Stop listening to Suze Orman

MSN Money ^ | February 11, 2009 | James Scurlock

[Starfleet Command]

If you've managed to avoid Orman over the past decade, you don't watch "Oprah," CNBC or PBS,

Amazingly, I have only the slightest idea who this Orman broad is for exactly that reason. Avoiding those brainorotting life-stealers is the reason I'm still moderately sane and rational.

I think I flipped by her once on whatever channel she haunts, listened to her and her advice for about 30 seconds, and thought "Either too much coffee, or she's sampling from junior's meth lab", and "This sort of advice would have been useful in 1954".

[philly-d-kidder]

It is sad that Gimmick If she approves or disapproves your expenditure is absurd!

My Mom was a QVC junkie... since I live in the Home QVC hahaha

[Starfleet Command]

I'd say that a draw-down of $550 billion in money market accounts in an hour or two on a late Monday morning in mid-September just before the election qualifies as someone tampering with the market and the election.

F'ing aye right.

I'm betting on an Muslim/Soros/Russian axis. Yes, I left out the Chinese on purpose, because although they are big into asymmetric warfare, crashing us before they have domestic tranquility domestically sustainable would make no sense.

[Mercat]

Who? Actually, I did see a photo of her and her “partner.”

[iowamark]

When I started listening to Suze, I never understood why she was always advising women to divorce their husbands. It seemed like bad advice on both financial and emotional grounds.

Then I learned that she was a lesbian!

[cubreporter]

What about the brainiacs high up? Suze Ormann explains things in a way people can understand instead of the speak used by those who are supposedly in the know.

[presidio9]

Most of 'the most brilliant financial minds' just destroyed our economy.

This comment has nothing to do with the fact that the more sources you get your news from, the better informed you are, but because it's such a lame comeback, I'll rebut it anyway: In 1941, very few of the most brilliant military minds in this country suspected a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Should we ridicule them? Guys like Larry Kudlow, who was once Ronald Reagan's economist and an original proponent of supply-side economics are not only smarter than you, they are better informed too, because they get their news from multiple sources. I used to work with Larry. For the past ten or 15 years, he's been at CNBC. Not every word that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth is true you know. On the other hand, a liberal who watches Fox news (or Bob Beckel for that matter) is always going to have more credibility than a guy like you.

I haven't said one word that even hints that I am smarter than someone else...that's your area.

We both know that you are flat-out lying here. I was responding to post 35, where you said "Who said I wanted dummies to take me serious." I guess if you want to nitpick that's 9 words, not one. They don't just "hint" that you think your smarter than somebody else. That was their only intended purpose.

BTW, if I watched the same news channels you do, I would have voted for Obama. So...who did you vote for?

I actually don't watch much TV News at all. I go days without turning my TV on, but when I do, it's usually the History Channel, other educational programming or sports. As for TV news, 90% of what I watch is Fox, but, yeah, I do make a point of flipping around to see what the other guys are talking about. I get most of my news from the radio. My favorite is Laura Igraham, but I also listen to Rush, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt Michael Medved and others. I make an effort to avoid Hannity and Weiner Nation.

BTW, if I watched the same news channels you do, I would have voted for Obama. So...who did you vote for?

If I watched the same news channels you do (Fox, Fox, and more Fox), I would also be a braindead automaton who couldn't identify one of the most well-known people in the news business & multiple bestselling author. Please understand that I am not wasting this much time with you to score points or belittle you. I think you heart is in the right place, but no one is every going to take you seriously if you systematically only listen to one point of view. Saying you would have voted for Obama if you ever watched something other than Fox sounds a lot like the only reason you voted for McCain is because you were indocrinated by Fox.

As for me, I don't feel like I voted for McCain at all. I voted against Obama, and the best use of my vote was to cast it for Obama. Among the primary candidates who had a chance at nomination, I favored Thompson and then Romney. I now wonder whether we would be much better off under McCain versus Obama. I don't vote in the primaries anyway. I am not a registered Republican.

Best of luck to you. You'll figure it out.