Jon Stewart creams Jim Cramer on the Daily Show
By John Amato Thursday Mar 12, 2009 8:46pm
(h/t Heather)
Jon Stewart made Jim Cramer look like a wounded puppy tonight as the CNBC host joined The Daily Show after a full week of back-and-forth.
It all started when Cramer got perturbed by a segment TDS did on CNBC's financial network (Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC and Rick Santelli ).
He was so mad that he showed up on a bunch of NBC shows crying about the way he was portrayed. Stewart really just said what all of America wanted to say to Wall Street: F*&K You!
Tonight we had the big face-off, the heavyweight bout, the Super Bowl square-off between CNBC's Jim Cramer and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart. Cramer was especially upset about being included in a segment TDS produced on the horrible and almost criminal reporting CNBC has been airing as THE go-to business network after CNBC's Rick Santelli attacked average working-class people who got caught up in the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Santelli dubbed them as "losers." Well, the only loser tonight was Cramer and CNBC.
Jim basically sat there, starry-eyed like a lost puppy, and was virtually silent throughout the three-segment show featuring him. He basically waved the white flag and said, "You got me."
Comedy Central had to edit out eight minutes of video to accommodate the show format, and it will be available on their website tomorrow.
Stewart's point was that Wall Street got fat off of all our pension plans, 401K's and long-term investments, while the "Fast Money" crowd cashed in our long-term investments -- and CNBC was complicit in the entire gambit...
I wonder if Rick Santelli will show his face on Stewart's set? Highly unlikely.
Here's more: Stewart hammers Cramer on 'The Daily Show'
Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism.
"I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a ... game," Stewart told Cramer, adding in an expletive during the show's Thursday taping. The episode was scheduled to air at 11 p.m. EDT on Comedy Central Cramer insisted he was devoted to revealing corporate "shenanigans," to which Stewart retorted: "It's easy to get on this after the fact."
At one point, Cramer sounded the reformed sinner, responding to Stewart's plea for more levelheaded, honest commentary: "How about I try that?" said Cramer. "I'll do that."
By the end, the two-segment interview went far beyond its allotted time. Comedy Central said the on-air version would be cut by about eight minutes, though the entire interview would be available unedited on ComedyCentral.com on Friday.
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Jon put the clowning aside and he was truly, and justifiably so, very, very angry.
Arguably the best interviewer of our time.
He was totally not taking any shit from Cramer, who, btw, surprised me by showing up.
I thought for sure he'd be a no show.
Great job Stewart. But I will give it to Cramer he maned up and show up. I will respect him for that.
He doesn't deserve any more than that.
I can't help but like Jim Cramer, but I am truly thankful for the likes of Jon Stewart...he's so smart and INFORMED and I agree with liberalNmoderation that he is the best interviewer of our time! Absolutely BRILLIANT interview.
"he's just a comedian," then by comparison, Cramer "is just a disingenuos crook" and Scarborough is a "completely moronic self centered clown."
Scarboy will tone it down against Stewart, lest Stewarts baleful gaze be cast upon him.
Sudden Intern Death Syndome?
Somebody should shine some light on that subject.
He called Scarborough "douchborough" in the uncut interview on the Comedy Central website. It was pretty funny.
I will watch it tonight...no sound at work :(
Stewart's not just a comedian, whereas Cramer is in fact just a disingenuous crook and Scarborough is in fact a completely moronic self centered clown or something close to that.
And gumby, I can't understand who could like someone as utterly without moral compass as Cramer.
The dispute between Stewart and Cramer had received so much press, and the evidence against Cramer was so overwhelming, that Cramer HAD to show up to throw himself on his spear. I don't think he thought Stewart would go after him quite so hard, though.
And I suspect Cramer's continued status as MSNBC's main financial pitchman is in jeopardy. His appearance on the Today show was nothing less than a panicked response by the network, as NBC (rightly) realized that it was in danger of being labelled as another conspirator in the financial meltdown, permitting its analysts and show hosts to run amok while homeowners were losing their shirts and workers losing their pensions.
