Jon Stewart vs CNBC

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It started with this. And ended (?) with this.
Stewart voiced the frustration of those who wish financial journalists had been less cheerleaders for Wall Street millionaires in recent years and more protectors of everyday folks who lost large portions of their pensions in the recent market crash.
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"I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a f-ing game," Stewart told Cramer, who was a guest on his program.
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Stewart regularly uses the steady stream of overheated, underreported stories coming from the 24-hour cable news networks as comedic fodder. But Thursday's interview was another example of the passion for good governance and aggressive journalism that informs his satire. In 2004, he went on CNN's "Crossfire" and told the hosts that they were "hurting America" with hackneyed, partisan banter, which he found long on opinion and short on reporting.
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Unedited Stewart-Cramer Interview
 
Yeah, saw it. I felt a little bad for Cramer, cos I like the guy, but yeah. Go go Daily Show.

/EDIT Jon Stewert = Edward R. Murrow? I hope to see a Movie about him one day.
 
I have to hand it to Jon Stewart, this is some brilliant interviewing... asking tough questions that frankly I never see any other journalist have the balls to ask, and he's a ****ing comedian!

I also have to say it's refreshing to hear Stewart swear without a bleep. It gives weight to the seriousness of the interview.

I haven't been watching TV as much lately, and so haven't seen this and glad I managed to catch it after it became a big story.


I have to say that I am disappointed that the media though, in order to save their own asses, are making Cramer out to be the face of this whole situation, and as Stewart himself said, he's not the one responsible for it and it's unfair he's the face of it. And so in order to protect their own asses they're going to keep running these articles about how Stewart annihilated Cramer and shift focus away from the fact that Cramer is NOT the biggest culprit here, as it's an amalgamation of journalists who are responsible.
 
Heard about this but didn't really follow it. I gave up Stewart for Colbert long ago.
 
Wow that interview is hilarious, especially when jon starts rolling clips of Cramer talking about how important it is to create rumors..etc...:laugh:
 
Corp. Sheepo said:
Heard about this but didn't really follow it. I gave up Stewart for Colbert long ago.
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I still love Colbert, but Colbert is never really serious and so you can't have serious things like this... he only provides some insight in his interviews due to the ridiculousness of his interview process rather than tough questions.
 
Wheres the other video? Got a link that works in the UK (hulu doesnt)
 
Raziaar said:
I still love Colbert, but Colbert is never really serious and so you can't have serious things like this... he only provides some insight in his interviews due to the ridiculousness of his interview process rather than tough questions.
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It's the straight-faced ridiculousness of his interviews that make the people he's interviewing look like total morons.
 
At least Cramer had the graces to save face and not blow up.

Also, Stewart > Colbert. He created Colbert.
 
He tore Cramer apart.
Also, how many other correspondents got their own show? Huh, Viper? HUH?
That pregnant lady? Hell naw!
 
Stewart > Colbert

I think the character that Colbert plays on his show is getting really old.
 
I like both Stewart and Colbert, they'd make excellent uncles
 
Viperidae said:
At least Cramer had the graces to save face and not blow up.

Also, Stewart > Colbert. He created Colbert.
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He ate his way out of the womb and now Stewart's a disgusting whore no one wants to touch. jk, I still like Stewart, but really, no one has anything on Colbert's prepetual brilliance.
 
I think Stewart put the rest of the media to shame that night. I was absolutely awesome. Everyone talks about how tought meet the press was under tim russert, russert had nothing on this. I really hope once Stewert is done with the daily show (actuall I hope that never happens but if it does) he gets a cable news show.
 
Corp. Sheepo said:
He ate his way out of the womb and now Stewart's a disgusting whore no one wants to touch. jk, I still like Stewart, but really, no one has anything on Colbert's prepetual brilliance.
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Nah, I reckon Stewart's better. He doesn't have to rely a schtick as much as Colbert does, and Colbert isn't as funny once you get over the whole Bill O'Reilly impersonation he's forever doing.

Although with that said, when he interviews politicians it is ****ing hilarious watching him pull shit on them over and over.
 
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