Jim Cramer (of CNBC "Mad Money") doesn't come off too well when he chats with Stewart. See here (video) and here. Short version: the financial news industry is guilty of sins of commission in all of this. As Stewart says, "it's not a fucking game".
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11:23 First commercial break in the big Jon Stewart -- Jim Cramer interview. So far it's Stewart in a rout. Cramer's making a fool of himself; I actually feel a bit bad for him. It's pure train wreck time. Hard to watch but impossible to turn away.
From last night's Daily Show - it's right at the end of the video embedded below the fold.
McCain: You tell any enemy when you're leaving, and they'll say, "Right, fine, we'll just wait until you leave and we'll take over."
Last night, Stewart interviewed Marilynne Robinson. I do not expect attack dog tactics from Stewart, ever, but I also didn't expect him to so totally buy into her premises.
Maureen Dowd has a cute profile/interview of the Comedy Central duo in the new Rolling Stone:
As bad as Cramer is, he's a paragon compared to DOW 36000 cokehead Larry Kudlow. Here is somebody who has been in drug rehabilitation at least twice for cocaine addiction and was fired by the National Review over his cocaine habits. How any so-called new channel can give this reprobate a microphone is beyond the pale.