This is the Guy You Want Leading Your Angry Mob?

Are Todd Lohenry and Silent E endorsing Santelli's "What's a few million here, a few million there" attitude over the AIG bonus? Does this mean they're cool with tax-payer money going to reward the folks who got AIG in the mess in the first place? Or are they just foaming at the mouth because Santelli blew his dog whistle?

Even Santelli's CNBC co-hosts can't listen to this poor defense of the bonuses without wincing in pain, but since this is the guy who started the Tea Party movement is whatever he's saying it's gotta be pro-market, pro-capitalism blah blah blah ...

MORE: Cavuto's apparently making the same argument and GOPgal's lapping it up as well.

Here's a Gallup poll explaining the extent to which these bonuses piss people off: