So, we were wondering when and how CNBC was going to respond to Jon Stewart's now-nightly hits on the network and here it is. An on-air CNBC employee tells Dealbreaker that the reason Rickles canceled on Stewie is that the latter is thought (probably 100% mistakenly) to be "bizarrely obsessed" with the former, as supposedly evidenced by JS calling RS "repeatedly" to come on the show.* And the chatter going around Englewood Cliffs is that Stewart-- and we deserve a prize for getting through this without pissing our pants in laughter, crying our eyes out in tears of sadness for those who actually believe this-- "is smitten with Santelli's Grecian good looks and is secretly in love with him...hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
*Which, you know, is kinda standard when trying to book a guest.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:16PM
Yeah sure, The Big Sleazy, Rick Santelli. Guy is a wop genius.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:19PM
JS is barely taller than Pelosi
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:20PM
this is the saddest thing to come out of cnbc yet.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:21PM
hmmmm any guesses who the "on-air" employee is?
Posted by Anal_yst , Mar 06, 2009 1:21PM
So wait, which CNBC anchor was this, Bevis or Butthead?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:22PM
Bess, Gasparino made that story up.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:23PM
@6- of course he did, but it's hilarious that that's what he's come up with.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:25PM
Santelli to Stewart: I'm just not that into you.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:27PM
republicans are the scum of the earth. CNBC should be shut down as the lying republican whores that they are.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:27PM
Two thirds of CNBC's on-air "talent" has to go. What a waste of money at the time GE is sinking fast.
Posted by Investorcluzo , Mar 06, 2009 1:27PM
speaking of gaspacho, what happened with the bet? also, can we get a poll/bet as to when the big c closes under a buck? I'm not sure it will be relevant much longer...
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:28PM
if CG had a problem with RS he would have his knee caps broken, are you listening JS?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:28PM
ok, let's take bets on who the "on-air" employee is...ratigan?
Posted by MarshallStack , Mar 06, 2009 1:28PM
First we learn he is Jewish and then that he is gay? I wonder if his smoking hot wife knows that.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:28PM
so the person who told you that Santelli was JS' love interest, does his name end in a vowel too?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:28PM
As a member of the tribe, I refuse to believe JS would want to hide the salami with a goy.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:29PM
btw bess props to you, this is one of the great scoops of all time.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:30PM
if CG had a problem with RS he would have his knee caps broken, are you listening JS?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:30PM
Waiting for someone to say this was the rumor floating around the Equinox steamroom last night. . .
Posted by trojan , Mar 06, 2009 1:33PM
@Bess
Mean Girls reference?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:34PM
was on the cbot floor with santelli years ago. he was never a player there and couldnt spell cat if you spotted him the "c" and the "t"
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:35PM
Next thing you know, the story will get out that EP has an unrequited thing for Becky Quick.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:36PM
"wop" is a derogatory word and some dont appreciate seeing it.
think Stewart is boring so I don't watch.
Posted by Anal_yst , Mar 06, 2009 1:37PM
@ MarshallStack
You're joking about just now learning JS is a MOT, right?
His last name was Leibowitz, I mean, shouldn't come as much of a surprise...
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:38PM
The Big Sleazy. Tommy Gufano. Yeah, he's a wop genius.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:40PM
@21
those who cant do, teach
those who can't even teach, report
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:43PM
Those who can't teach, blog & mouth-breathe.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:45PM
Stewart is bitter he works in Hell's Kitchen West (Jersey).
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:45PM
@27- "Those who can't teach, blog"
aww, and yet here you are, reading and commenting on a blog.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:46PM
I'm a seller of Stewart here. If all you can do in this environment is make fun of the President's critics, you are a court jester not a comedian. Stewart: FAIL.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:47PM
they know they can't legally get married right?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:50PM
Found this on CR this morning.
