Jon Stewart is getting praised as this voice of reason. People are saying he took down Jim Cramer. We know that Gibbs, if no one else, enjoyed seeing Stewart use Cramer as his punching bag on CNBC last Thursday. The crux of Stewart’s argument is this: CNBC is a finance network, they ought to have been ahead of the game on this whole debacle in the stock market.
CNBC is a right leaning financial news network. Lets compare this to their left leaning political news network, MSNBC. From 6AM until 9AM, CNBC has on Squawk Box, a financial morning show. It is on this show that a lot of the leaders of business appear. At the same time on MSNBC, the show Morning Joe is on, which is a morning news/politics show. They are very comparable to one another.
From 9AM-11AM, CNBC has on Squawk on the Street, which follows the opening of the market at 9:30AM, then from 11AM-12PM is the call, which is more market coverage. After that is Power Lunch from 12PM-2PM, which is a more broad show market wise, more like a news at noon show. Following that is Street Signs from 2PM-3PM, which is Erin Burnett trying to dig deeper into some top stories. Then from 3PM-5PM is Closing Bell, which the name describes well. So you see, all day CNBC is covering market news.
From 9AM till 5PM, MSNBC has MSNBC News Live, which is news as it happens. During the 9-5 hours, both networks do the same thing. The report breaking news and then spend the rest of their time debating each other. Stewart says that the network does not poke and prod enough. Why is he such a harsh critic on the conservative CNBC yet he has no harsh words for the liberal MSNBC? Because he is a leftist who has a venue to vent and has been put up on this throne as a bystander.
It is sick that we allow Jon Stewart, a comedian who relies entirely on writers to look good to be this arbiter. He pulls Jim Cramer onto his show, a man who is a commentator and has a show at 6PM that is not a hard news show but rather a show of commentary. Cramer has a show with his own style, as he said himself “I am not Murrow.” Cramer’s first concern is getting good ratings and he does that by being considered intelligent and entertaining by his viewers.
We allowed this same man to take down one of the greatest shows, Crossfire. He went onto crossfire and lectured Paul Begaula and Tucker Carlson and the show was taken off the air a few weeks later. The show was classic cable, one from the left and one from the right battling it out. He came on the show and talked about how what they were doing was so bad for society.
My question, what is what Jon Stewart doing that is so good for society? He is on a network that has been a joke since Battlebots and Win Ben Stein’s Money left and he has this horrible routine as a comedian and then when he decides he gets to get on his ivory stool and talk about who is right and who is wrong. He wrong and he ought to be resigned to what he does best, that is read what his writers have written him. Get out of these logically false arguments you are making on Business and Political Commentary.
Also, stop trying to appear as an independent bystander who can make judgments freely. You attack CNBC became you don’t like that they are questioning Obama’s policies. You a partisan hack and a bad one at that. Get back to what you do best Jon, which is not being seen or heard except by those young people that worship you.
