White House spokesman on Stewart vs. Cramer: “I enjoyed it thoroughly”
posted at 3:34 pm on March 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Quoth Jim Treacher a few hours ago, “I’ve never cared much about Jim Cramer, but it’s ‘funny’ how he didn’t become a problem for Jon Stewart until he became a problem for Obama.” And lo and behold, just across from Tapper at ABC:
He wasn’t sure if the president caught Mr. Stewart’s bloodletting of the host of “Mad Money,” but he himself gave the show a thumbs up.
“I enjoyed it thoroughly,” Gibbs said at his daily briefing…
Gibbs today said Stewart “asked a lot of tough questions” and that he wasn’t “surprised that CNBC hasn’t put the video on its website.”
Left unmentioned: 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 out and being spectacularly wrong in hindsight, fine. Perhaps he deserves it, and certainly it’s not hard to see Cramer as emblematic of Wall Street arrogance. The problem is that Stewart’s critique of Jim Cramer, or of the financial press in general, is not new or particularly relevant — banks have been collapsing for a year. It only became an issue when Stewart wanted to delegitimize Santelli and Cramer’s comments on the Obama administration.
Indeed. Here’s the interview in three parts (there’s profanity, so please observe your official content warning); you can safely skip the first if you’re pressed for time. In fact, I encourage you to do so, as the only thing more insufferable than Stewart in his lecturing populist “clown nose off” mode is the embarrassing, hyperbolic adulation he gets for it from his media fanboys afterwards. Definitely watch the third clip, though, as it finds him sliding effortlessly from a critique of financial media into a critique of investment itself. How silly of Americans to think that they might make money from something other than their own labor.
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Stewart does for liberal democrats what he accuses Cramer of doing with the stock market.
csdeven on March 13, 2009 at 11:22 PM
csdeven…Amen!
youngO on March 13, 2009 at 11:33 PM
I watched parts 2 and 3 of that interview and the only thing that struck me was the utter pointlessness of it. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever watched a more meandering and platitude-filled performance in my entire life.
Hedge Funds!!!! Short Selling!!!!!! Gamesters and Players on Wall Street!!!! Who knew??? I mean it’s never been talked about, right? Then Stewart plays a clip of Kramer talking about it a couple of years ago. Whatever.
Thank God we have Jon Stewart to expose all this for us. Of course all of this actually pretty peripheral to the current economic trouble (Bernanke admitted as much several months ago), but no matter, it gives Stewart something to pontificate about, and that’s all that really matters.
Hey Stewart-why don’t you talk about the most notorious short seller of all time? Goes by the name of George Soros. Hell, have him on the show, find out what he’s been up to lately.
As far as Cramer goes-I’ve never watched his latest show. Too noisy for me. I occasionally caught his old show with Larry Kudlow. It was okay. Also used to listen to a radio show he had five or six years ago, which I thought actually gave people pretty good advice.
To be laying into a TV stock picker as if he’s the problem with the economy, has to be the most superficial and silly thing I’ve ever seen. But then again, Stewart is a comedian I remember used to act like a pompous idiot on MTV, back in the day. Some things never change.
A different non-financial, entertainment type, Joel Stein, has actually been doing a nice job in a couple of columns talking about the current economic crisis in a generalized and humorous way.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-stein13-2009mar13,0,5200480.column
But for Stewart to have talked about the economy in the way that Stein writes about it, wouldn’t have sat well with his smug little know-nothing Amen Corner in the studio, and out there in TV Land. And we can’t have that.
Dreadnought on March 14, 2009 at 1:20 AM
Just checking around I think Stewart had some complaints before for hiding behind his comedic license. I think now he is the big league pundit territory with this stunt. He called out the boys on Crossfire and the show was cancelled now this. You don’t get to pull too many like this before people stop treating YOU like a comedian. I will delight in people taking apart this guy becuase he is not bulletproof with his “it is just a joke” routine now. It isn’t a joke anymore and people can take him out too. I say have at the miserable little liberal troll.
Conan on March 14, 2009 at 2:51 AM
Nicely said Dread. You know every time I get ready to add to this blog, I find your posts and you say what I was about to and do it better. Thanks for saving me from making my carpal-tunnel worse.
