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Hemingway: Cramer vs. Stewart
Hemingway: Cramer vs. Stewart
The person who most needs to realize that The Daily Show shouldnt be taken too seriously is Jon Stewart.
It's true: Jon Stewart has become Edward R. Murrow
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com — Through karmic guidance, I sprang awake at the exact moment Jon Stewart was beginning his merciless demolition... of interview with Jim Cramer of CNBC's "Mad Money." Yes, it is cliched to praise Stewart as the "true" voice of news; and, yes, it is too ... (more) It's true: Jon Stewart has become Edward R. Murrow
There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer - Glenn Greenwald
There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com — Jon Stewart is being widely celebrated today and Jim Cramer/CNBC widely mocked -- both rightfully so --... for Stewart's devastatingly adversarial interview of Cramer (who, just by the way, is a Marty Peretz creation ). If you haven't yet seen the ... (more) There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer - Glenn Greenwald
The Daily Show Full Episode | Thursday Mar 12 2009 | Comedy Central
The Daily Show Full Episode | Thursday Mar 12 2009 | Comedy Central
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Cramer v. Stewart
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] I have a new piece on the homepage about Jon Stewart's nauseating grandstanding in his feud with financial analyst Jim Cramer. Cramer was dumb enough to appear on Stewart's show last night and predictably got sandbagged; today there's yet again hollow declarations of Stewart's triumph as a quasi-journalist. According to James Fallows, " ...

White House spokesman on Stewart vs. Cramer: “I enjoyed it thoroughly”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... The fact that Cramer was an Obama supporter. Oh, and the fact that Stewart’s chief criticism of CNBC, that it could have spared the public an economic catastrophe by investigating and exposing Wall Street’s reckless hyperleveraging, applies to 99.99% of the Obama-adoring media. Cramer’s taking the brunt of it here not for his shady admissions about how to game the market — that’s ancient history — but because, like Treacher says, he had the gall to turn on The One publicly. See also Mark Hemingway : If you want to have Cramer on your show and bully him for sticking his neck ...

Jon Stewart, 'Populist Avenging Angel'?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Online reaction tended to split along partisan lines. National Review's Mark Hemingway wrote that "Cramer's appearance on the show . . . was nothing short of a predictable sandbagging, with Stewart hopped up on faux indignation." But James Moore said on the Huffington Post that Stewart "has brought back context to journalism by making people in our drive-by culture responsible for their words and even actions." ...

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