So Rick Santelli, the CNBC stringer who vaulted to notoriety last week with an apparently impromptu rant demanding a "Chicago Tea Party" in defense of capitalism, turns out to be a conservative organizer funded by the Koch family who is working for a Chicago Tea Party" campaign that's been planned since at least August of 2008. Full details here. The only question now, I guess, is how quickly CNBC fires him.