"Will Suspending Mark To Market Suspend Reality?"
http://bit.ly/qkEAS
snip:
"The winners were the bankers with in excess of $100 billion in bonuses paid on fictious profits in a very short span. And the losers are now you, the American taxpayers who are being asked to clean up the banker party at a cost of trillions. There's $1.2 trillion of Citigroup vomit in that corner. Over on your left, please ignore the $500 billion in Fannie and Freddie trash left lying around. And to your right, see that drunk, disgusting passed-out fucker, Cassano from AIG. He was doing shots of tequila until 4 am with the bankers from Barclays, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Goldman. Ken Griffith and his Citadel punks left early this morning and took all the remaining booze with them, so you can't even have a drink while you clean up."
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:50PM
I can't wait to hear Stewart's biting commentary on Haliburton in 2010, that stuff gets way better with age.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:53PM
In a world where the reins of power are held by Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, David Patterson, Jon Corzine, Ted Kennedy . . . Stewart is making Rock Santelli jokes. Way to tell it like it is, dawg.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:53PM
I usually like Stewart, but hearing how he is all for higher taxes and bailing out the improvident when he makes a ton and could retire happily tomorrow - I'm losing a lot of respect.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:54PM
@21 Maybe, but he worked his ass off. He was totally into the markets and provided great service and market intelligence.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:54PM
@34- actually he's made fun of all those people. He happens to *also* make fun of santelli. Sue him for being a multi-tasker.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:57PM
So "wop" is ok but K*KE and N**er are not..is that because you resent the fact that my wop ancestors had his great wop cock firmly buried in your great great grandmother ass while he was civilising the barbarians.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:57PM
Waters/Frank for '12!
8==D~~
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 1:58PM
What is a Gowanus?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:00PM
@38-- WTF'ING hell are you talking about?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:04PM
Stewart strikes me as one of those guys who has been to Nicaragua and Machu Pichu, but has never set foot in Indiana.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:05PM
Its a quote from Wedding Crashers, @38.
**Settle down, Francis.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:05PM
man, dealbreaker is overrun with maggot freepers.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:08PM
@44- the stewart posts seem to have really drawn them out. probably secretly in love with JS.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:08PM
@39,
Prez. Maxine in 2012
"Axe not,
what you can do for your country --
axe what your country can do for you!"
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:08PM
Stewart is HILARIOUS! You guys just don't "get" him. Last night when he was ragging on CNBC, the soy milk that I was drinking spurted right out of my nose!! I had to change into a fresh Che shirt! You guys just don't get it. You probably all work for Halliburton. That's right, I said it, Halliburton. Just like Cheney.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:10PM
you're an idiot @47. Can't come up with anything better than tired cliches?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:11PM
Way too much Gowanus around here, today.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:13PM
@14 and his kids
I don't know if I'd call her "smoking hot", but she looks good for 40ish with 2 kids.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:15PM
Oh, I'm sorry #48, did I make a generalization about a guy who lives in the West Village and does leftist comedy to a daytime Manhattan studio audience? I bet Stewart totally breaks the cliche mold. I bet he even hangs fuzzy dice from his Prius'rearview mirror. The guy is Paul Begala with a laugh track.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:16PM
the sad thing about the majority of the comments here is that they fail to see how pathetic CNBC is for coming back with the story that stewart must be in love with santelli.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:17PM
god, shut up @51.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:21PM
You Stewart fans are so cute when you teared up at the news that Fidel Castro had to step down due to health issues. Luckily his brother was able to take over, thus confirming the succession plans for the dictatorship of the proletariat laid out in Marx's treatises.
Posted by Equity Private , Mar 06, 2009 2:21PM
"Posted by guest, Mar 06, 2009 1:35PM
Next thing you know, the story will get out that EP has an unrequited thing for Becky Quick."
She's really not my type.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:23PM
Wait a second, Jon Stewart took Obama's dick out of his mouth long enough to make a joke about some guy named Rick Santelli? Fight the power!
