A show called American Greed is the only reason I ever watch CNBC. I feel a bit guilty about that, given the program’s sleazoid name, and the fact that it’s just a bunch of recycled old “true crime” Dateline NBC episodes.
What’s weird (and annoying) is that CNBC only carries commercials for… CNBC. Over and over and [...]
CNBC rearranging chyrons on a sinking ship
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Most Troubling Tweet Today: Does Wall Street Drop Seem Amusing?
February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sometimes the leftist bloggers have a “unique” brand of humor. The kind of “unique humor” that makes most everyone else cringe. Earlier today the liberal blogger Atrios, aka Duncan Bowen Black of Media Matters fame and formerly of the wildly unsuccessful Air America tweeted:
cnbc is only fun to watch when the market is tanking
Nice to [...]
Once Upon a Honeymoon: Andrew Sullivan’s Obama Love is Still Blind
February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Andrew Sullivan, who once wrote the essential politically incorrect essay, “What’s so bad about hate?” to refute the idea of codifying “hate crimes,” is ironically now the poster child for what can be so bad about love—blind love, that is.
The press honeymoon is getting a little sour; and “conservatives” who endorsed Obama like Christopher Buckley [...]
As Steele Marginalizes Reid, Conservatives Must Marginalize the Left
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele gave the only appropriate response on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, to Senate Majority Leader and member of the anti-war Left Harry Reid comparing critics of health care reform to opponents of abolition: he refused to answer questions about it and told CNBC commentator Donny Deutsch to change the subject.
It was a good reaction, [...]
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Real Jobs and Towns Die in Hands of Government
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Although it’s been three decades, I can still remember that phone conversation as if it was yesterday. I called to surprise an old high school friend, we were back in town. The voice on the other end was slightly hurried and nervous, “Oh what timing! I’m glad you called when you did. The phone is [...]
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‘GOP Has No Leaders’-Narrative Getting Old
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Donny Deutsch is host of The Entrepreneurs, a primetime special profiling the success stories of America’s entrepreneurs on CNBC. I thought I would introduce him to you because I didn’t know who he was until he appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, and I assume you haven’t heard of him before either.
As said, despite him [...]
