Erin Burnett.bmpRifts. Uproar. Agitated. Riled.
We’re not talking about the reaction of the markets to widening credit spreads. We’re talking about the rivalry between two of CNBC’s top women. Those are some of the words that the New York Post’s Page Six uses to describe Maria Bartiromo’s reaction to the rise of Erin Burnett. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, insiders at the network are saying Maria Bartiromo is “in an uproar” over being upstaged by Erin Burnett.

An inside source tells Page Six the Money Honey has been fuming that curvy Burnett, in addition to her duties as anchor of “Street Signs” and co-anchor of “Squawk on the Street,” is getting substantial airtime on the “Today” show, which gives her a much bigger audience. “Maria is like, hey, why isn’t it me on the ‘Today’ show? She’s very jealous of all the attention Erin is getting,” our source said.

A recent New York Post profile of Burnett only deepened the rivalry, according to Page Six. That profile reported that “Burnett handily won a poll of the hottest financial news anchors on Wall Street gossip blog Dealbreaker.com. She got 37 percent of the votes while rival CNBC anchor Becky Quick came in second with 22 percent. Bartiromo only got 13 percent.”
It’s hard not to get the feeling that Page Six is choosing sides in this battle. And it’s obvious who the Post is sweet on.

Some of Burnett’s fans have even labeled her “Maria 2.0,” while Bartiromo has acquired another nickname, “The Bank Skank.”
Not only is Burnett nine years younger than Bartiromo, she also comes with less baggage. Last year, Bartiromo got caught up in an ethics scandal for globetrotting on Citigroup’s private jet with its then-wealth-management chief Todd Thomson, who later got the ax.

We can’t help but admire the evil genius of the Page Six writer who managed to bridge name calling, Bartiromo’s age and the Thomson scandal in the space of three sentences. Rough stuff.
Of course, the network’s official spokesman denies everything.
Upstart Erin Agitates Maria [Page Six]

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Comments (55)

  1. Posted by Maria 2.0 Fan | July 27, 2007 at 9:28 AM

    Maria I’m sorry but Erin has you beat by a mile.
    PS: “Bank Skank” -I love it

  2. Posted by Random Banker | July 27, 2007 at 9:30 AM

    Erin is such a hottie. Carney when’re you gonna move in for the skill? You better move in quick before young hedge fund manager and media personality Timmy Sykes hits that.

  3. Posted by maria needs to shutup | July 27, 2007 at 9:35 AM

    Maria shuld stop screaming on air and maybe pay attention to what is going on- her shows are a mess- she just babbles on and on and on without saying something i care about and never sems to listen to anything anyone says..plus loose some weight honey or the money will dry up.
    and you have to love nyp doing fox bc’s bidding- trying to pry one of the two girls loose and weaken cnbc before october- watch cnbc fall for it.

  4. Posted by Todd Thompson | July 27, 2007 at 9:35 AM

    You know Maria is pissed. After all of the old man cock she sucked she’s now being upstaged by a chick who DIDN’T have toget boned up the ass from Jack Welch.

  5. Posted by al | July 27, 2007 at 9:43 AM

    I will try one more time, Carney. Two words Maria Bartiromo will never forget….Todd Thomson. Erin in like the Irish rose of Summer….young, beautiful and smart….not to mention quick and even ahead of some of the so called profrssionals.

  6. Posted by anon | July 27, 2007 at 9:44 AM

    Maria is smart and attractive and was not particularly known as a skank before the Citigroup thing. Don’t tell me that Maria is skank for sleeping with Todd Thompson while flying on a Citigroup jet … that is not a scandal, adultry is a norm .. it was only a scandal for Thompson because he was wasting company time and money … as far as CNBC was concerned, Maria was maximizing the her productivity by befriending Todd Thompson and she was minimizing her costs by offloading them onto Citigroup…

  7. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 9:52 AM

    carney, when you go on cnbc to talk about something, do the anchors ever mention these types of articles during commercial?

  8. Posted by Lpb | July 27, 2007 at 9:53 AM

    Maria is just too old now.

  9. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 9:56 AM

    come on guys. is maria really that good looking? really? at all? i mean, where are your standards?
    she and liz claman both look like cocktail waitresses on an oil rig

  10. Posted by em | July 27, 2007 at 9:57 AM

    has she ever admitted to actually sleeping with thompson?

  11. Posted by mini ballerette. | July 27, 2007 at 9:58 AM

    Ms. Burnett’s circa 1996 suburban cheerleader haircut really isn’t doing her any favours

  12. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 10:02 AM

    IS it 4pm yet?

