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

To: yahooker who wrote (1232)	6/10/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: ThomasJeferson	Respond to of 1254

Was Cramer trying to talk down Amazon in his syndicated column of May 22? He slammed the company, saying they had no prospect of making money. Had he sold it short? Cramer wrote favorably of eBay, but he did not recommend that it be purchased. So why was it singled out in his disclosure statement that he owned a position? Was he trying to talk it up by not actually recommending it, but if he mentioned it enough and disclosed that he owned it, some people would buy it anyway and if enough people bought it and helped the price go up, that was fine with him? Why didn't he just let his general disclosure statement cover the situation? Who writes the disclosure statements? Why are they sometimes a little different? If he writes them himself, why does he use the third person? Does someone from the newspaper come to his office and check his portfolio to insure that he has accurately disclosed his holdings? I think that Cramer's columns invite these kinds of questions and this is what Barron's was talking about when it called him a threat to unbiased journalism.

To: yahooker who wrote (1232)	6/16/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: ThomasJeferson	Respond to of 1254

I have never offered an apology, and I have not heard from Cramer or his lawyers. I think they know who I am. I don't know why he would get so bent out of shape. He was recently criticized in Barron's and Newsweek. He was previously criticized in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Money Magazine, US News and World Report, and the Washington Post twice, including once on the front page. Why would he be so concerned with what a few people read about him on this thread as to make a threat which he wasn't prepared to carry out? It was just his normal line of crap. He's probably pouting all the way to the bank.