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Steve Liesman Apologizes
Following his "can we get some mexican music to go along with that" Ted Cruz comments, the always "apolitical" Steve Liesman - who honed his 'economic' teeth while on a mission to communist Russia - has issued an apology. Explaining his remarks were not meant to be "offensive in any way," Liesman suggested perhaps country-western would be a better choice next time...
The "oops" moment...
On Tuesday morning’s CNBC Squawk Box, senior economics reporter Steve Liesman blamed the weak jobs report on Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). He said, “We’re going to call this the Senator Ted Cruz jobs report. These are the jobless claims of Senator Ted Cruz.” As CNBC showed a picture of Cruz, Liesman added, “There he is! There he is! Can we get some music to go along with that, some Mexican music maybe?”
and the apology...
Regarding my recent remark on Squawk Box regarding Senator Ted Cruz, I first want to deeply and sincerely apologize if my remarks were insensitive.
Second, I want to explain that it was not intended to be offensive in any way.
I thought of him only as an American senator from Texas, and in an attempt, on the fly, to choose music representing that state, I chose Mexican music.
As a musician for many decades, I've played and listened to tons of Texas songs infused with Mexican themes. A better choice would have been Country/Western or Texas Roadhouse Blues - it was a bad reach all the way around.
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Waste of sperm.
do you mean cruz? (lies)man, or obummer?
Another fucking liberal racist... a trait which they so carefully condemn.
Just like their inclusiveness, diversity, etc., etc., etc.... Buncha hate filled spiteful people...
Ted Cruz is half-Irish, half-Cuban and born in Calgary, Canada
Liesman maybe should have suggested Ricky Ricardo's 'Babalu'
The original 'Badass Babalu' - great fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAV3bOJaQuY
LLIEESSSMANN, YOU GOT SOME 'SPLAININ TO DO!!!
Can we get some Hava Nagila with that apology?
Can LIESman get his slurs straight?
Since I don't know what he is, I'll call him a yellow-bellied cracker nigger kike chink nip porch monkey beaner kraut wetback flip swammie russky sand nigger yid douche bag. I think I covered most everything.
He should introduce himself on CNBC as follows; Hi, this is Steve LIESman, simpering fool.
"A bad reach...around."
Pretty much describes CNBC.
You can't make this stuff up.
Flag on the play, bad reacharound, 10 yard penalty repeat bald-faced lies.
Country & western?...so he thinks ONLY people who listen to C&W care about freedom from tyranny & stopping runaway central government planners/debt?
I don't know whether to be offended or LMAO.
The boy needs to pull his head out of his ass and then get his ass out of NYC more often.
Both, offended and LYAO.
Fuck this motherfucker and his empty apology.
He's a fuckinfuckfuck.
Chief economist? Go fuck yourself!
You know nothing except being Santelli's bitch and bernanks mouthpiece for his cock!
aplogize on TV.........live...........I want to see it.
Piece of shit
The guys a douche, whoever he is. Don't have cable so don't know nor care.
However his mistake was to apologize; fucking OWN IT. You're going to be a dick the only way out is through. No apologies - quip you bought a package of tampons for Cruz if he's bleeding through his panties.
Liesman isn't an economist, he's a media hack with an English degree from SUNY - Buffalo and a masters from Columbia University School of Journalism.
That should be a "journalism" degree/
Was a man ever more appropriately named?
If he was in anyway associated with the "right wing" he would never, ever be allowed on TV again, drummed out of broadcasting and running a cock fight operation somewhere in up state New York or advising russian oligarchs on how best to launder their ill gotten gains. But there is a double standard in broadcasting and if is not apparent you are part of the problem.
Squeel little piggy squeel.......
>>>>> suck-up douchebag
>>>>> journalist-of-the-year candidate
He can be both
he's about as much a journalist-of-the-year candidate as i am a father-of-the-year candidate ! (btw i have no kids)
He MUST be both.
Fixed it fer ya.
Om.
Play Hava Nagila before the Fed minutes are released and see what happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJH7Y56c7Y
Actually, I might try that next time.
I am not anti Mexican or an anti Semite....however, I am pro sense of humor.
Liesman, fuck your apology. Say it was a joke and earn a tiny bit of respect.
grande tetons - but really the point nobody here wants to say - it wasn't a joke. it was an out and out put down. cruz is 'just a stupid hispanic' and he - liesman - is an educated, informed, insider and cruz's ideas are stupid and liesman knows the way.
that really is the reality of the statement, let's all deal with it.
