That interview epitomizes why I think Jon Stewart is one of the best anchors on television. He can bust out with funny or serious content, and do great at both. I think it's safe to say Jim Cramer's career is over.
Anytime you start complaining about college professor's affinity for post-structuralism, Foucault, Marcuse, Derrida, etc., you've lost the audience. I think three people in the audience knew what he was talking about...
Oh I get it! "Debate to well" must be another one of those "code words," in this case you mean "accuse your opponent of being a racist and then go off on a ten thousand word tangent covering so many unrelated issues that he has no hope of even addressing half of them."
Fantastic as long as finger pointing happens without restraint. Then again, we all know the daily show wouldn't do this leveling act to it's base audience. the jolly-feel good laughter wouldn't be as evident... ...sigh...
You think Jon Stewart is an anchor? Wow, the joke is on you. Really. For the adults viewing this, the Obama strategy of dispatching media personalities to do his partisan dirty work rolls on... All of this is in response to Cramer's blasting of Obama's financial failures last week... Same old politics, folks... Somewhere in Kenya or Indonesia, a village is missing its idiot.
Never was a fan of Cramer, but I sure wish I listened to him when he said to sell everything 32% ago.
Beef started with Santelli, and CNBC's abandonment of their journalistic responsibilities (mentioned before): <style type='text/css'>.cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;}</style><div class='cc_box' style='position:relative'><a href='http://www.comedycentral.com' target='_blank' style='display:inline; float:left; width:60px; height:31px;'><div class='cc_home' style='float:left; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-width:1px 0px 0px 1px; width:60px; height:31px; background:url("http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-out.png");'></div></a><div style='font:bold 10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; float:left; width:299px; height:31px; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-width:1px 1px 0px 0px; overflow:hidden; color:#707070;'><div class='cc_show' style='position:relative; background-color:#e5e5e5;padding-left:3px; height:14px; padding-top:2px; overflow:hidden;'><a href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/' target='_blank'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a><span style='position:absolute; top:2px; right:3px;'>M - Th 11p / 10c</span></div><div class='cc_title' style='font-size:11px; color:#868686; background-color:#f5f5f5; padding:3px; padding-top:1px; line-height:14px; height:21px; overflow:hidden;'><a href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220252&title=cnbc-gives-financial-advice' target='_blank'>CNBC Gives Financial Advice</a></div></div><embed style='float:left; clear:left;' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:220252' width='360' height='301' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' flashvars='autoPlay=false' bgcolor='#000000'></embed><div class='cc_links' style='float:left; clear:left; width:358px; border:solid 1px #cfcfcf; border-top:0px; font:10px Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; color:#b9b9b9; background-color:#f5f5f5;'><div style='width:177px; float:left; padding-left:3px;'><a target='_blank' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml'>Daily Show Full Episodes</a><br /><a target='_blank' href='http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/important_things/index.jhtml'>Important Things w/ Demetri Martin</a></div><div style='width:177px; float:left;'><a target='_blank' href='http://www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor</a><br /><a target='_blank' href='http://blog.indecisionforever.com/2009/03/13/jon-stewart-and-jim-cramer-the-extended-daily-show-interview/'>Jim Cramer</a></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div><div style='clear:both'></div></div> Cramer is the lamb CNBC sent to the slaughter. Cramer's stock picks (as well as the other "anchors'") and forecasts were unfortunate and then cherry picked to refute Santelli's ill-conceived diatribe. Everybody makes mistakes ... I suppose. It's when Cramer looks the other way or even advocates "shenanigans" that he should be held accountable. Cramer is only the scapegoat, CNBC's willingness to condone unethical and shoddy journalism is the real villain. BUT CNBC didn't cause the market to tank, but they have lost their credibility and sullied their reputation in my eyes. Still ... caveat emptor, don't put all your eggs in the same basket, and all that other stuff we learned in kindergarten.
^^^ This is what happened when you listen to Rush Limbough and Hannity instead of reading for yourself. The market was tanking when John McCain still thought the fundamentals of the economy where strong.The economy tanking was part of the reason Obama was elected by the American people.We Americans' choose to kick those slackers out of office the last two elections. Until Republicans start coming up with real solutions, I hope they continue to shrink to irrelevance.
John Stewart has done something for the first time in American History. He's created an engine to call out all the false B.S. media spewing their garbage but in the past no one has paid attention. What Jon has done is to deliver it to the mainstream country by packaging in hilarity as TJ would put it. It's brilliant. It's absolutely has the country's attention and the man has done a lot to re-engage young people of all political affiliations back into politics. Even republicans love watching the show. It's comedy - but he has always had a very strong political passion. I commend him. I hope some day the conservative movement will find something other than fox to mock the "liberal" media. Which has it's own ridiculous in it's own right - but Fox does a terrible job at it namely because it's even more garbage than the media it criticizes.
Strange, given that the drop started shortly after McCain's Palin surge when people like you stupidly thought he was going to take the election.
Funny. I don't see any news articles about the Obama administration surreptitiously paying media figures and military experts to push their message. I don't read any news articles suggesting that the Obama administration put pressure on newspapers to not run stories that would cast the administration in a bad light. I don't come across any news articles suggesting that the Obama administration has agencies putting out their own commercials to local TV stations and disguising them as news stories. I'm not hearing of any investigations into the administration purposefully leaking a CIA agent's name to the media to cast aspersions on a report that did not fit what they wanted to do. But it seems these are familiar somehow... oh yes... they all happened under the Bush administration. Dirty work indeed.
And he probably would have if he wasn't such a moderate. If he would have voted against the TARP bill he wins the election...
