Stewart Takes On Cramer After Cramer Takes On Stewart

After Jon Stewart skewered CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday night's Daily Show, Cramer had to defend himself—and levy some barbs at Stewart—on the Today Show as well as MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday. Naturally, that gave Stewart and the Daily Show writing and video research staff yet another opportunity to go after Cramer as well as various NBC sister networks last night:

Before this becomes a never-ending spiral, it appears that Cramer will appear on The Daily Show on Thursday night. We hope Cramer brings some of his Mad Money props! And a Salon writer writes about being forced to watch CNBC for a day: "Twelve hours later, a long stare through the peacock-colored looking glass had shaken me. I was huddled in the corner of my living room couch, arms hugging my knees, wondering why the angry faces on-screen were yelling at me."

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By Jen Chung in News on March 11, 2009 10:56 AM

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felixthecat2

Stewart held Cramer's feet to the fire and stood up for the small guys. Stewart will lose credibility if he lets Crammer off the hook now.

felixthecat2

{After all the build-up, I'm waiting for Stewart and Cramer to make out on Thursday's show.}

Stewart held Cramer feet to the firm and stood up for the small guys, Stewart will lose credibility is he lets Cramer off the hook now.

matty

Cramer is an idiot and trying to steal Santelli's spotlight.

Politburo

Santelli is ceding the spotlight, as I understand. He wrote a blog post a few days ago saying how he didn't want all this attention and how he's just an editor, etc.

NannyState

On air he's playing his newfound "celebrity" down too. I think he was summoned to an executive office and politely told to knock off the shenanigans.

Akiung

I learned something today. Thank you.

Where is that Tom Brady Guy from a couple days ago.

Cheers.

jterry121

The only people dumber than Cramer are the people stupid enough to follow his stock picks. Cramers fan base is made up of drunk horny moronic college students trying to get rich quick. You'd have to be that naive and retarded to take financial advice from a clown who uses sound effect buttons on his show. Stewart is right - his slogan should be "Cramer- the Dartboard that Talks"

matthew gannon

I fully expect Stewart to make nice with Cramer on air. My one issue with Stewart is he's usually quite friendly with the enemy. Just refer to any appearance by Bill Kristol to see Stewart sucking up to troublemakers.

TKaisen

Respectful discourse is not "sucking up".

Rocknrope

I didn't see it as sucking up. He gets into it with the conservatives who have the guts to show up on his show, and they have some pretty good banter. It's just not the Bill O'Rielly "SHUT UP SIT DOWN!" type of useless vitriol that you typically see.

freddynyc

Doesn't Cramer go to the same temple as Bernie Madoff?

matty

Don't forget Stewart.

felixthecat2

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/11/jim-cramer-shorting-stock_n_173824.html

Cramer admits to manipulating markets

famdoc

As best as I can tell, Cramer's program is entertainment, not financial analysis. He may throw around numbers, P/E ratios and research about an industry, but anyone who invests based upon Mr. Cramer's horn-honking or boo-yahs deserves to be parted with their money. I think it's fair to say that $1M invested in a portfolio of "Mad Money" stocks one year ago would be worth less than $250,000 now.

The only person with a worse performance record will be going to prison for life next week.

Sinchy

If anyone has 25mins watch this video about how hedge funders are

manipulating the market with phantom share naked short selling.

Jim Cramer is part of this hedge fund cabal. If anyone thought the stock market was crooked this video will reaffirm that 100 fold.

It makes me onder if anyone can have confidence in the economic system.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=phantom+shares&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

further reading about how CNBC and other business journalists are in cahoots with these hedge fund predators ( who pay next to nothing in taxes ) who can destroy businesses.

http://www.deepcapture.com/

NannyState

As someone who is in on this global conspiracy, I would politely ask you to never mention that again.

Jen Chung

After all the build-up, I'm waiting for Stewart and Cramer to make out on Thursday's show.

Kojak

It gives them both a boost in attention & ratings, but Stewart was spot on with that segment. But to Cramer's defense, he does warn investors who watch his show to do their research instead of leaning completely on his recommendations and take what he says with a grain of salt, something that the rest of CNBC doesn't take the time to do at all.