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FAMOUS CNBC LADY LITERALLY HAS NO IDEA WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT: We know that most of you people like to spend your entire “workdays” watching the television channel for rich people, CNBC, so as to stay a step ahead of your fellow investors in the ultra-competitive “Who can lose most of America’s wealth the quickest?” financial game, so we feel obligated to present you with a modest caveat to keep in mind: one of the channel’s most well-known hosts, Maria Bartiromo, has no idea what Medicare is. She does not understand why 44-year-old Rep. Anthony Weiner doesn’t currently “use” Medicare himself, if he thinks so highly of it. Disturbing. [Huffington Post]
Ah, what to do with a shill and a slut like Maria?
I never understood what Joey Ramone saw in her.
I didn’t know that Maria’s voice sounded like LaVerne and Shirley combined.
Money Honey? More like Money Dummy.
Wow, words fail me.
CNBC, heckuva job hiring that one.
ProfessorJukes: A masterbatory aid.
Someone who setup a lot of the on air technology at CNBC told me she is a nasty, short, idiot.
This confirms what I have long thought about CNBC. They are syncophants sucking on the “teat” of Big Business.
On the Richter Scale of stupidity, where an increase of 1 represents a tenfold increase in neuron-killing, “Keep the government out of my Medicare!” is a 7.4 and “If Medicare’s so great, why aren’t you on it?” is a devastating 8.6
ProfessorJukes: A lot if you like ‘em short, stupid and nasty.
Unemployment insurance is a really great government program too, Maria. You should try it.
I know - OT - but did any one see Moyer on Maher Friday night? (Moyer on Maher - hard to type, much less say). I so pray somehow Obama saw it.
She later retorted, “Well, if you like medicare so much why don’t you marry it? Huh? Mr. WEINER?!?!?!”
Okay, somebody’s got to say it. Maria Fartaroma.
If you like Medicare so much why don’t you marry it?
Ahh, yes, the sight of her shining eyes, her luscious lips and the sound of the wind in her head.
So she is stupid. Is that a surprise? I am not surprised by anything anyone says on television “news”. As far as I know, the vast majority of these people are basically spokesmodels(what was the show where people vied to be the best spokesmodel- Ed McMahon-maybe- was the host of the show?)- some -the less attractive ones- are merely media whores(spokesmodels are also media whores but might be good looking too)
Johnny Zhivago: zomg, she is short too! Well, that does it. Boycott.
Is there some sort of autoprogram that can look for the words “off topic” or “OT (when not referring to ‘overtime’)” in a comment, delete it, and then send put the sender on a Scientology e-mail listserv?
The Cold Sea: let her eat cake.
She should stick to polishing CEOs’ knobs.
Remember, this is the woman who had $0 after two rounds playing Jeopardy. After she was ‘gifted’ with $1000 to allow her to play Double Jeopardy, she finished up with $300. Good investment policy!
CNBC is financial porn for the few remaining souls who believe stockbrokers know anything, and Maria is the porn component. She really oughta be hotter than she is. Her husband is the head of some brokerage firm.
geminisunmars: Yeah, me too.
Oh, the sea of intellectuals on the Cnbc, with Kramer at the lead. Yes but, the UK has free insurance for honk nosed, exophthalmic goiter bug eyes like yourself, poor sick people hater.
Johnny Zhivago: When you need an absolutely, positively remorse free grudge bang, except no substitutes.
I would love to see a Dumbest Person on Television debate/cage match between this vacuous ‘tard and Steve Doocy.
slappypaddy:
The Cold Sea: “let her eat cake.”
Honestly, if she(and her ilk) aren’t the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, who is?
That performance makes 77 cents on the dollar look like a steal for the ladies.
I’d walk her to her truck.
She is a dundercunt.
ManchuCandidate: All anyone needs to know about Maria, courtesy Wikipedia:
Bartiromo grew up in the Bay Ridge section of southern Brooklyn. As a teenager, she checked coats at her parents’ Italian restaurant, at which her father was the chef. Bartiromo graduated from New York University with a BA degree in journalism and a minor in economics. On 13 June 1999, Bartiromo married Jonathan Steinberg, son of investor Saul Steinberg. Jonathan (”Jono”) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of WisdomTree Investments, a financial investment services company in Manhattan, most noted for their issuance of ETFs, or exchange-traded funds.[1]
Bartiromo was nicknamed the Money Honey during the boom years of the stock market in the late 1990s due to her striking looks….On January 16, 2007, Bartiromo filed to trademark the term for herself.
