SG wrote "Kudlow is as value added as a stopped clock. Always bullish, always pro Republican, always annoying. He must have incriminating pictures of CNBC management - how else could he continue to be on the tube??"

Actually I get this kind of comment whenever I write about Larry or his sidekick Jim Cramer.

Although you may not like it, here's my answer: Sounds like someone is envious :-)

Actually there is, for all of us, a Kudlow-type amongst our closest friends and family, so I try not to make my comments about personalities like him too personal.

Well, it could be worse, I suppose.

You know really why I take shots at people like Kudlow and Stonecipher and Bob Froelich for example? I just want every reader to realize that these market insiders are no different than any one of us. They may look good and have the patter down right, but having worked alongside some of the people you frequently see on TV, I can honestly say that WYSIWYG.

Yes, we all ought to spend less time putting some of these people on pedestals and more time trying to take actions that lead to improving our own wealth, health and social equity, which is something in our power to accomplish.

Now, please don't take me wrong on this. I am a free enterpriser. So I do not advocate egalitarianism. I treasure the opportunities provided by society for me (or you) to create value and to be either financially rewarded or otherwise recognized for it because that serves to improve society.

But I feel that investors give far too much latitude to Wall Street insiders like CEO's, analysts, fund managers, etc -- allowing them too much control to take down compensation that bears virtually no relation to the value add, to withhold "public" info, and to cover up personal agendas with spin, and so forth.

Thankfully, most of the TH's we get to see on TV are even known on Wall Street as entertainers. Most of these people with titles like Managing Director and Chief Strategist and so forth are presented to look like the industry's movers and shakers, but they are not.

And the corporate leaders we used to see paraded in front of the cameras, like the Global Crossing guy, or the Tyco guy, or the AT&T guy, or the Krispy Kreme guy, all seem to vanish after their fifteen minutes on the stage.

As I see it, in the realm of entertainment, listening to most TV personalities is acceptable (because we have our own filters to put on and if the canned message gets to be excessive we can just turn it off).

But when it comes to people managing assets or corporations that we have an equity interest in, then that form of communication is not acceptable. Nevertheless it goes on and on, and it's even getting worse.

The American proclivity to develop and exploit the "star" system is ok for all forms of entertainment and sports, but there is no place for it in the nightly news or the capital markets. Unfortunately, the sell-side does not agree.

As for Kudlow, as long as he has no agenda to personally profit from his remarks, I can accept him. I think ten or twenty years ago he might have been taken more seriously, but today's marketplace is more sophisticated. People now understand he's an entertainer, and I happen to think he's a pretty good one.

In terms of his one-sided message, it gets a little boring, I agree, but whenever I watch his show I do so for the nuances.

On any subject, we know Kudlowspeak is spin. While it is not objective, it is part of the Wall Street landscape. Trying to find an objective perspective on Wall Street requires knowing where to go looking for it, which is a role that bloggers can play.

That reminds me of the Leo Cullum cartoon in Barron's showing a New York City street vendor handing over a hot dog to his customer: "I believe Dijon is available at our Madison Avenue location."

When it comes to getting something you need, it's out there. "Clean" data doesn't take more than 5 minutes to find. Looking for it is all part of Main Street's learning how to deal with Wall Street.

Tomorrow is the first Friday of the month, the day that the U.S. Jobs Report is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's an important report that has implications on consumer spending, which is the major driver of the economy. On this particular day every month, Larry Kudlow is always one of the lead CNBC analysts, and since we know from experience his analysis of the Jobs Report is more spin than anything, we know we have to go directly to the line items in the actual report.

I'll see you there.

BCara@BillCara.com