JeffVader on March 14, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Including, strangely enough, some media fanboys on Fox News. Most of these media types are unable (or unwilling) to see the bigger, more frightening pattern here: Palin, Santelli, Rush, Cramer…anyone who stands up against The Messiah is targeted for public ruin. Going forward, dissent cannot be tolerated.
TheRook on March 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Where’s that classic showdown with Barney Frank? No time for the real crooks?
marklmail on March 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM
If Santelli can’t even appear on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, he’s not going to cut it as a teabagger.
starfleet_dude on March 14, 2009 at 10:09 AM
FWIW, Jon Stewart’s abiding interest here isn’t CNBC, it’s how journalism as a profession has been failing those it claims to serve. Stewart’s been hammering on that subject for years.
starfleet_dude on March 14, 2009 at 10:14 AM
I don’t have much sympathy for Cramer. Not only did he support obama and his policies, but when he found it in himself to criticize obama, he couldn’t defend that criticism when given the opportunity to do so. He just melted in front of someone who has no economic education. Which begs the question: If he wasn’t going to defend himself, why did he go on the The Daily Obama Show?
The man is witless without his buzzer buttons. But then again, any stock guru who voted for obama obviously doesn’t understand economics anyway.
keep the change on March 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM
FWIW, Jon Stewart’s abiding interest here isn’t CNBC, it’s how journalism as a profession has been failing those it claims to serve. Stewart’s been hammering on that subject for years.
starfleet_dude on March 14, 2009 at 10:14 AM
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Soo, where’s the outrage about the entire MSM ignoring Barney Frank’s KEY role in the GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS? crickets.
marklmail on March 14, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Who the hell is Jon Stewart?
Sporty1946 on March 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM
I enjoy seeing cramer, a big obama supporter, ending up on the wrong side of the revolution….
the revolution always devours its supporters first…ask trotsky…
that a supposed financial guru like cramer, or buffet, could support obama shows a serious lack of judgement and discernment…
right4life on March 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM
starfleet: Are you saying that Stewart is a journalist? I know some on the left think so but surely, you aren’t implying that are you?
I know, “and don’t call me Shirley.”
Vince on March 14, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Stewart is a third-rate comedian who has used the artform of the “psuedo-intellectual smirk” to host a tv show. Cramer backed the wrong candidate. He knows that now. Unfortunately, that is not a popular position to have in the circles he runs in. He is experiencing the wrath of Mr. President’s minions.
kingsjester on March 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Jon Stewart = Smug
Dr Evil on March 14, 2009 at 11:11 AM
just how far up walking eagle’s ass can stewart stick his head?
la.rt.wngr on March 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Jon Stewart: Official White House Jester and Water Boy for President TelePrompter!
TN Mom on March 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM
I just read the third page of this thread and I have got to say that the liberal commenters in this thread were taken to the wood shed!
Baxter and Terrye put a whuppin on quite large egos!
Vince on March 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM
You’re too kind. But even if it’s true-pile on anyway. You have to admit the whole thing is an awfully juicy target.
Dreadnought on March 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I think of Stewert as us, Cramer as Wall Street and we just told Wall Street they are frauds like Madoff.
getalife on March 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I’m sure Stewart’s financial advisors keep his millions in Savings Accounts at those pathetic 1 % interest yields.
Just an Obama suckass, and a scummy one at that.
Remember that pathetic “interview” with John Kerry?
Little lying bastard.
TexasJew on March 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM
So the punk Santelli calls out Obama on live tv and Stewart and Obama are bad for hitting back? You conservatives just keep on amazing me. You have created a cottage industry of attacking Democrats and liberals, but God forbid if one of those liberals has the audacity to fight back. I’m amazed. Yes dude, we fight back. This isn’t John Kerry’s party anymore. We don’t scare so easy anymore and…..we’ve been kicking your backside in election after election. So keep on thinking your the silent majority, your closer to being a fringe group with the nations demographics going against you. Doesn’t matter how loud you are. Your out of power for a reason.
athensboy on March 14, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Someone should get Stewart on a show, play his anti-investment blather and then ask him where he puts his money. I’m sure the clown nose will be put on very quickly at that point and his idiot fans will be greatly impressed.
aikidoka on March 14, 2009 at 12:03 PM
You’re either a great parody or a useful idiot.
