If you’re coming to New Canaan, CT on Sunday to hear Charlie Gasparino discuss The Sellout you might need to bring your boxing gloves.
The other day on Chicago-based radio show StocksandJocks, co-hosted by CNBC contributor Dr. J Najarian, a listener asked Gas-Bag if he was ready to handle a confrontational room of ex-Bear and Lehman traders who might want to throw down fisticuffs. Considering many of these guys are still unemployed, stuck with McMansion mortgages, and with ample time on their hands - we thought that was a valid concern. (Sam Molinaro, former Bear Stearns CFO, is a New Canaan resident.)
The show’s other host Tom ‘the Chief’ Haugh asked Chaz, “Are you ready for a scene or a verbal confrontation? How do you think Cannanists will receive you?”
Gasparino responded, “Well you know, they can do whatever they want. What, you don’t think I’ve never had a personal confrontation from peeps on Wall Street? For some reason personal confrontations don’t scare me that much…you know.. I know how to handle myself.”
“I’m not a punching bag I don’t take their [shit]. I remind them it was their company’s management that screwed up and I just reported it. I didn’t engage in your risk taking practices. If you think I have anything to do with your implosion then you’re nuts,” Gasparino. said.
Chaz also added that anyone offering to buy him a drink after the talk will be out of luck. “I tell them, ‘No thanks, I don’t accept beers from people like you’.”
New Canaan library event manger, Cynde Lahey, says they are expecting the Gasparino event to hit their overflow limit-they can only fit 250 in the room- so if you plan to give Chaz a piece of your mind, get there early.
Photo-Credit: Fast Money
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 11:26AM
*sigh
Posted by Perkins Maxwell , Nov 20, 2009 11:37AM
@1: why? out of longing, despair, what?
My new favorite photoshop, after the one of Jamie and Chazzy having a romantic dinner together.
Someday in decades to come, I hope someone will publish Rogue Art: A Gallery of Bess Levin's Classic Dealbreaker Images. Instant bestseller.
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 11:42AM
What's up with CG's crude prison tattoo? What the hell is that shit?
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 11:44AM
who the hell is Teri Buhl? Is Greggums gone forever?
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 11:50AM
What's this? I thought Bess had dibs on Charlie? Or is there enough of him to go around, so to speak?
This better not be another one of your intrigues, Teri.
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 11:54AM
CG really looks a lot like Max Payne in that picture ... except that Max Payne is real
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 11:59AM
@1-6 = mooks
Posted by pfluger , Nov 20, 2009 11:59AM
In this corner, in the red satin trunks, and weighing in at 180 pounds, we have Sammy the Hitman Molinaro. In the other corner, in the grey champion sweat pants and cutoff t-shirt covered with marinara stains, weighing in at 215, we have Charlie Raging Bull Gasparino.
Gentlemen, I want a clean fight.
- The ref
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 12:02PM
Outliers or The Outsiders
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 12:19PM
"If you think I have anything to do with your implosion then you’re nuts,” Gasparino said."
I'm having trouble with the syntax of that sentence. Was he saying he had something to do with their implosion and then their nuts? Why is he referring to their financial troubles and their testicles? Was that just an unfinished sentence?
~Flustered UK Stylebook Editor
Posted by Anal_yst , Nov 20, 2009 12:26PM
Please tell me they're going to be streaming this on the web, pretty please!?
Posted by pfluger , Nov 20, 2009 12:36PM
Hey Charlie. You're a punk! A no-good, no-nothing, sensationalizing, barely literate, name dropping, sweat-oozing, arm-waving, malodorous punk!
You might be tough shit in Rego Park, pal, but up here you're way out of your league. You better watch your step on Sunday, tough guy.
- Canninist
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 12:43PM
number of people showing up on sunday expected to match figures at the anti-goldman rally, 11/16(in fact, i have it on good word the same people are being packed up in buses and shipped in from dc)
http://topics.npr.org/photo/027P8OJ92kaam
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 12:55PM
@4 = new guy
Posted by Teri Buhl , Nov 20, 2009 1:15PM
Don’t worry @Anal_yst …I will be live and in action covering every detail of Chaz's battle (book hump) with his lower Fairfield County.CT viewers this Sunday. If you have something to say like "Hey Charlie is it true that you bully receptionist so they'll put your calls through" or "Did you go undercover as a gay Asian to break that SAC hormone story" - it's likely I'll be quoting you in my next story.
