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Jon Stewart is beating the hell out of that Mad Money Cramer guy on The Daily Show.

*fascinated and uncomfortable*

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It's almost uncomfortable except for how that guy TOTALLY DESERVES IT. Hahahaaa, I LOVE Jon Stewart. ♥

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If it had been a boxing match they would have stopped it. Amazing.

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Wasn't that great!

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Cramer's body language was something else. He started the interview cringing, submissive and pleading for mercy, and Jon gave him none.

I rejoiced in Jon's pwnage. Cramer made my skin creep. :)

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I didn't feel sorry for Cramer because I already knew he'd been manipulating the market and advising others how to do it. What I didn't expect was Jon showing those tapes of Cramer admitting it and then following up so brilliantly.

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Oh, I don't feel sorry for Cramer at all. If Jon had punched him, I'd have hooted -- though it was much more satisfying to see him bloody Cramer with words.

Short selling son of a bitch. *snarl*

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I'm encouraged to hear this!

I haven't watched the "Daily Show" episode I recorded last night yet, but from the brief blurb on NPR's Morning Edition just before I left for work, it sounded like Jon had wussed out and that Cramer was allowed to come away with his 'credentials' intact ("both agreed that financial news reporters need to ask harder questions", was the summary I got from NPR, I think).

Since Cramer picked this fight in the first place (Jon's initial critique was of MSNBC as a whole), I'll be happy to think that his attempt at gaining attention through claiming Jon Stewart was out to get him actually resulted in him getting the thorough trouncing he'd been claiming to have received from Jon already.

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Oh, it was the polar opposite of wussing out. Stewart was ruthless, relentless, and had all the evidence at his fingertips. It was a slaughter.

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Goody!

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I saw a few articles like that. Everything they said was true, but they made it seem much blander than it was, and they failed to mention the clips of Cramer discussing hedge funds and how to manipulate the market.

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That makes me feel better about Jon Stewart, but much worse about NPR and the rest of the news media! Oh, well.

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This will please you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/15/usa-tv-jon-stewart-economy

America cheers as satirist delivers knockout blow to TV finance gurus

For the past 10 days the US has been gripped. Even President Obama tuned in as the country's foremost TV comic, Jon Stewart, unleashed an extraordinary broadside against TV's top financial commentators for their part in the unfolding economic crisis.

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Great article! Thanks, that DOES feel oddly satisfying.

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That was great!!!

But I'm sad, because I dared to say I was encouraged by what I saw and my gracious hostess yelled at me for 20 minutes. :-(

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Oh dear. Do you need to have a temporary neocon conversion to keep the peace while you're there? I won't tell on you.

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No no, my hostess is not at all conservative. She's very liberal, but when I said I was encouraged she went OFF on this whole tirade about how this won't change anything because only intellectuals watch the Daily Show and so all the idiots who watch Mad Money won't even see this, much less be convinced of anything, and how the same intellectuals think Obama is gonna change the world and it just won't happen overnight like everyone thinks and on and on and on... I was really surprised. All I was trying to say was that I was encouraged, but I accidentally hit some trigger in her that made her jump into "people get too optimistic sometimes" mode. She and I talked about it this morning and everything's fine now.

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Ah, I get it. This shitstorm is triggering a lot of pessimism, and understandably so.

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Really? I don't think your hosts struck me as terribly right-wing, or pro-CNBC for that matter. Did they find your reaction too optimistic?

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Got it in one, Toysdream!

They are pretty liberal folks all around. Great people. My optimism just triggered her pessimism, I think. :-/

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I know!! I was really surprised because Jon usually doesn't give interviews like that, but he just ripped him a new hole. My knowledge of finance is really bad so it was hard to follow, but it was pretty clear that Cramer got owned.

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Wasn't it relentless? People had predicted that Jon would go to the showbiz default of gracious host and it would be a puff piece, but... not so much. @@

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That'll teach Cramer to talk down Stark Industries stock. ;-)

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Cramer got his, but what about Forbes? They accused Tony of selling short!

http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/18/tony-stark-money-oped-fictional1508-cx_de_1218ironman.html

LIES LIES LIES

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Fuggin' A! I thought of that too. :-)

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