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To: H James Morris who wrote (28213)	11/25/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164687

uh, TMF may not be powerful enough to move the stock by itself but it ceaselessly hypes the thing -- never once has a Fool hopped on the board during one of the stock's manic run-ups to say "ok folks, this is assinine -- 12 billion market cap is ridiculous so we can't say sell because we own it, but use your brains." now tmf positions itself as the champion of the little investor, yet i get spam emails touting their new book, datek customers get inserts telling them NOT to short amzn or aol (both of which tmf owns a nice chunk of) ... i recommed a children's book to you Fool believers called the little mouse, the red ripe strawberry and the big hungry bear by don wood (heck go buy it amzn) the narrator whom we never meet convinces a mouse who has picked the berry, that a big hungry bear will come and take his strawberry and that the only way to save the berry is to split it in two and share half the narrator that way the fictitious bear won't get it sort of like disparaging wall st. as biased research with conflicts of interest and then touting one's own positions and stock investing schemes (yeah those dogs of the dow must work real well now that over $20 billion in managed assets follows the strategy -- real contrarian view!!!) by the way -- dec. issue of Kiplinger's p. 54 contains this gem "If you can't find the fool in the deal, then you're it. Let's see. The Motley Fool gets rich providing a financial forum while declining responsibility for the forum's content -- not bad for The Motley Fool." love those Fools -- the US equity bubble will be over when TMF's reputation is on a par with Garzarelli ie folks recognize that each had it's good fortune to be the right monkey at the right typewriter to crank out a decent novel