By why SHOULD IT EVEN MATTER whether Liesman is a racist?
The world is full of racists, if it was US policy to actually abhor and reject racism, the US would be more isolated than North Korea. Who cares if Thomas Stolper is closet Semetic Supremacist participating in Klan rallies at 200 West? It doesn't impair his ability to impart F/X recommendations which are extremely valuable to anyone with the common sense to do the exact opposite (or at least get out of the way their serial muppet rapings).
Freedom of thought and freedom of expression are supposed to be basic Human Rights, along with the freedom to be stupid (in the case of those who subscribe to the fallacy of composition that is racism).
i actually agree completely with you mr. urban redneck. i should be allowed to be as much of an asshole as i want. which means i should be allowed to also state that i don't like things such as immigration and this culture or religion or that, etc. this is real human nature. anybody that can claim to be as pure as the pope is a saint, and they are rare. but - we've lost that. and that produces liars - people that have to run around saying things they don't mean and pretending they believe things they don't believe.
liesman should be allowed to say - hey - i'm a jew boy from new york, i like tacos, but i don't especially like being surrounded and invaded by more and more uneducated mexicans that work cheap, take my job, spit on the sidewalk and put the bagel shop out of business because they pushed my family out. and then we can deal with what he really thinks.
Why would he think "any" kind of background music was called for??
Was talking about Liesman. These talking heads know that some viewers probably regard them as "experts" and rely on them. So when he gives his shallow market cheerleading analysis, he is probably hurting someone out there. I'm sure that he does not think about it that way, but all these cheerleaders - Liesman and Cramer especially - I wonder how they sleep at night.
Nobody watches CNBC yet everyone has a comment about it's idiots. This should have been the first thread ever without one comment. That would have proved a point.
Fonz, my brother in law has CNBC on all the time. We were at the beach and he had it on constantly.
I told him only like 50 people watch that channel. He replied there were lots.
So I said yeah, you and 49 others.
pods
Earplugs work well.
every investment bank in nyc has it wrap around below the ceilings. it helps them see what's being pumped into the muppets.
not joking.
joking - hey steve - were you and krugscock at bennies bar mitvah? i heard it was a big event. bigger then his bris. (or smaller than yours?)
I am not as mature as you, Fonz.
Between this site and CNBC I have turned into an angry miserable hemorrhoid.
(I have now contributed two comments to the same thread I have chastised others about)
lol...that is the heard mentality at work! Have a good one.
Hey Pods!
See, the Fonz watches CNBS, so you can tell your brother-in-law that y'all only got 48 more people to find.
In the past I have found that CNBC has been the least of all evils when it comes to financial news channels, until recently. CNBC has been leaning more and more left in an effort to recover their sagging ratings, but it ain't working. In fact, they are pissing off long-time viewers with this ploy. Perhaps if Mandy offered lap dances during commercials, their ratings might improve.
What, if any, financial channels do ZH members follow on the tube? And please don't say Bloomberg.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
You just made my day. Thanks, stranger.
Any one you wnat with the sound off.
CNBS Worldwide when in Asian programming is not bad.
The goofs who are guests from Oz are buncha strange MoFos....
Odd haircuts, bad ties and unbuttoned shirt collars. I gotta hunch, true to the Aussie stereotype, they've still not yet gone home from the night out drinking before.
Hey! That could be an improvement!
Re: Between this site and CNBC I have turned into an angry miserable hemorrhoid.
We should start a self-help group.
Hi, I'm _________ and I'm a angry miserable hemorrhoid.
Then everybody says: Fuck YOU Bernanki!
Second best comment of yours today.
+1000 He should have been wiped off his fathers stomach a long, long time ago.
LOL, best part of him ran down his mama's leg. LIES-man is a lacky at best, don't be so hard on the poor fella.
Oh come on! I'm no fan of LIESman but we're getting way too politically correct in this country. I seriously doubt he was out to insult Mexicans with his attempt at humor. CNBC is so worried about declining viewers, they probably forced the apology....Assholes!
Oh darling, I absolutely concur.
But he was politically incorrect by his very own self avowed standards.
I agree but hypocrites are hypocrites.
We're not hammering the guy because of the comment or his apology. We're hammering him because he's consistenly WRONG and is an annoying, condescending ass while being totally WRONG.
You might have missed the "Bank excess reserves don't go anywhere, aren't used for anything and don't get used to play in the stock market" tirade he went on just before the JPM 'London Whale' incident came to light. More than anything else he's ever said that one really whipped ZH into a frenzy for it's complete and total wrongness, delivered by him with complete smugness and condescention.
