The Main Event

Here's the video from last night's Daily show. It was sort of like the Ali fight.... Cramer doing the rope-a-dope, but he forgot to do the come-out-fighting thing at the end to win. Stewart, who seemed genuinely pissed (at the entire economic situation as much as at Cramer), was passionate and focused all the way through. Cramer mostly seemed to want to say I'm sorry as much as possible and go home.

I really like Cramer (as I've said, more as an author than a TV guy) and this was kind of sad. But, I guess, after the last 18 months or so, sorta deserved.



Here are the links to the individual unedited segments:
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Thanks to DkosTV for archiving this stuff!

Update: Steve Benen in an insightful post on this at Political Animal sums it up well:

Cramer apparently went on the show to make nice and end the "feud." Stewart apparently had him on the show to expose how ridiculous and irresponsible CNBC is as a network. The result wasn't pretty, but as Alex Koppelman noted, it was "a riveting half-hour, something almost completely unlike anything else ever seen on television."

Watching the evisceration, I couldn't help but wonder why it takes a comedian on Comedy Central to do the kind of interview the non-fake news shows ought to be doing. When the media establishment marvels at Jon Stewart's popularity, they tend to think it's his humor. It's not. It's because he calls "bullsh*t" when most major media players won't. He did so last night, and it made for important viewing.