Either way, thanks for the laugh.
aikidoka on March 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM
No one messes with Joe Biden!
aikidoka on March 14, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Working in the Whitehouse and still has time to watch John Liebowitz, no wonder their OVERwhelmed..
lasertex on March 14, 2009 at 12:20 PM
yeah you libs sure prove the theory of DEVOLUTION…you’re getting dumber all the time…just when you think you wacko libs can’t get any worse, you always manage to outdo your self!
right4life on March 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM
newsflash there Gomer…Cramer, Buffet, Corzine, etc…are all BIG LIBS…
right4life on March 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM
I was just in my local bank
talking to the teller
and she is telling me people are considering
pulling all their money out and stuffing it under the matress
and she is serious..
I explained to her perhaps this is why the
DINDBATS OBAMA , BIDEN and PELOZI
suddendly changed their lefist communsit tune
they realized they cant fund their communist agenda
when the entire economy is about to go under
PERMANANTLY..
MORONS..
jcila on March 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM
The Obama administration calls out targets for denegration in order to distract from the effects of their policies and their underhanded transformation of the U.S. government. At a national briefing, the press secretary for the president states that he ‘thoroughly enjoyed’ the humiliation of another person by one of the most partisan hacks on television. Perhaps Stewart had even participated in one or more of the daily partisan-plotting/talking-point conference calls that Rahm Emmanuel has with his liberal media allies each morning. Obama and his band of thieves will continue to systematically target and seek to destroy anyone with a voice who disagrees with or questions their policies and actions.
maryo on March 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Mmmm… Blue on Blue crime.
Punchenko on March 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM
they realized they cant fund their communist agenda
when the entire economy is about to go under
jcila on March 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM
I was reading a body language evaluation of Michelle Obama’s interview with Robin Roberts. This portion was really interesting:
I think jcila hit the nail on the head. She is ticked because they are not able to implement the grand plan for redistribution etc etc. At least they are finding much more resistance than anticipated.
msmveritas on March 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM
you are funny
Jamson64 on March 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM
nice post
and no wonder they haven’t a clue about reality.
Jamson64 on March 14, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Cramer will lawyer up:
Former Congressman Wants Investigation Into Cramer’s Market Manipulations:
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/former-congressman-wants-investigatio
getalife on March 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM
he will like a good democrat
Jamson64 on March 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I think there is something really dishonest about one network taking another network to task. Viacom owns Comedy Central.
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mistersurefire on March 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM
It’s amusing when they eat thier own, yet we were told we’re not allowed to criticize Frum/Steele/Limbaugh/McCain/Buckley, etc because the Left never does it.
SouthernGent on March 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Cramer should have gone on there and started ranting about ‘that idiot Bush’ and how great The One is.
Game. Set. Match.
Dr. ZhivBlago on March 14, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Now if only we could tell off Warren Buffet…
Upstater85 on March 14, 2009 at 5:01 PM
You’re the very definition of fringe. You represent maybe 15% of the general population, at best. And “election after election”? All of two of them.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 5:19 PM
rawr
Why do conservatives continue to self-define as the Party of teh Stupid?
Strangelet
Extinction event
And ima grrl as the Creator of Worlds well knows.
I prefer Pew.
Mistah Treacher, why are there so few conservative comics?
imho self-deprecating humor is the pinnacle of the evolution of intelligence….my hypothesis is that religiousity is negatively correlated with a “sense of humor” just as religiousity is negatively correlated with IQ and g.
strangelet on March 14, 2009 at 5:45 PM
yeah tell that to Newton or CS Lewis…
your posts prove YOU and IQ are negatively correlated…
and hows your 401k there since your savior has been elected???
right4life on March 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM
LOL, I love when people pose ridiculous theories like yours. Why don’t you ask your senator for an earmark so you can prove your theory? I can tell you right off the bat your theory is fundamentally flawed. You might want to do some reading before you waste tax payer dollars on your bogus theory.
msmveritas on March 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
What’s your definition of a “sense of humor?” Is it something that is humorous to all or just to those with a “sense of humor?”
What’s your definition of “religiousity?”
Upstater85 on March 14, 2009 at 6:48 PM
In which case Reagan was a genius and Obama is an idiot.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Now, now, Obama is hil-uh- airi-uh-s.
