White House spokesman on Stewart vs. Cramer: “I enjoyed it thoroughly”
posted at 3:34 pm on March 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
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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I give credit to Cramer for going on the show. I am sure his eyes are wide open now regarding any forward criticism of Obama.
For those who watch Cramer, its stock picking in an entertainment format. He has his schtick and at times, its funny. But for Stewart to use Cramer and CNBC as the whipping post for all that has happened is completely misguided.
I’m with AP on this one, this was payback for Cramer turning on Obama.
booter on March 13, 2009 at 4:30 PM
“This is f*cking serious!” says the comedian. Stewart switches from to slapstick to maudlin faster than Hawkeye on MASH.
BohicaTwentyTwo on March 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Again with the ‘we’ and ‘our’ stuff. Enjoy your dark period, whoever you are. I’m fine.
Oh, and please point out where GW Bush actually went after Michael Moore. An actual link to a direct quote from GW would be acceptable.
AubieJon on March 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM
The few times I was pointed in Cramer’s direction, I thought his show was a joke, and a lame joke at that. Why would anyone take that dolt seriously?
LimeyGeek on March 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM
The risk is similar for NBC or CNBC, for political news or financial news. In both cases reporters can trade in their skepticism in exchange for access. We don’t have a press (or a democracy) if they simply become a conduit for political or business leader propoganda.
dedalus on March 13, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Everyone’s missing the point.
The point of the show was for Stewart (really born as Leibowitz) to shift the blame for the tanking economy from NObama and his disastrous Socialist/Marxist policies and budget proposals to Cramer, Wall Street and the supposedly infinite greed and error of Capitalist investment in general (i.e. “those guys make a fortune taking advantage of ‘ordinary people’ who are stupid and trusting).
It was a cheap, MSM version of a Stalinist show trial.
Cramer will never dare criticize White House policy again.
Mission accomplished.
Jenfidel on March 13, 2009 at 4:37 PM
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Just remember, one DOES NOT criticize The One. Dissent is NO LONGER patriotic. See how simple life will be under Obama?
Brown Shirts are for sale in the lobby.
GarandFan on March 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM
“This is really just another Blue-on-Blue public whipping.”
(On previous page.)
“This is f*cking serious!” says the comedian. Stewart switches from to slapstick to maudlin faster than Hawkeye on MASH.
BohicaTwentyTwo
Double BINGO…
Christine on March 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Very true, but his comment about wealth destruction was an objective fact. There’s nothing to argue about, there. And the idea that The Precedent’s plans are anti-growth, anti-competitive, anti-American, … and will kill our economy (and likely our monetary system) are all self-evident. Even the idiot messiah admitted so much when he said that he would raise capital gains taxes (even if that meant decreased receipts) as a point of “fairness”.
The Precedent is out for revenge – social and economic justice. That’s what it’s all about. He wants blood.
progressoverpeace on March 13, 2009 at 4:39 PM
That was probably the most pathetic I’ve ever seen a man on national television. Cramer, get a backbone.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM
? – Still, he’s another shill for The One, so what good would that be?
klickink.wordpress.com on March 13, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Santelli wasn’t bitching about Obama on the exchange floor last year live on CNBC, so AP’s point is moot.
starfleet_dude on March 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Esthier, Cramer just made the best of what was going to be a bad sitution.
starfleet_dude on March 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM
You people are mad at Jon Stewart?
Take comfort in the fact that you have the awesome 1/2 Hour News Hour to present an alternate perspective.
benny shakar on March 13, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Exactly, the MSM continues to spout propaganda and dissent is effectively muted. Again, we have no press ergo we have no democracy.
msmveritas on March 13, 2009 at 4:45 PM
progressoverpeace, the only thing that was destroyed was a lot of illusory paper wealth. Unfortunately assets can fall in value while debts never do!
starfleet_dude on March 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Earth to bs…it’s been off the air for a few years now…
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I guess it depends how fat the tail is. You are probably right about them understanding risk theoretically, but didn’t the treatment of Lehman and the catastrophe that followed indicate that Bernanke/Paulson/Geithner didn’t understand how the financial system was actually cobbled together? Isn’t that the reason more than $150B has been used to prop up AIG?
dedalus on March 13, 2009 at 4:47 PM
The short bus is here.
