The three names I cited are the only reaming non-leftists at CNBC, the rest have fled to FoxBiz on their own volition. Becky Quick is the fluff on the Squawk Shows with Joe Kernan who is not a leftist and runs those shows. What’s your problem with TBP?
You are talking to an CNBC aficionado here, a long time, who knows exactly how Rush and Drudge came to know of Santelli and his now famous tea party rant.
Quick is fluff, but she’s given weight above and beyond that on the show. She often scowls with disdain at Joe Kernan - and to conservative guests too. Andrew Ross Sorkin was brought in to beef up the liberalism on S Box - and Joe Kernan is the most sensible of the anchor crew, but he’s only conservative for NY - NJ - not really what I’d call a base conservative.
The whole bent is now far more left than it used to be, and Santelli’s rant is the catalyst. It’s like the NBC big wigs never watched it, thought of it as only a tv show for Merrill Lynch and Edward D Jones offices - until the Santelli moment.....then they systematically liberalized all the programming.
As for TBP - they got him to say some good (stupid) things about Obama in 2008. And then this blaming Keystone on “politics” instead of liberalism just strikes me as tepid. He’s old enough and rich enough - his give a damn should be broke - he should call it like it is.