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Charlie Lets Zero Intelligence Have It

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Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. Less than three hours after saying this "I generally don't respond to people who don't matter on Wall Street" you come out with this:

Not even sure you deserve a response to this, as apparently you have completely missed our prodding which had nothing to do with you being on Goldman's pay and everything with you doing the responsible journalistic thing, i.e., asking the tough questions which you purport you did, instead of being fed the party line. We appreciate the other side of the story: we can get that from Goldman's press releases and 8K's - you are supposed to read between the lines and find out what it is in the story that your new friends at 85 Broad are not telling you. But if by now you have not realized what your job as a journalist entails, it would be a folly for Zero Hedge to try to educate you at this late stage in your career.

Instead, as everyone knows the true nature of CNBC's journalism, which is namely to sell advertising space, we would simply like to present one piece of data that you, your producer, and your parent company General Electric may be most interested in.

As to the veracity of your, or Zero Hedge's claims, well, the audience is the best arbiter of that.

Good day.

PS. Maria (oh wait, whispering in my ear says your name is) Michelle, please give us a mailing address: we will dispatch a copy of Fight Club to you post haste, for free. It is a travesty to have your producer whisper in your ear just who this pseudonymous Tyler Durden is.

 

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Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:49 | 12085 Miles Kendig
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Charlie who?  Isn't he some sort or resturant owner or critic or something?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:11 | 12135 VegasBD
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The rant begins at 2:35 in that video

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:09 | 12377 troublesum
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LOL!! Love that the banner at the top right has been changed.

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 10:46 | 12789 Anonymous
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...and all you need to do is tilt the logo 90 degrees to complement the banner. :D

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:47 | 12189 Anonymous
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Why it's Charlie Meatball. And that's all you need to know.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:02 | 12201 Anonymous
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fight club is actually on AMC tonight. CC could get up to date by tomorrow

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:30 | 12337 Anonymous
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"fight club is actually on AMC tonight. CC could get up to date by tomorrow." thank you for the heads up.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:18 | 12224 Anonymous
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I love how they pretend they don't know anything about zerohedge. You know they F5 the thing every 2 minutes.

I love how being a blogger makes you a moron. Yet what's the difference between them and a blogger? Better teeth. More time on makeup and less time on real research. TD knows more in his left testicle than these douches.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 21:47 | 12516 Ben_the_Bald
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Gasparino knows a lot more about "anonymous" bloggers than he pretends to know. Him (and Dennis Kneale) are just taunting them. There are no secrets in the street.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:51 | 12087 Anonymous
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Game over.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:51 | 12089 Anonymous
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Charlie,

The S&P 500 has been trading with the Euro currency almost exactly for longer than I care to think about. Call the a-holes at 85 Broad and ask for a comment. Stop reporting BS minutae, no one legit gives a shit, really.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:53 | 12091 Anonymous
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Agreed...really bad idea Charlie, you f'in WS shill.

On another note, is today the beginning of SPY breakdown? Has anyone else noticed that we ever so briefly touched $96.11 just before 1pm and have more or less trended lower/weaker since then?

The significance here is $96.11 is the June 11 & YTD intra-day high. Perhaps if that level does not get taken out with any afternoon ramping shenanigans, the market will selloff.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:02 | 12112 D.O.D.
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anon 12091 - "Perhaps if that level does not get taken out with any afternoon ramping shenanigans, the market will selloff."

That's a joke right... have you been paying attention for the last 4 months?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:09 | 12212 Anonymous
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of course i have been, but i also believe we will breakdown at some point (as we briefly did following the June 8-12 ramp).

my level held today and we closed barely red, i wonder if that is a line in the sand for a time...we shall see

#12091

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 23:14 | 12570 samiam6
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i don't mean to put words in d.o.d.'s mouth, but i think the point he was trying to make is that technicals (or fundamentals, for that matter) are not driving this market and you might as well throw them out the window.  i aspire to be a market technician and i came to this realization a few weeks ago.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 23:24 | 12576 Gilgamesh
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This market is making a mockery of both TA and FA.  It seems the robots are programmed in bizarro-mode.  Take the action most opposite of what any analysis concludes.  Except VWAP, that is!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:40 | 12174 Steak
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NICE...I was wondering how to square the circle of taking out the June highs on the S&P without going meaningfully higher from there (as the teknicians were all creaming over us taking out 950).  But looking at the SPY instead makes perfect sense as thats what the mechanical overlords have been gunning this whole time.

