CNBC Afraid It's Becoming the "Anti-Obama" Network

And that would be bad?

THE top suits and some of the on-air talent at CNBC were recently ordered to a top-secret meeting with General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to discuss whether they've turned into the President Obama-bashing network, Page Six has learned.

"It was an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock which Zucker himself was behind," a source familiar with the powwow told us. "There was a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much. There's great concern that CNBC is now the anti-Obama network. The whole meeting was really kind of creepy."

One topic under the microscope, our insider said, was on-air CNBC editor Rick Santelli's rant two months ago about staging a "Chicago Tea Party" to protest the president's bailout programs -- an idea that spawned tax protest tea parties in other big cities, infuriating the White House. Oddly, Santelli was not at the meeting, while Jim Cramer was, noted our source, who added that no edict was ultimately handed down by the network chieftains.

CNN demonstrated yesterday that they are the unabashed champions of Obama rear-end kissing (Hugh Hewitt has the details), and maybe CNBC is afraid their reporting will balance the conservative-bashers at sister network MSNBC.

It sounds like CNBC is pretty embarassed that Santelli's rant spurred a movement that resulted in 800 Tea Parties with more to come. Like it or not a CNBC guy will be the face of the Tea Party movement forever.