Melissa Francis – The Dumbest Person on CNBC
It’s quite an accomplishment to be the dumbest person on a business network that completely missed the financial crisis, but Melissa Francis takes the cake. She argues like a teenager, like today when she became totally fixated on a 30-point drop in the Dow while Obama was speaking, conveniently ignoring that the market had been up over 100 points, and had given back those gains just as Obama began speaking (meaning that the trend was down as he began speaking). Anyone with half a brain knows that swings in the market in the short term are often not rational. The market is rational over the long term, not the short term. Steve Leesman was totally exacerbated as he tried to reason with her to no avail. I’m sure he would have told her to shut the f%#& up if they weren’t on the air. It was one of the most embarrassing exchanges I’ve seen on a network that has come to be known for it’s inability to understand the financial markets it’s supposed to cover.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of “analysis” we’ve come to expect on CNBC. Commentators like Larry Kudlow have one answer to everything – lower taxes on the wealthy. Idiots like Jim Cramer scream about socialism, even though he supported Obama in the fall. They’re becoming the Sarah Palin of financial analysis.
I cant stand this lady. She has the the foresight of a 5 year old. CNCB always loses my attention to bloomberg (or even foxbiz) when her face pops up on the screen
I LOVE Melissa Francis except for two things: she interrupts people constantly, and every time the camera is on her, she’s got that phony ear-to-ear smile.
Her smile actually cracks me up. She’s probably fun off camera, but she’s always promoting her right wing political opinions instead of providing good analysis. If she could drop the politics she could be an excellent anchor.
Right on. She is just Kudlow’s cheerleader. But it’s ok. The two of them have te answer to everything, “lower taxes”….
It’s disgusting to see her pop up as a “financial expert”!
I’d rather watch Larry Kudlow kiss GOP ass than this airhead.
It’s especially sickening to watch her laugh at the stories they’re pimping lately about women who are stripping for money to pay their mortgages. Any one of the strippers would be better qualified as a reporter than her, and there aren’t many men desperate enough to buy a lap dance from “RiddlerMouth”
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Kudlow has been particularly bad lately, as he screams at the camera and his guests. I think he’s terrified that Obama and Geithner might actually fix the mess left by his right wing buddies.
Ideology is like religion. For Kudlow, all that matters is his tax cut dogma. Melissa justs parrots him and smiles away. I’d love to see her with a couple of beers in her.
I was amazed that she went to Harvard since I also find her to be an airhead who giggles at Kudlow’s excesses, and who can do little more than repeat “the government will ruin it.” She is one of CNBC”s worst offender in interrupting people just when they are saying something important.
Presumably she got into Harvard coasting on her child actress background, and on CNBC she coasts on Kudlow’s incomprehensible adoration for her.
I hope they get her off the network ASAP.
She was on the Today Show this morning. Either she can’t read the prompter or she was ad-libbing. Sounded juvenile and shallow. Her newsflash was about the EU’s fines on Intel. She added a bit of her own
She was on the Today Show this morning. Either she can’t read the prompter or she was ad-libbing. Sounded juvenile and shallow. Her newsflash was about the EU’s fines on Intel. She added a bit of her own “in-depth” analysis by saying the EU is fining Intel despite the fact that chip prices are falling. True, chip prices have been falling. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FALLING…HELLO… MOORE’S LAW…She is an automaton who can only mindlessly utter canned phrases. She belongs on Fox Business News.
Kudlow and Lenin would agree she is a useful idiot
Bush and Gonzo also went to Harvard
Melissa Francis is no airhead; saying so is completely moronic. Her NYMeX reports were stellar almost reaching the intelligence and depth of Santelli’s reports on the CME. Her
well i dont think your the dumbest blond look where your at and i like the
Melissa is GREAT! She may not be the sharpest pin in cushion but she does a great job with CNBC. She is real and she is smart enough.. You Melissa bashers need to get a life and stop being so mean to our little Missy..
LEAVE little Missy alone you ingrates! I love her show on MSNBC too!
