On first glance, it might seem like there's really no new information in the Fortune article about Oppeinheimer analyst Meredith Whitney. We all know the Dollar Dominatrix had a pair of brass ones big enough to predict that Citigroup would have to slash its dividend because we've been talking about it since last October. Everyone's heard her warning that the "incestuous relationship between the banks and the credit-rating agencies during the real estate bubble will have a long lasting impact on banks' ability to recover." Ditto on Double D saying banks need to "get real" about how they're valuing their toxic mortgage-related debt a la Merrill Lynch, the end being nowhere in sight, and the non-news that Whitney is married to pro wrester John Layfield (purveyor of liquid viagra). One thing we-- amateur chroniclers-cum-stalkers-- of the analyst didn't know was this:
That's right, Meredith Whitney has a full on Zebra skin rug in her home (could be her office, doesn't matter, point is, girl is seriously driving home the point that she is a freak. People, don't think for a second that this was a "Oh, hey, you caught me at home, that's just my Zebra, don't mind him." This was calculated). Our question though-- and I don't think we're alone in wondering this-- why stop there? Where in the name of Vikram Pandit are the negatives of the Zebra on the floor, Meredith on the Zebra? Is that not the direction we were going with this? She's said it (to Bloomberg) herself, she loves the attention and knows that "an analyst in this day and age must go balls to the wall in order to be heard." We're not saying she has to get naked in order for people to listen but we are saying that others are on to the game and somewhere in Florida, cameras are rolling on a completely naked Dick Bove, spread out on a bear skin rug. Your move, MW.
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:17AM
ok but how does Meredith feel about Mayo?
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:22AM
Shouldn't that be Chuck Prince's pelt on the wall?
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:29AM
Hope its not home. The rug is bad enough, but count em THREE middlebrow Restoration Hardware lamps. Don't even let me start on the loveseat. I have friends that could really put some class into her crib. GAnalYst
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:32AM
Can anyone explain how they turned those mortgages into securities?
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:33AM
and those shoes are tragic!
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:37AM
GAnalYst, where have you been?!?!
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:37AM
They shoot zebras, don't they?
Posted by CNote , Aug 04, 2008 11:41AM
This is horsecrap. They've cropped that picture.
I've seen the original. Just to the right is a leopard-print thong-clad, baby-oil covered Leon Phelps sipping on some Courvoisier in a sex swing.
What the hell happened to Journalistic Integrity?
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:44AM
A lot of emerging markets travel and otherwise observing now and then from the sidelines. As we all know, things have taken a very bad turn. At work at least. GAnalYst
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:45AM
Gotta agree with GAnalYst, that room is tragic
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:47AM
shoes are definitely tragic
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:49AM
Citipoop
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:54AM
i am not an interior designer, but i did stay at a holiday in express last night. forget the zebra, why the need for the two floor lamps on top of each other?
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 12:02PM
i'm into her and her massive lamps, although i will always defer to GAY in lamp analysis.
shoes are the anti-callan-non-dominatrix head-fake.
-retail
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 12:02PM
she clearly needs a shopping date with erin callan
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 12:05PM
GAnalYst is back! Thank God! Bess has said it all about the zebra skin on the wall -- the woman is a freak.
Posted by Anal_yst , Aug 04, 2008 12:09PM
I just wonder what she has on underneath the funeral attire she's sporting...
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 12:23PM
gotta agree with Anal_yst too, there is so much yet to me discovered... get on it dealbreaker. she has to have some scandalous facebook pics...
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 12:24PM
@ Anal_yst/18-- scar tissue.
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 12:38PM
#12 the name is ShittyPoop
Posted by HAM05 , Aug 04, 2008 12:49PM
rumor is she chased that zebra and brought it down herself. 9 months later their child exploded from the zebra womb, crawled therough the afterbirth and skinned the bitch while she was still alive. whitney ate the carcas but had the pelt mounted. shes pretty weird.
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 1:01PM
Isn't it illegal to have a zebra skin? I know you can't legally get it through customs...but I thought ownership was illegel too.
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 1:03PM
size buyer, Zebra on rye with xtra Mayo.
Posted by Anal_yst , Aug 04, 2008 1:08PM
@4
Thats a much longer discussion, but start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage-backed_security
Posted by Finnegan , Aug 04, 2008 1:34PM
Room in cardiac arrest
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 2:15PM
At my high school we used to skin zebras and hang the pelts on the wall all the time, it was no big deal.
Posted by guest , Aug 04, 2008 11:53PM
Thank you, commenter no. 26. Extremely funny.
Posted by guest , Aug 05, 2008 3:55PM
@22 it is prohibited for any person to take, engage in commercial activity with, hold possession of, or export any threatened or endangered species of plant or animal or parts thereof, so listed in this chapter or in any regulation issued in accordance with this chapter, except in accordance with the exceptions listed in sections 307 through 312 of this chapter.Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both .etc. etc.
Posted by guest , Aug 06, 2008 1:51AM
Sounds like you guys have the same douche bag (#26) that wreaks havoc on our walls at Above the Law.
Oh, yeah, Meredith Whitney is hot as hell.
Posted by guest , Aug 06, 2008 2:24PM
Who wins in a pillow fight- MW or Erin Burnett?