Blackstone (Mumbling, Not Making Eye-Contact) to Goldman: Your Invite? To Our Party? It, Uh, Must've Gotten Lost In The Mail Or Something, I Dunno

No link to the clip yet, but CNBC’s Charlie “Man Candy” Gasparino just reported that Goldman Sachs is not in on the Blackstone IPO, despite reports by David Farber et al to the contrary. Gasparino noted that the absence of the fee-addicted bank may be because of a rivalry between firms and possibly even personal issues between Stephen Schwarzman and Hank Paulson (guess who wanted to be Treasury Secretary but got passed over for Hank?). This confirms the suspicions of a quasi-credible source we reported about on Friday and now upgrades said source to being semi or, what the heck, approaching-wholly credible!