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According to TVNewser, MSNBC hosts were asked NOT to comment on the CONFRONTATION between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer. After all, MSNBC and CNBC are both part of the NBC parent company and money is at stake here. Therefore, NBC wanted as little attention paid to Cramer's pathetic performance defending himself on the Daily Show as possible. This was a moment of truth for Keith Olbermann who endlessly brags about speaking "truth to power." So did Olbermann pass the test? Well, I'll let this Daily Kos KOmmie THREAD, "Moment of Truth for Keith and Rachel coming up tonight" answer...

Anyone notice how CNBC's Jim Cramer ripped Obama's policy initiatives, expressing dismay at how Obama was continually screwing up in regards to fixing the financial mess, and how Jon Stewart takes Jim Cramer to task after the fact? Where was Jon Stewart before Jim Cramer ripped Obama's policy initiatives? And where was Jon Stewart in regards to how Barney Frank, the Banking Queen, and Chris Dodd did more than their fair share of helping to screw the economy up? I'm no fan of Jim Cramer, but I really doubt Jon Stewart's sincerity in this matter.

Could this be a sign of things to come? Now that CNBC Chicago Mercantile Exchange reporter Rick Santelli has mysteriously disappeared from the spotlight after his criticism of President Barack Obama's mortgage proposal in February and now that CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer has been marginalized after his lackluster appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" on March 12, could the new target of the Obama machine and the left and their accomplices in the media be CNBC "The Kudlow Report" host Larry Kudlow? James Rainey, a columnist for The Los Angeles Times, set his sights on Kudlow in...

What's a little salt on the wound after a seemingly humiliating performance by CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer on Comedy Central's March 12 "The Daily Show?" At least that's the way White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs acted when he took the opportunity to comment on last night's "Daily Show" during his March 13 press briefing. Gibbs was asked what he thought of the interview, where "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart called CNBC "disingenuous at best and criminal at worst." Gibbs apparently appreciated Stewart's hyperbolic attacks on CNBC and Cramer. "The president and I talked earlier in the day...

Jon Stewart is mocking Jim Cramer, newly minted Obama critic, by pointing out his praise for Bear Stearns in the weeks before the Wall Street giant collapsed. The obvious insinuation is, "Well, if Cramer was so far off in assessing Bear Stearns, he must be way off in his assessment of Obama administration's management of the economy."Of course, show me a stock-picker who has never recommended a stock that lost value. If a wrong prediction is all it takes to deem someone not credible in their assessments, then no one has any credibility. I mean, if you think of what...

Another day, another round in the battle between Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart. Let’s do a quick recap before proceeding to today’s skirmish. As reported here, last week on Today Cramer accused Pres. Obama of the “the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a president.” In retaliation, Jon Stewart, playing the good Obama foot soldier, has tried to undermine Cramer’s credibility by playing clips on the Daily Show of Cramer’s less-than-spot-on stock recommendations. Cramer has fired back, including in this lengthy column. OK, stage set. With Cramer and fellow CNBCer Erin Burnett as guests this morning, Meredith Vieira observed that...

The good folks in the Obama administration and in the media took on the wrong foe with Jim Cramer, for the outspoken CNBC personality struck back at his ill-informed and economically-challenged critics Monday in a fashion those that have watched him for years have grown to expect. In his self-titled "Cramer Takes on the White House, Frank Rich and Jon Stewart," the "Mad Money" host: referred to the current White House as "exacerbating the crisis with its budget and policies"; accurately exposed the New York Times' Frank Rich and comedian Jon Stewart for cherry-picking snippets of his on-air recommendations in...

Suddenly, bloggers, opinion people, columnists and, yes, pundits who haven't paid attention to anything I have been saying or writing for the past 18 months are all over me. Suddenly, I find myself in the center of a firestorm over Obama's economic policies, taking enfilading fire from the "liberal" media (from serious columnist Frank Rich to entertainer Jon Stewart) while being defended by Rush Limbaugh, the standard-bearer for the Republicans. I'm uncomfortable being in the crosshairs of columnists and comedians I enjoy, and I find the embrace of Rush Limbaugh most certainly strange if not antithetical to many of my...

It's already started: buyers remorse blues hits MSNBC's top financial commentator, big Democrat donor and Obama supporter, Jim Cramer. Here is a quote: "So I will fight the fight against that agenda. I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there. And when they get there, if times are good, we can have them give back or pay higher taxes. Until they get there, I don't want them shackled or scared or paralyzed. That's what...

