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

To: wooden ships who wrote (3979)	3/10/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

My own view is that Brinker's comments to the lady were justified. To recall it, she was about to sink her nest egg of $33,000 or so into Microsoft, all at once, based on nothing except that the stock had gone up mightily. [...] Brinker pounced on her for such foolishness. Why should this surprise anyone who listens to Brinker regularly? Brinker tells it like it is. Sure, tell it like it is. But there is a way to say it! Besides, the lady is reported to have said that she is clueless about investing. Any attack on such a person is like shooting down somebody who has raised his arms in surrender -- certainly not the kind of act that can be termed "worthy of emulation". Anyway, this just serves to highlight and underline the mindless "our king is right" mentality that is prevalent on this forum. Dipy.

To: wooden ships who wrote (3979)	3/10/1998 8:16:00 PM
From: Gary D	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

I heard that call too. My feeling was that Bob was pleased and excited to get the call because the lady represents a significant sector of the public who are becoming interested in investing and want to "do" something before becoming informed. While Bob did speak in the second person throughout the call, my sense was that his attention was just as focused on others like her out in the listening audience. I agree that Bob's way of bluntly "telling it like it is" helped to really get the point across to more listeners. And I would not say the caller was insulted (as asserted by someone else earlier): the lady did not react as if she had been insulted, and did not hang up on Bob; in fact the call lasted quite a while.