Up there with when Jon Stewart got "Crossfire" cancelled!
agree...and Cramer came on and took it. I think this ass wiping will have a constructive effect
I expected the usual m.o. from someone on the defensive: excessive and warped rationalizations, anger, shifting the blame and even tossing some bombs back at the attacker but Cramer didn't do too much of any of these tactics. I was amazed that he not only accepted blame for the things he was doing wrong but allowed Stewart's explanations to be heard and he responded to them, perhaps not very well at times, but you could see that Cramer just kind of knew that everything Stewart was saying was right. I got respect for Cramer now. More than I had in the past. Maybe he'll shift his show for the better after all of this dust up. As for Joe Scarborough...fuck that motherfucker along with the rest of the irrational right tard douche bags.
Cramer is an asswipe, as is Scarborough, but I beleive Jon Stewart administered an ass wHipping to said asswipe.
. . . is that Cramer could reinvent himself by exposing the rot in the financial mess.
Leaving aside his dubious stock predictions, Cramer obviously knows how Wall Street works, i.e., that fund managers and bankers are gaming the market through rumors and other devices. Frankly, I think Cramer could rehabilitate himself by saying, "Look, I got out of control. I didn't appreciate what was happening to the little guy because I was wrapped up in my own gig and I thought it was a game. And I appreciate Jon Stewart outing me. So let me tell you how Wall Street really works. . . ."
I'm not sure why television executives think this won't sell. It can be entertaining, thoughtful and truthful.
and think of the ratings...
It would be like...well, like nothin I can think of right now.
But it would make for excellent teevee IMHO.
He should have asked him what scams are they running right now that's making the market perform as such.
..is to call Obama's policies "the greatest wealth destruction caused by a president ", a statement which should be viewed along with his segment advising everyone to 'Buy Sterns '.
For some reason he never mentioned the wealth destruction caused by the drunkard Bush.
Speaking of which:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKc6UMfZW6U&feature=related
The greatest wealth destruction caused by a network that purports to inform but instead misinforms. Trouble is, you can't live on misinformation/entertainment, as Jon Stewart so astutely points out.
And yes, Bush caused a lot more wealth destruction with his policies over eight YEARS than Obama has caused in his 50-some DAYS in office.
The issues that Stewart brought up are the inevitable result of supposed news broadcasters who work to "manage perceptions", instead of to inform. They don't do journalism, they do propaganda. If they approach business news as they do their regular news, as perception managers, it is because they wish to manipulate instead of provide the means for viewers/listeners to arrive at their own informed judgments. They all do it. It's the only thing, with a few token exceptions, that they do do. They are not serving the public interest, and as Jon stewart said, it is, at worst, criminal.
Their abuses are going to continue until such time as the FCC is reformed to integrity and reacquires its original mission to defend the Public's interests. Their abuses are going to continue until anti-trust actions force divestiture of the media cartel's assets, based upon the cartel's abuse of the public through its de facto monopoly powers. Their is no competition, to wit: the only actual journalism that is being conducted is by comedians.
I would also think that there is ample grounds for citizens to initiate fraud prosectutions against these propagandists. Through their fraudulent operations, they have abetted those who have caused deep and grievous financial harm to the nation and to most individuals within the nation.
Your analysis is right on target!
It is highly sophisticated and pervasive propaganda that is destroying our democracy, much more so than any criminal act, however egregious. For if millions are made to believe that bad is good and good is evil--and the rational, truthful voices hardly get heard--I'm afraid we're doomed.
I also agree with your idea about a class-action suit against the propagandists.
But most of all, reforms by FCC, including limits on media ownership, has to be the number one priority.
You put this well.
I would add that financial journalists are also following the model of political journalists that Glenn Greenwald is always pointing out. They always take representatives of corporations at their word when they make statements. They often act as stenographers who write down what they hear and report on it uncritically. They do this in order to preserve their access to these companies in the future.
It's called yellow journalism and the most dangerous places it can exist are in political reporting and financial reporting.
