An early morning brawl erupted on CNBC today over the devastating impact of Covid-19 restrictions on the restaurant industry.
Leading the charge for common sense was none other than Rick Santelli, who ignited the Tea Party movement with an impassioned plea reporting from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in February 2009.
The Hill reports:
“You can’t tell me that shutting down, which is the easiest answer, is the only answer,” Santelli said, which drew an immediate rebuke from another CNBC personality, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who is also a financial columnist for The New York Times and has previously had on-air disputes with colleagues on CNBC over the appropriate precautions to take for COVID-19.
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“The difference between a big box retailer, and a restaurant or frankly even a church, are so different it’s unbelievable,” Sorkin said as Santelli shook his head up and down and crossed his arms in front of his chest, signaling evident frustration with Sorkin.
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The two then began to shout over one another, with Santelli yelling “I disagree, I disagree. I disagree. You can have your thoughts, and I can have mine” while Sorkin said “You’re required to wear a mask. It’s science. I’m sorry, it’s science.”
“It’s not science,” Santelli said with exasperation. “Five hundred people in a mall aren’t any safer than 150 people in a restaurant that holds 600. I don’t believe it. Sorry, I don’t believe it. And I live in an area where there are a lot of restaurants that have fought back and they don’t have any problems and they’re open.”
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