AubieJon on March 13, 2009 at 4:48 PM
AubieJon on March 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM
More dishonest BS.
I notice you don’t care to retract your claim I was too cowardly to respond. But hardly a surprise I guess.
Do you have a direct quote from Obama attacking Rush? No you don’t. You have a second hand quote from a closed door meeting.
Considering how often Ari used the term Michael Moore wing from the podium the idea you would try to spin and parse this into something resembling honesty is sad, but lately, not shocking.
barkolounger on March 13, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Your response was BS. It would have been courageous of you to come back with actual evidence instead more of your crap.
getalife puts you to shame in trolldom.
AubieJon on March 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Stewart is a confessed and proud Socialist. If you are a guest on his show and the discussion is about economics, make Stewart confess his Marxist leanings, which he will proudly do, and see if Gibbs still wants to side with him.
Buddahpundit on March 13, 2009 at 4:50 PM
His politics aside; Stewart’s main point regarding financial news services is correct.
The financial news services/channels are in the tank for Wall St. just as much as the MSM is in the tank for President Obama and both lack severely any journalistic integrity.
cryptojunkie on March 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Why does this administration refuse to hold the lying bastards who stole trillions from the American public accountable for their crimes?
Is it the protection money they paid in the guise of political contributions that elected them to an exalted position of defining how the people are to be protected? Who is more corrupt? The thief who actually steals your money or the one who protects him from any accountability for a token piece of the pie.
volsense on March 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM
See, we are a big tent after all…we even have the ‘David Axelrod’ wing of the Republican party represented.
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Doesn’t the destruction of CNBC’s credibility serve the interests of a nascent cable news business channel? Is this by design or just shortsighted vindictiveness.
rw on March 13, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Dissent will not be tolerated!! All bow to the One, our glorious leader Obama.
The beauty have having the democrat propaganda wing (AKA MSM) going after a dissenter is it keeps the immaculate one’s hands plausibly deniable.
Both Lenin and Goebbels are smiling!
jukin on March 13, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Are you serious? He looked like he would be in tears soon had he the opportunity to shield his face from the audience and cameras.
I once saw a verbal beating that was so incredibly horrible, where the guy just took it without offering a defense or even an f- you or a dirty look so much so that even his girlfriend lost all respect for him, rather than for the man who gave the abuse.
If you’re a man, actually stand up for yourself.
Until this interview, I never imagined I could be more ashamed for another human being.
Are you kidding me? You think everyone believes the way Stewart does? Your bubble’s showing.
Brilliant. And really, crr6, are you actually saying you expect complete accuracy in advertising?
Probably the same reason they take Stewart seriously. Pure laziness.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 4:53 PM
I’m not mad at Jon Stewart. I’m upset that people like getalife and bs (both names that fit them because one needs to get a life and the other spews b.s.) get their “news” from a moron like Jon Stewart and yet they have the right to vote.
You can say what you want about conservatives not being funny or whatever b.s. you want to say, but at least we don’t get our news from a “comedy” show.
If I wanted to get my news from a comedy channel I would watch MSNBC.
MobileVideoEngineer on March 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I hope Stewart keeps doing this kind of stuff. It makes Barry look even more pathetic having a comedian as one of his enforcers.
Christien on March 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Moronic stereotypes aren’t funny either.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
BTW, since my quoting sucked, I wasn’t referring to you AubieJon…oh, and WAR EAGLE!
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 4:55 PM
No, we’ve only got the DNC, members of his staff and bloggers all acting in unison (you know, exactly what the second hand quote was describing).