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I went on CNBC website and left a message that this con man should be taken off the air. Everytime I look at him I see Bernie Madoff.
I think Cramer is a market manipulator for his own portfolio.
IN CRAMER WE TRUST...INDEED!
You are right. But he isn't the only one. Remember Stewart said it was the whole station that should be held accountable not just Cramer.
to your list! It's just so obvious to me that the Madoff scam could NOT have happened without loads of people being in on it..especially the SEC...I'm so fascinated with this whole "meltdown" issue and am waiting for all of the fall-out to happen. Just ordered the book "House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street" as recommended on TDS. Should be a very interesting read...
...I just KNOW I have those plans for a guillotine around here somewhere...
When Stewart looks more like a journalist than the journalists.
maybe they're both part of the scam...john provides emotional relief so nothing big ever happens to resolve this dreadful status quo.
I don't think he is a part of it, I think he truly frustrated like many of us. Marc Faber gets on tells the truth, as does Peter Schiff, Robert Kiyosaki, Max Keiser, Jim Rogers and still the media pisses on them enough to cloud the truth.
Jon Stewart is the one who got this into the spot light, the Daily Show was the only outlet that showed what they were saying and what happened next and it wasn't one or two examples and was one after another after another.
So if Jon Stewart didn't run that story this whole thing between him and Cramer wouldn't have happened and not a single news show (that I have seen yet) has covered the true story, sure they show Jon making funny comments and they show Cramer being his dick-ish self but if they wanted to cover the story they would have showed us what Jon Stewart's team uncovered and not just the bullshit at the end.
If you haven't seen it story it's from his March 4th episode and I highly recomend it! And the fact that every reporter can comment on the rift without commenting on the meat of the story is insane. We need enforced rules for people who want to call themselves Journalists and organizations or channels that want to call themselves news.
It really makes you wonder what the hell news agencies are doing with themselves all day long. What Stewart, a comedian, did in 5 minutes just changed whole discussion and all future discussion. If that happened on a news program, that would send ripples through news agencies. The fact it came from a comedian says they are a joke, a bad one.
That would at least help the current situation, in which CNBC is in bed with the corporations and tells us to buy, buy, buy while the entire stock market is unraveling. This is not business journalism, and CNBC should have some consequences for passing itself off as business news when in fact it does not illuminate; it obfuscates. (It would also make Limpballs and Faux News more accountable, too). The biggest tragedy is now you have people going homeless or having to hit food banks or bag groceries at age 89 because they lost their LIFE SAVINGS.
Thank God for Jon Stewart and Comedy Central for entertaining AND illuminating, which is called ART and is invaluable.
how would the fairness doctrine apply to a cable broadcast?
This sort of thing gets me nuts as well! And it happens all the time, and just shows the extreme right-wing bias of 'news' programs.
For instance, limbaugh's recent call to arms against Obama. Discussion always revolved around, 'limbaugh vs. X' or 'Who do you think is right?' NEVER were limbaugh's vile statements put in context and dissected. Everything was reduced to a 'he said/she said' entertainment venue.
Let facts never get in the way when presenting the news.
Comedy!?! I think not! This segment was the most serious treatment of the relationship between the supposedly serious media and their corporate masters as has yet hit the airwaves. Jon Stewart is in a class with the best of American journalism, up there with Bill Moyers and Rachel Maddow.
Finally, the scales are falling off of America's eyes.
that's the problem. i mean, thank god for stewart and colbert, but damn, how about some of these dead asses that are supposed to be journalists do something more than just parrot right wing fanatics and actually look at the records of scum like vitter and boehner? i know, it's too much to ask for. it's a lot easier for these layabouts to just pretend that everything these political liars say is beyond investigation.
they all kissed his ass
and the msm wonders why ratings are way down and why newspapers are failing left and right
the american people are sick of all the shit
TSTBB
like they just wave a bunch of (excuse my language) shit in our faces with their right hands, and while were watching that, they are taking money out of our pockets with their left hands. The whole media does that. They run a bunch of BS stories that don't have any thing to do with anything important, they drum up irrelevant controversies, anything but actually investigate and report on things that are hurting this country.