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 1:38PM
Teri-
Are you dating Dennis Kneale?
http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=100000154050147&ref=search&sid=1220020212.1316416590..1
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 1:38PM
@8 and photoshop win.
But I hear Chaz is a 10:1 fave to win any altercation with a CT-residing quant b/c he was punching the bag in some Rego Park basement while those patsies were breathing ancient dust in some library working on their PhDs before starting to live the dream in mortgage-backed derivatives.
Posted by Anal_yst , Nov 20, 2009 1:52PM
@Teri
Can you live-blog/tweet? I want juicy (sweaty) details!
Posted by Teri Buhl , Nov 20, 2009 2:14PM
@16 nice try but that is not even close to my mug shot.
@anal_yst No live tweet- I'll need that time to work the room and ease drop on what New Canaan peeps are saying under their breath about Chaz's reporting - because you know some of the ladies, while deeply upset that Chaz's work took down the hubby's company, might be to awe stuck by the way Gas-Bag fills out a suit to ask questions.
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 2:35PM
Dose hose bags just better not be serving dose pettit fours crap. I want pasta and sauseeg and cheap chianti. Den i bang dem all.
CG
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 3:05PM
And I want Levin blogging my shit. I don't need da B team. I am a star.
CG
Posted by Joe Mac , Nov 20, 2009 3:37PM
How 'bout a MMA match? If you think I'm backing off from this guy....
"The Knife"
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 3:37PM
http://www.mylife.com/teribuhl
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 6:49PM
Forget TeriBuhl. Check out what YeastInfection posted about Gossiparino on the Daily Beast. ROFLMAO. Consider the following about the above author, Mr. Self Promotion. While he appears to take some pride in initially appearing at #8 in the NY Times Best Seller List, this is an illusion and merely a smoke screen for CNBC promoting his book. Reality is setting in as we speak. Can you imagine if Sorkin had such publicity (he is at #9, he has no such promotion, and his ranking is not the function of a debut). In the Amazon rankings, Gossiparino has now sunk into the 90's and will likely fall from the top 100 list this week - only a couple of weeks into his book "humping" exploits. All this while the skinny little author/reporter he hates most is still in the teens after months of success and is kicking his ass. Why, one must ask. Because, just like the above article, the Sellout sucks. It is filled with inuendo instead of fact. His sources play him like a fiddle. His knowledge of the underlying subject of finance is sophomoric, at best. And, did I mention that his conclusions are all wrong because he is fundamentally stupid? As one of the 14 reviews on his book concluded: "Gasbag has now written more books than he has read".
Speaking of said reviews, he is doing everything he can do to make this piece of crap book appear to smell like a rose. His limited number of positive reviews includes one from his wife and another from his attorney and still others from former business associates. Honest reviewers see his work as a waste of paper and a hazard to the environment.
Why CNBC keeps this clown around is beyond most of us. He is rude to guests and associates alike. He is argumentative simply for the sake of his own insecurity. He cuts everyone off. Worst of all - he is stupid.
So, once again, good article on Wall Street Walking. Unfortunately, he is no more correct here than he is with all the gossip he spreads on CNBC and labels "breaking news". Just think about this guy's batting average and how frequently he gets the story wrong. Negligent? Indeed. This guy breaks more wind than a fart machine and calls it news. Maybe the author needs to walk - right off the Chelsea Pier.
Posted by guest , Nov 20, 2009 6:54PM
OBTW - What the fuck is up with the tatoo? You really are a street punk. I always thought you were just stupid and illiterate. Guess I overestimated you! "Alls yous gots to do". LOL - you're such a moron! Is Pace a Kommunity Kollege? See you on Sunday. Bring your brass knuckles.
Posted by Dan , Nov 20, 2009 7:05PM
@24 = Sorkin and his useless Dealbook editorial team
Posted by books , Feb 08, 2010 8:20AM
what is this???