I just can't imagine how there hasn't been at least some retracement with the likes of INTC and CSCO up 20% in less than 10 trading days.  Somethins gotta give.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:53 | 12092 Anonymous
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CNBC lacks all credibility. Charlie is just his own puppet, and pretty much everything is a scam. But what is there to do? Society exposed.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:40 | 12344 Anonymous
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Indeed. What is a puppet but someone with another fellow's hand up their bum and telling them what to do.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:53 | 12093 crzyhun
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Money talks...b/s walks...nuff said- and go on, TD, to more, really important matters.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:54 | 12094 Anonymous
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Unfortunately, you need to compare the graphs together on Google Trends. The graph you have proves that ZH is growing and CNBC is faltering, but doesn't show them compared to eachother.

To do that you need to seperate the two terms by commas in the same search: http://www.google.com/trends?q=cnbc%2C+zero+hedge&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mt...

The result is not as flattering.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:00 | 12108 Hansel
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Or maybe it just means that dolts interested in CNBC can't figure out what the URL is without doing a google search.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:22 | 12228 Anonymous
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Unfortunately, you're wrong. ZH is on the up and CNBC is on the down. No one said ZH is bigger. Better is better and worse is worse. CNBC is on the way out.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:44 | 12350 Anonymous
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Interestingly that's mainly due to viewers from india, singapore and malaysia. Maybe ZH needs a marketing campaign there.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:55 | 12095 capitalisa
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"Moronic blogger is redundant" she says?????  Beyotch!  I can't believe we can let her get away with this!  Keep the heat on 'em, T.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:04 | 12116 Gilgamesh
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I have a nice shiny mirror for you high-and-mighties.  Let's see...

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/16561378/

 

How many blogs on CNBC?  28, maybe?  (I lost count)  Let's take a look at some of those authors' names.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:32 | 12167 chindit13
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And "on-air talent" is an oxymoron.

So we have a draw?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:51 | 12191 Anonymous
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Her name is tits. And she will never let you forget it either. Michelle my bell Sunday morn say when we are together woo ooh ooh oh.

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 06:44 | 12666 Chumly
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...and so is "moronic talking (air) head" on cnbc who's apparently incapable of understanding what this is really all about...piece of crap network just keeps supplying the fodder for INTELLIGENT bloggers to chew-up and spit out.

cnbc is getting bitch-slapped all over he blogosphere and this is the best they can do? It's quite comical.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:57 | 12096 Anonymous
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Here is a graph you might like to better show your growth:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=seeking+alpha%2C+zero+hedge&ctab=0&geo=al...

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:20 | 12226 aldousd
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good find there. what'll they think of next?!?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:57 | 12098 Anonymous
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he gets a call from the goldman CEO and assumes it's a moronic blogger?
I don't get that comment about lloyd blankfein

PS...you should accept wrong GOTCHAs answers only, because bots are the only ones that are able to do that.
X times 22 equals 396?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:57 | 12100 Anonymous
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To me, the moment Charlie's credibility jumped the shark was during his singlehanded effort to pump the monolines so many moons ago.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:30 | 12395 ghostfaceinvestah
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Yeah, he was constantly coming on the air, in one case 15 minutes before the market closed, with "rumors" of monoline bailouts.  I guess he figured if he said "rumor" it protected him from spewing his fraudulent crap.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:34 | 12399 ghostfaceinvestah
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Here are some links about the episode I refer to.  The "rumor" never did turn out to be true, and Ambac is basically in runoff today.

