jesse
@ March 13, 2009


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If you forced me to choose which one to watch, I pick the Colbert Report, because it makes me laugh every single time.  But if you only let me keep one on the air, I would keep The Daily Show.

In the recent flap with CNBC, The Daily Show shows why it is primary source for analysis of the way the media covers the news. After single-handedly shutting the doors on the original political shoutfest, CNN's Crossfire, Jon Stewart and company have set their sights on CNBC after Rick Santelli's now-famous rant on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where he complains about the government bailing out the "loser's mortgages."

TDS and Stewart responded in their signature style: with CNBC's own words.


When Jim Cramer protested The Daily Show's patented method of cherry-picking the choicest tidbits of video for their montages, the response was similarly brilliant:

Doesn't Jim Cramer understand its not about individual mistakes he's made, it's about him creating a false sense of urgency that helped hyperinflate the bubble?
Who made this trenchant observation? Dora the Explorer, naturally.


All of this is prelude to the main event, which is Jim Cramer's appearance on The Daily Show last night. Give Cramer credit: he knew he was walking into a buzzsaw, and went in head held high. But he was decapitated nonetheless. The interview is as brutal and uncomfortable as any I have ever seen. If you haven't watched it yet, the video is everywhere on the internet today. Including here, after the jump.


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I had no idea this was going on.

I'm going to have to watch the interview at a future time (on my way out the door), but there is no way, no WAY, that it was better than the Tom Selleck interview from the other week.

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