Posted by KLW , Mar 06, 2009 2:24PM
@42, That's true of pretty much everyone I know--why would anyone want to go to Indiana unless they needed to? It's not like you're going to marvel at the natural beauty of the place.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:29PM
Don't you quit on me, Santelli!
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:33PM
@57: or cheer on the Fighting Irish.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:35PM
@9, CNBC, MSNBC + CNN r all Obamaphiles. That's how messiah got elected. If they had bothered to take a close look they'd have realize a first term jr. senator from one of the most politically corrupt states in the country wasn't ready to go Oval.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:35PM
@56
Who wouldn't prefer Obama's bbc in their mouth to Limbaugh's chode in their rectum?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:38PM
@38
What sound does an Italian helicopter make?
Dago, "wop wop wop"
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:39PM
They named it Indiana, which of course is German for a whale's vagina.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:41PM
why all the angry wops on the board today?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:44PM
I used to enjoy the keen musical stylings of the Hanson Brothers and their chart topping hit, "JewWop, Jew, Jew, Jew Wop, diddy diddy diddy...."
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:56PM
63 et al There are no quick retorts here because all of the analysts from IU are busy quietly working away like little bees. Which is the tactic they've always employed to survive and thrive in the face of competition from Ivy boys and girls.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:58PM
@51, well played.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 2:58PM
@62 helicopter conceptualized by DaVinnci while your ancestors were sitting in there own dung.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:06PM
DaVinci was Mormon, moron.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:17PM
Erin Burnett is on Bill Maher's show tonight. Then Meet The Press on Sunday.
Is she angling for Santelli's mantle?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:39PM
@1 Chaz takes issue with that he is the only wop genius.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:40PM
@68
couple of misspellings / grammatical errors like that are gonna get you lynched on this site. I'll start by asking why, if Italy was so into "DaVinnci", why did he spend his latter years in France, where he was apparently more appreciated?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:44PM
@72 thanks for the advice...don't understand what where he spent his time has to do with the point I was making...believe he followed the money though..
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:47PM
So if EP was stranded on a desert island, would she choose to satisfy her carnal desires with Erin Burnett, Trish Regan or Melissa Francis. Any answer ranging from 1 of the above to all of the above will suffice.
Thank you.
-BeckyDaisyChainFan
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:50PM
@73
given that patronage was the only way a guy like that could make a living, following the money proves the point. not digging on your peeps, as i appreciate many things Italian, but it's a shame that it fell to the frogs to step up.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:55PM
The Big Sleazy, Leo DaVinci. The guy was a freakin wop genius
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:56PM
@75 i'll let the weight of my "peeps" contribution to civilization speak for itself. As for the frogs, their twice saved plot of england is riddled with the ruins of my peeps 1500 year occupation.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:56PM
Is Dealbreaker under a DOS attack? This site is painfully slow. Can't spend much time here, not that I really care.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:56PM
@75 i'll let the weight of my "peeps" contribution to civilization speak for itself. As for the frogs, their twice saved plot of europe is riddled with the ruins of my peeps 1500 year occupation.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 3:58PM
@ 74 why aren't the Claman Islands on that list?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 4:06PM
@80, nice catch...been a long week. How could I forget to put those mammaries on the short list?
So, what say you EP? Which one(s) will it be?
-BeckyBralessFan
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 7:35PM
The freepers are like santelli. Why don't you all go John Galt and leave us the hell alone. Take Rush along, you need his warmth and charm.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 7:47PM
Why all the cheering for RS -- who tried to (and seemed to succeed with many posters here) scapegoat the small percentage of actual homeowners/people who need a small bailout just like the MASSIVE companies that received MASSIVE bailouts. Boy did Santelli send you all down a misguided path. What does he want -- all of us who aren't getting foreclosed to get an award for doing what we're supposed to do? Do I get an award for putting my pants on everyday? How bout some bailout money because I brush my teeth everyday?
Stewart was right on with his commentary -- if I failed at my job like CNBC (and the like) did the past year, I'd have been long ago fired/discredited . . .
