John Cook of Gawker writes that CNBC‘s Charles Gasparino is upset about a reference to him in the book about the Wall Street turmoil of the past year by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times.
While the 53-year-old Goldman C.E.O. kept a television in his office, he was so disgusted with what he believed was CNBC’s Charlie Gasparino’s “rumor-mongering” that he had turned it off in protest. “That’s not my thing,” he told [Morgan Stanley CEO John] Mack. “I don’t do TV.”
“Do not call Charlie Gasparino a rumor-monger, or quote someone else doing so. He doesn’t like it! Especially when it appears not to be true: According to Business Insider, a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman confirmed the anecdote about Blankfein turning off CNBC, but said ”rumor-mongering’ is not a direct quote.’
“Gasparino was so broken up about the alleged misquote that he had his lawyer send letters to Sorkin’s publisher Viking and to Vanity Fair, which reprinted the anecdote in an excerpt this month, demanding corrections.”
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That is so unbelievably stupid. All he is doing is drawing attention to a passage in the book that otherwise would have gone unnoticed. He's done this before, with the Sandy Weill book. What a dummy.
Gasparino is the biggest hack in the business. "Blustery" does not go far enough to describe his style. Every report he issues is a self-centered exercise in ego mongering. Classic Napolean Syndrome offered by a small man with a huge insecurity problem.
It is too bad that Gasparino is as insecure as he and that he thinks needs to stump his book wherever he goes. It is clear that the NY Times Andrew Ross Sorkin has the story right when he depicted Gasparino as a windbag. From those that surround Gasparino I hear he tries to play the role of bully because of his insecurities. Clearly that mentality has been shown in spades throughout his CNBC career. This old man still thinks a good brawl defines a winner. Oh how some people never grow up. The adults realize it is intellect that defines a winner.