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Stewart hammers Cramer on 'The Daily Show'
AP via Yahoo ^ | 3/12/09 | JAKE COYLE

Posted on 3/13/2009, 3:29:54 AM by aynrandfreak

NEW YORK – 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.

It was perhaps the hardest lashing Stewart has given to a TV commentator since 2004 when he called Tucker Carlson and his then co-host Paul Begala "partisan hacks" on CNN's "Crossfire," the since canceled political commentary program.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnbc; comedycentral; cramer; jonleibowitzshow; leibowitzlies; liberalmedia; obamabots; obamatrons; stewart; viacom
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To: KoRn

I agree with what you said; Stewart, in the tank for Hussein, just rips any prominent person who comes out against the Messiah.

Pretty pathetic.


41 posted on 3/13/2009, 7:46:47 AM by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I feel sorry for Jim Cramer. I think he was told by CNBC to appear on Stewart’s show to take his lumps for having knocked the Obamessiah. And was told that he couldn’t fight back, that he had to eat crow. It was his penance for having insulted the almighty one. CNBC is chock full of libs even though it is a business channel and thus ought not to be. But it is.

After Santelli (CNBC financial guy located at the Chicago Board of Trade) slammed Obama’s financial ignorance, he too had to back down and do mini mea culpa’s on-screen. At least Santelli had the common sense to refuse to go on Stewart’s show for which he had been scheduled (or was told not to by CNBC). When Stewart ranted and raved at Santelli’s backing out of his appearance on Stewart’s show, I believe Cramer who committed the same sin of slamming Obama as Santelli did, was then required to be the sacrificial lamb and appear on Stewart’s show, as CNBC didn’t want the bad publicity of yet another of their financial guru’s stiffing Stewart. CNBC was bullied by Stewart, and they probably capitulated as they are all afraid of crossing Obama, of whom Stewart is a leading cheerleader. Convoluted as this seems, I think I’m on to something. My antennae are waiving in the breeze. My female intuition has kicked in bigtime.

Stewart the Obamessiah cheerleader and power tripper, has now been appeased, Cramer has been properly punished for his sin of slamming Obama’s solutions for the financial world, CNBC has gotten themselves momentarily out of the gunsights of the Obama lovers for having allowed two of their financial analysts to actually slam Obama, the other financial analysts on CNBC will now be properly afraid to say anything even slightly anti-Obama, and Cramer will slink back to his program afraid to say or do anything that might once again bring the wrath of John Stewart or his own bosses down upon him. Poor Cramer.


42 posted on 3/13/2009, 8:36:53 AM by flaglady47 (Four years of captivity, no relief in sight)
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To: aynrandfreak
"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.

Who appointed Jon Stewart as arbiter of the ariwaves?

43 posted on 3/13/2009, 10:04:20 AM by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: aynrandfreak

I always confuse Stewart with Anderson 360. I wonder why.


44 posted on 3/13/2009, 12:51:35 PM by Sig Sauer P220 (Birth certificates are for suckers.)
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To: aynrandfreak
"Stewart hammers Cramer on 'The Daily Show'"

In High School we would have called this a "Goober Fight", two idjits no one really liked locking horns. They were fun to watch but no one cared a bit on the outcome.

45 posted on 3/13/2009, 1:01:20 PM by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: aynrandfreak

...Two clowns on Satans’ dreambox, got the circus, where’s my sandwich. Sorry, no sympathy here in Caintuck...


46 posted on 3/13/2009, 1:05:39 PM by gargoyle (People tell me, 'You hate America, leave!' I don't hate America, it's Americans I hate!)
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To: Reaganesque

To play Devil’s Advocate, Stewart’s show is supposed to be comedy/satire. Cramer’s a straight finance show.


47 posted on 3/13/2009, 1:26:30 PM by Borges
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To: XeniaSt

Why do you say that? In his stand up routines he’s pretty affectionate about his Judaism.


48 posted on 3/13/2009, 1:27:45 PM by Borges
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To: Borges

True, but a significant number of people on the Left identify Stewart as their source for news. Check out Lib websites, he’s sited as a source all the time.


49 posted on 3/13/2009, 2:42:03 PM by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

So? A lot of people get their news from supermarket tabloids. There is no accounting for ignorance.

Besides, it is true that in every joke there is a kernel of truth. But you have to be smart enough to extract it. Some of Stewart’s listeners may not be that smart, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t.


50 posted on 3/13/2009, 8:34:56 PM by Lorianne
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