A CNBCer’s On-Air Meltdown

Who are the car people? Do they live in cars? Are they made of cars? Apparently there's a game they know about and it means no one can predict markets, is that right?

pmarble

@loveliesbleeding: They live next to the crab people.

@loveliesbleeding: He's just seen a rerun of the old clunker My Mother the Car and thought it was a documentary.

Boring. Call me when he REALLY goes all Howard Beale.

The sad thing is that through this whole debacle, when all the other CNBCers were saying "everything is fine", he was the one yelling "move to cash." He's the only one of those douchebags I trust.

And now he's a crazy person.

Awesome.

dinalohan

@Gabriel Snyder: Sorry. I sent you a message. It won't happen again.

@ChillbearLatrigue: So, yeah, disemvoweling won't get rid of a spammy link. Consider yourself thisclose to a ban.

"tweaked" ... "rails" ...

oh, I get it!

As a "car person" I am offended by this.

TabithaIapetus

cnnt fckng blv ths!

[www.chncrnsm.cm]

@rabbitangstrom: Why didn't they show the clip where he tells Maverick, "Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You don't own that plane, the tax payers do!"

@thevirginconnieswayle:
(eyes bugging while gritting teeth, low Vic voice)
If they know what's *good* for 'em they will...

(sound of clip sliding into place)
ka-SHUCK

This man deserves more airtime, not less. CNBC would be making a mistake to take him off the air at this time when he is most inspired.

this is the most interesting thing that's ever happened on CNBC. If they ran on-air meltdowns all day, i'd be glued to the set.

Mr. Guy

@seyswho: I dunno, have you ever tried to talk to car people? HAVE YOU?

@loveliesbleeding: Apparently the car people "put you on the rails."

@deleteboy: Le Sigh. Do you think they'll make a Shield movie?

R'uh R'oh (read using Scooby Doo voice)

@loveliesbleeding: I don't know, but I'm pretty sure they're waiting for you outside.

"just tell us, next week or this week, markets up or down"
"i don't, i don't know..."
~i guess his being crazy makes him speak the truth

tigolbitties

@loveliesbleeding: He could mean Jay Leno, or Transformers. We may never know.

@sosina: Definitely. He was freshly dusted in the phone call, and coming down later in the live piece.

@Plawf: I conjure they're both the same person.

Exactly. Every time they said rails I was thinking "mmmm hmmm, blowing rails is more like it."

heywhat

What are car people?

After his brother Vic got hired away from LAPD by the Feds then ate his gun off camera (we think), well, things have been kinda on a downswing for the Macke family...

@Awesome X: "Walnut ballsface."

Awesome X

"The minute I started to talking to car people, see, you're just like an idiot and I've dismissed you -- walnut ballsface! Walnut ballsfacssssssssssssssssss -- and I just don't know. Ninety percent of you does rails. Does rails. I'm the voice of reason and I don't know! I don't know this entire game I don't know!"

Awesome X

In his defense, I think he's simply realizing his entire business is a huge fucking joke.

Another argument against live, unscripted television. Or for?

The Jessica Savitch Story--starring Jeff Macke

hudsons1

This is some Mike Tyson shit...

I love the smell of an on-air meltdown in the morning. There's nothing like it. Smells like . . . smells like . . . coke.

OrneryBabe

When shaving one's head, is it possible to also shave one's brain matter?

When he says "I haven't been on the rails in two days," he's slyly referring to cocaine. And as evidenced by his incoherence, he's obviously lying.

El_Gato

I swear to God, he and Jim Cramer are related some how.

@econdave:
No shit, just ask Vic Mackey.

cocaine is a hell of a drug...

sosina

Isn't CNBC crazy worse than "actually crazy"?

I've found that that bullet-head look is a sure sign of mental instability.

"I'm passing out."

Maria Bartiromo is a trustee at my school. I sound the same when I wake up in a cold sweat at night babbling nonsense from a nightmare involving Maria Bartiromo being a trustee at my school.

Oh damn it...

John Thatcher

@deleteboy: We need more Shield references... and The Wire refs too.

Proposition Joe: Yeah, I'm like a marriage counselor. Tell the man he oughta bring the bitch some flowers every once in a while. Tell the bitch she gotta suck some cock every once in a while. That sort of shit.

@ChillbearLatrigue: Awe

@rabbitangstrom: Some

This is what happens when you let Vic Mackey do the news.

@Tremonius: I used to talk to my Transformers when I was like five or six. So yeah.

Aidan_

Paddy Chayefsky just spun around in his grave.

I feel a little happier knowing the meltdowns I have on the job have no chance of being nationally televised.

@JesseFenderburg: I miss Dylan. Not digging the new chick at all.

Jeff is a nutcase, duh. Most hedge fund guys I know (aside from the accountants) are living on the edge of sanity, but they are a ball of fun. Who wouldn't want Jeff over for cocktails? That would be a fun night. Mr. Momof3 is a hedgie so I speak from experience. Crazy game to play.

momof3wildkids

great, first dylan radigan, now jeff macke. Is there like a purge going on at CNBC to get rid of anyone willing to call bullshit?

JesseFenderburg

@acrobatic rabbit_R.O.A.C.H.: Has anyone ever seen them together in the same room?

chesterbrook

@Fishnets and Cigarettes: Exactly! "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" "Throw out your TV sets-throw 'em right out the window-NOW!"

getbackloretta

Rozelle’s Bagman

@loveliesbleeding:

Rozelle’s Bagman

Macke is on the air on "Fast Money" right now. Not sounding bizarre like he did last night.

At least not so far.

TheWall

He must have been partying with Richard Quest.

By his own admission he had been "on rails" (crank) for several days.

I love the look on the girl's face when she realizes how coked up he is and tries to hustle him off air.

That was truly magical.

Ken Elwell

bipolar, manic phase

ArnoldJulisa

@MrInBetween: Yes, you just need a little extra pressure, a good sharp blade, and a complete desire to set free the voices of the gods that live inside your head for all to hear and see and oh my god it's so full of light and sound.

Wait, what?

skippywasserman

CNBC should just stick with one crazy Cramer.

Wow. Painful to watch. It's bad enough we have to see crazy people on the street. Now on our TVs too!

markscottmusic

Wow - cute Asian chick! Me like...

QADude

Look, dude, switch from uppers to something more predictable, get a therapist, be right once in a while, and you might get your own show, like Glen Beck. People like to watch teh crazy.

booge

he's had a melt down, no doubt. but what caused it? it looks like he's spouting out the hard truth - that people haven't listened to him, that the major cable news networks commentators feign ignorance in moments of big economic stakes as part of "playing the game." It will be interesting to see what happens to him. A more articulate and version of what he's saying often comes from someone like Jesse Ventura, and is generally well received.

ThoughtinMouth

Now if they had more of this, I would actually watch CNBC.

Whoa! My interpretation: he has clearly hit the Adderall while simultaneously being pissed at GM and Chrysler.

doggotmyshoes