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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3706)	9/23/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: Gary M. Reed	Respond to of 17683

<<Ron Insana, as with most CNBC anchors on down days, looked like he attending a funeral.>> The difference is, Ron always looks like it is the funeral of his most-hated enemy. I like Ron Insana a lot. I admire his passion for drilling guests into answering questions that they initially shy away from answering. About 3-4 mos ago, he did THE best political interview I have EVER seen on network TV...when a US Congressman tried several times to lie on air to further his cause and Ron incessantly, and I do mean INCESSANTLY corrected the Congressman on his lies, finally threatening to put up a chart (the Congressman who was lying on camera--a Democrat--go figure!--was trying to say that inflation was on a rampage throughout the Reagan and Bush years--Ron finally threatened to show a 20 year graph of US inflation, at which point the Congressman backed down like a beaten dog), that was one of Ron's finest hours. However, it always seems that whenever he gets a PermaBear on TV at a point in time when the mkt is selling off, Ron looks like he is a 10-year old opening gifts on Xmas morning, instead of drilling them with questions. Maybe it's just me, but sometimes Ron seems somewhat bitter when the market works its way higher. I don't want market cheerleaders on CNBC, up or down. When stocks are going up, the CNBC personalities need to remember that there are people who are short who are getting hurt. Conversely, people get pissed when they are long and they see Ron gloating along with the PermaBears, basically saying, "oooh yeah, we're goin' WAAAAAAYYYY down!!!" Ron would've been better served by calling this goofball on the carpet for missing the biggest bull market of all time, and asking him why he thought he was right 'this time.' In a down market, Ron becomes as annoying as that pompous-assed, half=the=time-wrong Herb Greenburg, of the infamous "Herb Living on the Street" fame on Street.com. Like Hurl on the Street, Ron fails to call his sources on the carpet when they are proved to be dead wrong.