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 8:20PM
@ 21,
Wasn't Santelli a currencies trader on the CME floor?
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 9:43PM
Please, Santelli, do us all a favor, you and Jim Cramer -- Quit! Maybe they will hire "anyone" who actually knows what they are talking about and can give good tips about the market. Stewart showed clips of Cramer's picks as the marking started sinking, last year, on GWB's watch! Jon Stewart would have wiped the floor with Santelli, having a far greater intelligence level. Everyone was hoping he'd get roasted, like Cheney will soon if he doesn't plead the fifth. I'll bet that's one amendment old "Dick" is happy George Boy didn't do away with!
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 10:09PM
@78- and yet, you took the time to comment. keep showing us how much you don't care.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 10:53PM
CG would totally make up something like this for a laugh - remember when he asked DK if he was client #1?
( youtube.com/watch?v=Jjhrtclvixw )
On the other hand, DR went to a school where it's practically mandatory to join a frat, so...he could of done it to. I don't think Santelli would have made this one up - not his style of humor.
Posted by guest , Mar 06, 2009 11:32PM
Ricky is a million laughs. He plays to the legalized gamblers around him while on air, and laughingly comments they represent "America".
The joke is that group of cheering Brownshirts all around him looked less like America and more like a segregated country club in 1956 Birmingham than anything else.
But, then again, that's the GOP look isn't it. If their big tent gets any bigger, their next convention will be held in a used school bus.
Knowing their smarts, and both CNBC and the GOP have been at the top of their game over the past year vying for the "Baghdad Bob Spin Award", they'll get a short yellow bus so everyone will know they continue to be "special".
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 12:43AM
When will someone besides me start using the motherfucking english subjunctive. The following sentence should begin: " So if ep WERE stranded"
"So if EP was stranded on a desert island, would she choose to satisfy her carnal desires"
this kinda shit pisses me off. pretty sure somebody needs to die.
daily bail rules. who said we are an astroturf site for some gansterifico hedgerifico. oh nobody. Citadel cleans up our locker room occasionally.
silly rabbits, some gitls played for trix.
ta-ta
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 7:14AM
The real news here is that JS's Wednesday's piece was less about Santelli and more about the lack of objective reporting at CNBC. One of the longest and and most hard hitting pieces I have see JS do.
The piece documented how CEO's have free rein to use CNBC to as a propaganda tool to spout whatever message they want with no fear of having to answer hard questions. OF course its easy to see why. Bad news in the market is bad news for CNBC just as much as it is for Wall street. This half hearted comeback ignoring the real issues presented on The Daily Show just goes to show how afraid CNBC is of the allegations.
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 11:36AM
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Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 12:13PM
91 through 100's IP address is 192.168.12.34
It has been traced to a basement in Yonkers.
The authorities have been notified.
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 1:17PM
So getting back to the crux of this: is there anybody who thinks that the cock-and-bull story DIDN'T come from the cock-and-bullmeister, Charlies "My sources tell me" Gasbagarino?
Posted by Equity Private , Mar 07, 2009 1:42PM
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We do log IP addresses here, and we will turn them over the authorities if we have reason to believe a bona fide threat has been made.
Don't spoil it with childish crap. Seriously.
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 3:14PM
John Stewart is pretty much of a jerk with a big mouth. He's a know it all that doesn't know anything.
Hey Stewart you big dope, what are you going to say about Obama when all this spending hits the fan? It's got to be paid back with interest, or does elementary math puzzle you?
You childish insults won't help pay back the trillions of dollars Obama has foisted on future generations.
Obama thinks he's saving jobs, what a crock. All his programs are for government jobs that are not self sustainable except by taxes.
He gives a speech in Ohio bragging about saving 25 police recruits but doesn't say that the funding is only good until 12-31-09. Then what Stewartsy Wertsy? Are you going to pay their salaries? You're rich, I think anyone on TV should pay an extra tax surcharge of 75% of their income above
$250,000.
