EPA arrests CNBC's Rick Santelli

[WilliamPitt]

EPA arrests CNBC's Rick Santelli
By Scott Ott, Examiner Columnist
- | 2/24/09 8:01 AM

CNBC reporter Rick Santelli, whose passionate rant about the Obama housing rescue plan, and call for a "Chicago Tea Party" became a viral internet video, was arrested today by armed officers from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) covert special forces division.

Held without bail at an undisclosed "brownfield site", Santelli faces several counts of reckless endangerment of wildlife habitat after he threatened to rally capitalists to dump "derivative securities" into Lake Michigan as a way of re-enacting the Boston Tea-Party protest of 1773.

"Mr. Santelli is certainly entitled to his wacky economic opinions," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, "But if he had gone to the EPA website, clicked the regulations link, downloaded the document, printed it out and read it...he would have realized that dumping toxic assets into a lake is expressly forbidden. Read the document, Mr. Santelli. Read it."

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/scottott/EPA-arrests-CNBCs-Rick-Santelli-40212122.html

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[bdamomma]

1. well what do you know?

all that hot air got Santelli in trouble. EPA went after him!!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. It wasn't just the toxic asset dump.

They're also nailing him for contributing to airwave pollution.

[nc4bo]

3. Nu-Uh! Seriously?!

:spray: :rofl:

and totally :spray: and :rofl: at the Gibbs' response!

[WilliamPitt]

4. .

[MessiahRp]

5. Holy crap...

It's amazing to have the EPA doing their jobs again.

Rp

[WilliamPitt]

6. ...and with this kind of enforcement power, too.

;)