Fox Business and CNBC Reporters Get in Brutal Twitter Brawl: ‘Ur Not Just Fat But Dumb’
What do correspondents for Fox Business and CNBC do when they are not analyzing Wall Street on television? If they’re Fox’s Charlie Gasparino and CNBC’s Ron Insana, they apparently spend their Friday afternoons viciously going at it on Twitter over something as innocuous as a magazine ad.
It all started when Insana had this reaction to a new ad campaign featuring Gasparino:
This is great @CGasparino pic.twitter.com/O3LymSh4s6
— Julia La Roche (@SallyPancakes) November 7, 2014
@SallyPancakes @CGasparino David Faber breaks news … ALL others follow!
— ron insana (@rinsana) November 7, 2014
The set Gasparino OFF:
@rinsana @SallyPancakes GFY fat boy
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
the nitrates from all those twinkies @rinsana ingests has warped his memory @SallyPancakes
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
@rinsana @SallyPancakes you will always be a fat slob i'd smack u silly but it wld be considered child abuse
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
is there any more unctuous boot licking kiss ass "journalist" than @rinsana? no one even close will discuss w @LizClaman 323pm @FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
yeah the single source that said tarp was coming and ur buddie stevie cohen ran a crappy operation @rinsana @FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
i bet it goes something like this "truth hurts" @mbyhoff
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
thats cause ur not just fat but dumb @rinsana @FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
youre just a friggen paid shill for wall street and a disgusting slob u actually make me sick @rinsana
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
ive made u him & the rest of them irrelevant so maybe u shld go back to hawking stevie's hedge fund oh wait you cant hes shut down @rinsana
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
@fakeCNBC @rinsana @FoxBusiness yeah right fat boy throws the first shot and im supposed to let it go
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
u know abt criminality given all the time u shilled for SAC again ur nothing but a disgusting slob @rinsana @SallyPancakes @FoxBusiness
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
As you can see, while Insana stayed mostly to the issue at hand, Gasparino made his argument primarily about his competitor’s weight and lack of hair. And as promised, he brought to fight to Fox Business’ Countdown to the Closing Bell with Liz Claman minutes later.
“Don’t you want to talk about my Twitter war?” Gasparino asked Claman, who did not seem as eager to wade into this fight. “I’m not being mean, he was mean to me,” he insisted when she asked him why he felt the need to mock the CNBC contributor on air.
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“I have left him in the dust, the disgusting slob he is,” Gasparino continued, calling him a “paid shill” for Wall Street. Even after Claman tried to move on to another subject, he would not let it go. “He’s disgusting! He’s the lowest form of journalist.”
“Go back to Twitter,” Claman told him.
And that he did:
i promise this is my last one: ur a putrid balding disgusting fat-cat boot licking sycophantic douche @rinsana
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 7, 2014
@CGasparino Nothing but class.
— ron insana (@rinsana) November 7, 2014
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