Who is this lunatic lady on Bill Maher?

[malaise]

She's to the right of Attila the hun

[BootinUp]

1. I would guess a Teabagger?

not watching, just a guess based on intuition.

[NeverEnuff]

3. Who is the Crazy Lady?

She is the Cheif Financial Correspondent for CNBC.

[brucefan]

4. Cnbc

[Amster Dan]

29. Corporatist Network Backing Criminals

[Jazzgirl]

2. I think it's Michelle Caruso- Cabrera. I don't know who she is

Or her claim to fame but thats what's on the lineup.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Title of her last book:

"You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government."

[Jazzgirl]

6. Thanks!

I had no idea who she was.

[malaise]

8. So now she's an expert

[malaise]

7. She's against Glass-Steagall

What the fugg?
I love Bradley - he's eating her up and spitting her out in his usual calm manner.

[Dawson Leery]

9. This is CNBC. Their hosts go over board to kiss up

to the corrupt "masters of the universe".

Try Bloomberg if you want to hear business news that does not always reflect the ideas of the far right.

[tsuki]

20. No thanks. I read and if I want to watch,

I watch RT.

[gateley]

10. How are the other guests responding? Or, if she's just on with Maher alone,

how's he handling her?

[HughBeaumont]

11. Oh dear GOD . . . CNBC TeaHadist Michelle Caruso Cabrera.

I'm forced to watch this idiot for at least 3 hours a day. Who the hell writes a book called "You KNOW I'm Right"??

As if to say "I'm the greatest bitch in this room and you KNOW I'm right when I say the peasantry needs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!" Who talks like that?

She once said on an interview something to the effect of "Well, I LIKE my big house and my wealth!" . . . Okaaaaaaay . . . is anyone trying to take that away from you?

It's funny how the Welch-fluffing idiots get all huffy and surprised once they're removed from their protected CNBC bubble.

I still cannot believe a college like Wellesley produced THIS.

ETA: I read somewhere that Alec Baldwin asked her out and they got to talking. Once she told him of her political leanings, she never heard from him again. Good on Alec.

[Dawson Leery]

12. Why do you have to listen to this monkey 3 hours a day.

She does look like a monkey in the photo.

[malaise]

13. She knows she's

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right wing

What a moron!

Thanks Alec

[CBHagman]

14. I hope you're paid to watch her...

...if you're a captive audience.

[HughBeaumont]

31. In a sense, yes . . .

We don't have Bloomberg as part of our work satellite package, and the traders need a financial channel for market so it's CNBC

Apparently, getting the "Unabashedly Pro-Investor" channel (as they call themselves) equals getting a heaping helping of Republican congresspeople and various other members of the corporate 1% being fellated and massaged by unabashed Republicans like Joe Kernen, Rick Santelli, Maria Bartiromo, Larry Kudlow, Jim Cramer and this joker.

Believe it or not, it used to be worse . . . they had Erin "Beijing" Burnett, Melissa Francis, Chuckles Gasparino and Dennis Kneale at one point WITH the rest mentioned above.

[CBHagman]

33. Well, you still have to endure Kudlow.

That pontificating perennial in the right-wing garden. No shortage of manure to help them flourish.

[HughBeaumont]

34. Thankfully, I'm spared Kudlow. He comes on AFTER work hours.

[hifiguy]

15. Bill Bradley, a longtime favorite of mine,

crushed her like a roach.

[Dawson Leery]

16. Propaganda Consigliere Caruso only knows what the teleprompter tells her.

Someone as meager as she does not go up against Bill Bradley and expect to win.

[hifiguy]

21. Bill played for the Knicks when the Knicks WERE the Knicks

and the Lakers were the Lakers. Caruso is a third-string point guard on the worst team in the NBA compared to Bradley. Epic fail.

[Dawson Leery]

22. She is a third string point guard in the minors.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. She said something to the effect that not one of the companies that caused the economic meltdown

and had to be bailed out would have been prevented from doing it by Glass-Steagall, or something like that, if I remember correctly. I think that means she was saying they were only playing around with their own money and not the money of investors. I didn't hear a good counter-argument from anyone else. Is she right? I think maybe a lot of banks got into trouble for doing what would have been a violation of Glass-Steagall but didn't quite fall off the edge. Nonetheless, they contributed to the near collapse of the entire system. I think Caruso-Cabrera is playing games with the facts.

[Dawson Leery]

18. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 needs to be repealed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000#2009_Treasury_Department_proposed_OTC_derivatives_legislation

[Duppers]

28. Thanks!

It's a complicated, heady, dry subject but everyone need some education in this subject in order to counter winger arguments. We've been warned that a crisis is going to happen yet again unless more regulations are in place.

Here in Virginia we're being bombarded with Romney ads touting the fact that Obama has Wall Streeters on his staff and that Wall Streeters donated to his last campaign - a fact that we all hate. The ad is so richly hypocritical, yet the clueless wingers suck it into their empty little brains, not understanding that it is THEIR party who is supporting the cheating banksters the most.

[bluestate10]

32. Caruso-Cabrera is wrong.

Banks, Mortage companies and Investment Banks were involved in an infested web of home loan lending, credit card lending, questionable business lending, bond securitization and bond bundling. The fuckheads topped off their idiocy by creating derivatives that allowed gamblers to take a Call or Put position relative to valuation of super bond clusters. Caruso-Cabrera made the point that banks made home, credit card and business loans that got banks in trouble and she claimed, inaccurately that Glass-Steagall didn't prevent that activity. What Caruso-Cabrera cleverly didn't mention and wasn't called bullshit on, is that repeal of Glass-Steagall made it possible for banks to sell the loans that banks made, that rather large item was not possible under Glass-Steagall. Banks being able to sell loans to Investment Banks that then bundled those loans into bonds, then super bond clusters, removed the historical burden on banks of grilling the creditworthiness of potential borrowers. Glass-Steagall forced banks to hold the loans that they made, leading to prudent examination of the creditworthiness of potential borrowers. Some banks like Citi and BankAmerica were burning candles on both ends, making shitty loans, bundling loans into bonds, then bundling groups of bonds into super bond clusters.

The reason why no one responded to Caruso-Cabrera, except for a faint complaint from Bradley, is that the correct answer is too long and complex to fit into the sounbite format of talk shows. Caruso-Cabrera had an advantage in that she could throw up wreaking bullshit knowing that it could not be swatted down.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. This week's Token Crazy Young Republican Woman.

That is how Bill Maher operates.

I met Bill Bradley when he was running for president. He has charisma and is really smart. I think I came up to him at slightly above his elbow.

Since I know zip about sports, my dad told me they called him "Dollar Bill" when he was in the NBA.

[Cali_Democrat]

23. Bill Maher totally nailed her on the deficit lies

she looked like a total idiot.

[Go Vols]

24. BM ftw

Edit:

it comes on again in a few minutes on HBO west

[Jamaal510]

25. I'm watching the re-run of Real Time now.

Looks like we got ourselves another S.E. Cupp; good looks, but horrible politics.

[Go Vols]

26. its on now

[Blue_In_AK]

27. She wss awful.

I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV.

[malaise]

30. And even that is a euphemism

HI there