What, you’ve never heard of Dentopodiatry Syndrome? Laypersons call it “Foot-in-Mouth Disease.”
The latest batch of carbon-based lifeforms to come down with a bad case of it are the resident panel on Fox Business News’s “Money for Breakfast” financial gabfest.
They were announcing and “analyzing” the purchase of 8.1% of the stock of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the global supplier of integrated circuits for personal and networked computing and communications that a lot of people hope will follow through on its plans to build a chipmaking facility in Malta, Saratoga County.
The TV people’s gaffe, and their reaction to it, is is a great case against instant analysis, geographic ignorance, and waving off reality as if it were a joke.
Get a look at the video here.
(Posted 11/17/07)
William M. Dowd is a Capital Region writer and photographer specializing in food, drink and destinations at Dowd’s Guides.