He uh did uh buy those uh movies uh for thuh Prime Minister uhv uh Brituhn.
Upstater85 on March 14, 2009 at 6:57 PM
msmveritas,
sry, but Palin already requested all the earmark money for her earmarks. ;)
..
ddrintn,
Both Reagan and Obama used/use selfdeprecating humor. Both geniuses.
Lincoln used it too.
..
retart4life,
Can you read?
strangelet on March 14, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Ummmm, no. Obama doesn’t do self-deprecating humor well. Too much ego, too little perspective. And I don’t see any evidence of “genius”.
ddrintn on March 14, 2009 at 7:22 PM
So given that Reagan’s skin was lighter than Obama’s, using some probabilistic reasoning, can we assume Reagan’s IQ was higher?
Upstater85 on March 14, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Strangelet
The abstract you quoted is not proof of causal relationship by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone who would put forth an abstract to a research study as evidence should not even be taken seriously. Nevertheless, there has been a good bit of rebuttal about the flaws in the study you cite as seen here As I have a MS Psych and undergrad Stat minor, I can say definitively what most know intuitively, “there are lies, damned lies and statistics.” You didn’t even bother to include the fundamentals yet promote an abstract as causal proof. This is laughable in and of itself.
With respect to humor, it has already been shown humor is a high level defense mechanism. It is a manifestation of intelligence no doubt. You can not prove from that, however, all high IQ persons utilize self-deprecating humor as a defense mechanism or that humor represents the highest level. There are numerous variables that you haven’t begun to consider which is why I stated your theory is fundamentally flawed. You certainly can not take that and make any intelligent connection between religiosity and humor. You are way out of your league.
msmveritas on March 14, 2009 at 7:34 PM
on this and every other subject this girl makes a fool out of herself…she thinks she’s all that…when she’s really not much at all…truly just a legend in her own mind…
right4life on March 14, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Cramer’s next prediction: Barry drinking like his da by 7/4/09. Let freedom ring!
BHO Jonestown on March 15, 2009 at 1:46 AM
How does Obama fit into this I wonder?
Obama’s prayer
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/228/story_22894_1.html
(OOOOHHHH MMMMMYYYYYY GOOOODDDDDD!!!,did he say he is an instrument of God’s will?,Ruuuunnnnn from the Crusader,Run awwwwaaaayyyy!!!)
HOPEFULS DIFFER AS THEY DEBATE GAY MARRIAGE
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: October 31, 2008
Obama’s “religious” belief matches Hillary’s and Biden’s in saying they oppose gay marriage based on “their religion”.
Barack Obama: The 2004 “God Factor” Interview Transcript
30 APRIL 2008
Chicago-Sun Time religion columnist Cathleen Falsani (”God Girl”)
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2008/06/06/barack-obama-the-2004-god-factor-interview-transcript/
Mr.57 states went to Trinity regularly but had no idea of the bigoted and anti-American words being spurted out of the mouth of his “moral compass”.
“God Dam# America!!!!”
Obama not only prayed,he had “conversations with God”.
Obama must be a real religious nut and a total dumba$$ according to liberals.
Baxter Greene on March 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Which party is strongly associated with religion?
Obama is a Machiavellian, not an Evangelical.
Obvious because his professions of faith are lipservice, see hESCR, abortion rights.
mmmkay?
msmveritas, self-deprecating humor is not a defense mechanism.
I’m sayin’ that conservatives seem to have no ability to laugh at themselves.
They just all sour and pissy and cry unfair! when they get mocked.
Witness your response to Palin becoming a national punchline.
strangelet on March 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM
In the scientific community we are seeing more and more studies correlating religious belief and lower IQ and g.
In Science, we go for proof by reproducibility.
strangelet on March 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM
What I am about to say will infuriate many here.
The stock market has become a negative factor in the growth of America and our wealth.
Somewhere along the line we have to reconcile the games that have been played to make big profits with how they impact us in REAL terms. The idea of profits at all cost has become too extreme. We have moved ourselves into performing actions with very negative long term impact in order to gain short term profits. The quarterly bonus check drives all.
So we push for profits to make the stocks rise and send our manufacturing to China. Never mind that the milling machines are used to make better propellers for their nuclear submarines so that we cannot track them as easily any more.
