Kneale Fails CNBC Tryout; Tweets “Up Yours” to Bloggers On The Way Out

After a five-month tryout anchoring CNBC’s 8 p.m. hour, former Wall Street Journal and Forbes editor Dennis Kneale has been cancelled.

He broke the news himself on Twitter — taking one last (desperate) shot at bloggers, the same “mean-spirited” miscreants who he lashed out at earlier this summer, deriding them as “digital dickweed,” in what his producer called a moment of ‘poetry, the best thing he’d done for the show.’

After announcing the end of his run, invoking Douglas MacArthur and The Terminator, Kneale rattled off a series of tweets that echoed his assertive, combative tone on television but with explicit bitterness and a latent sense of insecurity:

Kneale breaks the news:

In response to a fan who signaled his approval for the cancellation, asking “What took so long?”:

On his replacement at the 8 p.m. hour — documentaries:

And finally, to drive the point home :

Save the appeals for validation, Dennis. It’s not personal, it’s TV. But isn’t there some sinister irony here: a cancelled cable news anchor tweeting his disdain for bloggers, while rubbing it in their faces that he still has some airtime?

Earlier: CNBC Burns Airtime on Blogger “Morons” and “Dickweeds”

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