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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (16526)	8/18/2002 6:14:03 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

What I find most inexplicable about Bob is that he should have stuck with his conservative, plodding, middling mutual fund picks and bread and butter advice. Instead, he over reaches, thinks that he is better and smarter than he actually is and that he is the brightest bulb in a crate full of smarmy investment pros. He fails miserably in his attempt to do something that he is grossly incompetent in, likely causes the loss of millions for his subscribers and clients and then blames the consequences of his incompetence and arrogance on everyone else but himself. It is an interesting study in what happens when someone has a one-sided relationship with the world. He screens out all criticism and argument and takes only those favorable calls and posts that further bolster his high opinion of himself. The result is that he spends the next several years covering up evidence of his own failures while blaming his own customers for being stupid enough to believe in him. I sure hope someone writes more articles about Bob and his follies. Yes, I believe that Brimelow writing two articles about Bob this year is quite a lot of ink devoted to one of many talking radio head investment gurus. Who was it that made the comment about how Montgomery Funds did well to avoid a Brinker fund because the resultant bad association would hurt Montgomery's rep? Well, I have a low opinion of Flannigan, Hulbert and Brimelow since they've been tainted with the Brinker brush. I'm even wondering about Vanguard although I muse that maybe Brinker is simply licking their boots. OK Richard now please resume your AR discussion of all things Brinker. When you tire of that maybe we can discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. ROTFLMAO.

To: geode00 who wrote (16526)	8/19/2002 3:31:55 AM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

"You are spinning as fast and as furiously as Bob." Every time I ask myself "am I spinning," I go back and reread the article, and every time I come to the inevitable conclusion that no, it is you who are spinning. "It is laughable that you think Bob has held onto the QQQs through a near 75% decline because he likes them." So you're saying he held onto them because he thought they were a bad investment? I don't know how Brinker feels about QQQ, and neither do you. "Sweet on QQQ" was a figure of speech, and as such it is an exaggeration for you to call that a "factual inaccuracy" when it is obvious to anyone who doesn't have an axe to grind that Brimelow was merely referring to the fact that Brinker still recommends holding them. Sometimes I get the impression that you deliberately misinterpret people just to give yourself something to be indignant about. I have no problem with your saying that Brimelow should have addressed the BJ Group in his article. What I have a problem with is your carelessness with the truth, as evidenced by your pretending that he did address it, and then counting it as a factual inaccuracy as a result. I warned you about the possibility of being called upon to defend your words in court because in the post I was replying to, you accused Brinker of lying without presenting any evidence. That struck me as living dangerously. I note that you have now changed it from an outright accusation of lying to "lying by omission," so maybe my warning did some good. I figure if I have done anything to cause you to be a little less careless in your attempts to damage the reputation of a fellow human being, that is a good thing. "He is a liar by omission by allowing false and favorable statements about his advice to stand time and again on national radio when he has every opportunity to set the record straight." I have heard Brinker set the record straight many times. Do you even listen to his radio program any more? "I believe he is a liar by omission when he said that he would sidestep a bear. He never sidestepped it as he remained in equities and even increased (and stayed with) his equity holdings." Ridiculous. That is equivalent to saying that no one should ever change their mind, because if they do, then they can be accused of lying. Don't you ever think these things through before you write them? "Why do you let him get away with this bs? Don't you believe in the truth? I do. Then why do you work so hard at distorting the truth?