Dennis Kneale is, by far, the biggest tool on CNBC. You should read some of the caustic non-arguments that ooze from him. I'd be against calling him the geek strictly because he isn't very intelligent - if he's working on anything in the basement at all, he's melting army men.
Can I just take this opportunity to point out that Jeff Zucker tampered with his kids' little league draft to get Tiki Barber's kids on his team? The guy's networks deserve all the unfair criticism they can get.
But just to 'splain something important too, if you get offended when Obama gets unfair criticism, you are a racist.
@momo: No. Liberals believe Conservatives are fiscal hypocrites. I certainly didn't see decrease in government spending during the Bush43 years, nor did I see a decrease in the size of our government. Both conservative "ideals" have been espoused politically since Reagan.
Let me just say that I so look forward to these sorts of posts, only because of all our new conservative commenters get to explain how the rest of us are such profound idiots.
@Private Hangnail: I don't think you are an idiot. We merely have different opinions on the best way to proceed in this country.
IMHO, it is usually the liberals who believe that conservatives are the idiots, when we happen to disagree about something. I just do not understand why people feel so threatened when we just simply disagree.
As opposed to the actual posts and comments that dominate this site, calling the conservatives profound idiots.
Notice I said calling, not explaining. That's one major difference. Your comment is a perfect example. The original comment tried to explain something. You simply try to devalue it by mocking conservatives.
@momof3wildkids: You're disagreeing on a notoriously liberal forum. People aren't threatened, they're annoyed that you're here. Just as people on Fox News or The National Review probably wouldn't be pleased with liberals commenting on their drivel. It's a two way street.
@Private Hangnail: Wow. Your group think mentality is truly frightening.
I post here because I welcome people challenging and questioning my beliefs. It makes me a more thoughtful person. Any poster, on any forum (be it liberal or conservative) who cannot defend their positions without feeling threatened probably hasn't done their homework on their belief system. Intellectually lazy.
@momof3wildkids: Why so serious? Again, I think you're overlooking the fundamental nature of this site. It's funny. They poke fun. Ultimately, it's your humorlessness that I find most troubling. I don't care that you disagree with me, I care that you're not amusing.
@ChillbearLatrigue: You, however, have potential for humor. You've just got to stop explaining everything so tediously. Better to call us a pack of queers sucking at the tit of the Mother State. At least that resonates.
So GE's stock price is down. Big whoop. Everybody's stock price is down. Has anyone here actually looked at their balance sheet?
This is what people in the bidness call a value stock. They've got a P/E ratio of 4.
It's no surprise that their profits are down in a down economy. But profit is still profit. Profitable companies don't ask for bailouts. This post makes no sense.
Even the mighty G.E. caught at the poker table. Wow. How about that?
Should that go down, the folks (big banks) who fed them all the make-believe chips (credit) to gamble and lose with can potentially get excellent G.E. assets for pennies on the dollar while we get the bill for the whole transaction.
See how that works? (And why the Fed therefore doesn't want to say how much they're handing out to whom...)
When Citibank, a bank that makes up nearly a quarter of all US savings and checking, is valued less than Heineken (mmmmmm beer) GE is not too big to fail.
@rudolphdude: Wait, are you saying Citibank the company is worth less than Heineken the company, or are you merely pointing out that shares of Citibank are now cheaper than a bottle of Heineken?
Yeah, you know, it's weird. The part of GE that's hurting is their financial division. Like the part of its business that makes loans to people.
I don't get that. I don't get why GE makes loans to people. If you are a business that makes ALL THE FUCKING LIGHTBULBS--I mean, here's civilization, and it is DEPENDENT on your product...why are you also opening a financial division?
I kind of felt the same way when they I realized that they ran NBC. What is the point of that? No matter how bad the economy gets, no matter how bad television gets, or how many people pull their god-damn advertisements, no one is ever going to stop buying lightbulbs.
@braak: The same could be said for the banks. If you have a business that pays people 2 percent interest to put money in your bank and you charge them 18 percent (or as much as 29 percent ) to loan out that money on credit cards -- and you get $2 user fees every time someone takes out $40 from an ATM -- why do you have to blow it all away by entering into these toxic derivatives that no one understood?
Does it need to be pointed out again that the Daily Show is a fake news show that chooses as its first target of satire the cable news channels? What about this is cause for concern or controversy? He did a funny bit on the puffed up blowhards of CNBC last night. His usual targets are CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, which are all, to varying degrees, wastes of human talent and energy. Santelli's rant was inane and poorly targeted, since so few consumers are ever going to see any help from their government and the banks (supposedly the responsible party here) will receive trillions for basically being important but stupid.
You want to be on the side of cable news and the banking industry against a comedian and a few of his writers? Be my guest, fuck wit.
I liked Rick's rant. I think Stewart is wrong to target CNBC. How can anyone predict the future? Wall Street is a study of groupthink. Did Stewart manage to not loose money during the crash last year? Or wait, let's ask his brother an MD of UBS.
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But just to 'splain something important too, if you get offended when Obama gets unfair criticism, you are a racist.
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IMHO, it is usually the liberals who believe that conservatives are the idiots, when we happen to disagree about something. I just do not understand why people feel so threatened when we just simply disagree.
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As opposed to the actual posts and comments that dominate this site, calling the conservatives profound idiots.
Notice I said calling, not explaining. That's one major difference. Your comment is a perfect example. The original comment tried to explain something. You simply try to devalue it by mocking conservatives.
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I post here because I welcome people challenging and questioning my beliefs. It makes me a more thoughtful person. Any poster, on any forum (be it liberal or conservative) who cannot defend their positions without feeling threatened probably hasn't done their homework on their belief system. Intellectually lazy.
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@ChillbearLatrigue: You, however, have potential for humor. You've just got to stop explaining everything so tediously. Better to call us a pack of queers sucking at the tit of the Mother State. At least that resonates.
03/09/09
This is what people in the bidness call a value stock. They've got a P/E ratio of 4.
It's no surprise that their profits are down in a down economy. But profit is still profit. Profitable companies don't ask for bailouts. This post makes no sense.
03/08/09
Should that go down, the folks (big banks) who fed them all the make-believe chips (credit) to gamble and lose with can potentially get excellent G.E. assets for pennies on the dollar while we get the bill for the whole transaction.
See how that works? (And why the Fed therefore doesn't want to say how much they're handing out to whom...)
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I don't get that. I don't get why GE makes loans to people. If you are a business that makes ALL THE FUCKING LIGHTBULBS--I mean, here's civilization, and it is DEPENDENT on your product...why are you also opening a financial division?
I kind of felt the same way when they I realized that they ran NBC. What is the point of that? No matter how bad the economy gets, no matter how bad television gets, or how many people pull their god-damn advertisements, no one is ever going to stop buying lightbulbs.
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"Greed," Gordon Gekko said, "is good."
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You want to be on the side of cable news and the banking industry against a comedian and a few of his writers? Be my guest, fuck wit.
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