Sexist banter on CNBC

Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable noted Monday that CNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan’s sexist banter is turning off viewers.

Guthrie wrote, “On Friday morning’s edition of The Call, CNBC correspondent Melissa Francis, who was reporting on frenzied gasoline trading from NYMEX, asked Ratigan: ‘Is it as crazy on your exchange as it is here?’

“Ratigan’s comeback: ‘I think if I was blond and beautiful I could draw a big crowd.’

“Francis, visibly irked, responded: ‘That’s not what it is all about.’

“Ratigan was obviously chastened, and (mercifully) put his locker room repartee on ice for the remainder of the broadcast.

“CNBC had no comment.

“Sadly, such comments are hardly atypical from Ratigan and his band of merry he-men.”

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