He had this coming. This didn't come from nowhere.
Yeah.
He's a fuck.
A Worthless fuck.
And We Like to Pick on the Weak Useless Fucks of the World.
Imagine how he'd be fucked over in a real day job at a money management firm.
Guy would be on drip Ketamine, Ativan, Thorazine and Xanax 24/7/365
And then unemployed.
And he could sign up on ObieCare and be on the telly, Happy Happy Joy Joy
Jesus H Fucking Christ this place is soooo fucked up.
It is just beyond me!
How can a society function like this?
yeah yeah, not very well, I know...
I wonder if they serve Jello at the Happy Forever Reeducation Summer Camps?
Your FEMA camp sounds so much nicer than mine.
It's not that we're politically correct, it's that his humor SUCKS. How the fuck do you confuse a CUBAN and MEXICAN??? Sure it's not quite as bad as confusing a Hutu and a Tusti (or a Cuban and a Rican), but it is stupid enough that it SHOULD disqualify a dufus from the serious state-duty of daily muppet programming. I thought politically correct TV douchebags were supposed to be "sensitive" to avoid causing irritation to pussies???
If you don't habla, or think all "brown" people are the same (and desperate to do the US illegal immigration thing) just look at VAST differences in the US immigration policies for the two groups Mexican=WetBack Cuban=DryFoot. The groups are equally far apart apart in other areas. For example, Cubans hate eating tacos (except when attached to una novia caliente), Mexicans, on the other hand...
LIESman did insult BOTH Cuban and Mexicans, not that we don't a fine job of insulting each other, and ourselves, with our (often dirty sometimes nationalistic) sense of humor... But not only do LIESman's jokes SUCK- so do his daily LIES. Does it really matter if we get the new and improved muppet programmer by hook or by crook? GOOD HONEST PEOPLE have been tattooed with a Scarlet Letter for FAR LESS, so why should his behavior be excused?
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Edit: I apologize in advance if you "don't get it" but writing an articulate sterilized argument to advance "What's good for the goose is good for the gander" in a hyper-PC environment is to accept the validity of that hyper-PC framework in the first place...
C'mon all you thin-skinned Chickanoes, get out there and protest/riot until CNBC fires/fries his @ss!
Fuck Liesman, the racist cocksucker.
showwy. Dennis kneale appologized to the bloggers..... http://hedge.ly/16453n8
A bad reach-around?
Like you do to Bernanke at every Fed press conf?
I guess it depends on the hand and amount of pressure applied.
was thinking the exact same thing when I read that....
more food for the right wing maniacs! to fight the left wing maniacs! full steam ahead!
Liesman’s joke was lame.
The claimed, perceived and third-hand “offense” was lame.
Liesman’s apology was BS.
And ZH's gloating is lame.
Grow the fuck up everybody.
Defend him from what? He can't help that he's a douchebag any more than a dog can help barking. Its in his nature.
All the more reason not to stoop to his level and try to score points according to the kind of cry first, identity grievance rules people like him navigate their lives by.
You missed it, man. This has nothing to do with that. See my above comment. The animosity Hedgies have against Steve has nothing to do with his comment or this apology.
He had it coming. This is just a little instant carma coming back for him for earlier misdeeds.
I got it and I think he's an assclown too but your position is stronger if you stick to hammering him for being a pig-headed, government worshipping train-wreck of wrong, not for some un-PC faux-pas.
Speaking of which, capitalizing “hedgies” connotes a certain amount of arrogance and is bad form.
Some slack here, please. We're just chillin' and waiting for the economic apocalypse.
CNBC need to apologise for wheeling out this total imbecile day after day, year after year
The only defense against a Cruz missile is ad hominem attack.
In Liesman's case, he simply extended the class.
Which is a strange turn of phrase, because clearly Liesman shows very little class in his remarks.
Palin fan as well?
No. And to compare Cruz w/ Palin I believe is extremely misguided.
what's wrong with saying "Mexican" music? Lots of Mexicans listen to it, including those in the US.
Well then they're racist, too.
They are allowed to be racist cause they put up a McMansion in a week.
pods
I hear Mexican music every night around my house - shouts, gunfire and it wraps up with police sirens. Pretty catchy, once you get used to it.
"Mexican music?" Excuse me, do you mean Mariachi, Tejano, Cumbia...?
Not only did Liesman insult latinos, but musicians everywhere! He should be tied to a chair and forced to listen to John Cage compositions!