I have found things all over the internet, going way back, about short-selling,phantom stocks,and all the other stuff involved in this mess, but yet not one word was heard about it on TV in the run up to this financial crises. I just cannot talk about our media, it makes me way to angry. Stewart is dead on, this shit is not a game, real people are drastically effected by the back-room dealings and other shady stuff that these guys do. Jim Cramer knows about it, hell, he admits to doing it himself on TV. But yet he comes out on TV and cons people out of their hard-earned money so that his buddies can make easy money off of it. That's another thing John was right about, "
FuckYou" Jim Cramer. I'm gonna get that on a T-Shirt, tomorrow.BS stories like how Iran is a danger to the US or has nuclear weapon capabilities or aspirations. Likud is running US foreign policy, that is a story I wish the MSM covered in earnest.
many years ago, you can shit in one hand and wish in the other, and then see which hand has the most.
The bobble heads on TV and the MSM are just shit.
They should all be labeled as "entertainment only" outlets.
With her it was "Shit in one hand and Want in the other and see which one gets full first."
You actually expect them to work!?! They consider going to cocktail parties and stroking each other's ego as work. If they asked the hard questions their invites to the big parties in town would dry up. Why, their 'sources' would be less likely to let them on their secrets (gossip). Every time I hear one of those teevee personalities talk about being a 'journalist' I want to gag.
[When Stewart looks more like a journalist than the journalists], then that makes journalists more like clowns.
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"The risk of humor is that people might think you're joking."
you know our nation has and is in real trouble...but...obviously Stewart could have chosen to take on about any career that he had wanted.
Stewart made a great point that they are both snake oil salesman but Stewart advertises himself as a snake oil salesman while CNBC pretends to be healthy vitamin supplement salesman.
How ironic that the guy who advertises himself as selling snake oil is the one with the cure for our illness while the people claiming to have healthy vitamins are actually selling the illness.
He literally says..."Who you gonna believe...me or you lying eyes?"
He's a total bullshiter.
More's the pity.
Thanks Jon.
A bunch of Gord Gecko douchebags took down our economy for sport and pleasure and then blamed it on the poor people.
Maybe Glen Beck will mention Cramer on his next show about Revolution and payback?
Wow. Holy shit.
Bad, bad night for Cramer. And so richly deserved.
Don't know much about security laws but maybe Jon is right that it was criminal. Or at the least it should be.
they'll sing like birds and then the real crooks can jailed. It would be so sweet to see lewis from BoA join madoff.
Cramer sounded like a guilty man. Acted like a guilty man. Is a guilty party along with his network of Panziesque liars.
When is Cramer's court date?
When is CNBC's court date?
Who is going to take Cramer to Court? The SEC that had Madoff handed to them by a whistleblower 10 years ago and they couldn't figure a Ponzi out?
god, when will they get it
jon does a comedy show
he also is a great interviewer, and is not afraid to throw a punch
kudos to cramer for showing up
but when will these idiots learn?
video lasts forever
i never watched any of these shows, because they had this weird need to get ratings
so ratings trumped real financial news
and they helped people lose their life savings
makes me sick
Cramer got served.
Kind of reminds me of Kevin Bacon in "Animal House" during the initiation: "Thank you sir. May I have another?" *SMACK* "Thank you sir. May I have another?" *SMACK*
That was really a good piece. It was much better journalism than can be found on the real "news" networks.
I was expecting fireworks, but Cramer was actually very contrite. I guess that is what a good public spanking like the one Jon gave him can accomplish.
There should be more of this kind of thing.
Wow! Holy mother of shit! He nailed him to the wall!
What a masterpiece that was. Jon not only pulled the curtain open, he set it on fire, ripped it down and pissed on it!
Dog bless you Jon Stewart.
Fuck you Jim Cramer!
I thought he was going to cry. He should.