Jim Cramer, CNBC’s wildman on Wall Street, has shot back at Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and President Obama after saying “I actually embrace every part of Obama’s agenda.” Cramer admitted something he’s never admitted before — he’s always been a Democrat and always supported Democrats. But he thinks this is not the time for Obama’s expensive, tax-raising agenda. “So I will fight the fight against that agenda. I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get...

.... Cramer is not taking the White House Smears lying down. He wrote a long response in today's Mainstreet.com and gave it right back to the Administration: ....Now some, including Rush Limbaugh, would say I am on another enemies list: that of the White House. Limbaugh says there are only a handful of us on it, and if I am on it for defending all of the shareholders out there, then I am in good company. Limbaugh -- whom I do not know personally, but having been in radio myself, know professionally as a genius of the medium -- says,...

NBC's Tom Costello, on duty at the White House today, asked press secretary Robert Gibbs about some comments made by his CNBC colleague Jim Cramer. On the Today show this morning, Cramer called Pres. Obama's budget a "radical agenda," adding, "This is the greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a President." "I'm not entirely sure what he's pointing to to make some of the statements," said Gibbs. "And you can go back and look at any number of statements he's made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of the back-up for those are too." When pressed...

Here is video of CNBC's Jim Cramer saying in an interview last night on MSNBC's Hardball that President Obama's policies are like throwing a drowning man "an anvil" instead of a life preserver. Cramer and Harold Ford Jr. had a surprisingly sane discussion with Chris Matthews about whether or not Obama is doing the right things to get the economy back on track. Both Cramer and Ford seem to agree tha he is not doing what is needed now to restore confidence to the Stock Market. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Here is video (via Gateway Pundit) of CNBC's Stock Guru Jim Cramer yesterday saying that the Obama Administration is yet to show any sign that they realize that their agenda is destroying the life savings of millions of Americans. Cramer said he "felt it everywhere he went" this past weekend, and told of a kid who pulled him aside and told him, "You were right to say we've elected a Leninist," a reference to Vladimir Lenin who was the father of the communist movement. Below is a video clip from February 3 when Cramer compared the rhetoric of Obama to...

It was news media conventional wisdom during the 2008 presidential campaign: the worse the economy, the better it was for Democrat candidate prospects. But now that they have the legislative and executive branches and the burden of actually governing, that advantage is slowly being chipped away. CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer, who first starting connecting that perhaps a Democrat-controlled federal government might not be the best thing for the United States earlier this year, gave something of a downbeat rant on Feb. 2 about Obama's handling of the economy so far. "Until the Obama administration starts listening, until they...

Jim Cramer is a man of the markets. But he’s also a self-confessed Democrat. So when he pulverizes the president’s plans, there’s no partisan impulse in play. On this morning’s Today, Cramer described President Obama as having a “radical agenda” that is “the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a president.” A bit later, Cramer foresaw the possibility of a depression, and called on the president to mend his ways. View video here.

They are not listening. The president is not listening. His advisers are not listening. They are not watching or listening to the stock market. It seems to be meaningless to them. ... But there should be some sense that the market is totally falling apart and that we could be at levels that will wreck so many people's live savings -- yes, there is that much in the market -- that it wouldn't be so bad to say, "Here are my goals, I want to do cap and trade, I want to make it so we are being prudent about...

Here's what people are thinking. They are looking at what is up on their screens, and they are saying, "Will Obama come after these winners tomorrow?" Oil is up. That's a natural one to hammer, isn't it? He could come out tomorrow with a huge carbon tax. Abandon Peabody Energy (BTU)! The banks are up. You know that Tim Geithner's not going to stand for that. He's a populist, and the reporters who tell him what to do will no doubt say that he'll be seen as rewarding Goldman's (GS) Lloyd Blankfein and Bank of America's (BAC) Ken Lewis --...

Here is video from Hardball tonight where CNBC's Jim Cramer told Chris Matthews that President Obama's Stimulus Plan and his Mortgage Plan will do virtually nothing to solve the economic problems the nation faces. He also said that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is THE problem right now for Wall Street. There is no confidence in him, that he knows what to do to renew the banking system. Matthews also talks with Economist Peter Morici of the University of Maryland, who largely feels the same way about the steps Obama has taken so far. . . . . (Watch Video)

(video) Taking financial advice from the New York Times is like taking health tips from Dr. Kevorkian. That’s why you have to take the financially shaky newspaper’s assessment of the “stimulus” plan with a grain of salt. Maybe a block of salt. CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks it’s so bad and that the New York Times coverage of the bill is so deceitful that went on one of his trademark rants while discussing it. “Now if you were to believe what’s in the papers, holy cow, except for the funny papers,” Cramer said, “you would think this package was wonderful.” “Look...