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C&L: Stewart "Creams" Jim Cramer

Mar 13, 2009 03:21

Crooks and Liars:
Jon Stewart creams Jim Cramer on the Daily Show

By John Amato Thursday Mar 12, 2009 9:46pm

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rick santelli, cnbc, jim cramer, the great crash of 2007-2009, fraud, jon stewart

Comments 27

edgar_beans March 13 2009, 08:59:47 UTC

It was beautiful to watch.

cieldumort March 13 2009, 09:03:02 UTC

No one can cream like John Stewart creams

We Deserve This theheretic March 13 2009, 13:40:04 UTC

The freaky thing is that the financial analyst of my generation (GenX) is a comedian/satirist on a comedy cable channel.

Think about that for a minute. The sole public voice with broadcast capability from my entire generation is a satirist on late-night cable TV. Is it any wonder the market collapsed with this level of disinterest by the people who have to pay for this mess?

Re: We Deserve This cieldumort March 13 2009, 18:09:49 UTC

Yep. Just about anyone watching CNBC or these other financial shows and networks over the years who bought into the whole "it's different 'this time'" mantra were really also willing participants in the massive hallucination.

the financial analyst of my generation (GenX) is a comedian/satirist on a comedy cable channel nebris March 13 2009, 18:16:26 UTC

It's a time honored tradition really. The Court Jester was often the only who could 'tell the king the truth' without getting his head lopped off.

~M~

Re: the financial analyst of my generation (GenX) is a comedian/satirist on a comedy cable channel ebenizer March 13 2009, 20:53:18 UTC

Yup, it was the same in Native American culture too. the "sacred clown" or fool they called them

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sophiaserpentia March 13 2009, 16:51:55 UTC

I wonder if Rick Santelli will show his face on Stewart's set? Highly unlikely...

After that? Hell no. CNBC sent Cramer to take the fall for their collective failure. Do you think they'll pay him a scapegoat bonus when he takes early retirement before the end of the year?

cieldumort March 13 2009, 18:14:49 UTC

He really did fall on a knife there. What was he expecting?

sophiaserpentia March 13 2009, 18:28:13 UTC

He was expecting to come out being contrite and admitting to a small degree of failure, which Stewart would reward with a little bit of tolerable but on the whole friendly joshing. I think he missed just how personally Stewart took this. He made a fleeting barb earlier in the week about CNBC and the rest of the financial news media costing his parents their retirement savings. So he gave Cramer the hammering he had planned to give Santelli.

cieldumort March 13 2009, 18:49:34 UTC

He also missed just how personally so many others took this.

nebris March 13 2009, 18:23:03 UTC

This is getting a lot of play in the MSM. I had read in a number of comment threads on HuffPo and elsewhere that 'Jon Stewart should get a Peabody' for this, though they were of the 'half in jest/wholly in earnest' variety. But now that does not seem such a wild idea.

~M~

cieldumort March 13 2009, 18:33:14 UTC

Funny thing - I don't believe it has been mentioned even once on CNBC, yet.

dreadnought March 14 2009, 00:40:01 UTC

Anonymous insiders have said that the story's been officially outlawed at CNBC. (I've lost the article now, but I just saw it a few minutes ago.)

cieldumort March 14 2009, 01:09:01 UTC

Really!??

If you find it again, I would *love* to read that!

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rhonan March 13 2009, 18:23:14 UTC

I have to disagree slightly with this. Cramer did not sit there quietly, he was often whimpering like an injured puppy.

cieldumort March 13 2009, 18:34:03 UTC

Stewart did throw him a couple of bones. Or maybe that was boned him.