03-16-2009, 12:52 PM
Thudz Wrote:Dustie Wrote:Thudz Wrote:Dustie, watch the interviews. Stewart even says this is not about Cramer but the networks. Cramer trys to personalize it and Stewart stops him. He's not going after Cramer, he going after MSNBC and all the other networks that have financial reporters.
Stewart is spot on like always.
He's spot on for the masses who are looking for someone to blame and don't fully understand the issues and don't mind having them all mixed in together.
And if you think he's not attacking Cramer, watch again. He's specifically going after him during those hedge fund comments "roll clips 121, 122" etc.
This interview was about the media's role in this crisis and not about everything mixed in together. Stewart focused on the media, MSNBC in particular of which Cramer is a big part of, and asked simple straight forward questions that normal people want answers for and far too few in media will ask.
No matter who's list you go by, hedge funds weren't even in the top 5 lists of culripts for the housing crisis. Stewart was using that old clip because it helped him paint Cramer as a crook. That was out of context and not fair, the very thing that Stewart often sights against others.
(Hedge fund isn't even found on pages like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_t...ing_bubble)
Listen, I'm not going to spend too much more time defending Cramer (a liberal Democrat), I'm not even a fan of his. I'm simply saying that if you can't see the anger and witch hunt mentality that Stewart is propegating, then you're not looking very hard. If you enjoy witch hunts (especially those that chase the wrong people) then carry on with it.
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