Stewart Eviscerates Cramer
I missed last night’s showdown between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer. Some bloggers found it the most self-serving host-lecturing-guest moment since Oprah dressed down James Frey. Others thought Stewart was right on. Here’s one of the latter views (replete with video). Money quote: ‘I watched the “Daily Show” with growing shock last night. Did you expect that? I expected a jolly and ultimately congenial discussion, after some banter. What Cramer walked into was an ambush of anger. He crumbled from the beginning. From then on, with the almost cruel broadcasting of his earlier glorifying of financial high-jinks, you almost had to look away. This was, in my view, a real cultural moment. It was a storming of the Bastille…There is a cloying familiarity among many cable show hosts and television personalities. We all have to get along, even though some of us may believe that others of us are very much part of the problem, rather than the solution. And what Stewart has done is rip off that little band-aid of faux solidarity for a modicum of ethical and moral accountability.’
Jon Stewart was brilliant and courteous. How anyone could feel he was self serving is beyond me…at no time did he stoop to personal attack and I felt any expressed anger was well stated in the context of the deceit perpetrated by a major news agency.
And how is it cruel to expose financial high-jinks. More than anything I think I was most impressed by Cramers demeanor and willingness consider changing his game plan. Unlike Doucheborough.
More power to Jon Stewart