How many different ways do I have to say that I was not a diligent fan of the Daily Show?!? I don't know that Cramer was fanatic viewer, either. I'm glad it wasn't a surprise for you. I still think he was a bully.
Stewart does a lot of things. Including acting serious, then cracking a disarming, "haha, just kidding," and laughing it off. A number of the people Stewart himself is scraeling about he's had as guests on his show, including CNBC reporters and financial people. The shows I saw were just witty banter (Maria Bartolome comes to mind: he was flirty with her).
CNBC may have been part of the problem, but then almost everybody was a little guilty-- from Clinton and Bush to the feds to Wall Street and corporations and the public all over the world. When the market was going up, up, up-- no one asked questions, at the very time that questions -should- have been asked. People -should- have been wiser, particularly after Enron collapsed. As an example of how convoluted a companies finances can be, Enron is a good example. They were able to hide their schemes from a hundred-year old accounting firm (and directly cause its demise), the government and shareholders alike. AIG's fall is credited to a small London office that risked half a trillion dollars dealing in CDS's, because England had more lax regulations. The source of these problems is world-wide. But I digress.
But that is a role he and his network has to no small part chosen. And for my part, no love for him before, no tears for him now.
Again, what does this have to do with my post? My complaint was about ambushing/bullying, not about pointing fingers at who is responsible for the current financial crises. Please use your own journal for a political soapbox.
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Date: 2009-03-15 01:59 am (UTC)Stewart does a lot of things. Including acting serious, then cracking a disarming, "haha, just kidding," and laughing it off. A number of the people Stewart himself is scraeling about he's had as guests on his show, including CNBC reporters and financial people. The shows I saw were just witty banter (Maria Bartolome comes to mind: he was flirty with her).
CNBC may have been part of the problem, but then almost everybody was a little guilty-- from Clinton and Bush to the feds to Wall Street and corporations and the public all over the world. When the market was going up, up, up-- no one asked questions, at the very time that questions -should- have been asked. People -should- have been wiser, particularly after Enron collapsed. As an example of how convoluted a companies finances can be, Enron is a good example. They were able to hide their schemes from a hundred-year old accounting firm (and directly cause its demise), the government and shareholders alike. AIG's fall is credited to a small London office that risked half a trillion dollars dealing in CDS's, because England had more lax regulations. The source of these problems is world-wide. But I digress.
But that is a role he and his network has to no small part chosen. And for my part, no love for him before, no tears for him now.
Again, what does this have to do with my post? My complaint was about ambushing/bullying, not about pointing fingers at who is responsible for the current financial crises. Please use your own journal for a political soapbox.