Jon Stewart has amassed a passionate following over the years as a sharp-edged satirist, the man who punctures the balloons of the powerful with a caustic candor that reporters cannot muster.
Stewart morphed into a populist avenging angel this week, demanding to know why CNBC and its most manic personality, Jim Cramer, failed to warn the public about the risky Wall Street conduct that triggered the financial crisis.
Cramer has told colleagues he felt blindsided by Stewart's hostile approach.
Hostile? You think that was hostile? That was gracious. Incisive, but gracious. You want hostile, go on The O'Reilly Factor sometime with an opinion with which Bill disagrees.
Oh, and blindsided? How could you've been blindsided? Anyone who watched The Daily Show for even a week could've told you exactly how that was going to go down.
Jim Cramer (forgive me for resorting to a cliché), if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
2 comments:
I think Jon felt sorry for Cramer and let him off the hook when he could have given him the knock out uppercut. Maybe the buildup couldn't possible live up to the hype.
Maybe, but I think Jon showed real elegance.
Cramer came on the show black and blue and bleeding into his eye (metaphorically speaking).
Jon only needed to win his points, not hit a man who was already going down.
Most people seem to think he did.
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