If you like CNBC you will probably not enjoy this clip. Jon Stewart, jilted by CNBC’s Howard Beale-esque ranting reporter Rick Santellii, fills the time that would have been dedicated to an interview with more than 8 minutes of …. well, let’s just say that we’re glad that we’re not them.
The aforementioned CNBC bashing really gets going at about 2:25.
Yeowch.
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That was tear-jerkingly beautiful.
Good episode today, lots of l-o-l moments for sure!
Jonathan Leibowitz, ur, Stewart is another one of those so-called comedy guys that like to make lefty political comments under the impression that he knows what he is talking about. It is supposed to come off as funny, but you really know his failed liberal rants are serious. He is just another guy to avoid. The TV clicker is a very good way to leave him in the dust.
We shouldn’t bailout anybody.
I don’t watch Stewart. But, someone tell me has he talked about his buddy, Obama, lies regarding earmarks? Remember, Obama said during the campaign he wouldn’t allow earmarks. Yet, barely 1 month into his fiasco administration, Obama signed a budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks. Ur, Liar.
@kwsventures:
A true satirist has no sacred cows.
John Stewart ≠true satirist
Yeah, Jon Stewart is pretty much only funny when a Republican is in the White House. This was sad.
Another MetaWorker ranting about things that they think they understand, but don’t.
@Leigh Grant
Do you use Firefox? Install plug-in FlagFox. This will provide you with a neat flag in the address bar or status bar that identifies the country of origin of website you are browsing. That way, you can cater your web browsing to whatever country you would like… instead of you know, asking websites to cater to you.
@failurate: I think what Leigh meant was that the video isn’t available in her country. It’s possible – look at Hulu. Not available outside of the US.
I think she was perfectly justified in asking for a link to something she could view in her own country.
@basilray – yeah, cuz god knows the only way you’re allowed to have an opinion on how things can be done is if you’re able to do it better.
Jim Cramer reminds me of Dennis Hopper’s character in River’s Edge.
Hype Hype Hype that’s all CNBC is .They’re like a top 40 radio station for business .They’ll say they are just reporting the news but they seem to always wind up endorsing some of the very same clowns that got us into this mess in the first place .
They have some investigative reporting ,you have commentators like Santelli and Cramer who speak their mind and don’t take the populist view .Can’t stand Cramer but he’s not afraid to open his mouth .
If they had covered the housing boom with as much intensity as they had the meltdown we might not be in this mess today .They’re almost like home team play by play announcers for Wall Street .But they don’t give the insight and post game analysis of the paper reporters .
But supposedly the news or more hardcore commentators keep on having people like Hank Greenberg on who not only was at the helm when AIG delved into all the mortgage crap but he is being sued and had or has a fraud case against in connection with a French Company .As a matter of fact him and Buffet are in dispute as to what happend .Greenberg is also a snake who put ALOT of stock awards into his wife’s name because he heard he might be sued for a give back .Could go on more about this clown but how can you as a major business news channel have people on like that as a commentator .I can see an interview hoping he’ll trip up for actual news but these commentators give guys like this the Larry King treatment .
Stewart sorta simplifying the bailout but they opened themselves up to it .
Loved it!
I generally find Jon annoyingly, blindly liberal, but in this case it was pure truth – goes to show why a 2 party system is bullshit; each issue is singular and worthy for debate, platform be damned.
I can’t believe I just wasted 8 minutes on this. I realize he’s supposed to be funny but he’s just wrong. I’m not sure why John Stewart still has his own show
DOWn, baby, DOWn!
I enjoyed this segment immensely. Santelli probably realized Stewart was going to grill him and bailed. I had started losing interest in the Daily Show because I had found the new jokes about the Obama administration pretty weak. It seemed clear that they were really straining to find something to make fun of. Now the show is good again but they realized the better jokes are making fun of cable news and the conservatives constantly flipping out over the Obama administration.
The whole time I watched this, and read the comments, this video kept running through my head:
What stuns me is how many of you actually believe that it matters what political party is in charge. Sad really. They are all evil. Some are just less evil than others but it is certainly not confined to one party or the other. They are all a bunch of tools.
In the late ’90s everyone sunk their money in the Internet boom and a lot of people got burned. Then they turned to the housing market and got burned. The irony today is that the best place to put your money right now is… in the housing market. You can get a mansion for next to nothing.
I have to say as someone that watches alot of both cnbc and the daily show, this is one of the few times when Jon Stewart took the clip slicing a little too far. In a crisis that has been so dynamic and changed directions so many times, its a bit disingenuous to take clips from cnbc people from 2007. Also, taking the last light hearted question of an interview and portraying it as the entire scope of the interview is also misleading.
While I don’t agree with everything on cnbc, I also think they do a very good job of reporting the markets. No one should be blindly listening to any sort of stock advice and if you are than its your problem you lost your 401k. Going day after day and trying to find investment opportunities is tough, and you will no doubt get alot wrong, especially in this kind of environment.
This clip is really one of those cases where Stewart is definitely a bit one sided in his portrayal of the network, and to the average person who doesn’t watch cnbc, it would definately turn them off to honestly one of the better news channels on cable. They have some crazy talking heads like everyone does, but they do what they set out to do, report business news and do it well.