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

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (3960)	3/9/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 42834

Actually, I would not mind listening to the "rate my fund" calls. Yes, they are boring, they are irritating and the callers just want to brag. However, I can still put up with them. But what really gets me is when occasionally Brinker grabs hold of someone and shakes him/her like a rag-doll. Like the guy who asked him about T Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund a few months ago. I didn't get to listen to the entire program on Sunday so I missed listening to this episode. And boy, am I glad I missed it! Dipy.

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (3960)	3/9/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: Ken Brown	Respond to of 42834

Re: Did everyone hear Bob go medieval on the woman who called in I also felt bad for her, but I didn't feel it was anything unusual. Bob often gets into that kind of mood with a caller. It's calls like that that make my wife not want to listen to him at all. I believe she was the one who started out saying "I might say something stupid" ... I guess that isn't a good way to start a call to Bob. ;-) Ken

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (3960)	3/9/1998 11:39:00 PM
From: wooden ships	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Gary: I also heard the caller in question. To be sure, Brinker did give her a rather severe dressing down. Understatedly, it is more than likely she will never call the MoneyTalk program again. That being said, after years of listening to Brinker it becomes self-evident that a) Brinker is aware of the tremendous responsibility he bears toward his vast radio audience b) Brinker chooses his words with extreme care and rarely says anything truly superfluous and c) Brinker- as a financial expert, as a great teacher, and as a ponderously wise human being- is genuinely interested in the financial well-being and self- fulfillment of his radio audience brethren. The woman in question was as misguided and clueless a caller as we have heard in very many moons. So befuddled and illogical was she that I found myself feeling some twinge of pity for her. How- ever, it is certain that Brinker immediately recognized that she defined a representative species of beings who have no business in the stock market and are exemplary candidates for shark bait. As such and in his role to serve the greater good, Brinker was necessarily quick to disabuse her of her errancies and absurdities. Perhaps, in the end, she will plod her own foolish course, but his points may not be lost on others like her. Brinker's greater mission will have thus been served.