Can’t get enough of the Eliot Spitzer saga? Tonight at 8 PM (and rebroadcast at 11 PM ET) CNBC is presenting a special titled "The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer: A CNBC Special," anchored by Dylan Ratigan.
The one-hour special examines, among other topics, the effect Spitzer had on Wall Street. It will feature a huge gang from CNBC, including anchors and reporters Charlie Gasparino (Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Scott Cohn, Melissa Lee, Hampton Pearson, among others.
Dylan Ratigan will anchor live from Wall Street. We told CNBC they weren’t allowed to have Melissa Francis, Erin Burnett, Becky Quick, Trish Regan or Maggie Brennan for the special. We’re planning on getting them drunk at our happy hour.*
*No CNBC women were harmed, or even spoken to, in the creation of this post.
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 3:03PM
I wonder if they can get some comments from Kristen the hooker on the "rise and fall" of little eliot.
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 3:20PM
spelling errors! aloud? c'mon!
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 3:20PM
spelling errors! aloud? c'mon!
Posted by Gordon Gekko , Mar 12, 2008 3:29PM
for going to law school that is some terrible editing..."aloud"? jesus
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 3:37PM
gordon... its "aloud?" not "aloud"?
but yes, terrible editing
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 3:39PM
Hitting the Jameson's early, I see...
Nice.
Posted by Cov Lite , Mar 12, 2008 3:40PM
3:37 - it is "it's" not "its"
What is this, fucking amateur hour?
Posted by John Carney , Mar 12, 2008 3:42PM
Sorry, the copy-editor part of my brain is already at happy hour.
Posted by Gordon Gekko , Mar 12, 2008 3:50PM
3:37
Actually, the question mark/punctuation goes outside of the quotes since it is not a part of the original source material. nice try though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 3:56PM
This is going to be hilarious!!!
Does Kristen have a contract for a pictorial yet? and it must follow a huge interview with details of Mr #9...
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 4:29PM
Anyone read this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/nyregion/12prostitute.html?hp
Most interesting quote - "“There’s no sliding scale in the exploitation of women,” she said. “Either you exploit a woman in the commercial sex trade or you don’t.” Because Mr. Spitzer seemed to agree, she said, “he was our hero.”"
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 4:37PM
Re copy-editing problems, I wondered why there was a left-hand parenthesis before Michelle Caruso-Cabrera's name, with no right-hand parenthesis closing things up in the remainder of the post. Didn't you intend to put a comma after Charlie Gasparino's name and take out that offending parenthesis, so that the list of names was uniformly punctuated?
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 4:44PM
@4:29 nytimes article
oh oh...he is more screwed than I thought so....
Posted by Anal_yst , Mar 12, 2008 4:55PM
from the ny article posted above, "If you eliminate the demand [for prostitutes], you eliminate the problem,” said Mr. Franzblau, "
This genius must be a student of Zimbabwenomics...
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 6:26PM
oh that thing called blow job!
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 6:29PM
I really,really feel bad for his wife!
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 7:23PM
History teaches us that the self-proclaimed, self-righteous,self-described squeaky clean, zealots are always masking a fatal character flaw..........so it is not so much the marital cheating, but the unrelenting pursuit of others in the name of justice that should alert us to smell a rat. The timeliness of this event is meant to focus our attention upon the presidential candidates so as to unmask the trickery which is employed to deceive the public. An honest person does not have to proclaim that quality, and the protestations and assurances of a dishonest person is a dead give away that something sinister is just under the surface.
How sad that Elliott's defect could ruin so many lives, but even more sad that we could elect another faker who will destroy our country with such deceit. Reynard de Foxxe, Bethlehem
Posted by guest , Mar 12, 2008 10:45PM
"*No CNBC women were harmed, or even spoken to, in the creation of this post."
I don't know why, but I think this is hilarious.
But I was genuinely moved by the clip of Jim Cramer being genuinely moved, so what do I know. I need more beer.
Posted by guest , Mar 13, 2008 2:21AM
I agree, for once, with Anal_yst. Imagine Eliot Spitzer combining forces with a deluded group believing they can defeat the demand for prostitutes. It's all too much.
Posted by guest , Mar 13, 2008 9:51AM
As for Jim Cramer, he's right. You never turn your back on a friend. That's the sign of a TRUE friend.
Posted by guest , Mar 13, 2008 10:02AM
Did anyone actually watch this thing?