Last week, Jon Stewart took CNBC to task for its unfailing failure to cover the economic meltdown with any kind of clarity or mental acuity. Last night, in response to a complaint from Jim Cramer that one of his clips was taken out of context, Stewart went out for Round 2 (via Gunaxin). It’s not quite as witheringly brutal as last time, but I’m definitely happy I’m not Jim Cramer this morning.
Now, the last time I wrote about “The Daily Show,” things got pretty contentious in the comments between the political left and right, with President Obama getting blamed for this and that, and threats of eye-rape. Listen, people: we’re all in this together. Can’t we unite in hating people who are better off than we are? I’m not a homeowner and I’m not a banker, but still I lost loads of money that I had squirreled away in Merril Lynch. Do you understand how devastating that is? I was saving up for a militia! Now I’ll have to defend myself from the government with Soviet weapons bought on the cheap.
UPDATE: Cramer went on The Today Show this morning to respond (video below). He’s pretty level-headed about it.
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Is it too early to start running Stewart/Colbert 2012 ads again?
/angry quasi-political retort
Cramer must regret the fact that his entire career has been torched in the last week based solely on his job performance. Clearly it only took a comedian to point out his ineptitude.
When the world breaks down into Mad Max style anarchy I’m definetly going to outfit my fellow Northern Virginians with Soviet weapons. You can’t say enough about a rifle that you can train a 10 year old to use effectively in 30 minutes. I’m going to have ALL the gas. Suck it.
buy all the weapons you want, Ufford. We all know the best weapon is a warm smile and a giant hug.
If it wasn’t for “South Park”, Comedy Central would be completely unwatchable.
I love the look on Cramer’s face as they show the clip. Pwned.
I actually just had to write a paper on if there was or was not a downside to fake news shows. Anyone know how to cite a blog in MLA?
Ocho: I actually had to do that just yesterday. There aren’t any official rules yet, but most sites recommend this fashion:
Last Name, First. “Title of Entry.” Weblog Entry. Title of Weblog. Date Posted. Date Accessed (URL).
The answer to this whole thing is simple: more tax cuts.
Also, get rid of gays, foreigners, and save the blastocytes.
/even when it was the bears, I knew it was the stem cells.
The answer to this whole thing is simple: more tax cuts.
That’d be funnier if it weren’t the actual Republican response.
“And now I’ll pull my arms out with my face!”
WDYA/Otto:
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@Tim: Outstanding. Then again, I’m apparently a Socialist who should move to Russia.
People from the political right can read?
People from the political left have enough money to buy computers?
I think the best response to this whole argument would be to say “GET YOUR HANDS OUT OF MY POCKET!” like that guy in Malcolm X…and then MAYBE shooting someone (Brody Jenner is totally just STANDING there!)
Jim Cramer has a button that says “Booya!” — if HE doesn’t KNOW, than who does?!
(And please, spare me the whole, maybe-that-NYU professor Nouriel Roubini-who-predicted-much-of-this-crisis-maybe-he-knew talk!)
Jon Stewart and Colbert are the only two things left on Comedy Central worth watching since MST3K left and imploded on the shores of the Sci-Fi Channel…and that was YEARS ago
I love how he tries to defend himself by saying he told everyone to sell everything in October. Yet not a month later
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Hysterical, Tim.
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