All was well. Jim Cramer had humbly accepted Jon Stewart's beatdown Thursday night, which you can also view here. Cramer agreed that CNBC failed in many ways, and Jon Stewart got a nice ratings boost. The world had a nice laugh laugh and moved on. Except for one sad, pathetic man.
Tucker Carlson! Former anchor of CNN's "Crossfire" and former anchor of MSNBC's "Tucker." Both were cancelled. Tucker has a beef with Jon Stewart because of Stewart's famous "Crossfire" appearance, where he ripped the gap-toothed Ron Paul-ite apart. Many attribute the show's cancellation to Stewart's brilliant dissection of it's ineptitude. Watch the hilarious video below:
This Sunday-morning talk show, Tucker whined to the panel that Stewart is a "partisan hack" and a bunch of other nonsense.
Tucker's argument is inherently flawed. Stewart began his CNBC coverage because of Rick Santelli's outburst, not because of Jim Cramer. This blog has driven in this point previously. Stewart directed his attack at Cramer because Cramer was the one who directly criticized him and "The Daily Show." So Tucker Carlson is an idiot. Big surprise. He's just bitter over getting his show and career ruined. And Jon Stewart is allowed to be a "partisan hack." He's a COMEDIAN. He doesn't pretend to be a political analyst. That's why his show is on Comedy Central.
Enough of this coverage. I promise this will be the last post.
"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."
Monday, March 16, 2009
It's Not Over Yet
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Actually...That Was Pretty Intense
Kavi wrote here and here of the ongoing/upcoming battle between Jon Stewart - the host of the Daily Show on Comedy Central - and Jim Cramer - the host of Mad Money on CNBC. Well, the final moment arrived, as Stewart interviewed Cramer.
And it was an epic battle of loon number one:
Versus loon number two:
And without further ado, here is the third uncensored/uncut part of the interview. Warning: Stewart drops the f-bomb a couple times.
Did I say battle? That was a massacre. Poor Cramer. Stewart was legitimately ticked off at CNBC. Stewart has been known to rip people apart before. Nobody does it better.
Favorite moment? Joe Scarborough, I now dib thee..."Doucheborough"
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Smackdown has Deintensified
Typical Jim Cramer. Hours after I hyped up the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer clash, Cramer appeared on Martha Stewart's show and basically wimped out. It looks like Cramer will sit, be goofy and apologize to Stewart. Tonight's interview won't be that great.
I couldn't embed the video, but here's the link to the video on Huffington Post.
The Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer Smackdown
I'm going to step outside the film world to present this incredible event taking place tonight. Two of my favorite media personalities are going to duke it out on (pre-taped) national television. CNBC's brilliantly insane analyst Jim Cramer, host of "Mad Money" is going to visit "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" tonight. Why does this matter? Let's dig in to the history behind this feud...
A few weeks ago, CNBC analyst Rick Santelli went ape in the middle of the trading day. In the video below, Santelli rips apart homeowners who were forced to foreclose on their mortgages, calling them "losers" among other things. I used to watch this guy every day during senior year, so it was unsettling to see him spew such nonsense. Does he really think a Chicago trading floor is an accurate sample of average Americans?
This video set off a chain of unprecedented events. Last week, Stewart thoroughly eviscerated Santelli and CNBC for their third-rate reporting during the start of the financial crisis. The following clip shows Stewart's epic deconstruction of CNBC's failures. This is especially hard for me to watch, since I watched CNBC religiously last year, when I was interested in a financial career.
Over the weekend, Cramer issued a statment claiming that Stewart took one of his comments about Bear Sterns out of context. The comment was included in the montage of CNBC's idiocy shown above. Monday night, Stewart responded by shredding Cramer even more:
The next morning Jim Cramer went on The Today Show and MSNBC to counter Stewart's tirade. Stewart kept going, responding with this hilarious clip:
Just when you thought it couldn't get better, Jim Cramer has actually agreed to appear on The Daily Show Thursday night. Do yourselves a favor and watch this monumental clash between a hot-headed financial adviser and a smarmy, talkative comedian. Jim Cramer is known to lose his cool, just watch this video (which I actually watched live one day before I went to my MTU classes):
Do you think Cramer will be able to hold his own against the power of Jon Stewart? Either he'll be annoyingly polite with Stewart or some serious stuff is going to go down. I can't wait...