Felix Salmon: Suze Orman is a big, fat idiot!

My god, is it Make Fun of Felix Salmon Week again already? I thought I had just gotten done trashing Felix two weeks ago! How time flies, eh? Well, enough shilly-shallying. Let’s get down to business.

Two weeks ago, Felix wrote “I’m a big fan of Suze Orman, and I’m generally very mistrustful of prepaid debt cards. So what happens when Suze Orman launches her own prepaid card? The answer, in a nutshell: it’s the best prepaid card out there.”

Fortunately, Felix’s write-up was not an unqualified rave, but even so, wiseguys like myself suggested in the comments that Felix sounded just a little bit gaga over Suze, who strikes some people, like myself, as basically a shill for herself, who, if she purports to be giving people disinterested financial advice should probably not be hawking her own debt card, nor should Felix be all pumped over Suze’s new card, and acting like maybe he thought that if he said nice things about Suze, she might have him on her show, and then, who knows, maybe he’d have his own show, and then, who knows, maybe even his own debt card!

To his credit, Felix seemed to be reading those comments, and he started walking back his enthusiasm, here, and then he walked them back a lot more, here, in a post entitled “Suze Orman’s conflicts.” At one point, in a fairly lengthy diatribe entry, Felix lets fly with the following burst of sarcasm: “Of course, I have my own opinions on financial matters as well. And some things are just completely laughable. Like, for instance, the idea that anybody, ever, should spend $63 per year for an investment newsletter with buy and sell portfolio recommendations which are designed to beat the market. But, that’s exactly what Orman is selling.”

Yo, Felix! Did Suze just start selling that newsletter, you know, last week? Or, maybe, was she selling it when you said you were a “big fan” of hers? Just so’s you learn from your mistakes, dude. That’s what counts.