Congressman Sherman Takes On CNBC

The more I watch Brad Sherman go up against Wall Street's apologists the better I like him:

The Cramer V. Stewart Battle Continues

After Jon Stewart had dropped the F-Bomb on Jim Cramer for a second time on Monday night, Cramer decided to respond the next morning. He complained to the Today Show, Mornin' Joe and had MSNBC reporting on it to show Stewart as picking on poor, defenseless Cramer. The synergistic retaliation was something that the NBC empire was able to pull off for one of their own. Of course, Stewart loves the attention, and continued the feud last night.

From The Hartford Courant:

Yet another night on "The Daily Show" Tuesday was focused on what CNBC's Cramer said in his defense, this time on a variety of NBC related properties, from NBC's "Today" show to MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

And Stewart fired back by using some of the other Viacom properties -- appearing to talk about his situation on shows from Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer" to MTV's "The Hills."

It was just the kind of clips that the NBC shows will pick up one more time and try to get some kind of reaction from Cramer, who might as well admit that on more than one occasion, he may have been a little too bullish on Bear Stearns in the weeks before its collapse.

Stewart says he doesn't know much about what the market will do either, but at least he doesn't promote himself as all-knowing, as Cramer often is on CNBC, where one promo subs him in for God, declaring "In Cramer We Trust."

Stewart destroyed Cramer yet again, and added Scarborough in for his pithy pejorative attacks. Comedians are supposed to entertain and sometimes enlighten through their humor. Stewart does that with his eyes closed and hands tied behind his back. Now this is great for NBC and Viacom, as a feud always attracts more viewers for both sides, especially when Cramer goes on the Daily Show tomorrow night. While their ad revenues may spike, I hope that what comes out of that is a rise in awareness among the people that CNBC is full of useless hacks.

Jon Stewart Gets Specific For CNBC's Jim Cramer

After last week's scathing segment focusing on Rick Santelli and CNBC, Jim Cramer had responded that Stewart had misconstrued what he had said about Bear Stearns. So last night Jon Stewart apologized, corrected the record...and then some.

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Jon Stewart Decimates CNBC

Reminiscent of when Stewart went on CNN's Crossfire several years ago, this segment from last night is going down in the Daily Show's greatest memories:

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It seems as if it were better that Santelli did cancel on Stewart. I'm sure that Rick would have been asked some question, but there was no way that these few minutes could have gone any better if he did have Mr. Santelli to question.

Ann Coulter "Perfects" Her Anti-Semitism

At last night's Mega Meetup down in TriBeCa a few of us were joking about having a Halloween costume contest to see who could wear the scariest Ann Coulter costume. No matter how hard we could try, no one is scarier than the real thing. Today she proved just how ugly she is on the inside, showing her anti-semitic self on CNBC.

From Editor and Publisher:

NEW YORK Appearing on Donny Deutsch's CNBC show, "The Big Idea," on Monday night, columnist/author Ann Coulter suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren't any Jewish people and that they needed to "perfect" themselves into -- Christians. It led Deutsch to suggest that surely she couldn't mean that, and when she insisted she did, he said this sounded "anti-Semitic." Asked by Deutsch whether she wanted to be like "the head of Iran" and "wipe Israel off the Earth," Coulter stated: "No, we just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. ... That's what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament."

This is absolutely disgusting. Every single pundit and TV host should bar her from their programs, if there wasn't enough proof to do so already. Her quest to sell more books has gone far off the deep end.

Ron Paul Schools CNBC "Experts" On Defense And The Economy

I have many qualms with the libertarian candidate, but he sounds a lot more like a Republican than the current brand of wackos that put the letter "R" after their name.