Inflamed CNBC host calls bloggers ‘digital dickweeds’
Published: July 1, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Television is a place of maturity and thought. The blogosphere is a place of “dickweeds.”
That’s according to CNBC host Dennis Kneale, who’s declared the recession over, and who went postal on critical financial bloggers Tuesday.
A livid Kneale described bloggers he alleges have dubbed him “irritating,” “unwatchable,” “Beaker,” “super dipshit” and “clueless” and purportedly compare his show to a Saturday Night Live skit. Some of it, he says, is funny.
“Less funny,” he said sharply, “was comparing me to a 350-pound woman in a thong bikini on the beach.”
His response?
“That was no comedy sketch. That was hope and fortitude, you digital dickweed.”
This isn’t the first time CNBC hosts have faced off with critics. The irreverent, eccentric Jim Kramer received a tongue-lashing recently from the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, who accused him of contributing to stock market hysteria.
CNBC’s full video appears below. A better, edited version of Kneale’s remarks is available at Gawker.
This video is from CNBC.com, broadcast June 30, 2009.
Download video via RawReplay.com
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They have to fill the air time with something since the talent, Dylan Ratigan, told them to fuck off.
I always wondered why Dylan Ratigan left CNBC. Also, if you haven’t been watching CNBC for some reason Dennis Kneale hasn’t been on the air for awhile, I wonder whats going on. He’s probably fighting for a spot for a show to and they said nope.
Are you sure this is CNBC? If I didn’t know better I would think I was watching O’Reilly on Fox being rude and pompous, cutting off guests microphones when they are making a point that they don’t want you to hear because it might make sense and contradict all of the bullshit they just told their audience. If anyone is a dickweed, it is this CNBC moron.
No one is as vicious as those who have lost a monopoly.
This dennis kneale is A true republican, a.. hole. television is nothing compared to the net. thats where kneale and oreilly get there talking points.
“First they ignore you, then they belittle/ridicule you, then they attack/fight you, then when they finally realize they’ve lost they build monuments to you.”
This statement and/or variations of it are often attributed to Gandhi.
Dennis Kneale sits on tv everyday talking about rich people playing with the money that poor people made for them. Fuck Him.
Sadly, they forgot to add “cock holster” and “bird face”
dansacramento, truly a great line. CNBC should apologize for all the business stories they missed and are still missing. Who got the bailout money? Don’t they have sources?
Why didn’t they report the mortgage problems and the housing bubble while they were getting worse? Part of the problem is you would have to do arithmetic. If it involves multiplication, that takes an expert. If it requires division, that takes a professor.
What about those emails that Spitzer found at Merrill, so many years ago, saying they were cheating people. Why doesn’t CBNC get emails from companies and disclose those?
A slur on Beaker! More like a cross between Paul Lynde and Matthew Perry. Commodore Matthew Perry.
“A livid Kneale described bloggers he alleges have dubbed him “irritating,” “unwatchable,” “Beaker,” “super dipshit” and “clueless” and purportedly compare his show to a Saturday Night Live skit. Some of it, he says, is funny.”
Ha! Kneale’s just pissed off that the bloggers are calling him what he really is … an irritating, pompous, self-important dickweed.
The death of TeeVee “journalism” will be fun to watch.
I don’t even recognize this POS. If he wants to call bloggers coward. All these business shows are nothing more than worthless good-for-nothing Wall Street propaganda. I crap out more worthwhile news every morning.
From a vacuous talking head like him, dickweeds is a badge of honor.
Consider the source. Dickheads telling people to go “bargain hunting” for stock in late 07 when this recession was beginning and lead the 401k march to 101k. I listened to them for a minute. They were wrong. I was right.
They made me lose some money. For that, I go other places for valid, non corporate sponsored financial acumen and advice. What he says doesn’t really matter to me, it’s just guys with ties on power trips when they should be doing community service on the side of the freeway giving out the shitty advice they do, causing people to lose real money.
Eat shit and die.
I gave up on CNBC when Kudchew and Krammer kept saying back in ‘05 there couldn’t be a housing bubble and that housing prices could only go up.
Housing prices in DC were going up 20% per year and wages went up 6% a year. It doesn’t take a broker, rocket scientist, economist or 6th grader to figure out that isn’t sustainable.
Beat’s being a douchebag on national television.