Dennis Kneale Rants Against "Dickweed" Blogger Critics Again: "I'm Not Sorry At All, I Meant Every Word" (VIDEO)

CNBC host Dennis Kneale is back for more, escalating a feud he began with the blogosphere yesterday with another long-winded rant. Kneale said he was compelled to confront the bloggers, "criticizing their mean-spirited negativity and bash[ing] them for hiding behind the cowardly cloak of anonymity."

To briefly recap, Kneale became the favorite punching bag of the moment for business blogs like Zero Hedge, Dealbreaker, and Annuity IQ after he declared that the recession is over. The blogs, naturally, ribbed him a bit for this grandiose statement. Kneale took it a little personally, using his show to freak out with an epic rant at his "dickweed" blogger critics.

When many websites, including this one, posted this rant, Kneale claimed he had "stirred up an angry hornet's nest in the blogs," who "incited an online mob to rush to their defense."

Now that Kneale has reflected on the situation, he's come to this conclusion:

But this bitter backlash has given me pause. I mean, maybe I've painted with too broad a brush. I thought about that this morning. Perhaps I was unduly harsh. And then it came to me, no I wasn't. I'm not sorry at all. I meant every word of it. See the thing is, I don't bother reading the vitriol spewing out from the miscreants and these digital imbeciles, but apparently a lot of them sure are watching me. Nananee boo boo.

Kneale is really thinking too hard about this. He said something silly ("the great recession is over) on the biggest business television network in America, and business blogs predictably called him on it. We suspect there might another reason Kneale is upset.

According to the host himself, when you enter his name in Google, "Dennis Kneale CNBC" shows up first, "but in the number two position, rising like a bullet, is 'Dennis Kneale Idiot,' with 14,000 entries and counting." Like we warned earlier, don't pick a fight you can't win.

He ended the segment with this line: "Like my Wall Street pals tell me, we've seen this movie before. We're gonna be okay. Hope is the magical elixir of any rebound." Yeah, thanks Dennis. We're all completely reassured by your Wall Street pals and their magical elixirs.

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Comments

[ImNotCranky]

11:47 AM on 07/11/2009

Dennis, you are getting a lot of attention, perhaps negative - learn from it. Not everyone who watches CNBC are tight assed scrooges living off their investment­s and lamenting how unions and social security have ruined the country. America is a Social Democracy. America is a compassion­ate nation.
As a senior, and having lived and known the struggle of the lower class - I know that the vast majority would give their right arms to have had the opportunit­y for success.
It was Banker and corporate greed that brought down this country's financial system. So, how about focusing some time there? Or is it easier to blame it on the lower class? Going up against the powerful bankers is a very hard task. Even Obama said that he was surprised at the "other centers of power that exist that are more powerful than the presidency­. Obama folllow with, "..and I cannot make the bankers do what I want - I can't make them lend money."
Anyway, I wish you success, I will watch to see how you grow.

[ImNotCranky]

11:47 AM on 07/11/2009

Well, I am not 'just young" and the most negative person on CNBC is Dennis.
Dennis thinks everyone wants half of his popsicle - and he whines about how the dreaded welfare people and medical care for everyone is going to bankrupt him.
Meanwhile, it was not welfare or senior citizens that created this financial crisis.
It was the bankers. Dennis, go on a whine against the powerful bankers and powerful corporatio­ns for a change. You are young enough to develope away from your anger against the less fortunate; Share your popsicles. Else, you will grow up to be a very lonely old single man with the personalit­y of Kudlow.
Yes, accumulate your wealth - you have worked hard to get this point, but you must realize that success is part hard work and part good fortune. Many Americans work extremely hard and die early from lack of health care - and during their lives cannot afford a comfortabl­e life style. Instead of ranting against the poor and old, I hope your mature into a person who appreciate­s the good fortune that your hard work has resulted in and learns compassion and a sense of shared humanity with those who depend on the promise of entitlemen­ts to retire.

[Moses Moñstir]

12:26 AM on 07/06/2009

Something tells me he is stuck in the past and doesn't understand the series of tubes we call the Internet. I don't know why he doesn't just work hand in hand with the bloggers instead of adding to the supposed negativity that the sphere is doling out.

[MiddleRoadLiberal]

06:43 AM on 07/04/2009

Hah. He says all of the blogospher­e is watching him but he isn't reading their comments..­.right after showing the blogospher­e's comments. Dolt.

[Subvet]

06:51 PM on 07/02/2009

Beaker....


rofl

[Truelee]

04:51 PM on 07/02/2009

This is the funniest thing on TV and the blogsphere­!!! Meep, meep, meep, meep! LOL!!

[arvay]

03:52 PM on 07/02/2009

OK, Dennis, so you're saying that psychology can spur a turnaround­?

Sorry, this is more like the advice from a spiritual advisor than a realistic economic estimate.

Did you ever take a science course?

There is this thing called "objective reality," in which things and energy operate -- generally according to causes and effects -- no matter what what we think or feel.

And the latest unemployme­nt figures, the still-crip­pled housing market, the lack of the ABILITY of consumers to spend because they are tapped out, overextend­ed and facing possible job loss or are already unemployed are objective facts driving this very real recession.

[FogBelter]

02:39 PM on 07/02/2009

Kneale is a Corporate Shill, a Wall Street propagandi­st. I don't know what value his chastiseme­nt of the Blogospher­e has, and, in fact, I question whether or not he came up with the idea to attack the Blogospher­e on his own in the first place ... but one thing is for sure, CNBC wouldn't devote two segments to this feud if the comments on the Blogs weren't perceived as gaining traction and causing damage to the corporate narrative.

So in my opinion, this business bloggers should pour on the octane and ramp up their criticism of Kneale and the other CNBC talent (aka The Merry Pranksters of Wall Street).

[gatboy3]

06:40 PM on 07/02/2009

WHO???!!!

Fortunatel­y he said it on his own show.

Therefore nobody heard it.

[BILLHICKSPINNING]

02:34 PM on 07/02/2009

I Said it yesterday and i'll say it again:
He looks like Radar O'Riley and Alan Thicke's love child.

[somethingworthsaying]

02:23 PM on 07/02/2009

he was wrong about chantix, too. epic. fda just issued severe warnings. this guy came on CNBC to talk about it and dennis mocked him.

http://www­.thediscip­linedinves­tor.com/bl­og/2008/02­/15/kneale­-is-a-cree­p/

[shthar]

02:23 PM on 07/02/2009

Do we really need a tag for 'dennis kneale bloggers video'?

Is there such a plethora of DK news that we need to seperate it into managable chunks?