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

To: Greg Luke who wrote (2641)	1/7/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: wooden ships	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

All: The bloodbath in RainForest Cafe stock trading- that issue having collapsed about 43% pursuant to an earnings disappointment and Morgan Stanley downgrade- raises again the ugly spectre of the unabashed use and complicity of the media for potentially nefarious purposes. It was only a fortnight ago that I recall a guest appearance on CNBC-TV by the RainForest Cafe CEO who- with all the well lubricated aplomb of an animated, seamless, and skilled new car salesman- proclaimed to a typically unchallenging, unskeptical interviewer and with a determinedly straight and sincere face that his company was, not to coin his phrase, as right as rain. Following fast upon the heels of this presumably unpaid promotional blather, the Motley Fools' usurped the commander's chair of the StarShip MoneyTalk and, most particularly, the goodwill and vast audience that has taken Mr. Brinker years, great pains, and an unblemished record of integrity to engender. During that "occupation" of the StarShip by these two fast-talking, breast-beating carnival barkers, Mr. Brinker's listenership was "treated" to an unusually determined and persistent RainForest Cafe stock sales pitch. The sheer intensity and vehemence of this protracted stockmongering would have roused suspicions in even the most blithe or lacka- daisical listener. Why this unbridled and incessant sales diatribe? For those unfortunates who bought RAIN on the Monday following the Motley Fools' barkings and now rue the day they ever tuned in to that guest-hosted MoneyTalk show, the answer to that question may appear more than obvious. In the old days, fellers might have been lynched for less.