The Bob O'Brien Hit List... (revised)
An incomplete list of financial journalists with whom Bob O'Brien has sparred over their reporting of the alleged naked shorting crisis:
Herb Greenberg of CBS Marketwatch
"But on to his latest masterpiece of innuendo and misstatement – a feast for the literary senses. At least he doesn’t begin it with once upon a time – I’ll give him that much. He is affectionately called "lapdog" by some."
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Floyd Norris of the New York Times
"I guess I'm just a little disappointed that given the opportunity, you decided to bunt rather than knocking the cover off the ball."
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Marc Cuban billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks
"You are wrong, or at least don’t understand the issue as well as you think." [From: blogmaverick.com ]
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Carol Remond of Dow Jones
"I inquired why a highly intelligent, obviously informed person would be deliberately introducing fallacious arguments and attempting to re-configure my statements so that they seemed pejorative."
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William Alpert of Barron's
"I presume that this entire tempest in a teacup is the latest in an attempt for multi-millionaire hedge fund managers to play the role of aggrieved victims? You might think that they had better things to do with their time - they must view me as quite a threat to their game. I can only take that as flattering."
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Jeff Matthews
"I suppose if one inhabits a world where everyone lies, one expects to find liars in every one he meets. Nice place you got here." [ from jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com ]
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Jessie Eisinger of the Wall Street Journal
"When I publish my email exchanges with him, you will see that my questions mirror his, but take it to the next level of asking which felonies he considers to be acceptable, and how much risking of my life is reasonable to him."
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Roddy Boyd of the New York Post
"Save your breath with Roddy. His schtick is to pretend to be listening, to be open-minded, in roder to get out of you folks anything he can, before writing a ridiculous piece in the service of his masters."
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Seth Jayson of The Motley Fool
"I lump him in with the crowd of "journalists" that spin facts in a hedge-fund friendly way, and observe that Rocker couldn't have written it better."
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Bethany McLean of Fortune
"Bethany, Bethany, I've nurtured a viper at my breast..."
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Timothy Mullaney
"I have long maintained that there is a cadre of “financial journalists” beholden to the miscreant elements on Wall Street, chartered with attacking whoever is critical of those elements, or whichever company/person is the target du jour." [from: thesanitycheck.com ]
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Gary Weiss of Business Week
"Another 'Expert' Chimes in With a Lot Of Hat, But No Cattle... I have a hard time believing that a responsible author would so badly butcher the facts."
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- Jeff |
