Rick Santelli is an idiot. For as long as I’ve been watching CNBC for financial and economic news, Santelli has always been the jerk extraordinaire, and this opinion of mine dates way back before his recent rant about the housing bailout. His whole schtick is to be the asshole in the crowd who disagrees, and now he’s gotten his 15 minutes of fame. Way to go, jerk.

Anyway, modern-day tea parties, which I guess he suggested or somehow got associated with his name, have been held in a few cities so far, but if anyone expects the mainstream media to give them any coverage, think again. The media sleeps with the Obama socialization/sovietization plan for America, and they’d be the last ones to give his opponents a shred of credibility.

Anyway, this freelance writer in New York, opining about the NYC tea party, seems to have it right–if you don’t do something destructive and risk retribution and jail time, then these tea parties are a joke. See below.