Jim Cramer Vs. Jon Stewart Faceoff Video Clip & Why The UConn/Syracuse 6OT Game Blew Them Away!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 13th of Mar, 2009 12:47:22 AM

Okay so bloggers and Tweeters (follow me on Twitter damnit!) were all excited for tonight’s showdown between these two…

…the ridiculous amount of emails I received concerning “the event” even forced me to do a post about Cramer, in which I defended him because he deserved it, so here’s the much-hyped but under-delivering video:

My take: this was just dumb–and not in the usually funny Daily Show way–because Cramer was obviously told be to be overly nice and never risk losing his temper in an interview GE executives surely described to him as having “crossover potential” & Stewart appeared to actually believe Cramer would have any interest/audience whatsoever if he described the true methods behind making high percentage profits year in year out, most of which would be considered borderline illegal by the incompetent SEC.

Long story short: The 5OT Uconn/Syracuse game was infinitely more entertaining…hell, even any timeout taken during that game was more interesting because Cramer has become a clown on his own show and a friggin politician on everyone else’s show while Stewart had already used all his bullets in previous shows so he had nothing but a fuzzy/muffled 2-year-old-TheStreet.comTV clip everyone’s already seen. Truly 2009’s The Great White Hype.

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  • Brad Klaver
    Whatever Tim, I am a fan and a defender of your virginity and virtue, but how can you do anything but applaud Jon Stewart for thoroughly shitting on Cramer's chest? Stewart exposed industry-wide Bullship to an audience that was otherwise clueless. Sure, nobody in finance learned anything from this, but young Joe Blow is going to approach investing with that much more skepticism. Shouldn't you and Howard be having a parade? And Christ aren't you tired of the rediculous character Cramer plays?... and as CNBC as a whole? Stewart's arguments can be applied across the board, every mouthpeice on CNBC. How could Cramer's shameful performance NOT give you at least a semi? Lord knows I had a full on boner. You watched baseketball? ****SPOILER ALERT****** ummm Dudes are going to chase the ball round and round, and the outcome of which has no bearing on anyones lives, save degenerate gamblers. If you were Jon Stewart right now, this sort of thing would warrant 5-6 blog posts, where upon you would beg me to buy a video or subscribe to your alerts. Christ Tim, I'm not going to buy them, just list the potential stocks with some smartass comments. Give me a chuckle and save me a trip to my stock screener. Hahaha Much love. Jah Bless.
  • JohnCA
    Cramer looked like he was going to cry a few times.
  • zzzzzzzzz cramer will benefit from this, stewart tried to be an investigative journalist, it was weird and unsuccessful.
  • concerned
    i agree with brad. tim, what stewart did is your old routine--exposing the fraud on the street. you should be cheering him on instead you're defending cramer and cnbc? maybe you feel stewart is stealing your limelight? get those feelings sorted out and bring back the old tim. i need to hear you say one more time "cnbc is a scam" or "cramer is a fraud".
  • younggunz
    Cramer just seemed to throw is hands up and wave the white flag. Stewart seemed poised for a fight but he should have address more then just different parts of the same video. He did about as much as he could to get cramer to engage him but Cramer just seemed to concede every hit.
  • HopeSolo
    Wow Tim referencing sports!?!?!? Don't think I've seen that in almost two years of following the blog.
  • Mike
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