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 3:21PM
Stewart's depiction of CNBC's Rick Santelli is intellectualy dishonest and wrong. Santelli has repeatedly called for not rewarding bad management of companies or poor decisions by home buyers with government money. He, like many of us wanted the government to go into these banks, sort out and seperate the toxic assets, which by the way account for less than 15% of most of these banks holdings, place a value on them, then put them in a long term holding account(bad asset bank) and then have the government insure purchasers in the future that they will only assume limited risk when buying them.This reqires very little money up front from the government but produces the needed result. This worked with the S&L crisis, but instead Paulson bought bank stock with this money(at 1 dollar for 66 cents of value)which is now worthless.This approach would have inspired confidence in both the market and in consumers by unlocking the credit system. Instead Guitner is gropeing (some say lopeing)in the dark about what to do while the fire rages. Stew produces nothing,adds nothing of value,nor provides value for the service he is suposed to provide(comic relief) by deriding someones elses opinion by asserting it is inferior to his own. I'll takes Rick's advice on this stuff long before I take his. I'd like to see how long he last in the pit at the CME before he lost his ass!!
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 7:43PM
Jon's turning Santelli's no show into an all-out Monday-morning quarterback attack on CNBC and its reporters was disturbing. CNBC does not stand for "Crystal News Ball Corporation". CNBC is just folks with cameras and microphones. They are TV people... They report what people say and how people feel, that's it. For Jon to suggest that CNBC should have seen this market plunge coming is ridiculous.
That takedown piece Stew presented on his show must have taken a while to produce. I'll bet you anything Santelli heard about that little 'presentation' and ditched.
I discuss the above in my 1:21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdQw_-tBhGQ
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 7:59PM
CNBC PR is about as pathetic as the on-air talent. First off, the guy in charge of PR there is trying so obviously hard to be like that Fox PR team which is naturally brutal and basically invented the snarky obnoxious response. CNBC trying so hard to emulate that, but with crappy talent it just doesn't work. And JS is a genius, I've never watched him before but he just won me as a viewer. That bit was breathtaking.
Posted by guest , Mar 07, 2009 11:38PM
It's so easy to make fun of others that have real jobs. JS's talent is to find fault with others work and then act like a 12 year old school girl who posts the cell phone recording of the bitch session about it on You Tube. Years of formal training must have been required for JS to discover this hidden talent, like till he was in the sixth grade. If we can't trust the wisdom of comedians about topics this serious, who can we trust. Oh ya, mabey people who have been doing this for 20 to 30 years.
I dont see any other networks with the kind of coverage or access that CNBC has. This doesn't mean that they are are not wrong-alot, they are. But just so JS knows, if this was so easy, it would not pay so well, ala Warren Buffet.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 7:58AM
Why is everyone so scared of Jon Stewart? He is hysterical! For CNBC to make an accusation that Stewart was in love with Santelli was the most ridiculous and outlandish excuse. Stewart may poke fun, but he is never mean spirited. Santelli wants to dish it out but he doesn't want to take it.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 9:59AM
John Stewart being obsessed with Santelli wouldn't have so much credibility if he wasn't griping about it night after night on so many different venues. Methinks the talk show host doth protest too much...
