Jon Stewart, Absolute Moral Authority
March 13th, 2009 at 7:58 am by CrankyWell, this was an embarassing watch. Bulldog Jim Cramer tucks tail and lets Jon Stewart lecture him on CNBC’s complicity in the finanicial meltdown. The video is at the link.
I would have expected a bit more of a fight and for Cramer to be a little less contrite. As it was, every time Cramer knuckled under, it opened Stewart up to issue an awkward admonition.
Honestly, I haven’t been following the Cramer/Stewart feud and am not even sure whether The Daily Show has a good point. But Stewart playing the “fake news” show complete with the pathetic fan applause lines simultaneously with media watchdog just doesn’t work.
UPDATE:
There has been some great discussion about Jon Stewart in the comments. Let me add my additional two cents worth.
I saw Stewart Live a couple of years ago and he is a very funny comedian. Others have noted that as a political commentator, he is like Maher, sacrificing funny for a cheap shot that gets his moronic audience into a frenzy.
Here is one reason his show is painfully unfunny – this snarky chucklehead.
Bylined in the free subway rag* with Elliott Kalan is a writer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” This clown is so irrelevant, he is still digging for material from the previous administration.
How he got a job writing for television instead of posting at Daily Kos is beyond me.
* In fairness, they do have a great Sudoku puzzle.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:20 am
My God I can’t stand Jon Stewart. I almost (*almost!*) would trade the end of his career for an Obama reelection. Sure, Obama is f*cking up the economy and whatever else, but Stewart has poisoned the minds of a generation.
Cramer should have bitchslapped him around for sport.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Gabriel – you are an idiot. try watching the show. stewart exposes (in hilarious fashion, which makes it appealing to main-stream viewers) the various corruptions/contradictions of politicians, mass news media, and financial ‘experts’. while you may be one of those people that want to be spoon-fed the bullsh*t coming from Fox News because it makes you sleep better at night (likely in your white, mid to upper-middle class house with no minorities within a 3 mile radius); i can assure you that you are only speaking for yourself. and possibly for the constantly decreasing minority of people that want the ‘old’ america back – the one completely controlled by white, christian interests, and anyone else can be damned.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Gee, must be nice, as Dr. Mark Levin says, to have about a million writers helping out that idiot Jon Stewart so he can be so hilarious for Devin and his ilk.
WHAT A MORON.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I, like Gabriel above, cannot stand Jon Stewart in any form or fashion. So, I missed all the mishegas concerning him and Cramer.
And you’re right–Stewart’s show is a comedy show–if you’re left leaning enough to deem it so, I suppose. I’ve read enough post script articles today to understand the basic gist of what went down. So, my question becomes your question: What right does this half-witted, self-professed “funny man” have to confront the legitimate Cramer who simply called the economic future as he saw it?
What? I suppose there’s not a Democratic economic soothsayer or sage on the planet who saw this coming and grabbed a lantern and his trusty steed to warn the country that “a bearish market is coming, a bearish market is coming!!!!!”
Libs–for me to be in their presence presents a pain and discomfort not unlike a suppository.
Best,
LK
March 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Devin is a caricature of himself. I wonder if he hates the jooos as much as he hates white male Christians. Probably a difficult inner struggle.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Devin is my latest Javascript project. You input any topic and it generates a string of cliche’s. I’m particularly proud of this one, “bullsh*t coming from Fox News”. Version 2.0 will say Faux Noise, however.
March 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
The episode is a warning to anyone who would dare criticize the messiah. Stewart is the perfect hatchet man. He commands a large unsophisticated audience, and because he’s a comedian, he’s completely unaccountable for anything he says.
March 13th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Liebewitz (Stuart) and Cramer are both a couple of tools. Just that, Liebewitz is the more proportionately-substantial tool compared to Cramer.
March 13th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
People who think Stewart is “witty and clever” think Olbermann is this too smart for school guy, too.
The #1 rule of comedy is supposed to be, “Be funny.” Either be funny or be a legit news show. Stewart and his followers want it both ways for an easy out. If you catch them being wrong, it’s “You don’t getttt it, it’s a joke!” But, all other times they portray it as “even better!” than the news.
Have someone who is knowledgeable grill Stewart and you’ll see what a lightwieght he really is.
He’s just like Maher and Olbermann, they pick easy targets and think mockery = thought.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Craig Kilborne was “witty” when he hosted the Daily Show too. You know – back when it was “edgy” instead of just being a tool to placate the liberal aristocracy.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Oh yeah. Forgot about Kilborne. He was the original host of that show. He left ESPN for that?! All hail the list of bad career moves.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:01 am
If you’ve ever watched Talk Soup you’ve no doubt seen the same phenomenon. Except that Greg Kinnear went on to when an award for being the gay guy in As Good As It Gets. John “Skunk Boy” Henson, alas, did not fare so well and Joel McHale has apparently learned his place.
Stewart is a hack and completely unfunny without a platoon of writers behind him.
Please God, won’t somebody take him seriously.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Devin, you suck at not being an assclown. You are great at not being awesome at all. Your five assumptions that you make about me are 20% accurate. Not very awesome, sir. Sad pandas for you!
March 14th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
While I enjoy watching Cramer every night, one must remember the show is primarily entertainment. The financial networks exist to promote their advertisers financial and investment products. Who would expect them to warn about the credit bubble or coming Washington national debt collapse which will destroy much of the remaining private wealth in America today or what this will do to the dollar, the stock market, bonds, gold or the real estate market?
China is now worried about their dangerous over investment in US Treasury obligations. Washington ’s long-term choice is either repudiation or monetization. For monetization to be effective, the depreciation in the dollar would have to be substantial and this in turn would dramatically raise prices of imports for American consumers which would mean a tremendous drop in foreign imports. Debt monetization would cause more disruption to exporting nations than selective repudiation of Treasury debt.
The Campaign to Cancel the Washington National Debt By 12/22/2013 Constitutional Amendment is starting now in the U.S. See: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67594690498&ref=ts
Thanks,
Ron with 30 plus years in the investment business and banking industry.
March 15th, 2009 at 1:25 am
About 10 years ago, I killed my television. Now , I sometimes go to places where there are televisions and I don’t shield my eyes or anything, and if there is a big enough game I have been known to hit someplace to watch it (although I mostly listen on radio and do something productive at the same time), but it is blissfuly peaceful at my home without the TV, and in addition to that there is less meaningless drivel inside my head. The interesting thing is that I still have lots of activities that fill my life very day, and frankly I don’t know where I would find the time to watch TV like I used to before I killed mine, and this “made for ratings” tiff between Stuart and Cramer does not have me reconsidering my decision to kill the TV. Otherwise, the only other thing I can say about this thread is that Devin might possibly be a white-guilt filled tool who wishes that “mainstream” had a different meaning than it does.
March 16th, 2009 at 8:59 am
People like Devin always forget all of the white christian corpses that littered the fields so the black people could have a chance at freedom. How many white widows were left to fend for themselves in “white” houses with no “minorities” in a three mile radius.
I don’t have white guilt. Take the freedom good white Americans paid for long ago and shut up.