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Arn on CNBC

okay-- not that it was Arn's fault, it wasn't... but...

If that host is going to run his show like the O'Reilly Factor or Hardball with Chris Matthews--- then speak to them the way they speak to you.

It's not about being quiet and polite, and "well that's the formal courteous way to be a guest on a show where the hosts yells and is rude to me."

ATTACK BACK. (This comment wasn't said to Arn but...) Apple not owning 95% of the market? My reply would have been something to the effect of Mercedes or BMW owning less than 5% of the entire vehicle market in America but is still are vastly superior cars to the majority. Simple.

We've all heard the attacks on Mac users and quite honestly many people don't reply to them, making the attacks seem all the more justified by the morons in America.

You may say "well I don't care what other people think." Well if that is the case, then it's best not to sign up to be on national televison in front of millions of viewers.

Okay, I'm done now, and I think Arn did a good job. My frustration stems from the moronic ignorant host, who deserved a few more words out of the mouths of his guests, to at least shut him up if not prove a point.
 
Disclaimer: I think that Arn did an amazingly good, professional-caliber interview; stylistically there was nothing wrong with what he said, how he said it, nor how he presented his thoughts and himself. The following comments are in no way directed to him, nor are they directed to Bob of LoopRumors, either.

Who the **** came up with the idea of interviewing two rumors' site maintainers about unannounced, forthcoming-or-maybe-not products from Apple in the context of a financial and investment industry news show? That is the single most stupefyingly dumfounding unprofessional, un-journalistic thing I can think to do.

And then the host decides to play hardball (pun not intended) with these non-company-representatives? If it were my network and I saw this happen, I would fire the producer of the show and the interviewer on-the-spot. I don't care if the two guests were there to praise the virtues of the Zune, or they were there to talk about Windows Vista or what we're doing in Afghanistan. What they (producer and host) did was completely inappropriate for that show, period.

Now, if the iPhone really does exist, and if it were released, and then if these two people were asked to appear as lay-member product analysts, and the point was to give the "every-man" take on whether this was a good product, then it would have been justifiable to put Bob and Arrn on; however it would NOT have been appropriate to grill them.

How can Arn and/or Bob possibly be qualified to essentially represent Apple if they don't even know for a fact that this product is really being developed and released, to say nothing of even knowing what it's capabilities are?

This whole thing is the most ******** ******* retarded thing I've ever seen on an allegedly-professional network broadcast.

Under the circumstances, both Bob and Arn should have, while on camera, told the host off and immediately walked off-set. What that guy did was totally uncalled for.
 
MikeTheC said:
Under the circumstances, both Bob and Arn should have, while on camera, told the host off and immediately walked off-set. What that guy did was totally uncalled for.
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Not sure that arn telling the host off and then walking off of the set would have reflected well upon MR. :eek:
 
dmw007 said:
Not sure that arn telling the host off and then walking off of the set would have reflected well upon MR. :eek:
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I'd definitely agree with that one. That's pretty much the most unprofessional thing a person could do in that circumstance. Thank God arn has more common sense and composure than that. :cool:
 
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