In the future, to distract media critics, she will be required to read stock quotes naked while jumping up and down on a trampoline.
TGY: hahahaha.
Egregious: I saw her on some PBS show or other, and my first thought after the first stupid thing she said (which was the first thing she said) was “I bet money that she sucked a whole lot of cock to get where she is today.”
lulz.
TGY: And that $300 was only thanks to the “Your Ass or a Hole in the Ground” category, in which she went one for three.
Compliments of gofugyourself.com
http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/06/maria_fugtiromo.html
Maria Bug Eyes Class standing on the corner with the poors
She must think ‘Medic-aide’ is a government sponsored sexual aide program.
And this concludes yet another episode of our multi-part continuing series: “Jesus, we’re fucked”
Tune in next week when Michael Steele raps about protecting medicare and social security from the Obamacare and Chris Wallace felates Dick Cheney as Cheney whips some Pakistani kid who eyed him suspiciously at a 7/11 with commentary by John McCain
This is what happens when you politicize the news, facts, and reality. I love the fact that it happened on MSNBC, weren’t they positioning themselves as the “liberal” counterpart to Fox News? Thank God for football season(both the hand-ball variant and the foot-ball variant,It really doesn’t matter if Healthcare Reform doesn’t get passed this time around. Thankfully there is a threshold as to when more and more people will start falling through the donut in a few years time and realize that: hey, the system is failing us. Maybe, just maybe, people won’t fall for blatantly stupid lies against reform. Kudos to her for managing to drag the NHS into this.
Bartiromo needs to eat a 44-year old bag of lightly salted poison rat Weiner.
MSMBC doesn’t seem to have a way to let you tell them what morons you think they are. Been tryin’ ever since this popped up on HuffPo. Anybody got an addy that will actually reach someone who might give a shit?
This woman must be $arah Palin’s “healthcare” ghostwriter.
I mean CNBC, which maybe is why I didn’t get anywhere. I’m such a moron, you see.
I bet you she believed all this time she didn’t have Medicare because she was just too smart. Harhar!
But really this is sad.
Maria Bartiromo may not know shit about Medicare, but she could identify the penises of the CEO’s of the Fortune 100, from the blow jobs.
And here I thought there was something behind those blowjob lips.
Turns out it was just a deep throat.
But no brains.
At least she makes Jenna Bush look like Edward R. Murrow.
Actually in a different segment Weiner exclaimed it was his duty to look out for the interests of the people, not those of big business. Maria, talking over the top of his comment, said her job was to look out for business. Huh? That’s a journalist’s JOB? Cheezus!
There are some smart women on CNBC but Money Honey isn’t one of them. Dumb as a bag of macaroni.
SHE WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER THE 11TH (1967). Why does CNBC hate America?
norbizness: That comment was kind of OT.
geminisunmars:
“I know - OT - but did any one see Moyer on Maher Friday night? (Moyer on Maher - hard to type, much less say). I so pray somehow Obama saw it.”
Yes, it was fantastic. Bill Moyers is one of my heros. I didn’t agree with everything he said (fight for what you want & blow the whole reform bill). But, he is a national treasure, a true genius & caring man.(not many of those left). His 2 series on Joseph Campbell were spectacular. Rent, buy, & listen to these. Fantastic.
norbizness: That’s off-topic. John Travoltagrams for you!
What a glorious example of a Brain-Death Panel.
She certainly has the Faux News interview style down pat:
a) ask question of interviewee
b) talk right over answer
c) repeat as necessary until interviewee leaves in disgust
geminisunmars:
Also, here is the Maher/Moyers Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSQ2DWkVE0
And as far as Prez watching, I hope so too. I think he has a lot to learn. I saw him talking about the flu today. Something is missing. What is going on with this guy? Moyers talked about the corporate whoring going on. Who is the one making deals with them? Give them an inch, they will STEAL a mile.
TGY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRE1Wi9nr1k&feature=player_embedded
Thank you!