LOL- he was always going to self-destruct......
"A better choice would have been Country/Western or Texas Roadhouse Blues - it was a bad reach all the way around."
My favorite Country & Western song is "Take that job microphone and shove it Liesman, I don't work for have to listen to you no more."
<BTW Liesman....it sounds like you're not enjoying that reach around. Can I help?>
Take that fiat and shove it! It ain't worth anything no more!
If Liesman made a black funny he'd be fired and CNBC would be sued. Stick with white jokes Steve, might even get a white house invite to urban night.
Steve was a little to comfortable with that "reach around" comment.
Just part of a normal evening for Steve!
Fuck off, Liesman!
Why is that worthless turd still on TV? No wonder CNBC can't be taken seriously and it's ratings are in the shitter.
what a tard it's texas swing music
does texas have music ? -g
[more like depressing-drama-in-a-guitar]
lyrics:
my best (former) friend ran away with my [former] girlfriend,
i got drunk with tequila, because i cannot afford bourbon...
in anger i took my pistol and accidentally shot myself in the foot,
and my ever loyal horsie stepped on the wound....
lolololol
SRV
Enough said.
Now get back to your Eminem, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus nonesense, child.
Since he is a lib it's all better and he is forgiven.
he didn't mean to be raycist and besides he loves chipotle mexican grill. which by the way is a GREAT buy...
and his house staff is hispanic (oops, cash only no declared and no visas).
this LIES MAN is the public shill for all gov. ekonomists......
iow... just another loud POS demostrating what the voodoo priests of modern times are.... er... i mean ekonomists..... LIARS
FUCK THEM ALL (gov-related)
eko-no-miks = theory based on wakos who see themselves as near-scientists because they create confusion on issues that are otherwise quite simple.... using the ignorance of the masses to shield the lies, frauds, and stealing from politicians
poli-tiks = multiple (poli) shit eating ticks who suffer from an inbred originated disease to be compelled to tell others how to live
p.s. FUCK YOU LIESMAN
My parents watched Wall-E lately at our urging, and they thought that the people in space looked a little like mongoloids - what can you do, they're in their 80s now. I told them the PC term was Liesmen. Fat, space mongoloids are Liesmen. They worry there is a Liesman advocacy group that will sue Pixar, which is my favorite part of the story btw.
Gosh.
I sure hope you give your parents lots of psychotropic drugs before the explanations.
Nice kid....
Still mushroom season somewhere.
look! petroglyphs on the refrigerator next to Jesus!
I will never ride space mountain on peyote again, says no one ever
"it was a bad reach all the way around."
That's what you ought to give your viewing audience while you fuck them in the ass with your bullshit advice, A Reach Around!
Where he outside the media "establishment", he'd already have been forced to resign. What a tool.
But I thought insulting White-Hispanics wasn't considered waycizm?
Only if he said they should have been playing Don 'no soul' Simmons.
the name zimmerman brings back memories, but it sure does look like a german WORD (and hence name) to me. but, that's long ago. cause yesterday, i forgot everything and somebody here posted a picture of still in power mugabe and quoted 'if i had father, that's what he would look like'.
i'll tell you one thing - most of the guys here - when we're in the fema camps - i'll split you half my meals just to here the funny stuff we can come up with.
Can we get some TAPS music with a rope around Liesman neck.
Did he just say "reach around?"
Liesman is a f'n asshole.always has been.he was trying to help his msnbc fuckheads.Cruz is cuban. NFP was from the month before the shut down. when and if the Americans wake up to all this corrupt shit going on. there is gonna be big trouble. and i say that carefully.
lol.... yer comment implies americans KNOW geography..... (or actually speak other languages)
mambo-mambo-salsa-chile....
cuba-libre sayz it all... -roflmao.....
it's only because Glenn Beck blew LIES-man outta the water first thing this morning on air. Then Beck proceded to destroy all the racist fuck tards of CNBS and MSNBS and how they've been busted so many other times for other racist shit they've said or videos they have doctored in order to make a non-Marxist American look bad.
Then he told everyone to blast LIES-man over twitter, which I'm sure the twitter-verse of Beck followers promptly did. That's the only reason that fucker apologized, and you know he doesn't mean it...those douchebags only apologize when they get caught at something or let their scum sucking Marxist sides get out accidentally on air.
Fuck LIES-man and all of the Marxist propaganda media. All bought and paid for by "the state".
