Someone I think will back me up on this one.
CNBC is currently at this moment trying to make the case that the open letter sent by Dan Gilbert to Cavs fans last night was ill-advised. “We’re all for CEO’s speaking their mind but you need to do so in a well-thought out, controlled manner,” said one guest. “This was probably something you wake up and wish you’d hit ‘save as draft on’,” commented Melissa Francis. “Don’t do it!” was their general thesis. DON’T LISTEN TO CNBC IS MINE.
Letters like the one from Dan Gilbert are what we need more of in this business. More late-night, likely booze and emotion fueled rants. Interesting use of quotation marks (his “decision,” unlike anything ever “witnessed”). Tantrums in which you go absolutely off the rails. Spectacularly bold claims about all you’re going to achieve “without that breast-growing, panty-wearing tradeaitor.” Prose that suggests you’re going to key a former employee’s car, stalk him and his new boss and, and reassurances to the rest of the staff/investors that “WE DON’T NEED HIM!!!” Have you been wronged? CNBC wants you to keep all this in the lock box. I want you to LET IT OUT. Be the psycho bitch. You won’t regret it, particularly if you consider letting it out on YouTube. I’ll offer a few more examples of what we’re looking for later.
Anyone else count how many times Bron Bron said “aks” instead of “ask” and “they” instead of “their” last night? I counted four for each. Yeah, he’s the king. King of ebonics.
@1 stay on topic, racist.
I bet the liquor was sloshing in his hand like me when I’m mad at Mexicans.
~Lou D
CNBC is tabloid TV. Bloomberg actually reports news, not talking heads views.
How is pointing out Lebron’s grammatical errors racist ? We criticize each other’s spelling and grammar in this comments section all the time.
Bess, does a day go by in your life when you don’t accuse someone of being a racist ?
Honestly, I’d rather watch an hour of Q&A with this young lady than what transpired last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
“Witnessed” was making fun of the whole Nike “Witness” campaign. Come on Bess, pull your head out of your ass.
Tune in tomorrow for Bess’s exclusive interview with Bloyd Lankfein in which he dishes on the trials and tribulations of running GS. (It’s just SO hard to find an honest maid willing to pick up all the little golden pubes after every shower.)
Bess taht comment was very anti coked up money whore-ish, examine your motives. Nah, just kidding you just keep on throwing down what we all love picking up.
I’ve sayne thet grimmitical irrors are oftin used as written caricature in some riffirinces myde in these thrids.
~Paul Hogan
@1 fuck off
@ I did notice that. But what do you expect from a bastard spawn of a pedophiliac SEC lawyer with erectile dysfunction.
@1, I did notice that. But what do you expect from a bastard spawn of a pedophiliac SEC lawyer with erectile dysfunction.
Bess, will you f**k me till I love you?
Owners of sports teams usually aren’t considered for any sort of Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
~Guy Who Lives in Dallas
I heard this morning that the value of the Heat went up by $300mm and the value of the Cavs went down by $100mm. Maybe that has something to do with it.
CNBC sucks balls and has for the last 5 years.
@1:I think Bess has a thing for racists, even when they’re actually not. It’s the kid word du jour when you don’t have an intelligent response.
And the former local NBC anchor whose name escapes me was reassigned to other duties after which he read “Aks” on the Air aseveral times.
Justified.
Yeah, and he was black, too, Bess.
My girlfriend raced out of the hospital when the attending nurse tried to fill out her forms, and she wanted to Aks some questions. She stopped her, and said, “It’s ASK!!!! A-S-K!!! If you can’t speak the language, you can’t fill out my paperwork!” We left, and Presbyterian was much nicer, because they spoke the language.
So, Bess, when someone uses “Aks” in your presence, correct them, and correct them LOUDLY. They’ll learn to adapt eventually. Morons.
@18 great story.
I don’t actually think 1 is a racist, I just want him to STAY THE FUCK ON TOPIC, this topic being batshit manifest missives and Wall Street’s need for them.
Pretty hard to avoid the WITNESS 100 ft billboards all over the place. I guess you don’t hang out in times square Bess.
-regular at Mars 2112
@20 I don’t and my life is clearly for the worse because of it. would the billboard explain his rationale for putting this in quotes?
