Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Rick Santelli is an American on-air editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Jim Cramer .
Rush Limbaugh . Rick Santelli . What do they all have in common? Most likely, none of them is getting invited to the White House Christmas party. All three media personalities have been singled out by President Obama's press shop in the course of less than two weeks. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs , in doing so, has shown an unusual willingness to spar with cable and radio hosts who take shots at his boss. The rebuttals have ranged from playful ribbing to disdainful scolding. Talk show host Limbaugh has drawn the most ire from the White House. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called him out on Sunday for saying he wants Obama to fail, after Obama told Republican lawmakers not to listen to people like Limbaugh several weeks ago. Gibbs followed up Monday, calling on conservative pundits to challenge Limbaugh on air. "Do they want to see the president's economic agenda fail? You know, I bet there are a number of guests on television throughout the day and maybe into tomo...Out with the old and in with the new. The very day we get a new Tea Party Congress, we find out the White House is losing its Spinner-in-Chief Robert Gibbs . Gibbs i...
Students for a Democratic Society ready to party like it's 1968
If members of Congress are planning to attend the Tax Day Tea Party protests on April 15, they're keeping awfully quiet about it. The tea party movement has garnered...
If the president's mouthpiece is a human pinata, as one former press secretary put it, then Robert Gibbs is a papier mache tiger. And the White House press secretary...
We're fed up and we're not gonna take it anymore. Such is the rallying cry building across the country as taxpayers take a stand against what they see as reckless sp...
By Dan Gainor Vice President Business Media InstituteIf you build it, they will come. It's a truism we've believed in for a long, long time. But forget the baseball ...
By Noel Sheppard Associate Editor, NewsBusters.orgIn recent weeks, the White House has come under increasing criticism from conservatives for its coordinated attack ...
By Phil Kerpen Director of Policy, Americans for ProsperityThe shocking collapse of our financial system should have taught us an important lesson about the structur...
Update: In classic left-wing fashion, the Obama administration is holding a jobs summit in December in “an attempt to signal his concern about the growing ranks of t...
By Dan Gainor Vice President Business Media InstituteWhen you want tea, you bring water to a boil. When you want genuine change, you do the same thing to the America...
By Dan Gainor Vice President Business Media InstituteRepublicans are derided as the party in disarray and, with Michael Steele at the helm, there is little wonder. G...
By Dan Gainor Vice President Business and Media InstituteOnly in America does the term "tea party" sound ominous. In much of the world, it's a high-falootin', civili...
In the summer of 1921, a young Ayn Rand saw Moscow for the first time. "I remember standing on a square," she would later recall. "And it suddenly struck me. . . . '...
Welcome to "recovery summer." Oops, that was last year when journalists told us that prosperity was just around the corner.We turned that corner and took a huge left...
In a recent Washington Post article, Occupy Wall Street protestors were called a diverse group with "no single leader and no organized agenda.Just like the tea party...
How can community activist President Obama continually underestimate the Tea Party ? Mr. Obama celebrated his ability to clean up asbestos from public housing as a y...
YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Bill Warner is hardly a naive man. He ran his own engineering firm for three decades, and sold the assets just before the economy tanked....
YUCCA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Bill Warner is hardly a naive man. He ran his own engineering firm for three decades, and sold the assets just before the economy tanked....
Love is a many splendored thing – except when the feeling isn’t mutual. Then, love stinks. That’s the position journalists find themselves in as their love for Presi...