Glenn Beck just tweeted that he's going to frame your post after he stops crying tears of joy that someone else thinks he's still relevant besides himself.
When are charges of a hate crime going to be given?
Spanish/Mexican music. Phrygian mode.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tkVz3GhxeI&t=1m14s
it was a bad reach all the way around.
He ought to know about reach around.
Hey Liesman - You are a fucking asshat cocksucker.
If you are offended? I don't really care. BTW, you did not interpret my comment incorrectly as it was my intention to offend you, you dickbag. If you ARE offended by being called a fucking asshat - then I have accomplished my mission.
Fuck off,
Ness.
Long Live the Texas Tornados.
S/L is an apology = an inferior specimen; makeshift...as in senior economist. He is a miserable wretch as are all his klak there.
LIESman is a dope, I.Q. of 90 tops, and a delusional shill not to mention being a prick who deserves a good beating and a splintery broomstick up the ass.
Other than that he's o.k.
It wasn't an appology to Cruz it was an appology to Mexicans..
Liesman the Hebrew Hammer of media
I got yer Texas music right here bitchez!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXbRueS_Tw
You really can't blame him. WTF is this make believe ethnic group anyway? We have white Hispanics. Black Hispanics. European Hispanics. Even Asian Hispanics. They should all go back to Hispain.
If they all go back to the Hispain Peninsula, then there will be a real mess, because you would have to separate the indigenous Hispanics, the Italian Hispanics, and the Towel Head Hispanics (Moors) - who can be FURTHER separated into the Arab Hispanics, the (Black) African Hispanics, and the Berber Hispanics. That division, however, ignores the other sometime religion/ sometime race/ sometime ethnicity group of migrants in the mix - the Jewish Hispanics.
And without universal & mandatory NWO/Nazi DNA testing -- they haven't a prayer of getting to the bottom of this, and the last time "they" mixed science and fascism in an effort to get to the "truth" they decided that Aryan Man came down from some mountain or flew out of Himmler's ass or some other such quackery...
He plays an instrument, so its OK
It must be the "skin flute"
OK Texas Roadhouse Blues/CountryWestern Songwriters here is your opening.With a name like Liesman I know plenty of songwriters who could sing La Cucaracha to him.
Liesman is a complete tool.
For anyone who thinks that Liberals are for minorities continues to get disproved everytime they open their mouths. Minorities are only tolerated as a captive voting bloc. They only get enough crumbs to keep them addicted, but not enough power to get uppity. Blacks never had the demos to challange the New York/LA power center, but Hispanics will, and judging by our CA (half hispanic, or white hispanic) daughter's views on politics, the race card will have no effect. Most hispanics will drift right once Republicans learn how to communicate, and grow a pair on conservative values.
Hard work, family, and pride is their hallmark, and they will roll the Dems once they get enough power. It will be fascinating to watch.
THE SEIU alien army will obliterate the "hard workers" 10-1 and campaign donations 1000-1
No need to apologise Steve, really. Seeing as the strains of the "Inernational" pop into my head every time I see either you or Krugman, just seems fair.
http://tinyurl.com/lkyh2sb
Here's some real Texas music for Liesman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iamk3cZI1ec
And people wonder why no one watches this piece of shit network anymore.Saying this douche is an Economist is like thinking you can pick up a turd from the clean end.
Kernen shits on Indian people
Then Liesman shits on Mexican people
Only a matter of time before Santelli drops an "n" bomb
no worries - obama is white.
Sing another hava nagila, Lies man.
I nominate Liesman for CNBS 1st annual 'Steve Liesman' award. I thought Andrew Ross Sorkin was a ringer, but Liesman stepped up at the last minute. Golf Claps for Liesman...
liesman - try it again - 'it was a bad reach around'. see fixed it for ya.
Someone should do an "El Kabong" on his bald head with his own geetar!
Racist, liberal, hypocrite coward.
Perhaps he should actually stick to reporting the news and not commenting on his personal feelings about the people from Texas or Cruz. Had this been a Fox news guy this would be a fireable offense. Denegrating a Congressman for his heritage. No one thinks of Mexican music when they think of Texas. What a bogus BS excuse. Then to blame a jobs report on a 2 week "shutdown" is another red herring. I suppose then Cruz should get credit for the stock market rally as well using the "Liesman logic".
Bottom line, major douchebag that will be protected because liberals always find away to dodge racism charges.
yep What a bogus BS excuse.
I only wish Willie Nelson would get to work and show him what a real Texas songwriter and musician sounds like.
"By their fruits you will know them."