Comments on: Jon Stewart’s Defining Moment.

By: aikowest0002

aikowest0002 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:57:01 +0000

By: jon stewart

jon stewart — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:19:22 +0000

Jon stewart proposed to his future wife through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of Will Shortz

By: Sensation: Knowledge isn’t power anymore « Thomas Hansen

Sensation: Knowledge isn’t power anymore « Thomas Hansen — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:52:13 +0000

[...] I wasn’t that impressed. Sure, righteous Stewart exposing wicked Cramer was good television, but it wasn’t serious journalism. [...]

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:56:18 +0000

Larry Johnson has an interesting take on this:

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/03/14/jon-stewart-selective-tough-guy/

People lose a bunch of money because of fraud and incompetence in Wall Street, and folks start talking about public hangings. A million Iraqis, 5,000+ Americans are dead because of (bipartisan) fraud and incompetence in Washington DC and the press still shrugs it off.

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:19:35 +0000

” America’s only serious news comes from a comedy channel.”

So true.

By: Ivan Brugere

Ivan Brugere — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:59:40 +0000

There are many related clips which have arisen since the original Daily Show segment; I find this old clip from the Huffington Post to be most illuminative

Notice that Cramer touts the importance of getting buzz onto CNBC, oh yeah, he has his own show there; that simplifies things.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/11/jim-cramer-shorting-stock_n_173824.html

By: Dan Westlake

Dan Westlake — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:52:45 +0000

RE: Jim Cramer

“most of my insight came from apolitical people who ran many of the major trading desks”

By apolitical he means people who don’t give a f*ck about about the rest of society as long as a system remains in place where they are able to make obscene amounts of money out of the labour of others. If anyone ever doubted the ethical sewer which traders voluntary inhabit here is a program on how eight ‘ordinary people’ fair when given the opportunity to trade for a couple of months.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/dummy/watch/v172119216SW7zjQe

(this link is only a five minute preview of episode one of three (I think))

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:51:54 +0000

What strikes about Jim Cramer’s rebuttal to CNBC bashing is how eloquent and reasonable it is http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/cramer-takes-white-house-frank-rich-and-jon-stewart
How can the man who writes this intelligently be the one who has an “I’m gonna kick your ass” football coach finance show. The answer is surely that CNBC is a cartoon channel? There is as much posturing and fakery there as on the Daily Show, its just less funny.

By: hntrnyc

hntrnyc — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:25:55 +0000

hello Telly, I also posted on the same subject matter, but not nearly as eloquently as you have. As I watched the original TDS broadcast, I was struck by how simply and comically Stewart had summarized the infomercial that is CNBC and to a larger extent the bailout. Yes, it is “fake news”, but when the fake news makes more sense than the MSM, you begin to wonder what else is not being reported. Stewart after all has only a 1/2 hour and limited resources………

By: Dan Westlake

Dan Westlake — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:38:33 +0000

Classic! And yes ‘hang the bankers, don’t screw the home owners’ is the general view from this this side of the pond but personally I’d prefer to see the guillotine brought back into service.