Jon Stewart Slams Rick Santelli, CNBC

Jon Stewart Slams Rick Santelli, CNBC

Here’s an embarrassing ‘greatest misses’ collection of CNBC’s pre-financial meltdown coverage.

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Derivatives trader turned CNBC financial ranter Rick Santelli recently
set off a firestorm of
controversy
by lambasting the president’s homeowner rescue plan for
subsidizing “losers’ mortgages.” When Santelli, who was due to appear
on the Daily
Show yesterday, canceled on Jon Stewart, his staff fired back at
Santelli by compiling some damning clips of CNBC’s shockingly bad
investment advice
and ass-kissing interviews with since-discredited CEOs.

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