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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.

Comments (21)

  1. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 3:03 PM

    I wonder if they can get some comments from Kristen the hooker on the “rise and fall” of little eliot.

  2. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 3:20 PM

    spelling errors! aloud? c’mon!

  3. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 3:20 PM

    spelling errors! aloud? c’mon!

  4. Posted by Gordon Gekko | March 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM

    for going to law school that is some terrible editing…”aloud”? jesus

  5. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 3:37 PM

    gordon… its “aloud?” not “aloud”?
    but yes, terrible editing

  6. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM

    Hitting the Jameson’s early, I see…
    Nice.

  7. Posted by Cov Lite | March 12, 2008 at 3:40 PM

    3:37 – it is “it’s” not “its”
    What is this, fucking amateur hour?

  8. Posted by John Carney | March 12, 2008 at 3:42 PM

    Sorry, the copy-editor part of my brain is already at happy hour.

  9. Posted by Gordon Gekko | March 12, 2008 at 3:50 PM

    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

  10. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 3:56 PM

    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…

  11. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM

    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.””

  12. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 4:37 PM

    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?

  13. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 4:44 PM

    @4:29 nytimes article
    oh oh…he is more screwed than I thought so….

  14. Posted by Anal_yst | March 12, 2008 at 4:55 PM

    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…

  15. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 6:26 PM

    oh that thing called blow job!

  16. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 6:29 PM

    I really,really feel bad for his wife!

  17. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM

    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

  18. Posted by guest | March 12, 2008 at 10:45 PM

    “*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.

  19. Posted by guest | March 13, 2008 at 2:21 AM

    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.

  20. Posted by guest | March 13, 2008 at 9:51 AM

    As for Jim Cramer, he’s right. You never turn your back on a friend. That’s the sign of a TRUE friend.

  21. Posted by guest | March 13, 2008 at 10:02 AM

    Did anyone actually watch this thing?

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