Joe Scarborough has Jim back on his show and asks the questions that need to be asked instead of propping up the scheme? But Joe isn't a journalist, he's an entertainer and not much of one at that. The MSM is in bed with these schemers. These charlatans, these thieves and liars.
There are no real journalists. Maybe Moyers is the real deal, but almost all of the rest are merely entertainers, posers, artless fools... and that, my friends, is the death knell to our grand experiment.
amy Goodman, Moyers, Charlie Rose (sometimes), Chris Matthews (sometimes), Rachel Maddow, (sometimes)
Stewart's attack wasnt on Cramer personally...it was on CNBC as a whole...and someone from there should explain santellie's comments on 'losers'.
Ask Cramer if it was personal.
Ouch!
But it was...AND it was delivered to CNBC, as well. If Cramer were say, Madoff, then we would say it was a personal attack as it should be. Just because Cramer is connected to the well oiled machine doesn't excuse his behavior and actions. He, Cramer, will lose his show as he should and CNBC may well flop, too. It would be deserving in either case.
To you, Amato, for getting it up so quickly.
To Stewart for having the balls to do it.
Even though he didn't come out and directly say it, I think Stewart made a compelling argument for the end of the synergy between multinational corporations and the media. As Juvenal might ask, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
for getting the clip done so quickly...
:D
I shoulda known that.
really thought that I would have to wait until tomorrow to catch it. Really nice surprise, thanks Heather.
...with the turnaround time on this significant news event. Kudos John and Heather for all the great work this site does.
A criminal cabal of Wall Streeters, media pundits, journalist and god knows what else, doing negative PR for unsuspecting companies then naked short selling phantom stock to drive their price down.
Its been well documented, a few small fish went to prison in 2006, the guilty rest are sorely awaiting DoJ justice.
Theres even links to Wikipedia, senior elite editors there protecting certain topics to do with the naked short selling.
4: profit
The scandal almost rivals the meltdown in criminality if not in scale of wrongdoing.
It makes me rethink my death sentance stance.
It's like the Enron bullshit. What, nobody died as a result of those CA power outages? I bet someone did, in a car wreck or in a hospital ICU.
Bastards!!!
When a company is overvalued a smart investor can see it and take advantage of the situation. The other investors might get hurt along the way, but those who continue to invest in overvalued stock while it's ballooning irrationally are most often getting what they deserve for not researching their potential investments.
What's rotten is when someone does what Cramer describes in that video: inciting a panic through unsubstantiated rumor.
God, he's a submissive puppy here. Whata worm, but he'll go back and do the same...
at Jim Cramer's trial for stock fraud.
Jim Cramer belongs in prison with Bernie Madoff and the whole Wall Street gang of grifters.
We wuz robbed!
The other night, BillO the Clown said that Stewart only picked on Cramer because Cramer/Santelli criticized Obama and that he would not have done so if Cramer had criticized Bush.
I don't think so, BillO. Jon Stewart has so much insight; his intuition into what really is going on is incredible. This is such a serious economic problem we have, and Stewart sees where it has come from.
And, Jon showed that he can really make someone feel small without yelling and screaming, like BillO does.
Stewart certainly knows how to do a hard hitting interview with a much needed professionalism. Bill O'Reilly is merely a clown and even less than a clown when compared to Jon Stewart.
couldn't agree with you more. Stewart does it with class. I wish we had one of him in every anchor chair across America.
I agree. I guess Bill doesn't realize that not everything is about the President or even politics. This issue was about the faults in the financial system and the people that intentionally screw things up. Bill just doesn't know what else to argue about.
Is that OReilly will interrupt a guest if it looks like he (the guest) is about to score a point, and just shout over him. Stewart let Cramer finish every sentence, then had the riposte ready. It's easy to win an argument if you don't let the other guy talk (a very common wingnut technique by the way - check out the exchange last night between Ari Fleischer and Chris Matthews. Fleischer was incredibly rude.)
Leave it to BillO to boil it down to some political partisan issue when it is actually a massive universal issue that touches everyone.
I am stunned.
I think that was the most brilliant take down I've ever seen.