I liked her better when she played Janice Soprano.
binarian: I believe I saw her do something similar to Weiner on Morning Joe not too long ago. He was basically saying how our system of coverage leaves people out and she flipped out with this crazy “R U SAYING MURIKA NOT HAS BEST HELTH CAR IN TEH W0RLD?!q??!?one!!?” Hannityesque shit. She is basically a Fox News contributor trapped in an NBC employee’s body. These transnetworkuals just want free health care to pay for their career reassignment surgeries.
Wadda shitstain.
Nerdalicious: Thanks. Worth watching again. Don’t know why I forgot the “s” on Moyers. Must of loaned it to a Scientologist.
I thought Jon Stewart destroyed CNBC when he neutered assclown Cramer? People still watch these liars?
dum librul: Or maybe it was Matt Taibbi. Also.
JooJoo Bee: CNBC DOES have e-mail addresses somewhere on their website that will get you right to the studio. I recently received a snotty personal reply from Joe Kernan to one of my pithy observations.
It would be tough to pick the five worst people on CNBC, but the ones that make me change the channel immediately are: Joe MFing Kernan, Larry Liberals-stole-my-Hair Kudlow, Jim Even-when-I’m-right-I’m-Wrong Kramer, Maria Face-not-ready-for-HD Bartiromo and that stupid Rick guy in Chicago. Our country would be better off if the whole damn channel disappeared.
geminisunmars:
You’re welcome :). Bill Moyers “Power of Myth” series (& the other one) with Joseph Campbell was mind blowing. You can find these on you tube, rent or buy. Joseph Campbell was the Einstein of Philosophy, Religion, History & Myths. If Campbell were alive today he would be advising the powers that be on how to deal with other cultures/religions & we wouldn’t be in this mess.
dum librul: you were right the first time, morning joe. I saw it to. I don’t know why they feel if Micha is gone they have to bring in some “pleasant looking” woman to sit in her chair…either empty-headed Savannah Guthrie or Maria B.
Rep. Weiner just finished a stirring debate on health care reform with “Money Hunny” Bartiromo on MSNBC, which concluded with the most honest lines ever delivered. Weiner said — and I’m paraphrasing for lack of transcript — that his responsibility in all of this is to the taxpayers; Bartiromo, wanting to get the last word in, summed up her argument by stating that it’s her responsibility to protect the “investors” (i.e., the insurance industry’s bottom line.)
norbizness: There are little bits of potato chips all over my keyboard. Thank you.
takes12no1: I meant she did it to Matt Taibbi on Morning Joe, if my memory serves. Weiner’s exchange was primarily between him and Scarborough, but either way Joe’s lines were almost the same as Maria’s. He simply couldn’t understand a world without health insurance companies, and the suggestion that they didn’t need to be there at all seemed to make him break inside. The worst part is he was using that suggestion to bait Weiner into admitting he didn’t think insurance companies needed to be there making a profit off of people’s health issues, as though there is some fundamental right among US Murikans to profit off of anything.
Nerdalicious: Also on teh Netflix.
From Wikipedia:
In March, 2006, Bartiromo appeared as a contestant on celebrity Jeopardy. Matched against CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper and Kweisi Mfume, President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. After two rounds Bartiromo finished with $0, having only attempted to answer two questions in the Double Jeopardy round, answering only one correctly. Because her balance of $0 following the Double Jeopardy round would have made her ineligible for the Final Jeopardy round, Maria was ‘gifted’ $1,000 in order to keep playing. Maria answered the Final Jeopardy question incorrectly, and finished the game with $300 of the $1,000 she had been ‘gifted’.
I think I figured it out. She thinks Medicare is interchangeable with Welfare, and she was laughing at Weiner’s presumption that a Jew would sign up for something intended for the blacks. As pennance should be forced to watch Inglorious Basterds on a continuous loop all weekend long, and then write a report on whether she’s more like the Nazi or the Avenging Angel.
V572625694: oh thank god for that minor in Economics. I was worried for a second that she might not be qualified.
“Yeah, c’mon ha ha ha ha ha. Your name is ‘Wiener’ ha ha ha ha ha.”
Where’s a fat Genoa salami when you really need one? Shaddap!
She is confused about Medicare because she is monomaniacally reading Moby-Dick to try to understand this morning’s Richard Cohen column (it won’t help).
