The Rant: CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow -- A New Low in Right-Wing Trash Talk and Hypocrisy

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The Rant: CNBC's Lawrence Kudlow -- A New Low in Right-Wing Trash Talk and Hypocrisy

By Mark Ames, eXiled Online. Posted April 23, 2009.

Why does Larry Kudlow still have a job? He's gotten everything wrong, and his irrational anti-Obama rants are truly borderline.



Why does CNBC host Lawrence Kudlow still have a job? Not only is Kudlow a corrupt goon who has called everything 180 degrees wrong over and over, but he pretty much set the standard for Wall Street’s “most humiliating failure” back in the mid-1990s when he was fired from Bear Stears -- the last smart move Bear Stearns ever made. Why was Kudlow fired, you axe? Well, it wasn’t because he called the economy wrong at every turn -- hell no! Being wrong is a basic requirement for pundits and Wall Street analysts, you just have to be aggressively wrong and not worry about it, something Kudlow excels at. No, Lawrence Kudlow’s career problems in the 1990s stemmed from the fact that he couldn’t handle his drugs. Cocaine, to be exact.

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: what sort of man -- a rightwing free-market mensch to boot -- can’t handle his coke? I mean, cocaine is a sorority girl’s drug. It lasts like 15 minutes, turns you into a babbling idiot who loves everything -- the perfect drug for a pro-Reaganomics stock market cheerleader like Kudlow.

I’ll get back to the cocaine-bitch part of this story, but first, the reason I’m bothering about Lawrence Kudlow is because there’s a clip of him blasting Obama for what Kudlow called the President’s “BOYZ IN THE HOOD handshake” with Hugo Chavez, a clip that went viral all over the blogosphere this week. Just look at Kudlow’s spastic face contortions as he rants: you don’t see that sort of scowling psychosis except on a guy whose just blown through his last eight ball at the end of a six-day binge, his dealer’s cellphone is switched off, and Kudlow’s spent the last four hours picking through the carpet threads in a frantic search for that one last uninhaled granule of llello. That’s what’s written all over Kudlow’s face as he shouts, “Mr Obama didn’t say a darn thing in favor of our ally Colombian president Uribe!…” Colombia -- get it? And then, as if crashing hard on live television, Kudlow goes into a bizarre fit over human rights, screeching, “Why didn’t Obama make a clear statement on human rights which Chavez violates daily.” ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/137955/the_rant%3A_cnbc%27s_lawrence_kudlow_--_a_new_low_in_right-wing_trash_talk_and_hypocrisy/

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1. Sometimes I watch Kudlow on TV

Just to laugh at him. Yessir, those tax cuts have brought us all this prosperity! All we need is more and more! Reaganomics has finally been exposed as a snake oil sales pitch, but still he rambles on, the same old broken record. Kinda funny.

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2. that's what happens when you cut your blow with baby laxative

ya get shit for brains.

anybody remember Boo$h (Boyz wearing a hood) greeting Gordon Brown in the same manner? I can't find the pic but the look on Gordon's face was hilarious.

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3. maybe it's Kudlow's nicotine habit that's got him ranting crazily

He's a chain smoker.

Or maybe he's just :crazy:

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4. And The Wingnuts Are Making A Scene At The GE Corporate Meeting

Sounds like Faux and its wingnut allies were able to infiltrate the GE stockholders meeting this week and made a big stink about Keith and Rachel...screaming how MSNBC is some "loony liberal" operation, yet avoiding mentioning the right wing lean of CNBC or of some of the MSNBC hosts/reporters (Mitchell, Scarborough, Gregory, Todd, et al). But this should be expected.

After all the failures of the "free market" and those who cheerlead "deregulation", if anyone listens to advice from these losers, they deserve to get wiped out.

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5. Kudlow is and will remain to be a fucking asshole...

Not much more can be said about the guy.

If you want some good advice that is correct 100% of the time, listen to Kudlow, and do the exact opposite of what he says.