For a while there, it looked like CNBC was going to keep doing its thing as the "serious" business network, and not lower itself to Fox's, shall we say, looser format. "Skanks don't move markets," everyone* at Englewood Cliffs said during the first week of FB's debut. "Those hos won't last a month." How wrong was CNBC? Dead wrong. An informal poll of five traders shows that Fox Business is still in fact on the air, almost two months later. This unforeseen turn of events has everyone in NJ wetting themselves in fear (why do you think they're always behind a desk?) and scrabbling to tart it up in order to compete, with a more "ouch, what are you doing?" than pleasurable outcome. Take this morning, for example. A piece on Victoria's Secret, a Limited Brands company carried the headline "Vicky's Panty Raid," Erin Burnett half-heartedly making a joke about "Becky Quick's interesting Victoria's Secret story," and then a shot of Mark Haines eating a sandwich. It's just sad because they don't even know how to properly whore themselves out, and they're fumbling around and fucking it up and just looking awkward. It's like watching Dina Lohan trying to compete with Lindsay. Horribly depressing and giving me the worst case of secondhand embarrassment.
*Everyone, that is, but Kudlow, who insisted we give him credit for knowing that "Skanks *do* indeed move markets" from the beginning.
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 12:41PM
you're right.
Posted by The Man of Quotes , Nov 30, 2007 12:45PM
Victoria Secret panties....not the best thing in the world but real close to it!
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 12:54PM
oh Bess - you're so good.
Posted by not being sarcastic , Nov 30, 2007 1:22PM
so much wisdom and wit from this girl.
Posted by Loho fan , Nov 30, 2007 1:27PM
Damn! ...Sluts!
Posted by Becky Boot Fan , Nov 30, 2007 1:29PM
Wo ist Fraulein Bartiromo?
Posted by inIT4the$ , Nov 30, 2007 1:43PM
funny stuff...
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 1:48PM
Sluts up!!
Posted by John Maynard Keynes , Nov 30, 2007 2:07PM
Skanks are the ONLY thing which moves markets (and Traders)
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits—a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
I like them animal spirits. It's what moves my market.
Posted by John Maynard Keynes , Nov 30, 2007 2:10PM
Skanks are the ONLY thing which moves markets (and Traders)
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits—a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
I like them animal spirits. It's what moves my market.
Posted by Nominate me , Nov 30, 2007 2:11PM
Re: the picture
Yes and yes
Posted by NSD , Nov 30, 2007 2:14PM
I was expecting something a little more creative for the name of the pic file.
Was that one of Keith's responsibilities?
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 2:31PM
NSD is a tool
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 3:05PM
@2:31 - In no way was my comment an attack on your internet crush Bess. I quite enjoy her work.
Posted by John Maynard Keynes , Nov 30, 2007 3:11PM
Skanks are the ONLY thing which moves markets (and Traders)
Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits—a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
I like them animal spirits. It's what moves my market.
Posted by vespa , Nov 30, 2007 3:25PM
am i the only one who caught pais hilton say "squawk box, that's hot" the other morning, obviously they are trying to dumb it down if they're using her to send them off to break...
Posted by , Nov 30, 2007 3:29PM
True story: I went AtoM on Dina, while Lindsay watched.
Probably in the top 25 Sexual Experiences of my life.
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