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Rick Santelli Started The Tea Party With A Rant Exactly 5 Years Ago Today — Here's How He Feels About It Now
"A lot of people have been credited with starting the modern-day tea party but make no mistake, it was Rick Santelli," Glenn Beck told Business Insider in an email. "His off the cuff monologue spoke the words that millions of Americans felt but could not nor dare not speak."
Five years ago on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, CNBC's Rick Santelli bellowed what would later become his most famous rant ever.
Which is saying something if you've ever watched CNBC, where Santelli has reigned as de facto ranter-in-chief since
"All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing," he screamed from the CME on February 19, It was time, Santelli said, for another Tea Party.
And with that, a new movement was born.
Santelli would later call it the "best five minutes of my life."
His infamous segment — i Santelli's rant heard round the world - CNBC GAMAG