We are told we are becoming a service based economy and need to learn technology in order survive. So we learn computers. Then those jobs are off-shored too.
Then we learn that much of our aerospace has gone to China, enabling them to produce satellites and improve the accuracy of their ballistic missiles. So much for technology being the bastion of American industry.
In the end it is all about executives not caring what they do in order to gain a bonus check. They will tell you that they are an international corporation and are not responsible to America or our values. But for decades they used our labor and our capital to build their companies.
In the end they are killing the goose. They ignore the basics of economics and destroy their own market by destroying the wealth of middle-class America. Never mind that those are the people that buy their products. So now when it all falls apart, we are surprised?
Some folks just never figure out when it is time to stop worrying about ideology and start listening to common sense. You can take anything too far. That includes both liberal and conservative philosophies. I do not wish to live under fascism any more than I want socialists.
I understand the advantages of government staying out of the business and financial sectors. I strongly believe government needs to be limited in what it does. But no oversight at all only allows the foxes to clean out the hen house.
There is a balance. Finding it will be difficult. The more we depart from ethical self-regulations the more we come to depend on governmental regulation. If we are not going to be a moral and ethical society voluntarily then we are doomed to become a police state.
Hawthorne on March 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Your statement is interesting considering that modern physicists are often religious. I would point you to the essay by Professor Henry Margeneau as a reference. he explains it in great detail as to why. Here is a link…
Why I am a Christian
by Professor Henry Margenau
You see, the more the scientists start understanding how matter is composed and the universe is formed, the more there is an evidence of order and purpose. It is not a chaotic process formed by chance as many would like to present it. Much of what seems to be chaotic is actually our ignorance in how the process truly works because it is too complex to understand easily.
The problem that I have with modern science is that it has become unethical and intellectually dishonest. There is a growing relationship between science and politics that is very unhealthy. Science should seek to be the search for truth and understanding. Instead it is becoming a willing participant in political indoctrination and manipulation.
The current information given to us on “Global Warming” serves as a case in point. I can give you many examples of the intellectual and scientific dishonesty in the attempt to lay the blame for climate change at the feet of humans.
I am sorry, but science is quickly losing its credibility as an authority because so many scientists have sacrificed objectivity. They are now formulating their theories before there is enough evidence to even move away from a hypothetical foundation. The evidence is collected to prove what the scientists want to see and any conflicting evidence is rejected out of hand as anomaly. It is not science, it is manipulation.
We are entering another Dark Age I fear. This time it will be the religion of science that enslaves us. I hope that this time it will not take nearly a millennium to emerge from our stupidity. I suggest that you stop reading Voltaire and Immanuel Kant. They are bad for your sensibilities.
Hawthorne on March 15, 2009 at 1:01 PM
you sure prove stupid is as stupid does…you must be masochistic….
oh an uh dumblet, atheism is a religion…and we see how easily such a ‘brilliant’ man is made to look like a fool when stein interviews him….
tell ya what ‘honey’ people like you prove the truth of the bible with every post…professing to be wise, they have become fools…
right4life on March 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM
I was refering to dawkins being interviewed by stein..
right4life on March 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM
as we’ve seen repeatedly, a company can only do limited damage…whereas a government can ruin and enslave an entire country…
right4life on March 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM
All too true. That is the essential idea from my final paragraph. The “dirty little secret” that many on the left does not want to hear is that America became strong because of freedom and religion. Freedom allowed Americans to be industrious and inventive, while religion checked our tendency to feed upon each other in our greed. Since our religion allowed us to be self-regulated we did not require as much governmental intervention.
The problem we are facing now is that the central justification of agnosticism is proving to be all too false. It turns out that as we lose our belief in God, we are not retaining our ethics and morality. Instead we are becoming a decadent and narcissistic society. Humans have an almost infinite capacity to rationalize and justify their actions. Even Hitler felt he was right. Our jails are filled with people that will swear that they are innocent. We are not qualified to be the judge of what is correct because we are not objective enough to avoid corrupting that judgment.
So as we lose our religion, we are gravitating closer and closer to a police state. The void in ethics created by lacking a moral and ethical foundation from religion is filled by governmental action in an effort to maintain civilized behavior. But once we allow humans to define what is “right and proper” behavior, it all becomes a matter of your perspective. Then we are on the road to oppression.