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 11:41AM
A few of you are missing the point. This isn't CNBC PR, this is some unnamed CNBC on-air guy, probably Charlie Gasbag.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 1:20PM
John Stewart is an American hero. He fearlessly calls everyone on their stupidly. For Santelli to go on air and talk about "looser" homeowners that accepted money banks gave them and how terrible it is that he government gives them some help, while with a group of traders that benefited from the Trillions in welfare given to corporations and Wall Street, was comic material no one could pass up. The fact is that anyone that followed the advice of CNBC is now much poorer. Its bad enough they are just cheerleaders for Wall Street, but when they attack ordinary Americans just trying to get by, then they deserve everything Stewart gave them and more. What they really forget is that it is ordinary Americans that fuel this economy, and what is good for homeowners is good for Wall Street. Where was this Santelli character when the big sub –prime fraud was going on. Santelli and CNBC has been made to look like idiots before millions of Americans and so far, hard to see any reason why that conclusion is not correct. Maybe CNBC should look at itself and see what role it played in the current recession with its fallacy news reporting.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 2:13PM
I'll take Santelli's advise over any Kosher advice any time. Kosher advice is nothing more than a cheap prayer and lets hope it works.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 2:58PM
II have employees and friends who fall into the group Santelli called "losers," because they took out those sub-prime mortgages. Like everyone else, including the commentators on CNBC, they thought the good times would last-why wouldn’t they think that. After all, Santelli a and the crew at CNBC were selling them that. Now, Santelli calls these solid, hard working Americans "looser" because they swallowed the BS being spouted by CNBC and others. That is why John Stewart was right on and has hit such a responsive cord--calling the hard working people that are the foundation of this country’s wealth "losers" is just offensive. CNBC needs to make Santelli another unemployment statistic. No one can ever listen to him again without remembering how he labeled millions of Americans “losers,” when all they did was to belive the type of things Santelli was selling.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 3:43PM
CNBC's lousy response is because Stewart's criticisms were so ON THE MARK!!! All Stewart did was show CNBC tape over last couple years of it's blatant smooching with Wall Street, financial types. Getting the markets totally wrong. When has Kudlow been right about anything? Cramer's show? Saying don't sell Bear Stearns right before it went under? CNBC promotes itself as a financial news network when it's not. Bloomberg is a financial news channel. CNBC is a cheerleader for the financial banking system which has collapsed. Obama is taking away the punch bowl from Wall Street and CNBC's hosts are getting more and more obnoxious. I will tell you whatever your opinion of Obama is... Obama administration is more than happy to have CNBC criticizing them. They might even think they are doing the right things.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 3:51PM
Actually with Wall Street crumbling (yes I am losing money in my 401K). I may have to watch CNBC because as markets crumble the shrillness of it's on air people become louder and louder making for great entertainment. On Stewart's show he made a crack to the NY Time's financial reporter about NY Time's stock price. Reporter replied GE (CNBC owner) stock was almost as low. LOL
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 8:13PM
@107
I have a theory that as the number of on-air personalities at CNBC gets smaller, we will be closer to a stock market bottom. So keep watching, but for your mental health, hit the MUTE button and see how the bottoming "process" works itself out.
On the other hand, and I must admit that I didn't watch the Sunday morning shows today, NBC is putting CNBC bimbos in political talk shows. Erin was in MTP, and Trish was in the Chris Matthews show. Did they embarrass themselves? I don't care, but it's easy to find out.
Posted by guest , Mar 08, 2009 11:24PM
CNBC is bad, but Fox is the worst.
Posted by guest , Mar 09, 2009 9:04AM
nice mean girls reference in the headline!!
you go glen coco! :D
Posted by guest , Mar 09, 2009 9:24PM
Wow - making fun of Stewart for being a jester and Obama sycophant - creative. Making comments about Castro? What does that have to do with this at all?
But seriously - how is the "free market" working for you these days? Why don't you watch the Daily Show clip and provide an argument for why CNBC coverage has been accurate and balanced on the economy over say the past 12 months?
BTW - today the effing Financial Times just bailed out on your neo-liberal ideology - calling it a complete failure. Lonely?
Posted by KevinB , Mar 10, 2009 7:47PM
I have to ask: who the hell here actually watches CNBC for investment advice? I watch for the ticker, and little else - well, Liz, Melissa, and I'm waiting for the day that Erin unleashes her new hush-puppies (even this morning on the Today show, she kept them under leash).
But I do have to add that last night (Monday), Jon Stewart Leibowitz took it to Prez Bambam pretty hard - giving him grief over his lame gift to UK PM Brown, mocking Hillary's ludicrously wrong gift to the Russians, and then taking Bambam off again over his rampant concert/group hug schedule.