Cramed Him

Jon Stewart went well beyond any comic's usual job tonight on The Daily Show, but more importantly he went far beyond any cable newsperson. Any.

The feud with CNBC and Jim Cramer had been building for almost two weeks, and one has to give Cramer credit for coming on the show to try and end it, but Stewart took Cramer, CNBC and, by extension, the entire entertainment-industrial complex to task. Stewart essentially represented the American people -- everyone who lost half their IRA in four months thanks to massive, massive Wall Street greed -- while Cramer revealed in his whipped-dog response to the grilling a number of things:

1. He doesn't realize that he is "them."
2. He's not a responsible financial journalist, he's just a guy with opinions for hire.
3. When the faux-anchor of a fake news show is asking tougher questions than an entire financial news network, that network loses whatever reputation it may have thought it had as a responsible financial journalistic outfit, and instead appears to be just another cheap sales job on those rubes we call the American people.
   

The whole uncut interview (they lost maybe 8 minutes for TV) will be up by the morning on the show's website -- you can watch the whole thing -- here's a hefty taste:



Stewart's a hero for standing up and challenging the media powers, even it through their court jester.

Oh, and the markets are up significantly this week. Does that mean that Obama is a hero, or at least can the stupid people on TV stop blaming him for the crash now?