Somehow even the original lyrics are apropos. Have a happy nausea.
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find a word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown?
Nerdalicious: I grew up on those interviews, and they were (are) fabulous. But I don’t think the “powers that be” would listen to Campbell now, anymore than they listened to him then. Unfortunately.
Rukasu: Jesus christ doing the Boogaloo, she did that awful? And on celebrity Jeopardy? You know they dumb that shit down, right?
Scooter: If you’re willing to make a call, I found this comment deep in the HuffingtonPost comments on the story (I believe the poster was armadillo):
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I just called CNBC and registered my disgust with Maria. Do your part and push back against stupidity. I’m working on finding out who the advertisers are now.
1-877-251-5685
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That there’s our next president. The Jew, not the girl.
CaiteeCruelle: That sounds like an awful lot of work.
JooJoo Bee: Maybe, but I bet you knew Medicare is for the olds.
problemwithcaring: Anderson Cooper is a frickin’ genius! Who knew?
TGY: In the land of the blind, honey….
hobospacejunkie: what, picking up the phone and cursing into it?
Betcha Jon Stewart won’t be taking the Munny Hunny to task.
Mr Blifil: Buzz Feedback: +1 for both of you.
I can’t even snark. I haz too much a sad about the future.
At some point the inmates of the asylum, duly in possession of the keys for the last 10 years, handed them over to the village idiot, who previously had been deemed too harmless to bother incarcerating. That was before said idiot worked for her money the proper american way, by marrying it.
Eh, I got nothin. Now I haz a double sad.
geminisunmars:
Dude that played Jim Jones. Ha Ha
“But I don’t think the “powers that be” would listen to Campbell now”
Oh, I meant Powers Boothe
http://www.austinfilm.org/view.image?Id=757
Yeah, you’re right they’re all a bunch of dunderheads. I loved James Campbell. He was the most interesting person I ever listened to in my whole life.
CaiteeCruelle:
“I just called CNBC and registered my disgust with Maria. 1-877-251-5685.”
Great idea. Thanks for the number. They are supposedly the great financial talking heads of the world & Miss Bug Eyes doesn’t know that 44 yr olds don’t get Medicare? I say get the b fired.
I long for the good ol’ days, when stupid people tried to hide that fact by keeping their mouths shut.
Why are the hot ones with money always stupid? I’m lookin’ at you, Ariana Huffington.
BTW, I don’t want to sound racist, but this is what you get when you allow Eyeties into America.
“Why don’t I use Medicare? ‘Cause I’m in Congress, lady. I have my own personal gold-walled clinic, staffed with brilliant Swiss physicians and pneumatic Swedish nurses who give me daily vitamin injections. Oh, by the way, thanks, I guess.”
This is like that time when that lady on The View didn’t know the world was round. Stupid is not an excuse. Ignorance of this level requires a strong determination to keep all information flow into the brain.
dum librul: No, no! Not Doocy. He may be a douchebag, but I don’t think he’s quite as stupid as he acts. The other guy, Brian whatshisname, he’s a genuine dumbass. He and Maria would be perfect as two of the three contestants on “Ignorant Fuck Celebrity Jeopardy!”.
Maybe she’s just not a very good judge of age, or perhaps he looks old for his age.
But I suppose that I’ll have to go along with the consensus — she’s a drooling idiot therefore supremely qualified to work on CNBC.
Come here a minute: Maria Bartiromo may not know shit about Medicare, but she could identify the penises of the CEO’s of the Fortune 100, from the blow jobs.
Were you talking about when she identifies them by sight or the really impressive feat wheres she’s blindfolded and identifies them by taste?
hobospacejunkie: I’m proud to have such an awesome Congressman.
V572625694: What do you do for money, honey? How do you get your licks? What do you do for money, honey? How do you get your tricks?
Darkness: “That was before said idiot worked for her money the proper american way, by marrying it.”
Quote of the week, which is yet still to lapse.
EdFlinstone: “Were you talking about when she identifies them by sight or the really impressive feat wheres she’s blindfolded and identifies them by taste?”
It’s so funny that it hurts.
Maria, how many licks does it take to get to a cushy CNBC television program? Unlike the tootsie pop, I have a feeling it was a lot more than one or two, and none of them definitely didn’t crunch.