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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Rachel Maddow to MSNBC Producers: Stuff it
Posted by Jill | 7:04 AM
Well, it isn't the segment that everyone, including Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, gave the Stewart/Cramer dustup, but it isn't the blackout that MSNBC producers demanded of its on-air talent.





Of course Maddow was very careful to step back and report on the significance of the story rather than join in the Cramer pile-on, but it is a mark of how important she has become to MSNBC in a very short time that she felt able to do even this much.

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Meanwhile, back at Flopsweat Central...
Posted by Jill | 9:21 PM
Well, that didn't last long:




UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald explains how the entire Beltway press corps that enabled the Bush Administration's lies about WMD in Iraq, its torture policies, and the economic disaster we now face, are ALL Cramer. He's just the symbol.

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Why is the comedian the most incisive interviewer on television
Posted by Jill | 6:28 AM
Jim Cramer may have dismissed Jon Stewart as "a comedian" (something Stewart never denies), but the comedian raked him over the coals last night:




The full interview, including material not broadcast on television, can be seen here.

Money quote:
"These guys at these companies were on a Sherman's March through their companies financed by our 401Ks... And they burned the fucking house down with our money and walked away rich as hell and you guys knew that that was going on."

Why on earth does it take a Jewish ex-stand-up comic from Jersey to say this?

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Of course you know, this means WAR
Posted by Jill | 5:20 AM
Jim Cramer and Crybaby Joe Scarborough have forgotten that unlike Morning Schmegegge, The Daily Show never claims to be a news program.

Jim 'n' Joe whine about how MEAN the short Jewish guy on Comedy Central is:




And Jon Stewart, the badass, responds:



Game on.

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