Or was it? Cramer walked into the den of lions fully expecting to be mauled. Previous to this appearance he was interviewed by countless journalists, yet none of them held his feet to the fire like Stewart did.
Maybe Cramer feels so guilty for his personal actions that he wanted to be crucified...?
It was his mea culpa. It seems like he is truly concerned about criminal indictment, or at least that he would lose his TV show.
The point is that any of the interviewers he's been before could have likely gotten the same result as Stewart if they had only asked a few simple and obvious questions.
So true, towntalk...
it doesn't serve any of the MSM shows to deprecate one of their peers (cramer) in favor of the closest thing basic cable offers to an independent voice, just as it didn't serve CNBC to cast the light on the massive structural instability of the markets (which would do terrible things to its viewership...oops)
His ass was handed to him, in a very professional yet brutal way...
AMAAAAAZING Television.
Even NBC looks bad in all this because it was painfully obvious that Cramer went on all the shows, and was treated as the victim the whole time, at the behest of NBC executives on a public relations mission.
How phony and irrelevant does it make NBC news look when the network can use them as PR propaganda anytime they deem it necessary?
hehe....
Someone asked me about digging it in an email...But it sure helps on traffic...
The true king of all media, Jon Stewart.
I think Cramer is scared to death that he will be going to jail.
agreed - the clip of him telling the hedge fund guy to spread rumors could show up as evidence...
Could? Could???? Bet on it!! And Cramer knows it!!
He should be.
edit: referring to Captain Kangaroo's comment
Oh, by the way, thanks Heather. I missed this tonight and was bummed. Thanks for making it good.
Methinks Cramer and his ilk are due for a stint in orange jumpsuits.
They're Madof(f) the same greed.
..But the state of the judiciary in the US is still in need of a big fix. Most of the DoJ are still Bush appointees and Monica Goodling hires. Obama hasn't even gotten around to firing Mary Beth Buchanan yet, and she is the most partisan US Attorney there is or ever has been.
It's still Just Us, not Justice.
It's always been just us.
That right-wing bitch. The way she went after Tommy Chong was appalling. Wow, he sold bongs. That's such a threat to national security...
I've seen Stewart do some pretty amazing things, but that was the best.
Many thanks for posting but there is more. Much much more.
Watching the late night version now. Feel like I've waited twenty years for what I'm seeing.
It is a much needed flood.
It just ended and it was awesome, but as Jon said, it was as "uncomfortable to watch" as it was "to do."
I wonder about Cramer's contrition. Is he afraid of losing his show (I don't think there is any criminal culpability there, but I'm not a lawyer) or is he feeling a real need to be punished for his dishonest show...?
I made that same observation. It may well be guilt that brought him to appear on a show knowing that he would be skewered.
I wondered if it was a suicide mission, if he knew he had no chance and he knew his career was already over.
Alternatively, he couldn't resist the attention and thought he would be able to bullshit his way out.
I'm not sure. Either way, this was amazing television.
Like a kid trying to explain, from jail, to a parent exactly why he was arrested with alcohol...
Almost made me feel a bit sorry for Cramer...almost.
...can rent about ten or twenty more billboards and have each thief standing next to Madoff. No words. Just the two together on the billboard. A picture paints a thousand schemes.
..With Colbert's address at the White House Correspondents' dinner. Kudos Jon Stewart, and Godspeed.
Instant classic.
I thought this ranked up there with... well nothing else, as far as journalism is concerned, ranks that high in my recent memory (which may explain why I keep losing my car keys).
heh heh heh heh. ;-)
Just watching the cramer-bash now; cramer is saying "i'm a guy trying to do an entertainment show about business". Stewart has been the only consistent voice pointing out the ridiculous overlaps between media and business interests...bagdikian's "the media monopoly" broke this open, and they teach it at j-school, yet for some reason the only one noticing what a horrific effect it has been having on life is the guy who'd rather "be making fart noises and silly faces".
Just goes to show us that "comedy is a serious business."
