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Cramer v. Stewart, Unedited
This showdown is an Internet baby:
This cable TV feud of epic proportions is one that’s really been playing out online (mostly to the benefit of The Daily Show). According to Variety, the clips have garnered 1.3 million views and the site’s uniques are up 65 percent.
…this is a feud being observed not by the people who sit down in front of their TVs and watch both CNBC in the mornings and Daily Show at night (can’t imagine there are too many people who do that) — this is a feud made by the circulation of the official Comedy Central clips around the various blogs, creating an echo chamber effect that has played out not over old media, but over Google Trends (the “twitscape,” as Stewart himself called it on Monday). It’s a true chicken-and-egg situation: without the TV clips, we would have nothing to talk about, but without the Internet, would anyone care?
No one’s more aware of that than the folks at Comedy Central. Indecision Forever has the full unedited interview posted.
As for the debate, The NYTimes has declared Stewart the winner. While TVSquad suggests it may be CNBC:
As sick as this sounds, CNBC has to be loving this attention because if they didn’t, Cramer would not have been allowed within 500 yards of the studio. Until now, the only people who watched CNBC were ultra wealthy stock hounds who have a TV in their bathroom so they can see how their stocks are doing while they are on the toilet or insomniacs who think the stock ticker could lull them into a coma faster than invisible sheep.
The Satirical Political Report headlines its link-filled post, CNBC replaces Cramer with…Kramer! Digby posts Cramer’s defense from his pay-to-read blog.
8 Responses to “Cramer v. Stewart, Unedited”
You don't have CNBC's audience quite right. I work for a trading firm and pretty much every tv has it up all day and most everyone is under 35. It's by no means enjoyable to watch but it is the best channel out there for financial news.
It's a pretty sad day in America when the only place to find someone speaking real truth to power is on a comedy show on basic cable…
The unedited interview is very sobering indeed… wow….
But of course it is classical Dem “debating”………never actually address the issue raised (which was Cramer's criticism of Obama's policies), but immediately change the subject to Cramer's ability to pick stocks…..and then continue the meandering until the original question is piled under 40 feet of deflection material.
Jon Stewart should become a lefty poster here……..he has the requisite skills.
Look casualobserver, John Stewart's point concerned the cheer-leading of financial entities when they knew the financial entities were lying, bending the truth, acting criminally, etc. Especially since, as Stewart pointed out, this is folks hard earned money. Obama's policies are separate from THAT issue.
And The Daily Show made fun of CNBC outside of Obama's policies which kicked this “showdown” off. So your twisting things somewhat friend. And I'm no purist lefty….
He isn't twisting things, it started with guys like Santenelli and Cramer questioning Obama's policies. Stewart basically countered with why are we listening to these guys when they have been so wrong the last year.
Cramer deserved what he got. He deserves more.
But in all of this, only Cramer has come out to face even this small an amount of music.
I hope someone has him on suicide watch.
I went back a few vids and your right BBQ. My apologies casualobserver. But my earlier point still stands:
“…the financial entities were lying, bending the truth, acting irresponsibly, etc. Especially since, as Stewart pointed out, this is folks hard earned money. That issue shouldn't be ideological since liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents ALL lost large amounts of money.”