 

http://www.hedgefolios.com/read/monoline-manipulation

http://www.financialsense.com/Market/barbera/2008/0304.html

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:58 | 12101 Anonymous
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Congratulations, Tyler, on CNBC's free plug for Zero. More people to enlighten. (maybe Charlie, too)

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 14:58 | 12102 Anonymous
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Who even watches CNBC anymore? You used to have to put up with it just because but anymore its a waste of time and energy. Moronic Journalism.....

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:06 | 12105 D.O.D.
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blogger and zero intelligence is redundant, hmmmm.  Sounds like CNBS is throwing in the towel on reaching true inquiring minds and is content to stick with the sheep that just want to be sold green shoots.  I will give them this... I really should have gone long last week, even if it was against any good common sense I have....

You could almost hear the producer whisper in her ear "Tyler Durden is from Fight Club, you know, the movie."

Congrats on all the new found recognition Tyler, it would seem you are making friends.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:00 | 12107 Anonymous
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Just more haughty comments from CNBC's well of douchebags and sluts.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:02 | 12109 Anonymous
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Cold snap. They just made fun of the blogger world. No bad for an entertainment channel masquerading as a business channel.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:05 | 12118 Anonymous
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They suck at entertainment too. They are more like a high school CCTV show with teenage hormones circulating in their pipes.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:19 | 12152 lizzy36
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It's the breasts.  They are blinding and cause max confusion. Even to me and i am a chick.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:42 | 12178 Gordon_Gekko
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I'll tell you what's redundant - Caruso-Cabrera and breasts.

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 00:11 | 12592 Anonymous
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agreed. she's ugly and a drama whore. let's just go with titsy cc. dare i ask gordo about gold or is that also redundant?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:03 | 12113 Anonymous
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GE --- Imagination at work.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:03 | 12114 Anonymous
Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:04 | 12115 HEHEHE
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CG does not have time to be watching movies.  CG is too busy taking the pulse of the STREET! 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:05 | 12119 Anonymous
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CHARLIE WHAT YOU GOT?
VERY LITTLE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ8LaWz3N4

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:49 | 12355 Anonymous
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HAHAHAHHA

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:06 | 12121 Anonymous
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Just joined the ranks of Trash TV.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:06 | 12122 Anonymous
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this means war.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:24 | 12292 Anonymous
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well said anon, well said.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:06 | 12124 ptoemmes
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Tyler what are you going to do when Kudlow or someone at CNBC invites you to fill an octo-box?  Maybe wear a Gasparino mask.  Or just say no.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:08 | 12131 Anonymous
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td the talking head in box #6 on CNBC's patented multi-box commentary.

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 06:50 | 12670 Chumly
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"Here's the story, of a man named Tyler..."

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:23 | 12159 Gilgamesh
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Insist on using CAPTCHA for each statement made.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:43 | 12349 Anonymous
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Mr. Durden,

Should you ever collosally screw up and appear on CNBC, might I suggest something to the effect of "Max Headroom." It would be a hoot for me to watch. Just imagine the ironic commentary of it, which would be lost on CNBC's declining viewership but not on your readers.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:07 | 12125 Comrade de Chaos
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this is just too funny, ... "MS will answer for not using the government sponsorship to...they decided to de-leverage when they should be more aggressive?!?"__ "and it's gone!"

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:07 | 12126 Anonymous
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congrats to ZH.
you've made the big time.
you've gotten a nice plug.
when are those damn thinkorswim ads going to appear at the top of the page?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:08 | 12128 curbyourrisk
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Charlie Gasparino needs to be called out for what he is.  The tool of Wall Street!!!!

Until CNBS starts reporting NEWS, REAL NEWS, and stops protecting the shennangians of Wall Street, who the fuck cares what they have to say.  By the way, I don't consider ZEROHEDGE a blog spot, I consider it a news source.  There is a big difference between the 2.  Charlie should be educated in what the difference is.

 

If I am actually listening to CNBS and I hear something newsworthy, I usually tune into the blogs to see what the real story is all about anyway.

Keep killing him Tyler, he sure is making it easy for ya.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:08 | 12129 Anonymous
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CNBC folks:

No doubt as people you love your country, want the economy to recover and would rather see the market up than down.

