The only excuse we have to offer re: just now mentioning what happened on Fox Business Friday morning is that we don’t watch Fox Business. Sure, we’ve checked out a few choice clips (50 Cent, Sammy Hagar, Lamb Chop and Jerry Springer all come to mind) but only because they were forwarded to us in convenient link form. The bottom line is that there are three TVs in the office and each one is spoken for (TV1: CNBC; TV2: Nintendo (and the answer to all your, “Why haven’t you guys posted anything?” comments); TV3: A Best of Carney clipshow that was spliced together in-house and plays on loop). We don’t TiVo FB because it’s the sort of thing that has to be experienced in real-time.
Which brings us to this: unless something really drastic happens, like Maria Bartiromo announces that Cutter Associates is buying half of Bear Stearns, or Kudlow and Company is replaced by Paulie Shore and My Biatches, or Charlie Gasparino finally cops to being a drug mule, or Joe Kernen discusses Aquaman, the fictional movie from Entourage as though it were real, CNBC is getting bumped. No longer can we afford to miss Fox Business Morning for Breakfast reporting that Apple is taking an 8 percent stake in chipmaker AMD, contributor Charles Payne analyzing the genius (/imaginary) deal, and Glick correcting the misinformation by noting that “It’s not Apple, it’s Apple Dubai? Apple Dubai? Oh, Abu Dubai.” Yes, yes, Abu Dubai, AKA Abu Dhabi. The best part is Peter Barnes’s magical recovery which, paraphrasing, went sort of like this: “Ohhh, okay, okay, Abu Dubai, which was discovered and named by the Germans in 1904, and of course in German means a whale’s vagina.” Your move, CNBC. Transcript (via SAI) and video (via Valleywag) after the jump.
ALEXIS GLICK: There’s some news coming across the tape right now. We’re seeing from Wall Street Journal that Apple is buying an 8 percent stake in AMD.”
PETER BARNES: “The big chip maker, yup. And AMD and Intel battle back and forth, and so this is a very significant statement by Apple, Charles and Liz, is it not, that it’s going to buy in to AMD, pick one of the two?”
[one-year charts of Apple Inc and AMD]
CONTRIBUTOR CHARLES PAYNE: “Well, yeah, and AMD needs, uh – that’s real smart by Apple because AMD is in trouble right now. AMD has always had two problems: either it had a great product that was either sometimes superior to Intel but not the distribution, or it would have a terrible product that obviously they couldn’t compete. And they’re sort of in the middle right now – they haven’t had great product offerings per se recently, the stock has been really just sort of muddling along, so I gotta tell you, Peter, I think it’s a smart play by both companies to get involved with each other.”
BARNES: “And we are getting some more news [inaudible]”
GLICK: “That, oh, it’s not Apple. Let me just correct ourselves here. It is not Apple. [cross talk] Alright, I’m sorry, we got a little ahead of ourselves here on that. Um, Apple Dubai? Abu Dubai.” [sic]
BARNES: “Oh, the Arabs. Ok.”
GLICK: “Oh, ok, there we go. [Laughs] We thought it was Apple! We got so excited about it!”
FBN: “Apple Buying AMD!” Wait, Scratch That. “Abu Dubai!” [Silicon Alley Insider]
Fox Business News’s Apple-AMD Flub [Valleywag, video]
Great Anchorman reference, Bess.
No doubt in my mind FBN is going to be a huge bust for News Corp.
“There’s some news coming across the tape right now…”
I’m not a media professional, but don’t PRICES “come across the tape” and news “comes across the WIRE?” Or is that a convention I just made up in my imagination?
Has anyone else noticed this meaningless tidbit….
FBN shows an actual shot of the NYSE ticker to show where the Dow is (those 1970s looking digits).
I noticed this a.m. CNBC has copied them.
amazing
Bloomberg outdoes them both and shows the Dow using a series of 1950s flashing vacuum tubes (also known as “the terminal”)
Looks like AAPL didn’t move off of FBN’s comments, which means nobody watches FBN or takes them seriously. I think we all should consider getting our news from reliable news sources like MSNBC. They know what they are talking about.
that picture makes me so f’ing horny.
Dealbreaker — second post for me on this thread — GREAT Alexis Glick picture there.
You guys are the best. It almost warrants an edit to your article to ad in an “O Face” reference from The Office.
That is a sexy picture. If only, it had a penis. aahhh
i for one would love to see Kudlow and Company replaced by Paulie Shore and My Biatches
bess, nice job on the pic
@11:43
Office Space.
you guys should post something on erin burnett’s appearance on cnbc about 7:30-ish from dubai. she reported with the persian gulf as backdrop. carl quintanilla asked her if she was going to go swimming at all while she was there. she said she had to work to midnight but might jump in with her clothes on afterward, to which carl replied “you look great.” chris matthews seems to have really gotten something started.
@11:44
Agree with Paulie Shore replacement. It makes me wonder who does more coke, shore or kudlow?
Yes Bizwriter…sitting indian style on the gondola? She looked hot.
I’m waiting for a Erin/Carl sex tape to surface….he’s definitely pounding that.
“or Charlie Gasparino finally cops to being a drug mule”
God, that’s embarassing.
Mmmmm…DSLs
What kind of nintendo is the nintendo of choice at DB central? the Wii?
TV2: Nintendo
The things I would do to those DSLs
How much for the “Carney’s House of Carnies” tape/DVD/thingy?
Who’s this Kudlow character you speak of? I thought CNBC went to test pattern at 4:30?
this network is less useful than the NFL network.
this network is a bigger bust than the NFL network. shocking!!
tres bien DSLs
Just cause she’s Dumb and Stupid, doesn’t make her a Loser. Like most hot chicks, she know how to deploy the assets she has.
The flub messed them up so much they forgot the tagline to all FB stories : “…and Hillary’s a bitch!”
why is fox business so bad anyway? its like they are trying to flop. I think the camera man on that show happy hour is drunk when he comes into work.
That’s the O face…O, O, O
There is NO WAY Glick got her Morgan S&T or media jobs on merit alone. Whom did she have to sit on/suck off to move up? Dumb bitch.
7:18, hey I agree that Glick probably slept her way up the ladder. However, nobody who wants to be taken seriously uses the word “whom” at the beginning of a sentence. I know you just wanted to sound smart but these things have a way of backfiring.
to all the guys posting about that being glick’s “o face”- have you ever seen a girl’s “o face”? no chick purses their lips like that when they’re cumming. in fact, the “o face” is much more mouth agape, or biting down on lip.
They’ze be dslz retard seriously. no oz. You got to get oze wit da dslz.
Her mouth is way too small to be of any other use than unintentional comedy
… Off whom did she have to suck? has a nice ring to it.