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To: tejek who wrote (460944)	3/4/2009 10:16:33 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

For him, yes. He's been freaked out since 7/07 over the subprime mess and he's gotten progressively worse. Why is it Rs are so critical of people who are professionals? I haven't known what to make of Cramer since he talked about the company I was working for one day. Our stock went up that day, but what he said was completely untrue, but worse, it was a point very detailed about a product direction that he said we were taking but were had never even considered taking...it's like he made up or someone told him or ??? We were completely puzzled at the time. Al

To: tejek who wrote (460944)	3/4/2009 10:26:15 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574679

"Why is it Rs are so critical of people who are professionals?" It is part and parcel of their anti-intellectualism. That has been in the R playbook for decades. It is pretty handy. That way you can pretend that everything is just an opinion, and all opinions carry the same weight. So they can edit history and you can't counter them. Because, you know, it is just your opinion.