  13. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 10:03 AM
  14. Posted by Mokshunamos | July 27, 2007 at 10:03 AM

    Nothing says desperation like Maria letting a camera show her fat ass playing the Wii. She’s cooked. It’s a cruel business, she should know.

  15. Posted by erin b's dad | July 27, 2007 at 10:23 AM

    did anyone see the fart maria blew on “jeopardy” during the celebrity contest a year or two ago? idiot, no moron, no imbecile, no media maven. you go, erin. don’t forget the soda bread, deary

  16. Posted by erin b's dad | July 27, 2007 at 10:25 AM

    did anyone see maria pass gas on “jeopardy” during the celebrity contest a year or two ago? idiot, no moron, no imbecile, no media maven. you go, erin. don’t forget the soda bread, deary

  17. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 10:25 AM

    no one on cnbc says anything useful.. if you use that station to trade, please take the opposite sides of me..
    but erin wins hands down .. maria has never been that great

  18. Posted by Goose | July 27, 2007 at 10:26 AM

    what about that Rebecca Jarvis, she’s super fresh

  19. Posted by Maude | July 27, 2007 at 10:39 AM

    No em……Maria is the kind who never admits to anything. She just refused to talk about it and was off the hook thanks to CNBC. The other married consenting adult Todd Thomson was not reachable by phone. One try and quit. Someone in power threw water on this story which occurred back in Nov 2006 and took two months to get this far. And yes we still don’t REALLY know but all the dominoes were in place.

  20. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 11:29 AM

    on the block they called her “blow job” bartiromo
    apple doesnt fall far from the tree
    no, nobody “uses” cnbc to trade. boy do you have a warped view of how this business works!

  21. Posted by mojo | July 27, 2007 at 12:09 PM

    erin has it
    maria does not, she is washed up
    give it some time and Maria will be working at the Waffle House in Lexington, Kentucky

  22. Posted by Al | July 27, 2007 at 12:30 PM

    Just the thought of the feelings of the guys Maria has resourced……give me an er- – ction. It had to be her……not the girl next door.

  23. Posted by jt | July 27, 2007 at 12:32 PM

    i’m like a broken record here but why no marissa francis love? What no one likes hot blondes anymore?

  24. Posted by The Regent | July 27, 2007 at 12:49 PM

    Maria B? She’s a mannn, baby!!!!
    Is she still married to Saul Steinberg’s son? (strike 2)

  25. Posted by Drano | July 27, 2007 at 12:53 PM

    The Cash Cow was never hot by any reasonable standard. And yeah, whoever above said that she’s a babbling mess is correct. Annoying friggin’ voice, too.

  26. Posted by The Regent | July 27, 2007 at 12:53 PM

    Maria B? She’s a mannn, baby!!!!
    Is she still married to Saul Steinberg’s son? (strike 2)

  27. Posted by Ken | July 27, 2007 at 12:59 PM

    Not only is Erin hotter than Maria, she simply has to be smarter too. Anyone who watched Maria on Celebrity Jeopardy a few years back, knows what I mean. She even blew the simplest of answers in the financial category…Go Erin…Maybe Maria should do a “Girls Gone Wild” video?

  28. Posted by Jeff D | July 27, 2007 at 1:00 PM

    Maria’s real problem is that she knows that Erin is actually attractive. Maria is not.

  29. Posted by Lawrence | July 27, 2007 at 1:03 PM

    I would just like to say I object to post about CNBC hotties which neglects to mention Becky Jarvis or Margaret Brennan. This is an outrage!

  30. Posted by mark zuckerberg | July 27, 2007 at 1:13 PM

    whos joining the ‘hotties of cnbc’ facebook group?

  31. Posted by The Regent | July 27, 2007 at 1:13 PM

    CNBC certainly has enough talent to publish a calendar. A tasteful calendar of course.

  32. Posted by Just Me | July 27, 2007 at 1:15 PM

    In answer to The Regent…..Yes, I guess but the way Maria goes where she goes, goes how shw goes and does what she functions like a single call girl. Highest bidder. Thats why corporate jets win. I am deeply disturbed that these two who have an eight marriage seem to be letting it get away unless, they are therapy and we are not privy.

  33. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 1:27 PM

    Hello? Trish is the hottest

  34. Posted by Frank | July 27, 2007 at 1:43 PM

    I used to drewl over Maria, now I just drewl.

  35. Posted by Mike | July 27, 2007 at 1:47 PM

    Erin is soooooooooo overrated. Her looks are a dime a dozen just walking in the city. She also has a body of a 13 year old boy.
    Margaret Brennan has the total package
    Also , Who’s the dummbass that said
    “liz claman both look like cocktail waitresses on an oil rig

    Hottest red head on tv with curves!!

