This is why TV exists.
All other so-called news programs should be ashamed of themselves. It’s a sad commentary on America that our best reporting is done by a room full of comedy writers.
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NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!!
I hate that uncomfortable feeling I get watching a guy like that squirming, but he totally deserves it. Then again, people following Cramer’s lead get what they deserve. The bigger point about reporting is spot on, although the focus should have been on the whole bogus system of these “news” networks and their corporate direction.
To get a show like Cramer’s, a person seemingly has to sell out. We should boycott watching sell-outs on TV. We should demand more. I’ve been boycotting TV news for a while.
Is that the longest Jon Stewart interview ever?
From Salon:
I only get about 8 TV stations and Comedy Central isn’t one of them. When I do watch, I watch short clips online. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a full show from beginning to end. So, I don’t know how long interviews generally are. This one does seem long, though, and, on the Comedy Central site, they even have an “unedited” version. I’ve yet to watch it, but it would stand to reason that it’s even longer. So, yeah, they gave this subject a lot of attention. And they’ve been building to this for the past few weeks. Stewart really seems to be hitting his stride with this stuff.
Jon Stewart doesn’t spell his name with an “h” like I do.
Yes, it is “Jon” Stewart, with no h. And Stewart, with no Leibowitz.
The interviews are usually 5-10 min. long on the show. This one was unusually long, most likely because of all of the media attention and because there had been a back and forth between Stewart and Cramer all week. This was the showdown so they gave it extra time.
I just hope this leads to Cramer’s stupid show getting canceled, just as Stewart helped “Crossfire” meet its deserved end.
Well, tho well done, this guy is just one small piece of a larger ‘in bed with them’ denial system that is huge, no?
Great clip Mark! yeh, “comedy”
I watched the unedited version. It was a beautiful and scary at the same time. Very similar to how Jon took on Crossfire several years ago. I watched a bit of the build up too and he was hammering CNBC pretty hard. They deserve it, honestly.
BTW I turned off the TV 8 years ago and never looked back. It took me two years living in this house to notice that there are no cable runs in the house anywhere. I occasionally try to watch it at other peoples homes, but can’t see why anyone still watches. It made my head hurt in a very bad way. Quite frankly, I’d rather pay a small licensing fee to the shows I want to watch directly and be able to download it, rather than deal with the mess Television has become. There are still good shows (ie Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show) but they are less numerous than the trite crap that is put up in between.
Who’s this Faber fellow Stewart approved of as one of the few on CNBC who was honest?
Ah, here he is. Marc Faber on cnbc, Jon Stewart’s example of one of a very few honest economists on cnbc.
This is part 2. My favorite part starts around 2:20.