CNBC deserved the treatment, and the hole they’re digging by whining about it just gets deeper…

I totally agree.

I would like to remind you that “the media” is not one entity. As much as the conspiracy theorists would like to posit, it is indeed very fractured and competitive.

While your criticisms are valid in many ways I think the root of your viewpoint comes from specifically Fox News which is has the least journalistic integrity and more broadly national television news which is the medium with the worst journalistic integrity.

Still I’d like to qualify my defense of many reporters out there that the trending towards saving money has led to a deterioration of journalistic integrity across the board. There are lots of well meaning journalists out there but the institutions have gutted the medium years ago through the chase of money over stability through integrity.

“You go on his show. You let him crack a few jokes at your expense. You laugh with him. You say everything is completely insane right now, and that your network as well as America was being lied to. Then you go home. How hard is that, really? CNBC could have easily gained back some respect and credibility in the eyes of a large group of people. Instead, they duck and whine at one of the most popular comedians in the nation. That’s putting a fire out with gasoline.”

well, when face to face with his enemies Jon tries not to be an ACTUAL asshole so instead he brings up the important points in a softball weasely way. It will play out like the first part of what you said tonight. This coming from a staunch supporter of Jon who thinks he is 99% of the time right. Trust me, you’ll see Cramer will say ‘it wasn’t me specifically it was the whole system’, Jon will say ‘the whole system sucks in a general’, not cramer-specific way, and Cramer will be polite but refuse to commit to the fact Scarbourgh is a fuckin jackass. the end.

@#113 GregLondon

“my ti-99 is for shit with video. gawddamnit anyhow. fricken membrane keyboard. can’t anyone invent a better computer? Sumbitch!”

your prob is you didn’t upgrade to a Ti-994A.. I hear some Linux fanboys ported flash to it, although I could be wrong. ;)

although I HAVE really watched mpeg2 video on a 286 using ascii..

I see Stewart ATTACK OBAMA OFTEN geeeez nbc!

and since the stock market works like flying in peter pan, Cramer couldn’t say bear sterns was going to tank cause that would make it tank.. its like the evil creature that needs your faith in it before it can attack you but how can you not believe in it when your eyes see it. Only this is the exact opposite as soon as you think one miniscule thought maybe its all a lie, then the run on the bank begins.

a friggin yo-yo that yanks the world around on a string.

In the end, people like Cramer and Santelli and Scarborough are just talking heads, whose advice is worth about less then their tanned hides. Stewart’s only advice is “look closely, cause there’s something funny going on.”

For the specific clip linked in the post, clicky here instead:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes/#clip145169

Insightful, witty, succinct, delightfully uninformative…bravo!

I just came here to recommend the Frontline report “Inside the Meltdown”

Any pundit that thinks it’s safe to dismiss Jon as just another dumbass comedian would do well to remember how he pretty much singlehandedly got “Crossfire” canceled in 2004.

…but didn’t the very bailout to save those same people’s bloated employers pass despite mass amounts of public hostility? I mean, all polling data I ever saw suggested that the vast majority of Americans thought these companies should’ve been allowed to sink or swim on their own, and were angry about the bailout. Some of us are still seething.

I’d like to grab Santelli by the ears and ask him what the difference is, but I’m afraid I already know: most homeowners don’t have lobbyists.

Until places like comedy central “get it” then screw them …

Im in Canada and im tired of hulu and region specific videos, I shouldnt have to install a proxy to get access (im on ubuntu so hotspot shield doesnt work) …

When I get a one video that blocks me I download 3 movies, F the american style market out there …

Instead, they duck and whine at one of the most popular comedians in the nation. That’s putting a fire out with gasoline.

Except he didn’t write “the media” he wrote explicitly “most American news organizations” and “most American corporate news outlets”. And, he’s right. War makes news, which makes money for news outlets, so they’ve got some incentive to avoid criticizing war efforts.

These guys are the way that the general public remains informed about the market. To argue, as Rick Santelli did, that homeowners were way out of line in accepting the loans that the bank and NBC told them to take and thus should be allowed to crash is not only ignorant, it’s actively hypocritical when you work for a bank or NBC.

The retort that “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levies” does, in fact, muster some defense against cries of incompetence. But Stewart rightly pointed out that if you turn around and say that homeowners can choke on a donkey’s dick because they should have known better, than you probably deserve to rot.

If the question is, “Why is Jon Stewart attacking Jim Cramer?” then it’s much easier for Scarborough to ask, “Why isn’t Jon Stewart speaking truth to power?” As if that wasn’t what Jon Stewart did when he skewered CNBC and the golden calf it worships.

Otherwise, Jim Cramer is right about one thing. Jon Stewart is a comedian. And Jim Cramer is an investment advisor. In that way, they are different. Another way they are different: Jon Stewart is good at his job; Jim Cramer isn’t.

Really, I was asking that in a rhetorical fashion but kudos to nearly all that you said in reply.

The next twist in this story is coming: Jim Cramer is listed as a guest on the daily show for Thursday (4/12)

I was hoping at least one of them would shout “No! Give it all to us!”

He’s got a hell of a crew of TiVo jockeys working for him.