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Put down the Marxist kool-aid please.
faraway on March 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM
War Eagle, AUINSC! Let’s beat Florida tonight!
AubieJon on March 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM
aubiejohn, I get it. Anyone that disagrees with you is a troll.
Kind of how our party is behaving too.
Am I a troll for finding the following comment repulsive?
Are we reading from the protocols of zion here?
barkolounger on March 13, 2009 at 4:57 PM
oops, volsense. I may have misread that.
faraway on March 13, 2009 at 4:57 PM
BOOYAH!!!!
These two guys deserve each other.
Vince on March 13, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I see why your first name is bark.
faraway on March 13, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Esthier, it may well be that Cramer really isn’t that proud of what he does on CNBC.
starfleet_dude on March 13, 2009 at 4:58 PM
I think they misjudged the market reaction and the subsequent change in people’s valuations of a lot of the MBS’s and the like, but I find it hard to believe that they didn’t have a good idea of the extent of the losses that would be spread around. That said, it was the right decision to let Lehman fall.
Yes, they are propping up AIG to keep some value in those holding the other sides of AIG’s CDS’s. In the end, those swaps are near worthless and we will just keep pissing out money until it becomes clear that the end cannot be avoided. This could have been turned around, if the economy had truly been stimulated, but the anti-growth policies of the administration and Congress insure that many more of AIG’s CDS’s are going to come due and the bill will just grow and grow.
One thing I can’t figure out is that there is a market in CDS’s on US debt. If the US defaults on its debt, who is going to be able to pay off on the swaps? This, I just don’t get. I understand the theoretical point, but anyone who actually expects to have those contracts honored if the US defaults on our debt … I mean, Wow!
progressoverpeace on March 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM
MobileVideoEngineer on March 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I am well informed and very popular but watch Comedy Central for laughs and listen to the radio for music.
getalife on March 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Y’know what bugs me about this? It’s an obnoxiously privileged argument. The reason Jon Stewart has the luxury of thinking this way is that he pulls down a frigging huge salary. In 2005, his salary was 1.5 million dollars, and he’s received at least one raise since then, so presumably he’s north of two mil a year by now. What does he need to invest for? He has more than enough to live plenty comfortably, and enough of a cushion that he can park the rest of his huge wad in a bloody checking account at one percent interest and be assured of a comfortable retirement. Diversification? Who needs it?
Hey, Stewart — I do, clown-boy. Because there are only twenty-four hours in a day, I can’t work all of them, and there’s only one of me. And even if there were two or three of me, all of us combined would not be making over a million dollars a year.
Making enough for a retirement off my labor alone? That’s the kind of stupid thing only a rich person could say.
Well-Armed Lamb on March 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
I can see why he wouldn’t be. The sad thing is that Stewart IS. The court jester can goof on the king, but at the end of the day you’re still wearing motley and dancing for the nobles.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 4:56 PM
where did I dispute that the Obama admin is/was going after its critics?
I didn’t. I did however say it is nothing new, and in fact the Bush admin did the very same thing.
Good grief.
End this siege mentality, it makes you look unhinged.
barkolounger on March 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM
…right before bedazzling the WH Press Corps with his rendition of “Rock Lobster.”
Kid from Brooklyn on March 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I’m sure you’re also over six feet tall, well toned, and enjoy banging supermodels. Every night during REM.
TheUnrepentantGeek on March 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I’m certain that’s true. Only someone with a severely low self esteem would even take a beating like that and then apologize the entire time.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Rovin on March 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM
getalife, are you out of high school yet?
faraway on March 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM
I’m with you, rw. Besides, have you SEEN Jenna Lee?
I was okay with Stewart’s rant, until I realized that he seemed to completely absolve anyone who put money in. They were in this as much as anyone else. Why didn’t the public pension funds see this coming? Why didn’t the college endowments? Probably because 20 percent and higher returns were benefitting them in the short term, as well. And how exactly did those evil CEO’s trick homeowners into draining all of the equity out of their houses to flip other houses, travel the world, or complete an SUV collection?