Perhaps you think it unpatriotic to take a stance that is not bullish, or to challenge or criticise those who run the system. Okay, fine. Just don't call yourselves journalists or pretend that you're in the news business. You're entertainers, blowing financial sunshine for a living.

Sadly, the notion that you can BS this balance sheet recession economy into recovering is pathetic and doomed to fail.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:28 | 12235 aldousd
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It's crazy to me that folks would be implicitly, (or explicitly in the case of Magic Elixir Dennis Kneale,) encouraging us to create reality by imposing our will (and nothing else,) on it.  I just cannot imagine where this comes from.  They're basically saying "If you want a rally bad enough, we will not have to worry about why we had a crash," to begin with.  I know this is redundant for folks here who already know this, but they're switching the result with the cause.   Apparently reality is only a sideshow to their kind of truth.  I know it's working, but it can only appear to work (as it is, temporarily) while people give their own tacit agreement not to think too much.

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:08 | 12130 Anonymous
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"The term 'moronic blogger' is redundant." --Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.

It's great to have this stuff on record.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:27 | 12296 Anonymous
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anon never forgets

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:09 | 12132 Anonymous
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who is this TV wanker and why would anyone listen to his bull shit?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:10 | 12133 Anonymous
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Num de Plum?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:20 | 12154 zeropointfield (not verified)
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nom de plume

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:11 | 12134 Anonymous
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cnbc will soon join their friends at msnbc with ratings in the single digits. although i hear 12 people now actually watch kieth obberman. good job zuck!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:11 | 12136 Anonymous
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So let me get this: CNBC is saying MS is stupid for not doing what government wants GS , MS & other WS banks to do : to make lot money cheating the trading system so that they become stronger. GS is complying with government's wishes while MS is not willing to ?
I wish I could understand what the government's grand plan is. I am sure there is a good intention behind this.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:12 | 12137 Anonymous
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Why would anybody be watching CNBC?

Oh ok, maybe Michelle's chest.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:13 | 12138 Anonymous
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show your tits michelle, jut them out, and shut up. beyotch!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:13 | 12139 Anonymous
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"Num de plumb"

Charlie
You're dumb
You numb
skull

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:14 | 12142 Anonymous
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Got love the free publicity. Could you give us a chart of your traffic bump when this came out?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:15 | 12143 lizzy36
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I get a strange amount of pleasure thinking about the fact that in TD's non Fight Club world (o/s of zero intelligence) he has probably been at the same restaurant/bar/parties as Charlie.  Perhaps even made small talk with Charlie on some occasion or another. If not Charlie than surely one of the other buffons (except David Faber who is not a buffon). 

I always figured that the greatest thing about being Wonder Woman (besides the invisible plan) was that no one, except you knows what your real identity is.

Be careful, charlie, dennis, MCC, cramer (he of the $500m (rounding error in today's terms) hedge fund) he and his spies walk amongst you. 

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:16 | 12145 spekulatn
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Great stuff TD. 

BTW, any luck finding a link to the Bloomberg radio spot you did a day or 2 ago?

 

"MARK IT ZERO, DUDE" 


 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:18 | 12147 Anonymous
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+50 points for getting on CNBC
+200 points for getting under Charlie's skin.

Thu, 07/23/2009 - 06:56 | 12672 Chumly
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...and "moronic talking (air) heads" on cnbc?  WORTHLESS!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:18 | 12148 Anonymous
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What is very sad about this entire thing is that Charlie is actually one of the BETTER commentators on CNBC- But then again anyone looks better when they are amongst the likes of Kneale, Cramer, Liesman, and A. Hufintong.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:18 | 12150 Anonymous
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Yeah I see the chart Tyler but Zero Hedge was wayyy more interesting before it became so popular. The kids gotta eat, right? Still sad to see it evolve. You're still primo, just have to stop reading the comments. It was fun while it lasted.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:22 | 12156 Anonymous
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I thought I was the only one until I talked to my friend the other day and he said that he doesn't like the new site.
I think the site and the commentary are lacking.
Sometimes it's better not to "improve" what's already perfect.
Look at in'n'out, craigslist, etc.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:53 | 12195 kote
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I will say that comments about the site in the forum are being generally responded to, and at least read.  Try posting some suggestions.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:13 | 12327 Anonymous
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I've been reading zero hedge for a few months now and I guess some people just can't handle anything to change. I know this site still has some bugs to be worked out, but if TD can get the word out about whats really going on to more people then he is accomplishing his quest! His site gives me hope that maybe someday things will change and the people will take America back from the bankers and their puppets on capitol hill.

