Larry Kudlow: We Should Be 'Grateful' That Human Toll From Japan Quake Is 'Worse' Than Economic Toll (VIDEO)

CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow made a startling statement about the earthquake in Japan on Friday. (h/t Vanity Fair.)

Kudlow was listening to a report about the global stock markets doing well in the wake of the quake. "All in all, the market taking this in stride," his co-host said to him.

"The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that," Kudlow responded. "And the human toll is a tragedy, we know that."

Kudlow later apologized for the statement on Twitter, writing, "talking about markets.I flubbed the line. Sincere apology."

Comments

[webe50]

07:38 PM on 04/13/2011

I WISH TO GOD HIS KIDS WERE IN THE DESASTER AND WERE PART OF THE PEOPLE MISSING.

[webe50]

07:36 PM on 04/13/2011

LARRY KUDLOW IS A F........KING FREAK OF NATURE AND HIS TWO PUPPETS ARE JUST AS BAD

[builderman55]

11:00 AM on 03/20/2011

Sort of gives an insight into how these people think. Money is far more important than people.

[Timothy Grome]

12:42 AM on 03/17/2011

The underlying attitude expressed is that wealth is more important than human life. This attitude leads CEOs to save money at the cost of lives of workers, consumers or residents in cities like Bhopal. The sad thing is that our government is run by officeholders who reach high office based on the size of campaign coffers. Votes are an intemediate step between cash and election.

[dokbob]

02:40 PM on 03/16/2011

He's written his own bio better than anyone else could have.

[julbar]

12:06 PM on 03/16/2011

I do not doubt for a second that he knew exactly what he was saying and meant it.

[MrVee]

11:14 AM on 03/16/2011

The love of money is the root of evil.

[Ranaldo]

08:47 AM on 03/16/2011

It's always educational when one of these dumbells wanders off-script and reveals their mental and moral mettle.

Maybe his heirs will have those words engraved on his monument.

[DrRoberts99]

08:08 AM on 03/16/2011

Kudlow hasn't been right about anything in twenty years but that fact would never prevent the MSM from hiring him to host a show. This country wallows in its collective ignorance.

[RS]

11:30 AM on 03/16/2011

Amen. Kudlow has a LONG, LONG history of being one of the BIGGEST CHEERLEADERS of "free" trade and supply side, trickle down Reaganomics, two of the principal causes of our nation's financial problems today.

'Nuff said.

[Jamal Spencer]

07:55 AM on 03/16/2011

He is becoming the male version of Michele Bachmann. I think that he should be suspended for at least a month,then Comcast should decide his fate after that.

[unitron]

03:40 AM on 03/16/2011

"A bunch of insignificant human beings that no one who is anyone cared anything about were killed, but thank God none of that sweet, precious, adorable money was hurt!"

[FormerReaganite]

12:50 AM on 03/16/2011

Some people think about what they are going to say, BEFORE they say it.

Some just spout off what's on their mind, without thinking first.

Some just spout off what's on their mind, without EVER thinking, before or after the fact.

[Badger33]

12:37 AM on 03/16/2011

He revealed his true values and should pay the price.

[halfpennybay]

08:43 AM on 03/16/2011

Yep, BIG BONUS, ha!!

[Yasmine]

11:51 PM on 03/15/2011

Like it or not.................in a Capitalist society..........that is normal...ECONOMY TRUMPS everything else.
I am not surprised specially of Kudlow.

[FormerReaganite]

12:40 AM on 03/16/2011

Capitalism will evolve into a (much more advanced) socialist system.

This happens when the majority finally comes to realize the fact that they have been getting scroo-d by capitalists.

And that time may have come. (considering recent political events in the Midwest)

[halfpennybay]

08:46 AM on 03/16/2011

The corporate fascist elites, would have killed the protesters in the streets if they could have gotten away with it. FOX news was just hoping and praying things would get violent. Walker was praying to his jesus that he would be able to let loose the Natuonal Gurad wi th live ammo.

You have NO idea to waht lenghts these fascists will gho to crush American workers. NO IDEA!!

[Yasmine]

08:17 PM on 03/16/2011

FormerReagante
I really like your name...............and hope all those working class folks who got duped by Reagan and DEFECTED the Democratic party to become REAGAN DEMocrats have alsready realized that ....and become like you FORMER REAGANITES

Like it or not, the Democratic Party is the EQUIVALENT of the LABOR Party in ENGLAND ...and that system is quite clear about which party STANDS for LAbor.ie WORKERS

PERHAPS the Democratic party should change its name.
AH but wait there is a WOKING FAMILIES party which i see in NY State, I think they should form a COALITION with all the CENTER LEFT groups ...............because the RIGHT WING has for 30 years formed coalition and gotten POWERFUL because of that.

[AllenD]

11:33 PM on 03/15/2011

My message to CNBC

Larry Kudlow's remarks about Japan should be cause for his immediate termination. This is not an isolated incident for Kudlow who in the past advocating invading various country for the sole reason that the stock market will go up. While I know that the ethics of your typical Wall Street analyst makes your average used car salesman look like Gandhi, Kudlows remarks are beyond the pale even by your low standards.

To contact CNBC: https://register.cnbc.com/email/EmailSupport.jsp

[hmp49]

06:35 PM on 03/25/2011

Gilbert Gottfried lost his (AFLACE Duck voice over)  job for making jokes about Japan.

Personally, I don't think they were that offensive - he's a COMEDIAN, and his crime if any was "too soon" And he CERTAINLY didn't mean any of it.

Kudlow, of course, considers himself a serious commentator. His comment coming from anyone else might be interpreted as sick humor (certainly sicker than Gilbert). But he's still got his job and and Gilbert was fired.