Rick Santelli

Tempest in a Teabag: Tea Party Founder Announces He's (Re)Joining GOP

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Dawn Teo

Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.

Here Is My Economic Dream Team

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business


Arianna Huffington

I have my found my economic Dream Team... on the set of CNBC's Squawk Box (Hint: it's not Rick Santelli and Mark Haines). READ MORE The Stress Tests Fail The Smell Test The Obama administration's ongoing loyalty to Wall Street is a virus that holds far more danger than the swine flu. READ MORE Watch: Arianna Testifies to the Senate About the Future Of Journalism Watch: Arianna Guest Hosts CNBC'S Squawk Box Watch: Arianna Talks Torture, Military Preparedness, Bank Stress Tests on CNN's The Situation Room Watch: Arianna Discusses the Future Of Journalism with Peggy Noonan and the Morning Joe Crew

Worse Spokespeople Than Bristol Palin

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy


Warren Holstein

1. George W. Bush for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental). He's is not just the former president, he's a client.

Jason Linkins

Rick Santelli To Fellow CNBC Host: "Don't Open Your Mouth And Say Dumb Things" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media


The blogosphere is all abuzz with Rick Santelli again. Seems he got into one of those trademarked shouting matches on CNBC -- your source for tradema...

Jason Linkins

Worst Media Moments of Obama's First 100 Days?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media


Today, Media Matters is taking stock of the worst media moments of the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency.

The Real Tax Outrage

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics


Mike Papantonio

If you were a California teabagger dressed up like Paul Revere you probably would have felt ridiculous once you learned that 11 billion in revenues left the state to places like the Cayman Islands.

Santelli On Bush Library Panel Of "Experts"

Think Progress | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics


The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M has announced that the former president will host an "Economic Leadership Forum" nex...

Jeff Zucker, Top NBC Brass Concerned About CNBC's "Conservative," "Anti-Obama" Image: Report

New York Post, Huffington Post | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media


The New York Post's Page Six reports Thursday that GE and NBC execs are worried about the CNBC becoming the "Obama-bashing network," and that they rec...

Tea Party Reenactment On Lake Michigan

HuffPost Contributor Joseph Freeman | Posted 05.16.2009 | Chicago


The Chicago Young Republicans, a conservative interest group with 500 active members ranging in age from 18 to 40, threw a historically-inspired "Tax ...

Sam Stein

Santelli: I'm Proud Of The Tea Party Movement I Helped Spawn

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics


The man who delivered the rant that spurred the epidemic of tea party demonstrations around the nation said on Wednesday that he was "pretty proud" of...

A Warning About The Tea Parties

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics


Dave Johnson

The tea parties are not "spontaneous" or "grassroots." They are another corporate-funded campaign to trick people into supporting more cut taxes for the rich.

Arthur Delaney

Fox News "Tea Party" Coverage Crosses The Line: Media Matters

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media


Fox News is throwing some serious promotional resources behind its coverage of the conservative-driven, anti-tax "Tea Party" movement. The network is ...

Arthur Delaney

Cavuto: Tea Party Protests To Be "Infiltrated" By Diabolical Liberals (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics


Fox News' Neil Cavuto reported Tuesday that the tax day tea party movement is being "infiltrated" by well-organized liberals out to destroy it. "Onl...

Arthur Delaney

Fox News Hosts Join Right-Wing "Tea Party" Movement (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.08.2009 | Media


Rick Santelli and CNBC may be keeping their distance from the tax day tea party movement Santelli inadvertently spawned in an on-air rant, but Fox New...

Arthur Delaney

Vitter Wants National Tea Party Day

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics


The tax day tea party movement is gaining steam, as TV celebrities and political figures try to glom onto what might be a burgeoning populist groundsw...

Arthur Delaney

Tea Party Organizers: Local Governments Trying To Shut Us Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics


Organizers of tax day tea party protests are reporting some resistance to the anti-tax, anti-spending movement from local governments. The anti-tax ac...

Jason Linkins

Obama Chia Pet Held Up Behind Santelli On CNBC (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics


Two of our Media Monitors flagged this wackness on CNBC, where Rick Santelli is doing his stand-up hit from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchan...

Arthur Delaney

Tea Party Pooper: Rick Santelli Wants Nothing To Do With Protests He Spawned

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media


It's been over a month since CNBC's Rick Santelli called for a Chicago "Tea Party" during an impromptu rant against the government "rewarding bad beha...

The Genius of Glenn Beck

Lionel | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media


Lionel

Glenn Beck does it all. I saw his genius in that classic post hemorrhoid surgery YouTube piece. God only knows what the hell that was about, but I watched it, muttering, "Beck is a genius."

Atlas: Shrug This!

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics


Jeff Dorchen

Please, go right ahead, underestimate the power of human beings to live without you golden gods who inhabit the penthouses of the world.

Jason Linkins

CNBC Anchors Change Tune On Obama (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.24.2009 | Media


For a long while, CNBC has been one of the White House's most fervent critics, what with all the "wealth destruction" and the support for "loser's mor...

Jeff Zucker and the CNBC Straw Man

Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.24.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

CNBC has been setting a new standard in irresponsibility this year, an outlandish standard the rest of the business media has mostly avoided.

AIG and the Undeserving Rich

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business


Joseph A. Palermo

For years unbridled capitalism has beat down and bloodied the working middle class in this country. Those chickens are now coming home to roost.

The Weird Contradictions of the Tea Bag Revolution

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics


Bob Cesca

It turns out that that the tea baggers, led in part by Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds and the Coward Rick Santelli, are politically more in line with the tax policies of King George than the views of the colonial patriots.

Entertainment vs. News

Jim Lichtman | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media


Jim Lichtman

We don't need flash, flag-throwing or yelling at the camera. We just need honest, factual stories. And we need reporters who can give us those stories in a responsible and trustworthy manner.