Posted on 08/09/2011 6:42:25 PM PDT by george76
Just after dawn, hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt appeared on CNBC as the token contrarian in the Titans of Groupthink series. After some pleasantries we hit the 6 minutes mark where the formerly trite narrative experienced a flash crash.
In the most candid discussion of the truth in America, Steinhardt said that "we live in an inland sea of calm waters while surrounding us are turbulent, horrible places," to which everyone nodded soberly in agreement, unaware of what was coming next. "America seems almost as insular as it has in times past," He continued. "America is not the wonderful place it used to be...
Look at the rest of the world compared to America, look what's happening all over and then here the biggest thing we have to worry about is how long it will take Buffett to come down to earth...how long until people like you begin to realize his reality and get off some...cloud."
Yet the smackdown of the Becky Quick/Joe Kernen Buffett-sycophant brigade was the prime attraction by far.
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"What is Buffett's reality,"
"His reality is that he is the greatest PR person of recent times. And he has managed to achieve a snow job that has conned virtually everyone in the press to my knowledge...and is remarkable that he continues to do it."
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Anyone who thinks the US should be rated AAAA, has lost any sense of reality. So he fits in nice with the leftist La La view of the world.
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And that chowder head Liz Claymon (sp?) thinks Buffett is God. Apparently he even allows her to call him on his personal cell phone. I don’t know why Fox Business has her on the air. She’s a dunce.
And she has the personality of a sledge hammer. She rarely smiles, and when she does it's cold.
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