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Pastimes : James Cramer Skeptic Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (344)	6/25/1998 11:47:00 AM
From: HairBall	Respond to of 1254

Jock, YES, you are a LAWYER. BIG words, DOES NOT mean you are smart! (Maybe just a good electronic thesaurus!) I will not mix words with you. I think, in your case, I will just FLUSH!

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (344)	6/25/1998 9:07:00 PM
From: WTMHouston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1254

<<I wasn't conducting voir dire.>> Since "voir dire" means essentially to speak the truth, I think I have found the hidden message in your message.... Troy

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (344)	6/25/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Les White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1254

You're quite the infotainer, Jock. I had no idea Cramer was so anti-popular. Heading to Boston and NYC for a 10 day vacation tomorrow. Can your new thread bite it's tongue that long? RR can be a very tempting target. Of course you can always sneak over to the old IOM thread for a snipe. :-) Les

To: Jock Hutchinson who wrote (344)	6/27/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1254

Oops. You made a factual error, Mr. Hutchinson. That's Harvey Milk, not Harvey Milch. I ought to know: I carried a picture of him in my wallet when I was in high school. Feel free to interpret (or mis-) that however you want. I expect you to work it into some passive-aggressive lawyerly innuendo and then deny that you meant anything by it. Your latent homophobia and sly references to "childhood trauma" disgust me. I don't like your style. Now Cramer's style, that's a style I like. The man's gotta lot of passion and there's something in him that makes him want to show other people what he sees. When I read his columns pounding the table about something, it's like I'm there and I can see what he's talking about. It's great. It's like I feel when I am hunting down a software bug and the penny drops and I get it, when I really understand how some mysterious complex thing is behaving and what it will do next. I soaked up every Cramer column in the archives in about a week. In fact, I went on to write an unofficial Cramer FAQ: <http://www.shout.net/~mec/cramer-faq.html> Hmmm ... this is the Cramer Hate Thread ... ok, there is something I don't like about Cramer. I don't like his first reponse to Rahul Desai, with a copy to TheStreet's Chief Operating Officer, "I am demanding that you cancel your subscription and get your money back." I've never worked for a newspaper but I don't think it's a columnist's place to do that just because someone writes him a letter calling him an idiot. Maybe I'm wrong about this. Do other columnists at TheStreet.Com ask the COO to cancel and refund a subscription if a subscriber sends a cretinous letter? Do other columnists do this regularly at other journals of news and opinion? If they do, does the operations side usually honor the request to cancel? Did TSC actually cancel Rahul Desai's subscription? Of course Cramer is more than a columnist for TSC. He put a lot of money and time and work and love into creating it out of nothing. But he's said over and over that there's a wall of separation between Cramer the co-owner and Cramer the columnist. There, now I've stepped on enough toes for one message. I want to close with something outrageous: Mr. Cramer, remember that contest where the first person at TheStreet.Com to sell 25 new student subscriptions got to spend a morning at Cramer Berkowitz? If you ever do that again, could you please just bill 25 one-year site-access-only subscriptions to my credit card which you already have on file, and then e-mail me and tell me I've won the contest. I'll take care of assigning the subscriptions to students. Unfortunately they will be chemistry and chemical engineering students rather than business school students. Is that all right? Only half kidding!