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Why are the folks on the business cable channels - who have been wrong about almost everything - still on my TeeVee ? 

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[Jamie]

These people are clowns, not in the sense that they are stupid, but rather that they put on makeup and pratfall for our amusement. If peoplke on TV knew what they are talking about, they wouldn't be on TV, they'd be actually doing whatever it is they pretend to discuss. Their real talent is appearing on TV.

But there is one moment in Santelli's rant that really struck me as substantive; the wolf showing through the wool, as it were. In an off-hand example of how Obama's "socialism" doesn't work he mentions that Cuba had more mansions under Bautista than it does under Fidel. I hope he didn;t think about this example or too long before it slipped out. I am no Castro apologist, but to hold up Bautista's Cuba as a model of a functioning free market seems more than a little bizzare. My history books say that Bautista was a fascist dictator presiding over a borderline-feudal society. Is this what "conservatives" believe we should strive for? is that what Santelli really wishes the US looked like? Is our public discourse so degraded that this inanity passes for analysis? I think that there is an actual conservative argument to be made against the TARP and the Stimulus package, but where is anyone with brain on the right?