And why didn’t Stewart, with his expertise, warn a 75-yr old that nearly all investments at that age should be low-risk?
get outta Moms basement on March 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Yeah, I heard there has been a big surge among the wealthy in taking delivery of gold bars for storage at home. If the US defaults it will be a hard asset that will be handy to have.
dedalus on March 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM
That’s actually what I was trying to dispute, the concept that this is something Bush would have done as well. It’s absurd. When did anyone directly connected to Bush actually attack a pundit?
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM
No, they are high maintenance like strippers and prefer healthy women like Meghan.
getalife on March 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Maybe Gibbs should be a good sport like Cramer and i dont know maybe go on a show with Ann C. or somebody. Lets see how much he would enjoy that.
Greed on March 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM
And it’s the only currency Galt’s Gulch accepts.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM
They’re only high maintenance if you’re trying to keep them.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Didn’t you respond to the post where I gave two examples?
Michael Moore wing of the Democrat party.
Joe Wilson.
Just because they deserved it, and we don’t think Rush and santelli do, doesn’t mean they aren’t using the same strategy.
barkolounger on March 13, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Well-Armed Lamb, Stewart definitely depends on his staff (who all evidently have killer Google-Fu, BTW) and doesn’t earn millions all by himself. But in showbiz it’s all about getting the eyeballs. You can cast a brilliant unknown actor in a movie that no one will care to see, which is why big name actors get the big bucks.
starfleet_dude on March 13, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Good point but never tried to keep them.
getalife on March 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM
faraway, I was thinking the exact same thing about getalife when I read his response. Although liberals are pretty much the same as high school students. I mean even if he is out of high school look at all of his comebacks and arguments… all sound high school-like.
MobileVideoEngineer on March 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM
My right-minded friends… let the leftists have their moment castigating capitalism. It’s not as if they have money to invest in any market.
ROTO
sunlookha on March 13, 2009 at 5:11 PM
This is about Jon,who is a ‘real believer’Democrat,
straightening out Kramer,a Liberal, who’s faith in Obama,
has been shaken,and its warning to other Liberals
to be very aware of your place,and what happens when
you step out of line!
It could be worse,tho,like the nutjobs that’ll cut your
head off,of questioning,you know who!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on March 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM
All you did was throw out 2 names…you never showed where the administration attacked them. You just simply claimed it was so.
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM
I must have missed the part where you provided the examples, unless you’re under the impression that throwing out their names is the same thing.
Then there’s no issue.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:18 PM
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Oh I’m sorry I just assumed you weren’t suffering from amnesia, just pretending.
I really doubt an honest broker would require links to substantiate that the Bush admin went after Wilson and Moore.
barkolounger on March 13, 2009 at 5:19 PM
“I am well informed and very popular”
Who even talks like this?
I feel bad for Cramer. He spoke his mind and has been disciplined.
GunRunner on March 13, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Oh no, it wasn’t Cramer who personally took the beating, it was his profession of being a credulous shill on CNBC that Stewart was whaling on. To which all Cramer could do was offer weak excuses. It’s silly to see a comedian like Stewart be a journalist, but there it is!
starfleet_dude on March 13, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Stewart is a jackass. He can go away anytime and I wouldn’t care. I’ve never even heard of Cramer until recently, but why go on that show where that asshole controls the conversation. He’s just your typical Hollyweird asswipe.
gsherin on March 13, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Well, you assumed correctly about the amnesia…and still you provide no quotes where the Bush administration attacked Wilson or Moore….because you just assumed that we all share your delusions I guess.
Actually, you stated earlier that Wilson was just a ‘private citizen’…you know, Ambassador Joe Wilson…just some random dude on the street who was viciously attacked by the administration…links golare showing where the administration smeared him…can’t find any at the moment though…but you know, it just happened.
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 5:23 PM
High schoolers and liberals.
