A very arch piece in Dealbreaker.com, on the fading CNBC sex bomb, easier to quote than to parse:
The population of China, unable to describe what was going on between Maria Bartiromo and Todd Thomson during their trysts to the Far East, decided to modernize its language.
Respectful of Maria’s status as the Money Honey, Maria and Todd were officially branded “ban tang fu qi” or a “semi-honey couple.” The phrase denotes young, married professionals who live in separate homes or go on long trans-continental flights with one another.
Chinese authorities were pretty pissed when they found out Maria and Todd weren’t married, and no one has the heart to tell the CPC how old the two are (if they ever want to be seen again).
The above excerpt might be best described as a based on a Reuters story. Which means that Dealbreaker went to some imaginative lengths to turn an ordinary wire story into a big dig at Maria, illustrating the piece with a photo that shows off her wedding ring (!). Somebody must really have it in for her.
I wonder why.
