[Jan_Sobieski]

(from Huffpo article...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/joe-kernen-paul-krugman-dean-baker_n_1871978.html)

Joe Kernen, an anchor for CNBC's "Squawk Box," has a word to describe the Nobel Prize-winning economist: communist. He made the statements Monday while defending CNN anchor Erin Burnett against a recent HuffPost article that took issue with Burnett's claim that food prices and gas prices have spiked because of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing programs. Burnett moved to CNN from CNBC last year.

"They quoted Paul Krugman and this other idiot, Dean Baker, who's some guy, I don't even know who he is, he always writes for The Huffington Post. Basically co-communists in a lot of different economic circles," Kernen said on Monday. "You know, fact-checkers need fact-checking now. They're so full of crap. These fact-checkers lie more than the people that they're fact-checking."

[Dahoser]

Always liked Kernen.