Keep up the great work Tyler and crew!!! You are giving Americans real HOPE!!!! (Not that green shoots crap that Washington is trying to peddle either!)

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:19 | 12153 Anonymous
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TD you just gotta make CHARLIE the ZH mascot!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:21 | 12155 Anonymous
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The Dick Grasso analogy is particularly galling. His compensation package was and still is egregious. Charlie
Gasparino needs a major uptick to even be considered a fool. Keep up the pressure.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:22 | 12158 ShankyS
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Priceless chart TD. Without ZI and all the blogs posting their clips for additional add revs they'd really be sucking ass. They should be thanking you IMO. 

The rest of the post is really not worth commenting on. I gusee when Charlie becomes a Dennis Kneale wanna be you realize just what you are dealing with. I guess that guy Carl from the am show will be next on the hit parade. He seems the type. 

One thing for sure, they won't be posting here. CAPTCHA's are way too hard. 

Have a great day!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:30 | 12164 Anonymous
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Keep it up.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:32 | 12166 Anonymous
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Is this the same channel that had that in-depth, investigative report on porn?

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 23:24 | 12575 samiam6
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yeah.  that, call girls and weed.  priceless business journalism if you ask this guy.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 23:25 | 12577 Gilgamesh
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Don't forget BLOGGING about porn.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:33 | 12168 Anonymous
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The fact that they are attacking the bloggers tells me that audience is shifting towards the blogs and away from them. Awesome

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:26 | 12295 pinkboxtrader
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An earnings chart between ZH and GE could paint the picture

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:34 | 12169 Anonymous
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CNBC = Zero Intelligence. I got simple CAPTCHA this time.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:35 | 12171 Anonymous
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Yes, TD. But on the other hand, Charlie does openly observe that GS is gov't-subsidized to take its hyper risks as usual, and that it gladly accepted the subsidy.

The basic gov't policy appears as Gasparino imputes: Get the baddest banks up to their old profitable tricks again, 'to jump-start the financial system.'

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:38 | 12172 Anonymous
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HAHAHA...the "Old" media is dying, and losing their relevance, and they don't like it one bit.

Don't feel bad, actors on CNBC, you can find your next gig on a daytime soap.

CNBC...hilarious. Wall St. shilling entertainment.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:40 | 12175 Anonymous
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Ah, they do protest too much. Blogger = moron ? CNBC commentator = ? Something one regrets buying on the street after a late night of drinking @ The China Grill.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:41 | 12176 Anonymous
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1) when you are on to something the easiest thing is to just insult the other party. this is the playbook, it serves to marginalize I have detailed that this tactic would be used.

At lest the guy practically stated they are using the government to buy stocks. getting this out is impt. Of course the way he ets t out one would think it is an OK thing o do with our money!!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:42 | 12177 Anonymous
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We need a ZEROHEDGE Podcast.... you can use a robot voice to disguise it.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:10 | 12214 Steak
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second to the podcast idea, for Mr. Durden and Marla :-)

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:43 | 12180 Anonymous
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Just change the name to GSNBC.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:44 | 12183 Anonymous
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One step backwards for CNBC, one giant leap for blogkind.

The significant issue here is both CNBC and Goldman Sachs feel threatened by zerohedge and bloggers in general.

Bravo "Mr. Durden" they are starting to look over their shoulders. Soon they will hire food tasters.

Don't let up. It's starting to get fun-Game On!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:02 | 12202 Woodshedder
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Not to float my own boat, well, yeah, okay, somewhat to float my own blog, my post got Dennis Kneale to say that he "is a clown, complete with a red nose and big goofy shoes..." on air.

Not much value added, but funny as hell.

