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Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

eric k — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:13:49 -0000

The thing about the whole finance industry to borrow a quote form the great William Goldman is "nobody knows nothing"

Think of all those Edward Jones, TD Waterhouse, Charles Schwab commercials. All those financial planners we trust to balance our portfolios, none of them really do anymore than spout conventional wisdom.

I have the bulk of my 401K in a fund a Fidelity that is supposed to be targeted at a retirement year, with a mix of aggressive vs conservative that changes over time. They're doing a "heck of job Brownie" to only have lost 35% since last year. Show me the financial planner who realized the market was over valued and put people's money in T-Bills and that is the guy I'll listen too.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

Tessa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:01:34 -0000

Finally somebody slams the pollyannas at CNBC. I love it! Oh, and their new "I am CNBC" commercials---has anyone seen these?---are painfully annoying and obnoxious....a lame attempt to seem fresh and relevant. Barf.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

nina s. — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:05:24 -0000

Remember all those people saying in the days after the election, "Is it over for Jon Stewart? Isn't he irrelevant in a post-Bush world?" Fools, please.

Regarding CNBC, this financial crisis has made me aware that they are likely the biggest bunch of obnoxious no-nothing blowhards on cable, and that's saying a lot.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

Dave — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:00:56 -0000

I would actually add the View to the list of shows that will actually address the right head on. And, I don't think it's a coincidence that it's comedians, like Letterman, Stewart, Colbert, Behar, and Goldberg, who will take people to task. Everyone knows that when you're at a comedy show, you don't challenge the person with the mic (Michael Richards notwithstanding).

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

CitizenE — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:50:46 -0000

In the postBush period, The Daily Show and Colbert Report appear to remain the most effective anodynes to the right wingnuttery on the bottom line.

It is a sad commentary that these two guys are doing a better job of poking holes in the right wing noise machine than serious liberals and that a liberal MSM guy like Chris Matthews can repeatedly invite a crook like Tom De Lay on to speak and tell the American people that when the Republicans were in power the (housing bubble) economy was doing "just fine, thank you."

Make no mistake, the right wing soap opera--Limbaugh, DeLay, Steele--has become America's infotainment of choice, determined to drown out everything with their know nothing bromides and apocolyptic invective, and in light of that, John Stewart, thank goodness, remains super relevant and worth watching, albeit unfortunately in ways that other liberal commentary does not yet seem to have caught up with.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

rikyrah — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:45:18 -0000

Worst mistake since McCain ditched Letterman.

That was a good, old-fashioned bitchslap to the nth degree.

Keep spreading the word, folks.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

David Bruggeman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:33:42 -0000

Way back in the day, when Colbert still worked on TDS, Sharpton was scheduled and didn't show. Their response? A little bit of ridicule, followed by interviewing Colbert as Sharpton.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=128206&title=intro-al-sharpton-is-missing&byDate=true

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=129652&title=Stephen-Colbert-as-Al-Sharpton

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

Bruce — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:30:11 -0000

I don't understand WHO would actually watch that network? I have CNBC Europe on cable and it's atroucious. I can't get any info business-wise, and that dumbfuck Cramer is the main reason why. He simplifies and uses such a broad brush that there he eviscerates the nuances. It's either Buy buy buy or sell sell sell...no wonder the world's in a clusterfuck.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

triumvere — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:28:59 -0000

That was just brutal.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

BabylonSista — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:28:52 -0000

Jon Stewart just got moved up a few places on my "Older White Men Who Could Get It" list. Few things are sexier than righteous snark. Except, maybe, for cheap populism.

I don't think Stewart's thrashing would have been nearly as brutal had Santelli shown up. Sure, Stewart wouldn't have shown much mercy, but I'm almost positive he would have given Santelli the chance to make his case. When Bill O'Reilly's on the show, Stewart attempts to give the appearance of objectivity (which is more than Fox News ever does). I love this...but how sad is it that a comedian is doing the job of real journalists?

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

BrianSierk — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:25:38 -0000

Loved the episode. I find it hard to believe they (CNBC) still have many viewers.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

James — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:24:24 -0000

At least you've posted about him without it becoming the enormous clusterfuck Megan has acheived.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

patagonia — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:13:01 -0000

CNBC deserves to be taken down a notch. They were part of the system that caused this whole mess and now they have a lot of nerve to blame Obama for trying to fix. Most of those assholes on the network just don't want their taxes going up, and so they'll rant and rave about him for the next 8 years. Get used to it.

If that network had any credibility at all they would have gotten rid of Jim "Bear Stearns" Cramer a long time ago.

Re: The Foolishness Of Rick Santelli

DC Fem — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:10:43 -0000

I guess the GOP has been so busy puckering up to that big, fat idiots back side that they forgot what happened to McCain when he didn't show on Letterman. They never admit they made any mistakes (unless it was having the guts to criticized their aforementioned leader, therefore they can't learn from them.