That Cramer has been perceaved to have been disproportionaly singled out as The Face of the Problem by pundits and viewers is missing a point of what Stewart was trying to point out several times- Cramer was at best, merely a symptom/example of more basic problems in the industry, and then made himself more of a lightening rod with CNBC's help in the hype leading up to that night. If anyone set Cramer up, it was his network and handlers, making him the fall guy/victim/martyr of Stewart's attack.

And, I think you are being a bit disengenious, Stewart was goring one of your scared cows, so he had to therefore be the villian. But anyone who knows the show absolutely expected Stewart to do exactly what he did, in fact, would have been disappointed if he turned it into a puff piece.