God in heaven. May God bless America.

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  • garbagecanlogic
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:27pm

    The only way he could have capped it off was to explain to him what a razor was for. The guy not only looked dumbfounded, he actually looked like one of the protestors.

    Pray For Obama. Psalm 109:8

    The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
    The U.N. Out Of The U.S.

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  • mtonepa
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:14pm

    I love that guy

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:10pm

    Send him a Merit Patch.

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  • Alan
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:34pm

    Tea Party verses Occupy is Good verses Evil: that’s the true difference between the two.

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    • spirited
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:23pm

      The Tea Party set the stage for some “phony arguments” to be broken.

      Ever notice that Obama defenders inevitably
      talk over,
      interrupt,
      shake their heads,
      breath loud sighs,
      giggle like there is an idiot or liar in the room,
      (and other ruid behaviors)

      when anyone
      speaks in opposition to,
      expresses concern about,
      dissagrees with,
      or questions
      Obama, his administration, his words, his actions (or lack of) ?

      ….talking points, talking points, talking points which are really pointless !
      ….distract, distract, distract !
      ….call it, “the will of the people” haha: 99% ? Really?

      The latest tactic some are brazen enough to say,
      “Don’t interrupt me” !

      >Keep speaking Santelli

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 12:47am

      ALAN, I like that. Good comment. Also right verses wrong.

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:34pm

    Ted Cruz for Senate

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    • Ira WIlson
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:17pm

      Man, I like Ted Cruz! What an up-’n-comer. I’m with you …just hope he makes it!

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  • Mr Sanders
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:33pm

    just a straight shooter with “American” written all over him!!

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  • EchoHawk
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:30pm

    There‘s a minute I’ll never get back. In the interest of brevity, he was only half right.

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    • nelbert
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:45pm

      The minute you wasted was the one writing that worthless comment.

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  • Ohio4Tea
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:29pm

    good for him

    but i wouldn’t need 60 seconds to describe the difference:

    The TEA party represents everything that American can be proud of (independent thinking, patriotism, conservatism) . The Occupy movement represents everything that Americans should be ashamed of (drugs, sex, irresponsibility, violence).

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  • Joel Knows
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:28pm

    Too bad the simpletons at CNBC looked so dumbfounded…they still didn’t get it, or maybe they had the firmer stuff of their being scared out of them. I’m sure to them the only constitution they understood when they spend time in the bathroom. This phase of the Tea Party has been pretty down played of having reasonable people talking to those who are representing them in government, and getting their points of view across to elected offical in a civil way. Imagine, the people lobbying elected officals being organized groups of private citizens who can actually vote for the individuals they are talking to from their own districts! How radical of concerned citizens! Pour on the heat Rick!

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  • Saving_the_Republic.com
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:26pm

    I like Rick I bet he would say a lot more if he wasn’t “enslaved” by CNBC! The other difference between the two is simple, Evil vs Good! As quickly as I put this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-puI-_XwSw together it became outdated!

    Its so clear though in differentiating the two groups. Of course the propagandist arms of the White House continue to paint the TEA Party as the bad guy who to this day the propagandists have not been able to produce any video evidence of violence, vandalism, destruction of property, rape, racism, shootings etc. No instead they just keep repeating the lie that the TP is all of these things to the brainless uneducated, uninformed, unengaged zombies of America so eventually the lie becomes the truth. From there the progressives who for some unknown reason have so much power will write our history recording the TP as criminals.

    Just amazing how everything Occupy has done the TP is accused of; its get your BP through the roof! How much more America until you truly wake up? SavingtheRepublic.com TAPGW

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  • vtech61
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:23pm

    If things don’t turn around soon.
    It will be more than just ‘video’ punches.

    I don’t know about the rest of you…
    But I’m tired of the rhetoric from the left (and right)
    and would really like to smash in a couple of faces of the liars out there.

    Congress Critters (and the MSM) TAKE NOTE.
    We are done playing games with you people.

    Oh well.
    I guess we will see where all this goes in the next few months or so.

    Happy Hunting. :-)

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:29pm

      Carry on Hokey-was out in BBurg last few days…gorgeous place still.

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  • conservredneck
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:22pm

    Haha… nothing else to say. You go Rick

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  • mr molotov cocktail
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:19pm

    dollar into the federal government dollar out~
    no red-state would survive…they are the welfare states

    thats right the more conservative a state is the more welfare…it takes proves right there-conservativism dont work

    i would love for teaparty people in those red-states only take what they put in- except for national dissastors…… which we all should help each other

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    • thelongversion
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:43pm

      Do you want to supply some citation for your claims? I didn’t think so. Kind of hard to cite sources for B.S. other than the pasture…

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    • Ralpher
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 7:02am

      Molotov…..you lie….the largest areas of government dependentcy are large blue cities punk boy. That would be New York, Chicago, Miami, DC, Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, etc. These places are bastions of filth and liberalism. These areas also lead the nation in crime and poor quality of education. What a shock for you AH.

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    • SGWrites
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 4:51pm

      Typical liberal tactic, Mol. Blurt out lies without anything to back it up and consider it fact.

      Truth: #1 state with those on welfare – California, in which 61% voted for Obama in the last election. And for the record, #2 is Maine, also a blue state, with 51% voting for Obama in the last election.

      Get your facts straight. Or, just shut up.

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    • SGWrites
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 4:53pm

      OH – and just so you don’t say I made this up – it’s from a CNBC story on their website. Yes, I said CNBC – definitely NOT conservative media.

      Here’s the link:
      http://www.cnbc.com/id/31910310/The_Biggest_US_Welfare_States?slide=14

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    • SGWrites
      Posted on February 16, 2012 at 4:56pm

      Just so you know…this is from a CNBC story. Yes, I said CNBC. NOT conservative media. Here’s a link – because when I say something, I back it up with sources.

      http://www.cnbc.com/id/31910310/The_Biggest_US_Welfare_States?slide=14

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:19pm

    Here’s how another Rick (Santorum) feels about the Tea Party, straight from the horse’s mouth:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEeHDCsetLc

    “I’ve got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party, and the Tea Party movement, to sort of re-fashion conservatism. And I will vocally and publicly oppose it and do my best to correct the record.”

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:49pm

      Yeah, nice try. The video was edited — he was speaking on Ron Paul and what the Ronulan and his Paulbots are doing to “re-fasion” conservatism.

      In fact, most the video is nothing more than out of context stuff.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on February 15, 2012 at 9:03pm

      Nice try there yourself.

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  • doomytram
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:18pm

    Occupy was created by Obama, and the Tea Party was created by Fed Up Hard Working Americans. Nuff Said.

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  • bitter clinger
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:18pm

    I thought the difference was toilet paper.

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  • popester
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:13pm

    Rick, I wish you would run for President!!

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  • smartgirl
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:11pm

    It would take less time to explain how the Tea Party and OWS are alike: Not at all.

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  • jand777
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:07pm

    I agree 100%. He gets on a roll and says what he thinks. I have yet to hear him ona rant that I did not agree with everything he said. What the hell is he doing at CNBC? Way to sane and logical to be at that network.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:04pm

    The difference between Tea Party and Occupy Movement, huh? It would take less time to describe the difference between a claw hammer and a watermelon.

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  • Inlightofthings
    Posted on February 15, 2012 at 8:00pm

    RICK SANTELLI is one of my absolute favorites. Especially on a tirade. Pulls no punches!

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