# "Mad Money" on CNBC **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618 "2005-09-08T04:17:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/1 "2005-09-08T04:17:59Z")
I find myself oddly transfixed by this trainwreck of a TV show. Anyone else? Does anyone know if his advice is worth a damn? (Not that I have any money; just curious.) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/2 "2005-09-08T12:41:37Z")
Trainwreck is right. I catch it only when commercials are on other channels and not on CNBC, and I’ll watch maybe 10 minutes. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him trash a stock. At worst, he’ll say nice things, but some other stock is a better choice. I figured he can’t talk bad about a company for liability (slander) issues, but it just may be that I haven’t watched enough (and I doubt I will). ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/3 "2005-09-08T12:56:34Z")
I’ve seen him throw the “bear” up on the screen a couple of times. I really like this guy’s schtick. One wonders how edited the show is. I’ve never seen a company name surprise him. Aren’t most “experts” on TV always bullish, though. Gotta add. . .I have been receiving cable accidentally for about 10 days now and I’m finally being exposed to all these weird things I’d just heard of. I’d never seen O’Reilly factor or Anderson Cooper. I had no idea who this Shepherd Smith tool is. Right now it’s all just this crazy crazy place to me with “stars” and “personalities” I don’t know about. . .Dog? ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/4 "2005-09-08T15:01:31Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I’d never seen O’Reilly factor or Anderson Cooper. I had no idea who this Shepherd Smith tool is. O’Reilly, America’s favorite demogogue, is 8pm on FOX. Cooper is 8pm on CNN. [Smith is not a tool](http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/02.html#a4763). ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/5 "2005-09-08T15:51:13Z")
> [@furt](#): > > O’Reilly, America’s favorite demogogue, is 8pm on FOX. Cooper is 8pm on CNN. [Smith is not a tool](http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/02.html#a4763). Who is Emeril? Who is Dog? Who is Carson Daly? Who is Tucker Carlson? Who is Jim Cantone? ? Actually, I do know who most of these people are, but I think I felt better off when they couldn’t be accessed through normal channel surfing. I find this whole cable TV landsacpe a bit unpalatable. It makes me wonder what is the shortest list of people we could compose to be guaranteed that at least one of them is never 15 minutes away from being on the air. They’re all just part of a big mess that I don’t even want to try parse. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/6 "2005-09-08T15:58:49Z")
I happen to catch Mad Money at the gym once in while and al I can think about is, “If he is so smart about the market why does he need this TV gig?” ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-money-on-cnbc/320618/7 "2005-09-08T16:18:43Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > I happen to catch Mad Money at the gym once in while and al I can think about is, “If he is so smart about the market why does he need this TV gig?” The Greed gene and the Narcissism gene are on two separate chromosomes.