Eating Glassman's Words
Eddy Elfenbein reminds us that back in April Slate's Daniell Gross was prediciting the Bush administration wouldn't be able to recruit a high level Wall Street exec to replace John Snow. Specficially, Gross wrote:
The probability of Bush being able to draft any of these guys—virtually all of whom have signaled their disinterest—is incredibly low.
Gross then went on to put his money where his mouth was to put his mouth where his predictions were.
John Snow will have a replacement, and he may very well come from the corporate world. But if it's an A-list Wall Street CEO, I'll buy a copy of Dow 36,000 and eat the first chapter.
We think it's unfair to ask Gross to follow through on this promise entirely. Gross is, afterall, an internet journalist. So we here at DealBreaker hereby promise to buy Gross a copy of Dow 36,000 and mail him the first chapter. But he's got to eat those words.
Snow's Job [Slate via Crossing Wall Street]
Comments
Gross is a partisan hack who has no journalistic integrity. If he's not on the DNC payroll, well, then he's a damn fool and working for them for free. Anybody who wastes their time reading his biased pap deserves to be misled.
Posted by: blackswan | May 30, 2006 08:39 PM
Gross has posted a follow-up in which, like any good journalist caught out in a prediction that gone badly wrong, he first employs snark and second rapidly changes the subject.
Posted by: BMC | May 30, 2006 09:46 PM
screw that! what about that rich boy steve forbes saying oil goes to $35. wrong.
what about goldman saying oil goes to $105???? wrong-O again-O
do these words ring a bell?
That's goldman analyst Arjun N. Murti talking trash on March 30th...email us for the blackmarket PDF. we got enough of this ish to go around, smokey.
Posted by: CMG/SA | May 31, 2006 12:36 AM