  36. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 1:48 PM

    Is CNBC afraid to fire Maria B. because Rupert M. and Roger Ailes are circling like sharks?
    I can’t believe that CNBC hasn’t fired Maria B. yet for her alleged membership in the “Mile High Homewrecker’s Club”.
    The female TV talking heads on the business channels are mostly interchangable parts anyway.

  37. Posted by Music | July 27, 2007 at 1:48 PM

    Recently I read that Maria was going to do her own program Money Honey…..dont know if TV, Radio or door to door…. Anyway she presumably gave this earth shaking story to Hamptons Magazine. Is there a Hamptons Magazine? I tried three different emails and none got through…..undeliverable as they say. Anyone know an email address….I’d like them to read what youre reading,

  38. Posted by Frankie P | July 27, 2007 at 2:07 PM

    even on her best days Maria is marginally attractive at best. Erin and Becky have it all over her.

  39. Posted by Amen | July 27, 2007 at 2:18 PM

    Amen anonymous at 1:48. I have wondered the same thing since Jan 26 of this year. Perhaps it not who you know…but, who you blow.

  40. Posted by Ida | July 27, 2007 at 2:23 PM

    Does she already have drivers, limos, makeup artist, producer……etc. Be Cheaper for the big bringing up the rear rating wise, to dump this woman. I am reminded of a song……”I used to love her, but its all over now.” EHHHAAAA

  41. Posted by frank montour | July 27, 2007 at 3:08 PM

    Liz Claman…..would like to have a taste of that.

  42. Posted by anon | July 27, 2007 at 4:03 PM

    None of them are all that hot. Alright. If they had chosen these women based on solely on physical attractiveness their level of discourse would reach the level of idiocy that is attained only by “BNN” (Canada’s version of CNBC).

  43. Posted by Full of Manure | July 27, 2007 at 4:16 PM

    You all are entitled to point out your feelings about Maria and Erin. Erin is young, smart knows her stuff, homework, and it tough to trip uo. Once and not long ago, Maria Bartitom held the hearts of most of Americas 45 and older men. The thing she forgot was humility. Greed, High Life and Screwing a married man, she married herself, are what caused Maria’s implosion. I speak for a hell of a lot of men when I say “she was a love two years ago, then came you know who…..if you don’t that Cirigroup exec thay talk about who thought Maria was his…..and played it like that. Mr. Bartiromo……didn’t care. And you know something…..I dont either.

  44. Posted by Fake Geico Caveman | July 27, 2007 at 4:21 PM

    “Fuh….what?”

  45. Posted by Carneyfan | July 27, 2007 at 4:45 PM

    Thanks and dont feel badlly about the Erin and Maria flack. The piling on, if any, was by we the people. I know you are not supposed to point fingers but, you know as we do that it is frowned upon in a society where marriage is revered that an unfaithful one is condemned. The Bible once told us they were stoned. Now, we still haven’t heard a repentance or confession from Ms. you know who about the last couple years. Have you asked your selves gang how a 39 year old and a 43 year old can afford a 6.5 million dollar townhome…five floors…security cameras and garden? The butcher on the corner…Busalocci doesn’f.

  46. Posted by Todd Thomson | July 27, 2007 at 4:53 PM

    I’d take maria in a heartbeat

  47. Posted by Carney_Is_The_Man | July 27, 2007 at 5:19 PM

    Alexis Glick…hottest of all.

  48. Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2007 at 8:16 PM

    I second the vote for Alexis.
    And what about Julia Boorstin too…

  49. Posted by Anonymous | July 28, 2007 at 2:11 AM

    maria seems to pass through phases of better and not but ‘hoosier honey’ quick is prob most attractive in that good ‘ol moonlight in the cornfield way.

  50. Posted by beanspants1 | July 29, 2007 at 8:08 PM

    you are incorrect ballerette. her hairstyle is timeless, not outdated.

  51. Posted by The Regent | July 29, 2007 at 10:45 PM

    Julia? She’s got a poodle sitting on her head…..
    For what it’s worth, I googled “Erin Burnett’s Rack” and got nothing.

  52. Posted by Drano | July 30, 2007 at 10:44 AM

    Re: Brennan
    I’d let ‘er touch King.

  53. Posted by guest | August 1, 2008 at 7:59 PM

    i like sue herera shes number 1.did any one shaw the guuuuuee looks beetwen erin and melissa lee last week on swank?

  54. Posted by Tom | September 1, 2011 at 3:07 PM

    Bartiromo needs to lose a few pounds and stop putting that crap in her lips. She looks like she's had a stroke when she says certain words.

  55. Posted by oem software | May 3, 2012 at 8:37 AM

    ggr4oM wow, awesome blog.Really thank you! Will read on…

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