CNBC contributor Rick Santelli ranted against the media’s
tendency to accept certain things as settled fact.According to Santelli, the media, “whether press, TV or
whatever it is,” aren’t focusing enough on presenting hard data. “I don’t care
how many people visit a website. I want to know how many people, you know, have
lost, how many people have gained, the intersection, how many people have…
Saturday Night Live this week included a skit that portrayed people who shut down Planned Parenthood Clinics as bad men who had their heart broken by some girl when they were 18 and never got over it.Read the full article here: http://mrc.org/articles/snl-bad-guys-shut-down-planned-parenthood-clinics
In a huge victory for the second-largest U.S. oil company, a U.S. district judge ruled March 4, that a $9.5 billion award against Chevron by an Ecuadorean court was “obtained by corrupt means.” The massive figure had been lowered by Ecuador’s highest court in 2013 after an earlier decision against Chevron of $19 billion.Read the full article here: http://www.mrc.org/articles/networks-ignore-big-…
A compilation of some of the worst attacks by the media against the tea party.
In August 2013, when the stock market rallied after a poor
jobs report, he argued that the reaction to the jobs report was a bad sign for
the nation’s future. According to Santelli,
a market that would react so much to so little was doomed to suffer for it.“See, those people aren’t working. They’re not buying
houses, they’re not buying cars. They’re using services, they may be using
entitlements…