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The Daily Show last night offered some much needed comic relief to the whole economic crisis and who’s really behind it all. Taking aim square in the crosshairs of Jon Stewart last night was Rick Santelli and CNBC and their brilliant outlook on the state of the economy over the last year or so. Why CNBC and Santelli? Need I say anything more than it was CNBC that kept telling us the economy was doing fantastic and they even encouraged us (the average homeowner and buyer) to go out and get mortgages from some of the banks and mortgage houses that collapsed last fall.
Now of course, Rick Santelli says everyone who took their advice doesn’t deserve any government bailout money. But of course the companies that got us into this mess do. I think my brain nearly hemmorraged the first time I heard Santelli’s rant because I was so infuriated.
This video made me smile for the first time in weeks on this whole debacle.