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Pastimes : The Other James Cramer Thread
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To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain who wrote (27)7/31/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: WTD ADMIREE   of 35
 
As I mentioned, it's more of an attitude or demeanor that I would find difficult to tolerate for an extended period of time. I think the breaks with other people and subjects when he is on Squawk Box is a way to save the viewer too.

I've learned a lot from his writings as well as having been amused at times at some of his experiences, but I would skip a one on one unless I wanted to accept that it would be a continuous lecture rather than an interaction.

If I were a critic (and this gives me an opportunity to vent), I could think of a couple of things that he should forego. One habit that I find particularly offensive, and have privately e-mailed him without acknowledgment, is a non-veteran using military analogies and equating financial/investment transactions with being under hostile fire.

It's probably my age and military experience but veterans never use those analogies because it is disrespectful to the dead and disabled and we understand the meaning of weaponry. I doubt if the public would tolerate the disrespect if he said that his "profits went up in smoke like the Treblinka chimneys" or "the Seller SS with their dogs were upon me in the Warsaw ghetto as I called for Berkowitz to get me out of here." [Yes, I do agree with him that "Saving Private Ryan" is one of the best war movies ever made. No, I do not think he is intentionally demeaning warfare or the military and he may even see it as some type of tribute to those who served in uniform.]
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