I opined that maybe he missed being in the running for a Pulitzer. Nope. Dennis says, "Pulitzer? I'm on TeeVeeee now Bayybeee."

Yep, all drawn out, just like that.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:45 | 12185 Gabriel Gray
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And there are those who want Tyler to stop the CNBC bashing. You gotta be kidding me, this gets better almost every day. CNBC's day of reckoning will surely come.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:47 | 12188 Anonymous
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Kudos,

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

First they ignore you
Then their is derision
Then they fight you and
Then YOU win.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 15:55 | 12198 chindit13
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Absent a repetition of the Mahatma Gandhi quote (which says it best), what ZH is doing is rather insidious and worthy of a CIA covert op.  One by one you are picking off the chaff at GE's entertainment network.  First DK, now CG.  Of course none of them "cares", but none can resist fighting back.  ZH is sticking in their craw, and 'me thinks the lady doth protest too much'.  Add a sleepness night or two, or the beginnings of an ulcer, and you are winning.  A nervous on air tic comes next, because they realize that in trading rooms across the planet folks are laughing.  The art of war.

As for Michelle CC, can you explain this:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/16561378/site/14081545/ in light of your moronic blogger comment?  Oh, YOUR bloggers have day jobs.  I see.

Incidentally, in a month CNBC doesn't turn out a tenth of the value ZH does in an afternoon.  Read it and see for yourself.  Other than Santelli, and maybe Faber, CNBC does not even possess the expertise to begin to understand some of the topics ZH covers.  Of course that may say something about the viewership, at least the viewers who have the sound turned on.

ZH may be fight club, but CNBC---with its constant stereo screamfest---isn't even up to the entertainment value of the WWF.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:16 | 12219 ptoemmes
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That woud be WWE now, but I'd buy you and your 10 best friends the beer to watch WWF alumni tear the CNBC team limb from limb.  I'm thinking lions, and tigers, and bears - oh my.

 

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:23 | 12229 chindit13
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WWF-WWE...haven't watched it since Professor Toro Tanaka retired.  And maybe I'll watch CNBC again when it loses its last remaining paid advertisers and goes back to FNN with Bill and Sue and a slightly more hirsute Ron.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:53 | 12264 Rusty_Shackleford
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Is Ivan Putski still wrestling?

Mr. Fuji? Saito?

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:47 | 12307 Anonymous
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Polish Power! How come you never see guys the likes of George the Animal Steel eating the turnbuckle anymore.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:04 | 12204 Anonymous
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TD, loved your very apt "Charlie" line from "On The Waterfront," another great fight flick.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:22 | 12227 joann
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  1. First they ignore you.
  2. Then they laugh at you.
  3. Then they fight you.
  4. Then you win.
Hmm, appears they are at #2 & 3, however, we all know you are already at #4.

 

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:24 | 12231 Anonymous
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charlie, charlie, charlie..... i wouldn't shit you, you're my favorite turd...

by the way, tyler, thx for that easy math question...anything else, and i wouldn't have been able to post.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:25 | 12232 Anonymous
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I think we are focusing on the wrong part of the message: A 'respected media' is using a ZeroHedge tangent to finally give the party line on why GS is being allowed what GS is doing: They are doing it because Government wants to. The government wants the Market to go up - so that folks will come back and buy and park the crap in their 401k's till all this blows over.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:37 | 12403 Anonymous
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I think you nailed it. Have been thinking the same. Remember how the great O said on March 6th that it is a great time to buy stocks. They just let the market go down the next 3 days and bam bam bam,3 months of V shaped recovery and all is forgotten. Green Shoots everywhere.... They sure as hell will not let the markets go down. We are already in the next bubble, it is the stock market itself. In another 10 years all of us will be paper millionaires in our 401K. Until it is time to retire, when they will tax you to death and all you will have is worthless paper. Welcome to Hotel California....

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:25 | 12233 No More Bubbles
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I think this idiot piece of garbage "GAS-BAG" needs to be introduced to what "FIGHT CLUB" is.  He really should go rent the movie.  Can't believe neither of them knew who Tyler Durden was.  Only after that ugly witch Michelle CAA CAA whatever her name is had her producer yell in her ear did she know........

