[gcutler]

I was a fan of his old syndicated talk show, so I like his new show. Of course he has his old liberal slant, but loved the auditorium shows about Worldcom, with Ralph Nader and others.

 

[Guest]

This man makes me sick and I hate his new show!!!!!!!

That particular show was ok except for the some of the facts were not correct..... The woman that lost 1 million dollars was misleading (this was about enron).... She lost about 25,000 of her own money.... Don't get me wrong, Enron heads should be cutoff but don't make it sound like people had millions invested..... Just another way to mislead Americans..... Once again, I could live without Donahue... I prefer Bill O'Reilly......

 

[gcutler]

Originally posted by Keith4USC
This man makes me sick and I hate his new show!!!!!!!

She lost about 25,000 of her own money.... Don't get me wrong, Enron heads should be cutoff but don't make it sound like people had millions invested.....

Are you talking about a majority of it being vested money and also considering the market value of the stock prior to the fiasco?

If so I'd say when you talk to a "Fully Vested" employee, they consider the vested amount and market value as what they lost. If you had a stock account worth 100K that you invested 10K in originally and it was now worth 5K most people would not consider it a 5K loss. Not if you were planning your retirement on it (and especially when the downfall was caused by those bastards).

A little different what happened at Enron or Worldcom, but I worked with a guy at two companies. At the first company he had 1 million worth of Stock options, and 1 month before he was going to retire (after 13 years at the company) the internet bubble burst and the stock options became worth 100K. In this instance it was no ones fault but ourselves, but they guy was not looking around after 13 years thinking hey I doubled my 50K investment. (add insult upon injury was that the company made some very bad investments, bought an internet consulting company, and as quick as you could blink and eye that 100K account became worth 10K). We ended up working together at another company a month later, he was a broken man

 

[lee635]

Originally posted by Keith4USC
This man makes me sick and I hate his new show!!!!!!!

That particular show was ok except for the some of the facts were not correct..... The woman that lost 1 million dollars was misleading (this was about enron).... She lost about 25,000 of her own money.... Don't get me wrong, Enron heads should be cutoff but don't make it sound like people had millions invested..... Just another way to mislead Americans..... Once again, I could live without Donahue... I prefer Bill O'Reilly......

Yeah, it's clear you've been watching Bill OReilly, aka the enron apologist and every other business scandal apologist. How ridicululous to say you lost a million dollars when you only invested $25,000?

I guess if your house is destroyed, you won't ask the insurance company for a new house, just the 10% you put into it, right?

 

[James_F]

Bill O'Reilly

This man makes me sick and I hate his crappy show!!!!!!!

 

[pmichael]

I think Phil's show is pretty good. I find it more compelling than Connie Chung's show. I have seen O'Reilly's show periodically, and though it's interesting, I find him to be too pompous and arrogant to watch too often.

 

[lee635]

Originally posted by pmichael
I think Phil's show is pretty good. I find it more compelling than Connie Chung's show. I have seen O'Reilly's show periodically, and though it's interesting, I find him to be too pompous and arrogant to watch too often.

Connie Chung on CNN talked about the guy that's suing the fast food places. Anyway, my wife said that Connie said (heresay if there was) something to the effect of he didn't have to eat at those places. To which my wife noted, Connie Chung probably hasn't eaten at a McDonalds in years. And what would she know about having 30 minutes to grab a lunch at some crappy dead end job and not wanting to sit in the depressing breakroom to eat a packed lunch and not having an hour and a half and 70 bucks to eat where Connie eats...

Needless to say we'll be watching Larry King and Aaron Brown on Cable News Network, but no Chung anymore.

 

[Kevin G]

I've tried to watch Phil's show a couple of times, but because of his liberal stance, it's too much to bear more than a couple of minutes. But at least he admits his stance.

Bill O'Reilly is more attuned to my tastes.

As far as Enron employees who had all their money in Enron stock, if they weren't coerced into putting it all there, should have known better. Who hasn't heard 'Don't put all of your eggs in one basket'? I'm sure it was enticing while the stock kept going up to just 'let it ride', but eveyone knows the best protection is being diversified.

Connie Chung/fast food suer - his suit should be thrown out immediately. If she did say this, and although I'm no fan of Connie Chung, she's worked hard to get where she is; if she can afford $70/meal and 1 1/2 hrs to eat it- good for her. Those that have 'crappy dead end jobs' should do what it takes to get their dream job and then they can have 1 1/2 hr to eat their $70 meal.