MSNBC may totally have it in the bag for Barack Obama, but over on the network’s fiscally concerned sister network CNBC, Maria Bartiromo has a less rosy outlook on what the Democratic presidential hopeful is about to bestow on the country: “He’s going to take the capital gains tax at 15 percent right now all the way up to 25 to 28 percent. Sell anything, like a home or stocks, and make a profit . . . [almost] 30 percent of the profit will go to the government instead of 15.” And also, for you “not rich” people earning over $200,000, prepare for an income tax hike of 35 percent to 39 percent. “We’re talking about people who make over $200,000. That’s not rich. So it’s actually going to impact more people than you may think.” [P6]
IS 50 SEXY? PBS’s Nightly Business Report host Susie Gharib rakes in 700,000 viewers a night to CNBC’s Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo grabs 340,000. So why isn’t Gharib lavished with the kind of attention Bartiromo receives? Well, for starters, she’s 57. [Marketwatch]
The problem with the term “beautiful girl” is that girls are rarely, if ever, beautiful. Girls are pretty and girls are cute — and that’s fine because there’s a time and place for cute (the age 16 and prom, respectively) — but they’re not beautiful. Women are beautiful. Women are sexy.
We’re reminded of how many people ignore that important distinction around this time every year: the lad mag “Hot List” season, when Maxim et al group together the names of every sad, drunk, Botoxed, sutured, bleached, commodified and infected girl in Hollywood and try to pretend the resultant stable has sex appeal. We’re sick of it, so we’ve compiled our own lineup of truly beautiful women.
Comedian and red eye getter-outter Ben Stein made headlines this month thanks to his narration of the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a film about the censorship of scientists who believe Darwin’s evolution theory might be bunk, and that intelligent design is a more feasible explanation for how humans, fish, and spiders came to be. Getting attention was helped along by him attending movie screenings (always head privately and not open to the press) and lobbying politicians to allow alternative theories to be taught in public school.
So now you’re caught up on his brand of rational thought.
Now Stein, who has no money for you to win, is on the trail of the Fox Business Network’s answer to Maria Bartiromo. Roger Ailes has his own fleet of money honeys and, although they’re seen more in articles about FBN than on the channel’s actual airwaves, Stein is, in the pages of Best Life, gaga for ‘em. But where, Stein wonders, did all these lovely ladies come from? CONTINUED »
CNBC “Money Honey” Maria Bartiromo has scored a $500,000 book deal from Crown, a Random House imprint. Not many details about what the book will be about, but “success” is the general theme. As in, “successfully avoiding getting canned for private trysts.” [NYO]
Maria Bartiromo is more than just a pretty face who takes ethically questionable rides on corporate jets. In fact, some argue that her role at CNBC has changed the way analyst information is disseminated, which might actually be making for smarter individual investors. Also, her hot lips make for easier listening to this crap. CONTINUED »
French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to be enjoying the single life. Word on the rue is that Sarkozy is dating TV journalist Laurence Ferrari. The recently divorced newscaster has been spotted at the Elysee Palace, Sarkozy’s official residence, and having dinner around town with him.
Ferrari interviewed Sarkozy in March for the network Canal Plus. According to a source at the station, they “got on like a house on fire,” and have been seeing each other ever since.
See, in America if you have an affair with a separated politician you’re reporting on, you get suspended and demoted. France is just more liberated than us. Then again, in America, we don’t use expressions like “house on fire.”
This just in: CNBC star Erin Burnett (the anchor of Squawk of the Street and Street Signs) admits to loving her alma mater, occasionally reading horoscopes and visiting the roof bar of the Met; refuses to say anything even remotely interesting about her rivalry with Maria Bartiromo or respond to Roger Ailes’ unflattering insinuation that she’ll be burnt out and ugly by 2009.
Yesterday, we told you about Roger Ailes preference for nubile CNBC anchors, and his concern that rising star Erin Burnett will burn herself out before usurping her in-network rival, Maria Bartiromo. And since Ailes makes no secret of his belief that female anchors should trade in on their looks before they age and become irrelevant, it comes as no surprise that Ailes’ own network, Fox News is taking heat for its anchors’ barely-there on-air wardrobe.
CHRISTIAN “media watchdog group” The Resistance is all worked up over the ultra-femme anchors of Fox News. The group’s leader, Mark Dice, rants in an e-mail, “I see shorter skirts on the women of Fox News than I do on the prostitutes being arrested on cop shows.”
Meanwhile, the ever apologetic Fox responded, “We’re always flattered to have everyone talking about us in one form or another.”
Totally. In fact, we’re sure veteran journalists Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and Katie Couric would all be extremely mollified by that sort of attention.
Rebecca Dana asks Roger Ailes if there’s anyone from CNBC he’d like to hire for the Fox Business Network. His reply: “I’m the one who put Maria Bartiromo on the air. She’s a fine talent. This new woman that they’re overusing because she’s on now 15 hours a day, Erin Burnett, is a good talent. But she’s gonna age. She’ll only last another year, the way they’re working her. …So, I hope, at some point she steps up and says, ‘I need water; I need a little break here.’”
What we’ve learned…after the jump.
CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo and MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to moderate the first Republican Presidential debate of the 2008 campaign that focuses on economic issues, reports TVNewser.
“The objective of the debate is to draw out the important differences on the candidates’ positions on topics like taxes, trade, inequality and social security,” said Bartiromo in a press release.
Topics that won’t be discussed: (1) The Republican candidates’ (save Mitt Romney) complete and utter inability to stay married to their original spousal partners and (2) what that says about their innate willingness to board a private jet and fly around the world with a certain high-profile CNBC anchorwoman in tow.
Today’s Rush & Molloy column proves the Daily News can’t resist an opportunity to stick in a dig at the Post’s (and Rupert Murdoch’s) expense, even if that means stooping to defend divalicious jetsetter Maria Bartiromo in the process.
Fortunately, we love a good catfight! And there’s nothing we enjoy more than watching two money-hemorrhaging tabloids duke it out over the arbitrary title of “Who Sold More Papers For Less Money This Year.” [NYDN]
Today’s Page Six brought a veritable smile to our face, which was partially due to the lede on Demi Moore flipping out at the prospect of (gasp!) taking a yellow cab and predominantly owed to this unexpected gem on everyone favorite CNBC jetsetter.
MARIA Bartiromo and her husband, Jonathan Steinberg, look great in a full-page photo in Hamptons magazine. The smiling couple appear happy, dapper and tanned. CNBC’s “Money Honey” has big diamond earrings and her hand on his shoulder. But Bartiromo - whose trips on Citigroup biggie Todd Thomson’s corporate jet cost him his job earlier this year - probably didn’t appreciate the full-page ad on the facing page for catering company Elegant Affairs. The ad is headlined, “Planning on Having an Affair?”
Which is basically the equivalent of naming Lindsay Lohan as the newest Coke spokesperson or running a profile of Mary-Kate Olsen next to an advertisement that reads, “SERIOUSLY, YOU NEED TO FUCKING EAT SOMETHING. LIKE, NOW.”
Whether those rumors about the Fox Business Channel considering making a takeover bid for CNBC’s Erin Burnett are true. A source connected to the Fox camp hints yes; a CNBC source has “no knowledge” of it. Fox is said to have already made a play for Maria Bartiromo, but her current contract kept her from realistically considering the option.
Finance hotties Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett continue to catfight whenever there are reporters handy. NY Post continues to diligently chronicle their mostly manufactured rivalry. Insanely jealous female CNBC staffers continue to hate them both equally. Jossip editors continue to rapidly lose interest.
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