You go boyyyyyy!!!

FRAUD & BUSTEDDDDDD!!!

This was the TV highlight of the week (if not the year!) for me. I know Stewart has a staff of researchers as well as the benefit of editing but Stewart's eviseration of Cramer was simply brilliant. People may want to dismiss Stewart as a comedian but he conducts interviews that the so-called newsmen and women should be asking. The Daily Show does such a great job catching people in their lies and hypocricies by using their own words. If a Comedy Central show with a microscopic budget can do this why can't ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, et al?

And Cramer appeared on a number of other showssince this feud with Stewart started and what was he asked about? The feud itself! Nobody asked or challeneged him about the points Stewart had been making. Props to Cramer for having the balls to actually appear on The Daily Show but he came off as a complete moron. I couold see this as being the beginning of the end of his career as a money "espert".

Yeah, George if there's one word that sums up this particular piece by Stewart is, "Brilliant!"

Comedians can get away with things that other television personalities can not. Their protection is that they can make a living, for both themselves and their employers, by humorous public self-criticism.

That same self-mockery as self-analyis is their moral underpinning, especially when mocking themselves as individuals who are part of a group to which they belong.

Stewart reminds me of a sober version of Richard Pryor or a Jewish version of Dick Gregory. Both Pryor and Gregory could more acceptably make brilliant mockery of black sterotypes because of their race. Pryor's skidrow bum always brought me to tears of both joy and sadness because I knew someone very close who was that character - and Pryor also was that tragic character.

Jon Stewart can more acceptably mock Jewish sterotypes because he's Jewish and knows many investors who are as well. And he sealed his tolerance for self-mockery when he aired a skit by Jon Oliver that totally trashed Stewart's hosting of the 78th Academy Awards in comparison to Hugh Jackman's hosting of the 81st.

As much as I liked his skewering of Cramer, the guy is too easy a target. His repartee with Alan Greenspan was what blew me away. There was a man who was arguably the most influential economist in the world being reminded that he played a critical role in encouraging the current economic mess by his support of a non-existent "free market" for at least 19 years.

Stewart definitely cleaned Cramer's clock during the interview and Cramer readily admitted to the failed advise he gave as shown in the clips. But Cramer is probably not going anywhere. He has a captive audience that enjoys his banter on the topics of the market and the economy. Like any other show it's up to the viewers to take what he says with some skepticism and to research the statements made before making investment decisions. I don't know anyone whose predictions on the market, especially during the past year have been consistently correct. Warren Buffet the "Oracle of Omaha" has made some awful decisions this year costing his Berkshire Hathaway fund billions. I would hope that most people who watch these TV shows take it for entertainment value and if they learn something along the way then it's a plus.

Honestly,

I must admit, in retrospect, the both of them handled the "uproar" like congenial gentleman...especially considering the nastiness of the current political/entertainment climate today. Kudos to both men for defusing the "controversy."

Let's see JS give Bill Clinton some grief for his corporate-pig-friendly policies the next time he interviews him, instead of kissing his lying, smug ass.

The problem with the Cramer and CNBC situation is that they exemplify the attitude has pervaded the entire news industry over the past 15 years. No one asks questions anymore, it's all about celebrity infotainment. They don't do interviews anymore, they have "guests" on their shows.

Sorry, but if you have someone on the hot seat, be it a corporate CEO, the president of the USA, Hillary Clinton or Dick Cheney YOUR JOB is to ask the questions that make him or her squirm. Cramer and his cohorts acted a s shills for the industry that was playing roulette with our economy. He was rightfully exposed.

Excellent aquaman!