 

THESE PEOPLE ARE SO PATHETIC!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:27 | 12234 Anonymous
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Here is gasbags real face with his mask removed : http://tinyurl.com/charlie-gasparino

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:29 | 12236 Anonymous
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Zero Hedge

The anchor woman was Michelle Caruso Cabrera not Maria Bartiromo

-Comfortably Smug

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:49 | 12311 Anonymous
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Thats Tits Cabrera to you.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:32 | 12238 Anonymous
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Oh how sweet, old world TV types getting all defensive...that "moronic bloggers" is sure to get your ratings back up.

This site alone has entertained and enlightened me more than 10 years of CNBC propaganda.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:37 | 12249 Stuart
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Boycott GE!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:45 | 12255 andy55
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Am I the only one that thinks it's sad, bizarre, and pathetic that these people don't recognize the name 'Tyler Durden'?  Same goes for the GS guy who wrote to zh a couple weeks back ('Dear Tyler Durdin').

 

Kinda says something that these people are so checked out, culture wise, they've never seen what people, as well as critics, generally agree is a landmark film.  It's reveals how out of touch and superficial these people really are.

 

P.S.  Marla, these captchas are getting a little hardcore (double digit negative subtraction)--did the bots/scipters nail the simpler system from a couple weeks ago (e.g. single digit math)?  I only notice it beacuse I usually need to do a lot of previews and edits because I'm a mad typo machine.

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:47 | 12258 Anonymous
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Betty Liu on Bloomberg is about 100x hotter than any of the CNBC babes, and she has a brain to boot.

Gasparino is an egomaniacal d-bag, like Liesman and Kiernana and everyone else at CNBC who thinks they are smarter because they are on TEE-VEE.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:52 | 12263 Bubby BankenStein
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Thanks for the search trends.  I have to confess that I have regularly visited CNBC.COM while working on my morning dump.  It just seems to help loosen things up.  I'm ready to move on to other comedy.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:53 | 12265 Anonymous
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Hyuk Hyuk Hyuk it's jokey the palook. I was promised tits...

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 16:54 | 12266 Kerel
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"Noom du plum"  Lovely coming from the mouth of a scribbler who can't help but drop the name of a "chic" restaurant every time he's on the air.  This poseur sounds like

he hasn't heard of Fight Club apparently.  

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:04 | 12273 Anonymous
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Fight club can 'numb his plums'

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:01 | 12269 tcstranger
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omfg those guys are dumb.

 

"Oh - it's a fight club character!!"

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:03 | 12271 Anonymous
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HA HA HA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gasparino

Gasparino is at work on a book about the collapse of Bear Stearns, entitled The Sellout: How Wall Street Greed and Stupidity Destroyed America's Dominance of the Global Financial System.

FUNNY !

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:11 | 12278 Will Profit
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"I have to tell Goldmans side of the story"

Of course you do Charlie. You do it day after day after...

Who, that was short or holding puts doesn't remember this *ss *ole cumming on air with his breaking rumors swill, on the days that Bernanke and Paulson were to tired to get behind a microphone and lie. How many times Chuckles gave the indices a good up when they were being pummeled. Michelle, your starting to get that hard look to your face that is usually associated with alcoholic crack whores. 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:11 | 12279 KC
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Let's not kid ourselves here, the most important point to come out of this is that of course Tyler is better looking than Charlie, despite Charlie's quick English to French translation abilities.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:13 | 12281 mellmeister
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MCC needs a good boning - who says you have to like 'em?

-15 * -24 equals 360 - heck yeah!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:19 | 12289 pinkboxtrader
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Zero-Intelligence t-shirts!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:21 | 12290 Milton
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Charlie may act like a nice guy/idiot but I don't buy his schtick. His comments about ZERO were intentional and I wouldn't understimate the capabilities of the peeps that tyler may have really really pissed off. So tyler this may be a good time to re-read Sun Tzu; they just opened the missile silos.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:23 | 12291 Moe Speeks
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Charlie is a sell-out

simple as that

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:34 | 12301 maui73
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a multi billion media company against some bloggers. well done charlie, well done......

this is getting ugly.  

don't underestimate a power of the pen ......and the independent journalism.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:40 | 12304 cougar_w
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On a lark, I googled "zero intelligence" and got the following link:

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6948-zero-intelligence-trading-clo...

