Because we know Comedy Central won't publish this
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Regarding: The Daily Show interview with Jim Cramer
One the one hand I applaud Mr Cramer for appearing on the show in which he must have known that he would be raked over the coals. On the other, I feel that Mr Stewart was very fair in that he allowed his guest to express his position. Now, while on the one hand we can feel that Mr Stewart was somewhat heavy-handed in his interview, Rex and I feel that Mr Cramer handled himself in a much more competent manner than was portrayed on the aired version of the interview, where many of his rebuttals were edited out (tut tut, Comedy Central, as much of this banter added to the most comic elements to the interview).
On the other hand, it's fairly apparent, from the mannerisms of Mr Cramer, when taken to task by Mr Stewart, that he can easily be seen as behaving much in the manner of a trapped and squirming worm. Anyone who has dealt with people of this ilk will recognize the obvious tactics of the trapped weasel - the whiny, whingey plaintiff pleas of assertions of no wrongdoing, co-mingled with the cliche gestures of honesty - the wide-armed, open palm gesture that he exhibited so frequently during the interview. This gesture once displayed an honesty in showing that there were no concealed weapons but, in our modern intellectual converse it can have the opposite effect in that, while discussing innocent matters it can be utilized to pretend honesty when, in fact, the one put on defense is actually a lying sack of shit.
The truth, however, is that no one will ever know who won this debate (or, if it was a debate at all). Rex and I have agreed that Mr Cramer seemed to plead "no contest" in regard to the unethical practices of the interests in question but, on the other hand, given the candid nature of the issue, really what choice did he have? And surely he knew that he would have to take whatever was coming to him with a smile and a joke.
Which, certainly, is what sets him apart from that other douche bag, Rick Santelli, who refused to appear on the show at all, presumably because he knew what would be coming to him. And Mr Stewart's comment bears repeating (or, at the very least, paraphrasing): Mr Santelli is a hypocritical piece of horseshit...no, that's not right - allow me to rephrase: Mr Santelli is a a hypocritical dung beetle, subsisting on a piece of horseshit, as his claim that we (being the taxpayers) shouldn't support the so-called "losers mortgages" is only made more loud and clear by his silence on the argument that we (being the taxpayers) should pay off and keep afloat the mismanaged banks and auto industries and whatnot.
Following the Cold War, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a bumper sticker very popular in certain countries (not America) that showed the flag of the Soviet Union and the flag of the United States of America. Across the Soviet flag there was a big, red X and the caption read "one down, one to go." Rex and I thought this silly because we had been lead to believe, like all children of the so-called "free world" that America had won the Cold War and that everything would be good again.
But when one considers this in the context of the current economic crisis then, while the point may not have been the intent of the original designers, there emerges an obvious fact - that the problem is not socialism nor capitalism, but authoritarianism and extremism. I can't count how many times I've heard commentary during the Cold War that denounced the "commies," saying that they were inferior because of their system. But here in America we're better because we have "democracy." This is propagandist bullshit to the extreme. Firstly, "Communism" is an economic system and "Democracy" is a political system. The tangential opposite of Democracy is Authoritarianism. That was the true objection to Stalin's communism. The opposite of "Communism" is "Capitalism" and, given the current state of the economy, how well is that working out?
So many (stupid) people will be bitching about how Obama's economic recovery plans resemble Stalinist Russia. Make no mistake - these people are uninformed, paranoid and sensationalist idiots. The truth is that pure Capitalism works no more successfully than pure Communism. Of course, Mr Santelli, and many others like him will refuse to acknowledge this, even in the face of the current economic crisis (and historical evidence that has been repeatedly demonstrated in brutally capitalistic societies, starting with the economic climate that fomented the French Revolution) even as they smilingly take the government handouts, which is even worse that pure communism.
Rex and I give Mr Cramer credit that he did acknowledge blame and that he did acknowledge wrongdoing and that he did express a desire to see the guilty punished, whereas his CNBC co-presenter was too much of a weaselly fucktard to even do that. And, Mr Cramer did it all in the face of Mr Stewart who, let's face it, is a very bright guy and who wouldn't allow him to bullshit his way out of it. I have new found respect for both of these people. The people I have no respect for are the executives at CNBC who, as Mr Stewart put it, "sold the snake skin oil" and the executives at Comedy Central who chose to air only the juicy bits that showed Mr Stewart humiliating his guest out of context - correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they just like the CNBC slimeballs that Mr Stewart was trying to expose? |
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