Dennis Kneale Freaks Out At "Dickweed" Blogger Critics In Epic Rant (VIDEO)

***UPDATED***

Via Gawker comes this fantastic rant from CNBC host Dennis Kneale in which he rails against his "cowardly," "dickweed" blogger critics who made fun of him for basically declaring that the recession is over. Kneale is offended that these "mean-spirited bloggers" would be "jeering" at his optimism from the "dark and cozy safety of their mothers' basements," and invites them to come on and hash it out with him. One of Kneale's critics from Annuity IQ takes him up on the offer and calls into the show, although he's not given much time by the host.

Kneale is not completely without sense of humor though. He acknowledges bloggers pegging him as "Beaker," from the Muppets, is "pretty funny." The whole thing is great, and you can just feel PR advisers everywhere cringing as Kneale picks a fight that he can't possibly win.

[WATCH] Rant starts at 1:48.

***UPDATE*** Annuity IQ, the blogger who had the courage to come on the show only to get ambushed by Kneale, responds here.

Zero Hedge, who Kneale said was "too tired" to come on the show, responds in detail here.

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[robbob001]

A very good public investment by our US government........1/3 of our country,828,800 square miles for $15 million. Pretty good ROI(return on investment) don't ya think? What would Ayn Rand or her followers say about that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase



The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Louisiana Sale") was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of the French territory Louisiane in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of 15 million dollars for the Louisiana territory.[1][2][3]

The Louisiana Purchase encompassed portions of 14 current U.S. states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River, most of North Dakota, nearly all of South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans. (The Oklahoma Panhandle, and southwestern portions of Kansas and Louisiana were still claimed by Spain at the time of the Purchase.) In addition, the Purchase contained small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The land included in the purchase comprises around 23% of the territory of the United States today.[2]

[radiojunkie]

"Gong In 60 Seconds" If Mike had any more time, he would have proved Kneale is not the real deal. That rimes too.

[TurgidCaterwauling]

Seriously, does anyone take the financial and economic advice of anyone on television?

[rogerthat21]

yaaawn more hype

good political & economic articles: http://iamned.blogspot.com

[Mark701]

I'm assuming that if any of those bloggers got paid what this guy gets paid they'd be more than willing to confront him on national tv.

[WSJevons]

Let's evaluate your illogical evaluation of blogger.

ZeroHedge has an audience that dwarfs Dennis Kneale's. By dwarf, I mean by orders of magnitude.

Bloggers get paid by page views. ZeroHedge is one of the most followed financial blogs now website. It follows that ZeroHedge is banking in excess of $240M per year. I don't know what DK's take is, but I will still bet it is less than ZH.

[ron ray]

$240 million a year? doubtful unless you know a store that takes a page view as a dollar.

No question Kneale is foolish, a larry kudlow wannabe without the resume. but no blogger is making 240 million a year in real money.

[den1953]

To bad there isn't any more relevant news to report this is just another ratings grab wake me up when this channel finds some important news!

[robbob001]

Dennis Kneale like all men is a mere miget sitting on the shoulders of a giant called history. Narcissistic Ayn Rand clones are at once ignorant and contemptuous of history and it's relevance. Dennis pulls out the hope card,oh please. Many if not most of us have much hope for ourselves,our families,and our collective culture. Hope is not a strategy,it's a belief. Dennis is where he is because people like my father killed Germans with twin 50 caliber machine guns in a B-17 bomber at 30,000 feet. Many missions in fact and was honored for his effort, hope was not a strategy then,flying in formation and relying on the group fighting dynamic was. My father and millions who came out of the Great Depression had hardships that would make Dennis's look like a walk in the park. The sacrifices and hard work of millions that came before Kneale is why he had a chance. Our government bought the Louisiana purchase for pennies per square mile(how's that for gov investment Dennis?),our gov,bought Alaska from the Russions,our gov through rural electric brought lights to the country,public education,infrastructure.They also took millions of acres of land and allowed the slaughter of millions of buffalo which was the prime food source for Native Americans.

[robbob001]

Our government makes good investments and some not so good. The only thing that matters is 1) will the investment bring a good return,and 2) should the investment be public or private,or a combo. The tedious line that gov investment is bad and businness investment is good is so overly simplistic. It's always been complicated and always be,and no amount of self-serving blather by mouthpieces for some radical idealogy will help sort it out. Our way of life is under extreme stress on many fronts so what we need is the facts and a concensus on what our collective choices ought to be so that we can evolve or else we are in big trouble. He and those lile him would have you believe that the only good investment is the ones by the capitolists,the producers. Dennis believes and promotes the idea that simply hard work and hope is how we get ahead and defeat the forces allied against us.

[Topsailsman]

Robbo,
Well said. Well said. I long for the day when facts and logic are used instead of ideology, fear, and "gut feelings".

[breakingpoint]

A bad accountant geek expletive fight. How exciting!

Someone is looking for some ratings, and just got them.
That's never a good sign for the economy

[Whalen1776]

Dennis Kneale:

My first impression?

more worried about himself then the content of his journalism.

waaa waaa.

[kesmarn]

If any of the "personalities" on CNBC had either brains or integrity, they would have seen the financial collapse coming and warned investors of what they were in for. Don't know whether they would rather claim lack of market savvy, self-serving "morals," or both. But they lost me and a lot of other viewers in 2009.

[wadenelson1]

If he's got a problem with D**kweed he should get in the archives and read the article on "Manscaping"
a while back in Huffpo.

[lbrty 2112]

Bad ice cube Dennis?

[Dark Sphere]

I would say Leon Panetta has a much closer resemblance to beaker than this guy...

[middlemoderate]

Dennis is as loud as Kudlow without the credentials and we can't STAND
to listen to Larry anymore! So Dennis is not even on our radar.

[henrypapillon]

So what's wrong with Dillweed?

[radiojunkie]

What's wrong with your hearing aid? He can't say D*** (rhymes with trick) without getting fined by the FCC. So he adds weed and gets away with the slur.