“I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE”
or this:
I can tell you that this shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own has shifted our “motivation” to previously unknown and previously never experienced levels.
thanks and have a great day.
# 11 Get a grip Nancy.
- the guy who still thinks Options Trader should find a diarrhetic horse as I suggested yesterday.
I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE that I will take this afternoon off.
I don’t think @1 was particularly racist, sexist maybe, but not racist.
The Kagan
My name is Arison not Erickson but I’ll sign your checks Mickey Mouse if you really want me to King…
http://www.adrants.com/images/LeBronGoBrowns%2Bbrokaw.jpg
@19 – Gotcha! You won’t have to aks again…
Sometimes when I’m in my office late at night, making copies of newspapers, cutting individual letters from the print, and finding very sticky situations with regards to my fingers meeting glue, I reminisce what it was like before America started entering the third ring of Armidascia. Particularly, when men were men, and women were glad to have them. When you could go into a bar, call a guy a faggot, smash an empty High Life across his face, and then swallow the broken glass just to show where. the. fuck. you’ve. been. in this life.
Unfortunately, we’re living in dark days, friends. Where you become a father, and actually have to drive the fucking brats to soccer practice. Where prosthetic fingers are just HANDED OUT using tax payer funds to little jerk-offs that try to fix their lawn mower while the blade is still running. Where you go to the fucking mall and these fuck bags slide down ginormous slabs of plastic bacon, falling into a pit of sunny side up eggs. You know what we had when we were kids? In the mall? A MOTHERFUCKING CARPETED PIT to run around in and break each other’s arms. For instance, my brother Angus swallowed my father’s faux detective beard at a young age. Do you know what he had to do to pass that through his system? Lots of motherfucking bran, that’s what. Think of a foot-long q-tip running through your body, and you’re almost there.
People just can’t handle it anymore. The trials. The tribulations. The truth. Someone telling you that you should probably kill yourself, repeatedly, until the age of 18, before you go off to H and start experimenting…hold the phone. Hold it. I’m going way off.
My point is that sometimes the hyperbole is a GOOD thing. Sometimes you have to speak your mind, you know? Sometimes you need to stand up to the disgusting, pouncing animal liars of this world and let them know that they can’t just walk all over you with his/her stiletto heel. One day, that stiletto heel will be poking from your own ass. Does that make sense? The world is almost entirely dependent on circles.
Think about it.
@1 I counted, it was about +120 million dollars worth jackazz.
@21 not sure who you are but quit walkin around like you own the place. Personally, after finishing up my 6th diet rum mojito @ Tonic times sq, and im in the zone, I’ll check out the talent at Butterfield 8 to get me “motivated”…gotta love those white ceramic chanel watches…and o yeah, we just ran out of sell tix….put some quotes around that!
-Sal
Aks me once, shame on you.
Aks me twice, shame on you.
Jello Eater
@28/Cliff – You’re a really enlightened cat and I like that about you.
my hedge fund senses tell me that CNBC is watched by the masses of investing cattle, short the long ideas, and buy the sell ideas
- PM of the CNBC Contrarian Fund
@11. Bess I love you. ..Umm, would you like to go out on a date with me please.?
Pathetic
@34 I don’t date Jewish girls thanks.
@22 ftw. options trader/@11 needs to get off of dealbreaker and make his way over to mother jones and join the rest of the world’s pussies.
-guy who pointed out yesterday that OT needed to grow some balls
Most trading floors are switching away from CNBC. Their ‘women’ look like drag queens, Missy included. Bloomberg and FBN hotties are way cuter. Plus Kernen is about the biggest douchebag on the planet.
Waitin’ on the Bess rants.
Mark Haynes is a much bigger douchebag than Joe Kernan. Just sayin.
@39/CG Bigger how? Bigger “down there?”
I get a boner when Melissa opens her piehole
the “girls” of cnbc, mindless lipstick.
least the babes on fox don’t play smart, they know what they are selling, and they never let the viewer forget it.
@42 The babes on fox business r smart AND hot. I finally listened after dragging my eyes off their racks for a second and Liz and Sandra had me going in their lively discussion about quants.
–former Lehman trader who got picked up by boutique firm and actually has to work now