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		OstiaAntica on July 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet predictions from 1982 Santelli's rant occurred on CNBC, but it was watched and shared on YouTube. Mainstream media totally missed the Tea Party movement, which got rolling during the bailouts in late 2008 but wasn't really covered until after Scott Brown's surprise election win in the winter of 2010.

philwelch on July 6, 2011 [–]

The movement was coopted and changed by Fox News and Sarah Palin, two very pre-Internet forces.

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