Allen Wastler, the managing editor of CNBC.com, just got done with a fireside chat about how some guests of the network follow up their interviews by asking them to be pulled from the site's archives. Now Wastler is offering another missive, and this one's of the apologetic variety, as in: Sorry visitors to CNBC.com are met with ads "showing women unbuttoning sweaters and listing mileage to ladies looking for a date. And the others showing come-hither countenances and blaring 'NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED.'" And it's not just unfortunate contextual advertising that's to blame, but "networks, where inventory is sold off to middlemen who represent a variety of advertisers. You get all sorts of strange ads running through. We had ones for nipple pads once. You wouldn't usually expect that with your bond rates, would you?"

Except, actually, yes:

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