Playboy is dubious of your tea party participation

Famed skin rag, Playboy questions the sincerity of the tea party movement as a true grass-roots happening accusing the CNBC Rick Santelli who got the whole thing going with his rant on the floor of the Chicago mercantile exchange of “planting” the episode to be spread and funded by a well-heeled Republican conspiracy.

Playboy has since taken down the article but Megan McCardle captured it here with her comments at the bottom which effectively dispel any conspiracy theories.

Here’s our one comment: And? Does alleging the big money funding of this tea party movement somehow de-legitimize the anger and frustration of tax-paying citizens which are taking part in it?

The long-winded article eventually devolves into ridiculing those participants of being figurative “slaves” to big money interests, as if being righteously cheesed-off over an additional $1.7 Trillion ( that's $1,700,000,000,000... we're going to start numbering out these figures until that loses its impact - then we'll have to figure out something else) puts one in the pocket of big business.

If Playboy wants to get into investigative journalism and wants to start asking some hardball questions then perhaps they should take a look at the cozy relationship that exists between an exclusive handful of media types and members in the upper reaches of the Obama administration and the plans that have been hatched and executed between these people. Oh, never mind – Politico already did but amazingly even they drop the ball in failing to address the appropriateness and ethicalness of these relationships.