Cramer was the soft, fluffy target

[Stinky The Clown]

He has a whole schtick. A personna not unlike a clown's. He's silly and mostly harmless, even for all his arm flailing.

Cramer was an easy one to hit and take down.

How about the more serious from that same gang of fools.

Who will go after Gasparino?

What about that consummate gasbag, Dylan Rat Again?

Or the despicable Maria Bartoromo?

And never forget the worst of them all, Larry Kudlow.

They are **ALL** worse than Cramer, and they all own a piece of this shitstorm that is swirling.

[Kahuna]

1. Barteromo was awfully fish-eyed and low key the last time I saw her

on Morning Ho. That didn't stop me from emailing Morning Ho, to voice my disdain that that women would have the nerve to show her face and open her mouth as an, "expert."

:patriot:

[Sebass1271]

2. what about that shithead Santelli???

I believe cramer was the easy target for stewart.. he should have gone after santelli as well.

[Uzybone]

7. Ummm...the whole thing started with Santelli

Santelli canceling on the Daily Show was the catalyst for the whole shebang.

[mod mom]

3. Read this. Perhaps Cramer was set up to be a fall guy to protect the "aristocrats":

MIND YOU I AM NOT SUGGEST JON STEWART HAD ANYTHING TO DO W IT, BUT THERE ARE CERTAINLY BIGGER FISH TO FRY:

-snip

The story of Jim Cramer cannot be fully presented here. BUt here's an excerpt from Mitchell's book length expose that will get you into the ballpark:

Cramer, who is a sociopath, owns TheStreet.com with Marty Peretz, who is an aristocrat. Peretz is also the former editor of the New Republic magazine. He dabbles in high finance and Harvard professing, which has resulted in his entrusting a large portion of his family fortune to a close-knit group of hedge fund managers, several of whom were his students. For example, Cramer was his student. Then Cramer was destitute. He lived in a car with a loaded gun hidden under the seat. Eventually, though, Peretz gave Cramer some money to start a hedge fund, which Cramer managed with celebrated ruthlessness until he resolved to seek spiritual enlightenment as a TV news host.

Cramer had originally planned to run his hedge fund out of the offices of Ivan Boesky. Shortly before he was to move in, however, the feds busted Boesky for insider trading, making him one of the most famous criminals of the 1980s. (This is not necessarily to suggest that Boesky is the "Sith Lord" mentioned in Patrick’s "Miscreants Ball" presentation. Some people have wagered that Patrick was referring to Michael Milken, a business colleague of Boesky known as the "junk bond king," who also went to prison in the 1980s. Patrick has since modified the analogy, saying that the crime has multiple masterminds - "like Al Qaeda").

When Boesky went to prison, Cramer worked instead with hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt. The media portrays Steinhardt as a financial wizard, a deep thinker and an all-around swell guy. The truth is, he’s a thug who perfected the concept of trading on privileged information, and pounded it into the heads of his employees. "What’s your edge!?" he’d shout, pacing his trading room floor. "What’s your fucking edge!?" After one of Steinhardt’s tirades, a top employee (and the godfather to Steinhardt’s children) had a heart attack. It is said that Steinhardt showed no remorse.

Indeed, Steinhardt has one of the most fearsome reputations on Wall Street. Which is perhaps unsurprising given that Steinhardt’s father, Sol "Red" Steinhardt, was a mobster once described by a Manhattan district attorney as the biggest Mafia fence in America. Steinhardt Sr. worked for the Genovese organized crime family, with goons like Meyer Lansky and Vinnie "Blue Eyes" Alo, before he was sentenced to a number of years in Sing-Sing prison.

-SNIP

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/5/16720/74815/703/705113

THE DIARY IS WORTH A FULL READ. IT JUST SOUNDS WEIRD THAT HE WAS LIVING OUT OF HIS CAR...THEN POOF.

[peekaloo]

4. Where is Cokehead Kudlow these days?

years ago I saw one show that he and Cramer did and couldn't believe these jag-offs were serious financial people. Screaming at each other, playing with SpongeBob toys on the set...then '60 Minutes' did a segment on Cramer a few years ago that showed a "true rags to riches story of a financial guru" :puke:

Cramer sold his soul years ago but which Devil is holding the note?

[Uzybone]

5. Stewart hit them all

Cramer was the only one dumb/ballsy enough to respond in person.

Can you imagine a hack like Kudlow agreeing to be interviewed by Stewart?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Think you can get them to do a TDS interview ith Jon? Because yes, that would be something to see.

[closeupready]

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