Hawthorne on March 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM
mmkay
well, here is another problem coming down the pike for u guyz.
Nanoassembly of ribosomes.
strangelet on March 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM
let me guess…you’re a valley girl!! bet you sound like megan mccain!!
have you ever noticed that you are unable to debate the issues..all you can do is throw out a few talking points..and then head for the hills…like the good liberal troll you are. but then independent thinking isn’t encouraged on the left.
oh and this artificial life…that is such a ‘problem’ for me…right..how are they doing it?? using INTELLIGENT DESIGN…and copying from the already existing DESIGN….duhhhhhhh when are you gonna get a clue, and evolve some intelligence? oh yeah you can’t cause there is no evolution…
laughable.
right4life on March 15, 2009 at 8:07 PM
absolutely true, very well said…and this oppression will be beyond anything the world has known before…if I read the signs right, its time for the dark man to raise his wounded head..and institute global governance, and global control of commerce….
right4life on March 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM
this is a Obama hit on Cramer……who went off the reservation…someone should ask stewart where he got those old clips
Dpet on March 15, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Hawthorne on March 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Beautifully written. Well thought out and absolutely true.
Capitalism is the best system in the world. But not capitalism which is unethical,unbridled and predatory, destroying it’s own.
Profit was not enough. We had to have profit at the cost of the greatest manufacturing base in the greatest country the world has ever seen.
Now China, India, et al, can enjoy as we eat their dust.
God help the USA
tigerlily on March 15, 2009 at 8:53 PM
You posted a link to an article (actually just the abstract) written by Richard Lynn. Do you agree with Lynn’s theories on low IQ’s for African and African-Caribbean Immagrants to the UK? Do you agree with his theories on the IQ difference between men and women?
Upstater85 on March 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Are you serious with this blather.
I know liberals will twist and contort in any manner to spin their hypocrisy,but how stupid do you have to be to use the excuse “Obama is not really religious,he is just lying about it to fool everybody” as defense.
I am also sure all the democrats that go to church and are constantly claiming how devoted they are to God without being a crazy right winger would take offense to your fact less and unproven super smart theory of the Republican party
being “strongly associated with religion”.
I mean you could at least try to make sense and have the thinking ability of the average 5th grader who would never
use “The President is a full blown liar and spent 20 yrs. in a church to get your votes” as a defense of liberal policies.
Your drivel is so ignorant that Stewart’s comedy show is the only place you could spout this idiocy without getting laughed out of the place.
“Machiavellian”……how pathetic.
Baxter Greene on March 15, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Amusing. Wasn’t “psychometric g” the method used by Arthur Jensen to prove that blacks have inferior intelligence to whites?
unclesmrgol on March 16, 2009 at 12:04 AM
No,super smart strangelet probably just thinks Lynn is being “Machiavellian”.
Baxter Greene on March 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Strangelet represents those pseudo-scientists who would have you think that they are oh so rational; however, they ignore key assertions made by their Barnes & Nobles Pop-Science Writers (not to diminish Lynn’s research…). I would respect Strangelet if she would back up all of Lynn’s assertions, but apparently she finds some of these claims too uncomfortable to stand by in this New Era of Science.
Upstater85 on March 16, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Also, I found this video of Tucker Carlson (you know that partisan guy /sarc) discussing the Stewart-Cramer spectacle. Huff-Po of all places…
Mark Hemingway made a similar point.
Upstater85 on March 16, 2009 at 12:53 AM
‘The questions Stewart asked were pointed and sharp.
Hey, here’s a crazy idea…Stewart could ask pointed and sharp questions to Dodd and Frank…nah, they are orthodox lefties who at least know enough not to bite the hand that feeds them. Any crimes they’ve committed were, by definition, for the public good. Off limits. Cramer is an expendable useful idiot…as all useful idiots are.
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Here’s another crazy idea: Stewart could ask pointed questions of Obama, such as, “What in the world were you doing representing ACORN in a lawsuit against Citibank to force them into giving loans to people who couldn’t afford them?”, or maybe, “In 2005, you blocked the Bush Administration, along with Frank and Dodd, when they tried to pass legislation to reign in Fannie and Freddie – how does it feel to have been a major player in the housing debacle?”
