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

To: mr.mark who wrote (758)	10/10/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1254

Why, no. I'm not worried about the truth suffering here. The truth is available to anyone who wants it. What disappoints me is that most of the people on the contra side, with the notable exception of Taxikid, are more interested in cheap rhetoric and wholly fabricated claims than serious analysis. "going out of business in the first bear market", "recommends LEH", "sold at the bottom in 1987", blah, blah, blah. This thread is full of people who are (1) emotionally committed to hating the guy -- fine, whatever, there are people I can't stand too; (2) more interested in finding something negative than finding grains of truth; and (3) completely unwilling to acknowledge or accept any good points on the other side. In other words, you are simply talking your position, and not very well. I hope you don't pick your stocks like that or you are going to get killed. So the obvious question here is: considering I have a strong positive opinion of Cramer's work, do I ever come here and post anything negative about him or his work? You bet. On several different occasions. Most recently, for doubling down on Cendant after it revealed accounting irregularities. Heck, the next time I see a situation like that, I'll be right there shorting it to him! Your turn. Try something interesting, provocative. Try for an observation that's more than two millimeters deep. Cramer Berkowitz is short AOL and holds puts on AMZN. Do you think they are right? Cramer said that he's seen a lot of Friday short-covering rallies, and implied that this Friday was a short-covering rally. Right or wrong? Cramer likes to watch the A/D line. Good indicator or bad? How about that strong A/D line on Friday; what do you make of that? And, if the DJIA does drop 1000 points next week, are you going to capitulate and give Mrs. Cramer due credit?