Comedy is a serious business only because our corporate oligarchy and its FCC regulated puppets have allowed it. More specifically, Stewart has filled a void left by mainstream media. The crux of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report has been to point out the deficiencies in the corporate media in covering all the points of view in various issues. In other words, in our country, our opposing view to the corporate media stems from a comedy network. That should give us all pause for thought. Think we're not in the grips of a corporate oligarchy?
But don't forget - Cramer is small-fry. He may have misled, or he may have been misled. The real culprits in the current meltdown are the rating agencies who graded crap loans as "AAA", and parties who renamed "insurance" as "credit default swaps" to circumvent insurance regulations, and so forth.
So far, the white collar criminals are winning.
They let the independant comedy shows go as they may, thinking people would just think it as comedy. But again, how would they stop it?
stewart broke through the censorship by posing as comedy? carlin would be proud.
So would Lenny Bruce.
is right proud too.
Stewart is the flagship over there at Comedy Central. There may be bigger weekly shows like South Park, but he is a real cash cow over there and it gives him a lot of pull to do whatever he wants.
I am so happy that he uses his pull to force Comedy Central to do good in the world. Tray and Parker are another great example. If only there were other network big shots who could have such influence over an entire network rather than bowing down before the alter of the mainstream train wreck.
Now if only he could do something about MTV. . . .
:)
Damn, John, I wish you could have shown the whole interview.
this looks like it may be complete....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9856...
nah, first group of commercials still in it and only 21 min.s, missing first few minutes,last group of commercials and the moment of zen
That shows like Mad money pretend to be serious but are actually a joke, and a comedian starts a show that pretends to be a joke but is actually serious.
Excellent!
Criminal! Gosh...how that word seems to slip right on past the white collar criminals. Teflon folks.
I don't watch this horse's ass, as when I've fanned through the channels, I get a headache after 10 seconds of this clown and his act. But he is only a small fraction of the deceit and swindle that has taken place by Wall Street and the banking system.
I say it's time to nationalize the f*cking banks. If we ever make our money back off them...three times over, we can sell them back to the ass holes that f*cked our economy upside down for the last 20 years (about the time ronnie lost his marbles....hmmmm, coincidence?)
They are responsible for f*cking over millions of Americans. They all need to be hunted down and tossed behind bars with the boner that got handcuffed today.
Jon Stewart deserves some kind of award: an Emmy? a Pulitzer? a Nobel Prize? He is absolutely on fire.
The real question I have is about Cramer. What was his mindset going into this? Did I see in him an undercurrent of genuine remorse? Stewart almost had him in tears. It was almost painful to watch a man so diminished.
dead on, dave - TDS is really the showing the best reporting yet done on the whole financial crisis, they should give them whatever is of value these days...
and cramer was almost confusing. i think he was hoping that contrition and humility would tone stewart down, but instead it was just like lowering the shield to stare the dragon in the face. when stewart said that bit about his anger, and the audience was silent, i think we saw perhaps a historic moment. stewart is at another level right now, i really see him in a whole new light. hopefully this will have some impact on things.
that is great. Great job by Stewart. Can't believe Cramer's fake "but the CEO's lied to me!!!" reasoning. Love that Stewart called him on every ridiculous attempt to worm away fromt he truth. Real journalists INVESTIGATE because it is assumed the truth goes deeper than the surface. I don't know if Stewart does that, exactly... but, he's at least speaking for a lot of us and calling the networks which SHOULD be investigating on their "shenanigans"....
It may qualify as sad commentary that Jon Stewart, in light of his work up to and including this poignant interview, has now become the benchmark for network journalism in America; it's sad because his is supposed to be a comedy show and yet he has to undertake the task of asking hard questions of people who need to be asked those questions.
I'm pretty sure that this is supposed to be the function of the news media: to ask insightful and difficult questions of purveyors of information, not limited to t.v personalities, but also politicians, CEOs and anyone else in a position of power who would lie to the public.
That's my rant, thanks for taking the time to read it.
