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Jon Stewart destroys Jim Cramer on 'The Daily Show'

by mtippett | March 12, 2009 at 10:49 pm

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Those who don't know history are bound to repeat it. That is what happened tonight on the Daily Show where Jon Stewart decimated Jim Cramer in the same way he crushed CNN's Cross Fire.

NEW YORK – Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism.
"I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a ... game," Stewart told Cramer, adding in an expletive during the show's Thursday taping. The episode was scheduled to air at 11 p.m. EDT on Comedy Central.

It was perhaps the hardest lashing Stewart has given to a TV commentator since 2004 when he called Tucker Carlson and his then co-host Paul Begala "partisan hacks" on CNN's "Crossfire," the since canceled political commentary program.

I thought something like this might happen.

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generaldecay

at 06:25 on March 13th, 2009

Oh, this has been televised already? I didn't know that. And this destruction was always going to happen. An idiot like Cramer cannot match the likes of Stewart. I do hope he didn't go onto the DS hoping for a victory!

Amy Judd

at 08:32 on March 13th, 2009

Awesome interview.

Stewart did a good job to get the issues out there and really put it on the table and call Cramer out, because someone needed to.

truthbetold (not verified)

at 18:40 on March 13th, 2009

What a novice Stewart is. The likes of...lol.

I would have baffled Stewart with a flurry of concentric circles of logic interwoven with so many serendipitous cross patterns he would be reduced to attacking specific words and questioning parts of speech and would just about figure out he had been insulted ten minutes after the show had ended. I have not seen such a stilted mirror-rehearsed ambush since..I don't know..I would have to go back to Rosie O'Doughnut vs. Tom Selleck.

Holy

arunabhdas

at 20:50 on March 13th, 2009

JS washed him, wrung him out and hung Jim Cramer out to dry.

René

at 21:55 on March 13th, 2009

Here's the full un-edited version gleefully provided on the Comedy Channel's website.

Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart went toe-to-toe last night. It was just like Ali-Foreman, only with more head trauma. But you didn't see everything. Much of the interview had to be cut for time. But this is the internet, where all we have is time. So, here now, is the exclusive, uncensored, complete three-part interview.