Jon Stewart rips Jim Cramer a new one
Wow.. just finished watching Jon Stewart rip Jim Cramer on TV. This week Jon Stewart decided to show viewers what he thinks of CNBC and the rest of the financial "news" tv networks. It went back and forth. They claimed he was cherry picking clips from the show, Stewart explained that he likes to call it turd mining. Finally tonite he had Jim Cramer on, one of the bigger "stars" on CNBC and the one who had been the most outspoken critic of what Stewart was claiming. I thought it would be like any other show and Jon Stewart would get a few jabs in there but throw a few lighthearted deprecating jokes in there to keep things "comedic". No nothing like that. I watched as Jon Stewart reduced Mad Cramer almost to tears as he tried to defend himself. Yes it was uncomfortable to watch but you know what it was one of the most amazing TV journalistic efforts I think I've ever seen. Not since Mike Wallace in the 1970s was able to provoke fear in wrong doers have I seen anything like it. I thought those days were long gone. Can you believe it -- the only TV journalist left is a comedian who's show follows puppets that make crank calls. I hope Katie Couric was taking notes on how it's suppose to be done. I may be a biased since I do watch Jon Stewart's show regularly but hey bravo Jon Stewart! Keep up the good work!
Also bravo to Chris for somehow keeping this complicated blog going. Took me 20 minutes to figure out how to make this post...lol.