MobileVideoEngineer on March 13, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Business journalism strikes me as being analogous to sports journalism. The main purposes of sports journalism are to (i) convey basic factual information about sports (scores, standings, etc.) and (ii) convey a bunch of fluff to hype the sport. Most of it can’t be taken seriously. Financial journalism follows the same principle; problem is, a lot of people actually RELY on the financial journalists to make decisions involving large amounts of mones.
As an aside, I love how all these business shows have these “analysts” on who give stock picks. No two analysts can ever agree on a pick. And one year on one of the Fox News business shows, they did a “fantasy stock market” challenge with the various analysis to see who could make the most money off $10,000 in one year. The winner was a woman who just put the money in about 3 no-load mutual funds.
Be that as it may, Stewart’s flogging of Cramer was absolutely a message that dissent in the age of the Messiah will not be tolerated.
Outlander on March 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM
We’re laughing at you, dear heart. You’re not invited.
Don’t ask me, ask strangelet.
Ummmmmm, no. Your smugness is thoroughly unwarranted, which is course why you’ll never lose it. (Besides… Derbyshire?)
No. Why do you ask, racist?
Jim Treacher on March 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Well, considering there’s nothing to indicate that the Bush administration was in any way involved in either, maybe it would help if you backed up your claims.
Wilson was attacked by Novak, who got his information from a well known Bush critic, Richard Armitage.
And I can’t even remember a single time someone connected to Bush even went after Michael Moore, let alone his own press secretary.
Eh, if that were really journalism, it wouldn’t have been so one-sided. And yes, it was more than Cramer who was attacked, but he certainly took a very specific beating, to which Cramer could only reply, “well, maybe I’ll try that.” Gee, when Steele changed his tone because of Rush, he was ridiculed and now Cramer’s changing his because of a comedian?
It’s pathetic.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 5:27 PM
It sounds like Jon Liebowitz Stewart got screwed sideways financially.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Down to your last 5 million Jon? Too F**K**G bad!
Both these clowns (and they are both high paid clowns)
can pi$$ off.
RobCon on March 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM
When did the Daily Show decide they would police financial show?
Was that after they started speaking against Obama? No friggin pass here. Come back and show me where they did this pre-Obama? I reject your logic this is a public service. That is a joke.
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Hasn’t Stewart also skewered Geithner? Here is a link ridiculing Obama for promising a plan from Geithner and Geithner delivering a big nothing.
dedalus on March 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Stewart gor screwed by the market and he pretends he defending the little people. FU Jon.
Notice how the word Obama is not mentioned.
RobCon on March 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I smell a rat and it’s initials are NBC. I think someone got the NBC memo. Cramer was not someone who doesn’t fight back and then suddenly he doesn’t? I think there is more too it.
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Wow. Cramer accepts a neutering on national TV.
He reminded me of the character “Parsons” from 1984.
aquaviva on March 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM
The key here is Obama is being betrayed by others in that situation. Show me where he goes after Obama. Ohhhh I am sure you will see others attacked that fail in their mission to make Obama look good. We all know that game.
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Underestimate the power of the Good Mr. Stewart at your peril. He wields a mighty sword indeed among Libs, Socialists, Communists, Democrats (but I repeat myself,) Ne’er-do-wells in general, and anyone else who likes their in-depth social commentary in satisfying six-minute bites of smarmy, know-it-all goodness.
I’ve watched his show perhaps a half-dozen times, and he never fails to make me consider the cost/benefit ratio of punching out my T.V. set…
CaptFlood on March 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Don’t you remember that “Michael Moore Is a Big Dumb Doodyhead” billboard the RNC put up in Flint, Michigan? Per instructions from Karl Rove?
So you’re saying Rahm Emmanuel, David Axelrod, James Carville, and Robert Gibbs are rogue agents.
Jim Treacher on March 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM
If we had a sophisticated propaganda machine we would turn this blue-on-blue neutering in to a Rush-Steele sitution.