Rob
Rob, it's not that ranty a comment - there is something fundamentally flawed in the entire system of media in this country, and stewart is on the cusp of blowing the whole thing up in a way that i suspect could cause a lot of waves. not sure viacom is totally excited by it, but then again, the fact that stewart is able to say and do all this (and southpark) is a ray of hope. though the number of ExtenZe and party line commercials indicate that maybe they just don't give a crap.
@RobLaw
That's what I said in my blurb -shorter version- when I e-mailed this post. I agree 100%. You're not ranting, it's truth.
B-A-N-K: the new four-letter word.
That was so freaking awkward.
Cramer and Fucker Carlson should give each other back rubs.
Stewart didn't just take down a buffoon, he indicted Cramer for criminal fraud, obtained a videotaped admission of guilt, and implicated the entire CNBC network in a criminal conspiracy. This is not only a landmark work of investigative journalism by Stewart. It is damning evidence of systematic stock market manipulation. Does Obama have what it takes to bring these filthy parasites to justice?
This isn't about Cramer. It's about the media as
lap dog of the oligarchy. JS should get the Edward R. Murrow Award for Journalism.
Every MM news anchor should be ashamed.
Hopefully a couple of the more astute will be and get real.
I particularly liked when John used "bull shit" in a sentence and punctuated it with "I'm just being real, I'm talking to adults here."
Your one of the few John. Very few.
I was very glad I was able to watch that shining moment in history...
I had to tell my brother to shut up a couple of times...he's a bit excitable at times.
It's systemic. It's so much more than Jim Cramer. Jim's just the pimple on the ass of the elephant. Jon called it out superbly. SO WHERE IS THE LAW ENFORCEMENT? The greed amplifiers will stop at nothing.
Jon Stewart is chicken shit. He has never taken up Chris Matthews invite to come on Hardball after Stewart gave Matthews a kick in the ass. BUT Stewart has allowed Bill Kristol and David Frum to dance around his softball questions when they have come on his program.
Now tell me who has been more destructive for our country Bill Kristol, David Frum or Chris Matthews. If you were Stewart who would you have played more Hardball with?
have been destructive in their own ways.
Just because matthews chose to go on TDS to shill his idiotic book, and the mere title tells you just how bad a book it is, doesn't mean that Jon owes matthews an appearance on 'mostly softball'.
Probably Jon would have gone on matthews show but couldn't arrange it due to tom delay taking all the bookings.
I will say though that of the three you listed only kristol is consistently bad for your country, however, given matthews audience that is probably still about the same amount of damage.
As for frum, well lately at least, he's been taking on rush for whatever that's worth.
He's actually the most honest of the whole CNBC
crew. Kudlow makes him look like a
marxist.
The guy is a lying, manipulating criminal and clearly always has been.
Those damn evangalists. /snark
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It was SO over before it even began.
Stewart handed Cramer his ass in a paper bag
Kudos to Jim Cramer for showing up for the most intense and pointed journalistic piece Jon Stewart has ever done, wow. Cramer showed some humility but his CNBC masters will never let him "find religion" on the air and start being the Jim Cramer that protects us from the Jim Cramer that helped screw us all. Well done Mr. Stewart
I remember the first night The Daily Show was back after 9/11, thinking, "My God. John Stewart's the only human being I've seen on television in a week." Tonight was a very similar feeling. Some how his roll as comedian allows him to be far more serious and honest and somber than all of the hyperventalating, hyperbolic "news readers" in the world.
Over the last week MSM has been focused only on "the feud" aspect of the story. Cramer vs. Stewart. A tit for tat back and forth focused on "he said, she said" one-liners. Which of course completely misses the point. No one gives a shit about the great dig Stewart had on Cramer, or indeed that it was even Cramer, specifically. The problem, and hence the Daily Show's focus, is systemic in the way that will never be explored or even acknowledged by the Wolf Blitzers or David Schusters of the world. I can't tell if they are oblivious or intentionally obtuse, but given the occasional off camera hot mic I'm leaning toward that latter making this whole clusterfuck even that much more upsetting.
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