FBN’s Charlie Gasparino Boasts of ‘Crushing the Sh*theads’ at CNBC
Today in gratuitous Twitter squabbles, Fox Business Network’s Charles Gasparino snarled at CNBC’s Scott Wapner after another tweeter challenged them to debate each other on-air. To Wapner’s credit he tried to exit gracefully a couple times, only to be drawn back in by Gasparino’s chest-thumping.
The bait:
How about a debate segment between @ScottWapnerCNBC and @CGasparino ,appears on both networks each day, about a breaking story?
— Craig Scott (@CraigScott31) March 16, 2015
Wapner passed:
@CraigScott31 @CGasparino Charles and I don't take opposite sides of stories dude. We just happen to go after some of the same ones.
— Scott Wapner (@ScottWapnerCNBC) March 16, 2015
Gasparino escalated:
.@ScottWapnerCNBC @CraigScott31 true but in scott's case he usually gets beat (ie chapman $LL , ackman's alleged $HLF manipulation ect) :)
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 16, 2015
Wapner again tried to deescalate:
@CGasparino The good thing is I don't have to defend my reporting or scoops or anything else to anyone since my work speaks for itself. out
— Scott Wapner (@ScottWapnerCNBC) March 16, 2015
And it got ugly from there:
i think @ScottWapnerCNBC needs to go back to the weather desk at wtpg in dallas he's now playing major league bb and striking out a lot
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 16, 2015
best thing abt working at a network that allegedly no one watches is crushing the shitheads at @cnbc like @ScottWapnerCNBC everyday
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 16, 2015
and btw the best about working at @CNBC while i was there was making ppl @ScottWapnerCNBC and the rest of the worthless crew irrelevant
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) March 16, 2015
Ok I'm done with this conversation, and all future ones regarding this topic. Going back to what I do. Work.
— Scott Wapner (@ScottWapnerCNBC) March 16, 2015
The guy who started all this of course claimed vindication, not unjustifiably, for his business network cage-match idea:
@CGasparino @ScottWapnerCNBC if some of these twitter "dialogue's" were brought to air, rating's gold.
— Craig Scott (@CraigScott31) March 16, 2015
FWIW, CNBC generally beats FBN daily in both average demo and total viewership, but the Fox network has seen some gains over its eight-year existence.
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