 

"A model that assumes stock market traders have zero intelligence has been found to mimic the behaviour of the London Stock Exchange very closely.

However, the surprising result does not mean traders are actually just buying and selling at random, say researchers. Instead, it suggests that the movement of markets depend less on the strategic behaviour of traders and more on the structure and constraints of the trading system itself."

 

No disrespect guys, but you are PWNED.

 

cougar

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 17:50 | 12312 Quantum Noise
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MCC: "It's probably a pseudonym... pen name.. like Mark Twain!".

Oh yeah... who wants to be compared to Mark Twain... wtf did he do? Did he run GS? No.. so f^%k Mark Twain...

 

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:00 | 12316 jedwards
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Great job Tyler!

 

You went from nothing 6 months ago, to a force that needs to be reckoned with, to the point where CNBC reporters are forced to answer to your questions.  They wouldn't feel this need if your blog was garbage... it's top notch, so you're forcing their hand!   Keep it up!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:04 | 12320 johngaltfla
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I love Gasparino. He's entertaining as hell. Too bad old Charlie forgot one thing about us stupid moronic bloggers who just happen to be historians: Some of us kept every Bubblevision recording where Charlie came on the air at 2:45 to 3:15 every afternoon to pump a down day up with the "blah, blah, blah is rumored to be in talks to buy Bear Stearns" and voila, a 200 point down day was reversed. But who wants to dwell on a dead company or us moronic bloggers, right? After all Charlie, the internet leaves a history about you also, that many of us remember....

Who could possibly forget an example of these great stories to pump the markets up?

Bear Stearns Could Become Takeover Target: CNBC's Gasparino

and of course, he didn't personally profit from it, right?

CNBC’s Charlie Gasparino profits from Bear Stearns fall by inking a $400K book deal

Nah, he's such a stud.

But the Vanity Fair article sort of pissed him off.....

Bringing Down Bear Stearns


Wed, 07/22/2009 - 18:20 | 12333 Anonymous
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Love the new logo

You have total a SFB like Charlie taking shots and your are even attracting totally ignorant trolls like Anon #12094

Somethings happening here.

Keep it up

and PLEASE fix the Fu#!^~# Captcha

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:01 | 12368 Anonymous
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Wow, I never realized Charlie Gasparino was an abject narcissist.

Hey, Charlie! Look in the mirror and say hello to the only person who loves you more than your mother!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:02 | 12370 E Thomas St.
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Under his skin like bugs and methheads.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 20:02 | 12433 Jeanbon
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yes, this guy is a drug addicted, we should ask CNBC for

some hair samples... this could be fun :-)

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:21 | 12390 Anonymous
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Not his real name??? Are you kidding me? Classic..... keep up the great work Tyler.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 20:01 | 12431 Anonymous
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yeah, that got me loling... "it's probably not his real name." Well, did you read the manifesto motherfucker? Do your research instead of playing grabass with the slightly homely (so as to not be completely intimidating to the ugly people and also give an inkling of apparent intelligence given the inverse relationship with looks) help.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:23 | 12391 Anonymous
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I like CAPTCHA, because the math questions prevent CNBC personnel from posting.

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 20:24 | 12452 Anonymous
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LOL

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 21:40 | 12512 ptoemmes
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CNBC CAPTCHA Challenge Question:

 

(The 7/22/2009 closing value of the S&P 500) plus (The aggregate value of the IQ of all CNBC on air talent) =

 

Hint: It does take a little research.

 

Pete

 

PS
I do not want to jinx anything by pointing out that maybe - just maybe - registered users do not have to do a CAPTCHA so I won't.

 

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:40 | 12409 batgirl791
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I love the new logo!

Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:59 | 12430 Jeanbon
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I like your picture!

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