TV Newser is saying that the CNBC Squawk Box transcript showing that Kernen said the word "Entourage" in an earlier segment reporting on the "Pirates" vs. "Aquaman" box office numbers proves that Kernen was kidding. Uh, no, no it doesn't. It just proves that Kernen's grasp of reality is even faster and looser than originally supposed. Witness:
CNBC, 6:06am, Tuesday:
KERNEN: ...THESE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING, REMINDS OF ENTOURAGE, AQUAMAN, WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT THE NUMBERS THERE. IT IS HARD TO BEAT THE RECORD, BUT IT DID. PIRATES PLUNDERED THE BOX OFFICE THIS WEEKEND, MADE HISTORY IN SO MANY WAYS. PIRATE OF THE CARIBBEAN, THIS IS CALLED "DEAD MAN'S CHEST." THE FIRST SEQUEL BUT THE SECOND PIRATES MOVIE TO THE 2003 HIT, TAKING IN $132 MILLION IN TICKET SALES, EASILY THE MOST OVER EVER FOR A THREE-DAY DEBUT. MIND-BLOWING NUMBERS. 114.8 WAS THE PREVIOUS RECORD, SO TO DO $132, TO BEAT IT BY $18 OR $17 MILLION WAS STAGGERING. THAT WAS -"SPIDERMAN" THE FIRST ONE. THEN FRIDAY'S OPENING, THE HIGHEST SINGLE-DAY GROSS EVER AND THE FIRST TO RAKE IN MORE THAN 100 MILLION IN TOW DAYS, MAKING DISNEY THE STUDIO TO BEAT, THEN ADD IN THE DVD SALES AROUND CHRISTMAS, THEN THE SECOND SEQUEL WHICH COMES OUT, IT IS A FRANCHISE.
Kernen's "Aquaman" reference isn't "free-for-all banter," unless you spell "free-for-all banter" m-a-s-s c-o-n-f-u-s-i-o-n.
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