So, the interview between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer [host of Mad Money on CNBC] was epic. Not like epic in terms of “Titanic” was an epic movie, but epic as in the clash between the Islamic and Western worlds.
The interview started out relatively civil, they joked about how they weren’t sure how the media turned a few jokes on the Daily Show in to an “Anti-Cramer” agenda of Jon Stewart’s. But then, things got really ugly.
Watch all three videos below. Warning: Explicit Language.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3: This is where the interview gets really ugly. Little Jon Stewart becomes relentless and destroys Cramer, right here.
So here is what this means to me. This shows that someone on a “trusted” financial news network [Jim Cramer] now has less credability than someone who is running a faux news program on a channel that often airs the film Meatballs [Jon Stewart]. How did we come to this? How is it that we trust comedians more than financial experts?
Oh yeah, that’s right, the whole stock market collapse.
In an article dating August 15, 2008, the New York Times published this :
When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN.
Really? Jon Stewart is tied with Anderson Cooper? I would probably take a bullet [not really] for Anderson Cooper because he is one of the few journalists I actually trust. He would be #1 on my list.
So in the battle of Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer, the winner is clearly Stewart. Cramer had no idea what hit him until it was too late for him to recover.
They did however, “make nice” at the end of the program.
Stewart: “So maybe we could remove the ‘financial expert’ and the ‘In Cramer We Trust’ and start getting back to fundamentals on the reporting as well, and I can go back to making ‘fart noises’ and ‘funny faces’”
Cramer: “I think we make that deal, right here”
Stewart won this debate, but I don’t actually think his victory means anything unless Cramer as well as CNBC gets to work fixing what they helped wrong.
Cody.
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So, the interview between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer [host of Mad Money on CNBC] was epic. Not like epic in terms of “Titanic” was an epic movie, but epic as in the clash between the Islamic and Western worlds.
The interview started out relatively civil, they joked about how they weren’t sure how the media turned a few jokes on the Daily Show in to an “Anti-Cramer” agenda of Jon Stewart’s. But then, things got really ugly.
Watch all three videos below. Warning: Explicit Language.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3: This is where the interview gets really ugly. Little Jon Stewart becomes relentless and destroys Cramer, right here.
So here is what this means to me. This shows that someone on a “trusted” financial news network [Jim Cramer] now has less credability than someone who is running a faux news program on a channel that often airs the film Meatballs [Jon Stewart]. How did we come to this? How is it that we trust comedians more than financial experts?
Oh yeah, that’s right, the whole stock market collapse.
In an article dating August 15, 2008, the New York Times published this :
Really? Jon Stewart is tied with Anderson Cooper? I would probably take a bullet [not really] for Anderson Cooper because he is one of the few journalists I actually trust. He would be #1 on my list.
So in the battle of Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer, the winner is clearly Stewart. Cramer had no idea what hit him until it was too late for him to recover.
They did however, “make nice” at the end of the program.
Stewart won this debate, but I don’t actually think his victory means anything unless Cramer as well as CNBC gets to work fixing what they helped wrong.
Cody.