The Perils of Being on TV
Know who Becky Quick is? Us either, until yesterday. That's when someone directed us to a Becky Quick website, where we learned not only that she's a correspondent for CNBC's morning show, Squawk Box, but also that she's "beautiful and talented." At first we thought this was her personal publicity site, but then we looked at it for a bit and realized that even a television reporter couldn't be quite so narcissistic and tone deaf as to write in the first line of the "About Becky" bio:
Chances are you're not as smart as Becky, and you're certainly not as pretty as Becky! Haha just kidding.
And then we read some of the guestbook comments, which are even worse. Things like:
On 11/22/2005, Bill Merritt wrote:
I think Becky is perfect for CNBC and just an all around nice person. I hope she will get her own show one of these days. Good luck, Becky!
On 11/17/2005, Tom wrote:
Becky's the most amazingly, stuningly woman I have ever seen in my life. I cannot get my mind off of her during my day, the distraction from her beauty is affecting my stock picks.
On 11/14/2005, Jack wrote:
Becky's beautiful, from head to toe. She's smart with a quick mind. Her teeth are like pearls from the orient, glimmering and flawless. Her eyes spark and her hair floats as if weightless. She's beautiful and smart.
And so we were kind of feeling bad for Becky for a bit. Until we remembered: Nobody ever tells us our hair floats as if it's weightless.
Lucky bitch.
