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Which New Lies Will We Hear Today?

By Jim Cramer
RealMoney Columnist

11/17/2009 9:28 AM EST
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Come on, media, fire it up. Let's hear the lies about retail sales. Come on, pundits: let's hear some fibs about how anything good is chimerical and false. Alert the media to give us some. Let's hear them -- the lies about how bad it really is out there. Goes well with the lies we heard about back-to-school. Let's gin up the "bad holiday season" lies. How about lying about the excellent performance of Home Depot (HD - commentary - Trade Now) or Target (TGT - commentary - Trade Now) or TJX (TJX - commentary - Trade Now). We can make up some good lies about easy compares or profitless sales. Oops, it is actually profitable sales, but who cares? Great lying territory ... like anybody's under oath around here!

How about some more spin about the banks and how poorly and undercapitalized they really are. Good start yesterday. We need some good car lies, about how Ford's (F - commentary - Trade Now) really doing awfully and GM's lying about its turn. No need to revise the lies about the "Cash for Clunkers" program, the first stimulus program that actually worked out of this administration. Better to just stick with the lie that it didn't and go with the "pull-forward" dissembling even though October was terrific.

Hey, I got a couple of good lies. First, Buffett. He's lying to himself about Wells Fargo (WFC - commentary - Trade Now) and his new buy. He doesn't know Wells Fargo like Meredith Whitney does, even though he bought in back in 1990. He's as off base with Wells Fargo as he is with Burlington Northern (BNI - commentary - Trade Now), that senile, happy-go-lucky accidental billionaire. How can he not know that Meredith Whitney's the most bearish she's been? She's been at it much longer and is much smarter than Buffett, isn't she? And how much wiser she must be, because she doesn't put a dime where her mouth is.

Buffett's lying to himself about Wells. Just like Soros is lying to himself about his moronic buy of Ford. Buffett's a dope with his buys. So is Soros. I wonder which guy is dumber ... although it has to be Buffett, because doesn't he read Meredith's research? Didn't he hear her about the state of the consumer and retail sales?

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