Telling people that Santelli and Cramer were forced to go lick the boots of an “entertainer” who now is the moral enforcer of the democrat party.
Are you listening HotAir and others? Fry these guys for what they just tried to fry us with.
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Given Stewart’s extensive use of a single 2006 interview, it seems like his only real complaint is that Cramer was actually candid and honest about how things work in that interview. So he was, essentially, pummeling the ONE GUY WHO TOLD US HOW THE WORLD WORKS for… misleading people about how the world works?!? How the hell does that happen?
Only in Jon Stewart’s bizarro, intellectual-dishonest, lowest-common-denominator world…
DaveS on March 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Conan @ 5:46 PM
Ironic, don’t you think? Rush the entertainer is an evil, nasy man and Stewart the entertainer is beyond reproach!
Vince on March 13, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Nope. We’re reading from the “Jon Stewart is a phony” page here.
His fake name is emblematic of the whole entertainment schtick that you can only be “cool” by being something you’re not which is, in this case, a WASP.
What’s wrong with being just Leibowitz?
I love Jews and Israel.
I’ve sent pizza to the IDF–have you?
Jenfidel on March 13, 2009 at 5:52 PM
BTW, you’re reading from the Leftist playbook here also: trying to destroy the truth of what I had to say by implying that I’m an anti-Semite.
Idiot.
When did AP let in these new trolls?
Jenfidel on March 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM
I think the situation is perfect to turn the tables on these guys. Say who is your leader a comedian on Comedy Central?
Make them (liberals) explain this situtation. How hard would it be to cast suspicion on this situation where a hard-talking guy from an NBC owned station lays down for a comedian like this. I say get on it!!
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Pardon, Mistah Treacher, my smugness is warranted.
And thoroughly delicious, too.
Perhaps the new conservative motto should be ….
I can visualize it on your party crest now……a torch rampant crossed with a pitchfork gules.
strangelet on March 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Yes isn’t sad that Jon Stewart is the leader of the Socialist/Marxist/Liberal/Democrat party? Liberals need to stop listening to and watching Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart obviously wants the economy to fail because he wants Wall Street to fail.
MobileVideoEngineer on March 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Yeah, take that, you low-IQ, rethuglican hamster! neener neener neener!
AUINSC on March 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM
So the Derb is cast out of the shrinking tent now too?
Pardon, but I think the conservative movement needs all the intellectual leavening it can get at this point.
When Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber constitute the brain trust of the GOP, I think you might have a problem.
strangelet on March 13, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I forgot to add Gibbs backed up Obama would be a cheerleader on this along with himself.
They are connected.
Why would Obama be a cheerleader of one of his critics being taken down?
I will be surprised if no one makes liberals answer for why the President’s PS has admitted he would have glee over seeing this done to Cramer and pointing out who was tasked to do it.
Would the liberals just take a pass on hearing Bush was happy for a liberal critic takedown?
No WAY! He would be BusHitler and you know it.
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Cramer was dead man walking before this show and they both knew it.
Cramer can’t debate video of his own words.
What is he going to say?
That is not me, out of context, had a bad day?
getalife on March 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I miss the good old days when the White House didn’t comment on the media’s foolish shenanigans. These people need to grow up and govern, not watch the arrogant a$$holes on tv or try and belittle radio talk show hosts. Other nations must be laughing their heads off at our newbies in office. They’re a joke.
scalleywag on March 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM
But you’re more than proud of having Stewart as yours.
Esthier on March 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM
The GOP didn’t run a smear campaign against a citizen who asked a question. Joe is famous because of Liberals not the GOP. If you want evidence of weakmindedness it is going after any and all critics no matter how politically unconnected. Joe the Plumber is important to remind of us the democrats Nazi tactics not as a brain trust. No one ever named him that.
Nice strawman try though been taking practice from the strawman champion Obama? He can beat the hay out of imaginary figures all day.
Conan on March 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM
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