I saw a Media Matters post of Tucker Carlson, where he points out that the major heat on CNBC didn’t really come until after a couple of their hosts and reporters went off on some of President Obama’s harmful policies (of course Media Matters disagrees).
Of course this all started with “the rant” by Rick Santelli. Stewart then tried to get Santelli on his show, but he had to cancel at the last minute, which drew some ire from the host of “The Daily Show”.
A few days later, Jim Cramer, a self-admitted Democrat oddly enough, though probably a centrist, went on TV and noted that Obama’s budget was hurting the market, and that these last two months have been the most wealth destruction by a president that he had ever seen.
Both the White House and The Daily Show hit CNBC hard after this.
I guess since Bush is gone, Stewart needs to find someone outside of the White House to blast, so that leaves Rush Limbaugh and CNBC.
Even Media Matters itself has joined the fray, asking people to “take action“. What more do you need to prove that these are partisan attacks?
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I may be watching a different Daily Show, but I’ve seen Stewart take his shots at Obama. You can say Stewart is biased, but from where I sit, the Obama White House just hasn’t fed Stewart the steady diet of belt-high fastballs right over the middle of the plate that the Bush White House did.