Stewart needs to grow a brain …wait, some things just aren’t possible.
tigerlily on March 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM
On second thought, maybe John McCain should have asked those questions, since he was actually a sponsor of the ‘05 legislation to regulate Fan & Fred.
Instead, with all the facts on his side, McCain let Obama hang the housing meltdown around conservative necks. Wonder if McCain truly took a fall, and what he gained by doing so.
tigerlily on March 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Which is typical of this mindset.
Selective rationals.
strangelet tries to show everybody how incredibly intelligent she is by trashing anyone who is religious as ignorant.
Then when shown fact after fact of Obama showing how religious he is,genius here states he is just lying, full of sh!t,and saying whatever it takes to get votes,as if this somehow defends her lame assertion concerning religion/IQ or somehow makes Obama more credible by admitting he is a typical,lying,narcissistic politician.
He!! of a bubble these idiots live in.
Baxter Greene on March 16, 2009 at 1:56 AM
In McCain’s eyes, the housing meltdown is the fault of outdated laissez-faire policies. Regulation, regulation, and more regulation!!! What people of this mind set will not admit, is that Wall Street is far from the Wild-Wild West. This happened under the noses of corrupt, human regulators. Timmy G won’t fix anything. Neither will Maxscam Waters…
Yes and sadly this type of thinking is being encouraged in the media, many universities/colleges, and public schools. Stewart himself fuels this kind of ignorance. He may mock the spoon feeding of O’Reilly et al; however, whenever someone that has something of meaning to add to the conversation, Stewart’s editing department goes into overdrive.
Upstater85 on March 16, 2009 at 2:11 AM
Exactly right,
Facts don’t matter to liberals,they only get in the way of enforcing their ideology.
And they have the media covering for them so they can do the same thing again.
Geithner was right smack in the middle of this economic meltdown:
Where Was Geithner in Turmoil?
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/business/25sorkin.html?_r=1&dbk
But super genius who can’t even take care of his own taxes
was touted as a “young hero that we can’t do without”.
It is obvious that the same people who sign 1.3 trillion dollar spending bills without reading them are the same people that seemed to miss the fact that Geithner has a record of failure similar to Barney Frank’s and Chris Dodd’s:
Obama’s economic saviour savaged as Keating lets rip
Peter Hartcher
March 7, 2009 – 12:54AM
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/obamas-economic-saviour-savaged-as-keating-lets-rip-20090306-8rk7.html
But hey,this is just a distraction.
We are in great hands.
Look at the excellent leadership that has been shown so far in dealing with this economic crisis:
Hello……Hello…….Hello,
is there anybody in there.
Just nod if you can hear me,
is there anyone at all???????????????????????
But wait…hold on….new assessment.
Man is that a relief.
Uh…what…wait..hold on:
Dam#…I thought Obama just said it is not as bad as we think,…well..right after he told us it is the worst economy since the Great Depression.
Wait..Hold on:
Well there we go,…everything is okay,the economy is fundamentally strong just like Obama…no wait…just like
McCain said.
But Mccain was called out of touch and ignorant for making such an idiotic statement during the worst economy since the Great Depression …..that is not as bad as we think…..
that the fundamentals are weak….no the fundamentals are strong…..but…ahhh….nevermind:
Whew!!!
I know I feel better knowing such strong decisive leadership is in charge…..DDDDDDUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The Obama administration has no clue what is going on or what the hell they are doing.
“Yes We Can!!!!”
Baxter Greene on March 16, 2009 at 3:24 AM
Yup, I believe in the bellcurve of IQ.
And I believe in the biological basis of behavior.
This is probably why….
IDT, creationism, person-hood-at-conception, Schiavo are all examples of conservative thought that relys on pre-rational, supernatural, and wishful thinking.
retart4life is a christian accomodationist I guess.
Heres a question…..where is the godly intervention point?
Since you believe god designed evolution…what happens when we prove genetic evolution is an emergent property of nanoassemblers?
And then…when we prove nanoassembly is an emergent property of pico-assemblers and fermi-assemblers?
strangelet on March 16, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Upstater, by all means read Lynn’s book, and Murray’s book too.
I have.
But I’m not going to cliff’s-notes them here for you.
Sorry, i got to go to work.
strangelet on March 16, 2009 at 10:19 AM
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