-Dirt
I just love Melissa – Harvard grad says it all & it looks like she got an eye lift over the holidays
She needs to stop offering her analysis and stick to asking the questions. Sometimes her comments are simply embarrassing. She appears to have no clue about economics and others often try to correct her many false assertions during the show.
Who is Geraldo Orlando? NEVER HEARD OF HIM!
francis is definitely NOT the worst on cnbc [she is bright and, while she doesn't know much, she challenges guests; she asks questions]; they have a lot of dead heads on the air. they are generally “nice” people, most are nice looking [doesn't matter to me; I would prefer a real beast who knew what she was talking about to a beautiful dummy], some of them are smart, but a lot of them have no business talking about business; they don’t know anything, they don’t care about business and, for the same salary, would be just as happy working for the weather channel, and they don’t have any insight. e.g., erin burnett, the travel/animal correspondent: really nice person. does she add anything? does she give anything to the viewer? putin’s stooge can say anything to a credulous erin. what about regan? same story. haynes (because he can be a curmudgeon sometimes actually challenges guests and that produce some information), nesto, etc., etc., etc. the management of cnbc, a collection of clueless dullards, is apparently convinced that it must emulate fox and dumb down its broadcasts with happytalk b.s.
With the exceptions of Mark Haines, David Faber and Rick Santolli, the rest of the CNBC on-air personalities are just there to kill time.
Melissa Francis is probably the worst commentator on the business channels period. She does not know what she is talking about, not to mention she agrees with one of the worst economists around LARRY KUDLOW, WHAT AN IDIOT HE IS. Also, she has no knowledge of how the markets actually work!!!!
Melissa Francis is absolutely terrible. Her voice could not be more annoying, her business knowledge bears on embarassing minimal, and she’s not even good looking. Thanks CNBC for airing a total waste of space.
She knows more than most, and she was right regarding the drop as the Prez spoke.
I think she must have improved her presentation since you people made these comments. I like her and the contributions she makes to ongoing conversation. She seems to perceive things at a different level than the others and does a good job.
Like the other women on that channel she is alsoattractive, which I see as a bonus.
I just can’t get past the size of her mouth, it is huge. She needs a bigger head or some kind of surgery to reduce that ear to ear mouth.
Brian Sullivan looks and acts like the stoned fraternity guy who sits in the corner and then says something so ridiculous.. He is not going to last, Simon Hobbs hates his stupid ignorant american ass.
I find most of the CNBC reporters useless. No one saw the fianacial collapse coming. I think Joe K. is quite smart and understands the markets. During the collapase, some of them were interviewed in a panel and they showed their color.
…plus she BLURTS. Talks over people, interrupts with dumb remarks. Kind of a commentary turrets. Surprising that a producer hasn’t shut that down. Really annoying and incredibly rude.
Yes, bright-eyed and dim-witted, just like cnbc likes their sheep-spokeswomen, she was probably the worst of a bad bunch @cnbc. Santelli and select guests are the only ones worth listening to. You folks would enjoy cnbc a lot more without the sound on. It’s fine for following markets as long as you don’t actually believe their “stories”.
Like me, you can still love them too, but just for comedy’s sake. Watched the GE owned channel for about 15 years now,and they are NOT NOW OR HAVE EVER BEEN KNOWN for reporting integrity, unbiased analysis, or really any news that doesn’t promote their “trading” agenda. It’s more terrible when you consider that GE is one of the worst offenders regarding shipping jobs overseas, then NOT PAYING ANY U.S. taxes on BILLIONS in profit. Look it up. Meanwhile, GE’s CEO Immelt is Obama’s pick for job czar!?
Oh yeah, I almost forgot to thank GE for the flawed Fukishima reactors, too, of which we still have about a hundred identical ones on OUR soil. Most are ALSO very old, and are ALSO on major fault lines and bordering the ocean. Thanks so much.
Is there a video of Leesman and Francis going at each other?
Melissa is right on. Liberals hate her because the conservative truth hurts.