Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer

[Qtip]

Anyone watch the Daily show last night?

Jim Cramer own'd!

Check out clips online at the comedy network or watch channel 57 at 3pm today to see the episode.

 

[HankQuinlan]

Jim Cramer own'd!

I don't understand -- does this mean he "owned" the show and won?

Does it mean that Stewart "owned" Cramer by reaming him out? (Which he did).

Stewart has always been serious about how the media portrays issues. Usually he is funnier about it, but he is very serious about that aspect of his humour.

 

[Lesbian Hunter]

Anyone watch the Daily show last night?

Jim Cramer own'd!

Check out clips online at the comedy network or watch channel 57 at 3pm today to see the episode.

I'm with Hank on this one. Why don't you tell us in English what transpired that has made you so excited?

Jim Cramer own'd! ????????????????? Own'd is not a word.

 

[gpchillin]

I watched it and ya showing clips of Cramer talking about how to manipulate the market to make money by out right lying was great.

Stewart is pissed off at the whole financial system and people like Cramer who out right lie and then play innocent when the shit comes tumbling down and say they had no idea it was happening when they are financial professionals who know exactly what the banks and corporation were doing to insulate the top people with huge payoffs and letting all the little people lose everything.

When a company with share holders tanks because of mismanagement by the top people and those same top people walk away with millions of dollars the goverment should go after these people and seize their money and property and use that to cover the shareholders losses.

 

[FunSugarDaddy]

I watched it and ya showing clips of Cramer talking about how to manipulate the market to make money by out right lying was great.

Stewart is pissed off at the whole financial system and people like Cramer who out right lie and then play innocent when the shit comes tumbling down and say they had no idea it was happening when they are financial professionals who know exactly what the banks and corporation were doing to insulate the top people with huge payoffs and letting all the little people lose everything.

When a company with share holders tanks because of mismanagement by the top people and those same top people walk away with millions of dollars the goverment should go after these people and seize their money and property and use that to cover the shareholders losses.

The only problem with that suggestion is that it's the shareholder's through their Board of Directors, who hired the top people in the first place. And the pay packages would have been negotiated prior to starting work. Having said that I personally think the amount of remuneration is ridiculous. But it's pretty hard to feel to sorry for the shareholders given that they elect the board members.

I'd like to have seen the clip, it appears to have been removed due to copywrite violation.

 

[Cock Throppled]

Stewart is pissed off at the whole financial system and people like Cramer who out right lie and then play innocent when the shit comes tumbling down and say they had no idea it was happening when they are financial professionals who know exactly what the banks and corporation were doing to insulate the top people with huge payoffs and letting all the little people lose everything.

You mean like Michael Campbell?

 

[aznboi9]

I'd like to have seen the clip, it appears to have been removed due to copywrite violation.

You can go to the comedy network to see the whole interview.

 

[timhorton]

But remember, although John Stewart is right in principle, and Cramer is guilty of posing as a journalist when in fact he's subjugating journalistic integrity to entertainment, Stewart also had 20 writers working non-stop for a week on zingers with which to hit Cramer with the intention if it appearing as if he doing this all off the cuff.

You may think Cramer was "own'd", but setups like that are not of equal footing. Cramer's wrong and arrogant, but not stupid. In real interviews, you usually get the interviewer's questions beforehand so you can prepare your responses.

Not all tv is "real".

The whole thing was entertaining though.

To get an idea of what "own'd" or "pwned" means: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=owned+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=zwa7Sf2EHZLAM7GurKoI&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

 

[ironchief]

All the prep in the world could not have saved Cramer, as he lied about his affirmation of Bear Stearns on TV, and any schoolboy could have played back the episodes for all to see.

What's interesting is the video where Cramer is telling a man how he works the market to make profits for his hedge fund.

Seriously, the Daily Show is the best news program on American TV.

 

[wolverine]

Anyone who relies on the likes of Jim Kramer for financial and investment advice deserves to lose their money.

 

[delta9]

Anyone who relies on the likes of Jim Kramer for financial and investment advice deserves to lose their money.

Best advise ever!!!!

 

[chuckanut]

ya i saw it and i thought stewart actually pulled up a bit. he could have completely slaughtered cramer if he'd really wanted to.

but i almost felt kinda bad for cramer. stewart was after the news organizations themselves. ie cnbc and fox news. cramer in a way just became the scapegoat. though he pulled a lot a bs as well on his show, which stewart caught him on.

one of stewart's best interviews i've ever seen. he wasn't bashing cramer, he was presenting facts and stating that he wants the networks to talk about what's actually going on in the financial world, not the fluff.

-chuck
**retired**

 

[Qtip]

Stewart was going after the whole CNBC network. Cramer is the scapegoat. The lamb sent to slaughter. Whether you like or dislike Stewart or the Daily show, it's an alternative to network news right wing views.

 

[FunSugarDaddy]

I started watching other clips of Stewart. I had forgotten about the Crossfire episode on CNN that if I'm not mistaken lead to the cancelation of the show.

Basically Stewart is right, especially as it relates to the activities on Cramer's show. I pretend you can pick stocks at whim is at best silly and at worst dangerous, especially if anyone is stupid enough to follow his advice. But I did think the attack on Crossfire was a little over the top mind.

 

[Thatotherguy]

Stewart was going after the whole CNBC network. Cramer is the scapegoat. The lamb sent to slaughter. Whether you like or dislike Stewart or the Daily show, it's an alternative to network news right wing views.

In this particular case, Cramer made himself into the scapegoat. If he hadn't come out and tried to save face with his ridiculous "oh, I'm being attacked by a comedian" routine, he wouldn't be looking like such a tool right now, and he wouldn't be the focus of all of this. Instead the focus would be on CNBC as a whole, which was where Stewart initially put it (actually most likely nobody would be talking about it at all anymore).