Tucker Carlson Attacks Jon Stewart Over Jim Cramer
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Stumble ThisLooks like someone is still bitter. After the brutal beatdown of Cramer and MSNBC last week, Tucker must be a glutton for punishment.
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Never could, never will.
I'm really getting tired of conservatives attacking liberals for criticizing things.
In speaking, Tucker essentially goes after himself. The way that he minces words, fabricates perspectives and throws so many fish that there's a sea of red herring swimming circles around his own insipid wit, he begs to be called out but often isn't because he mostly only keeps like company. Even if he isn't aware of it, he plays up to a republican base that is still upset that a man of the same race that worked their great grandaddy's cotton fields had, not only the audacity to run for president, but the audacity to win. The sad thing is that there are still people out there who will make the same kind of mistake that Jim Cramer did, by accepting the word of CEO's without fact checking, and accept the words that roll off of Tucker's lying tongue without a grain of salt, or attached polygraph.
I'm glad the Zurawik puts Tucker straight at the end of the clip though.
I dare you...
Oh, and make up your mind - either he's a comedian (who's taking himself too seriously) or he's a news man (who's "abrogating" his responsibility)...
s'mores, anyone?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Jon-Stewart-on-Crossfire
Now... no bowtie. Haha.
I'm a huge Stewart fan but I'm skeptical about whether or not he can really go after Obama in a way that he might want to. I'm sure his audience demographic data shows a very big lean towards Obama supporters. It would be difficult to make any big changes, as the ratings could suffer dramatically.
If Jon Stewart renames his show "The Daily News" then we can all come down on him like a ton of bricks.
I can almost hear the Daily Show writer's keyboards clicking with glee.
WTF knows? Under a rock after his last beat-down? I'm sure he's just happy to have some face-time on the boob-tube.
I think Stewart *could* go after Obama if things really fuck up, but I'm not sure if they actually will. Personally I'd rather not have Obama fail badly enough to warrant a smackdown by TDS, merely because I think if they did in fact fail that badly, the US might be so far down a hole by that time, we might not come out of it. Still, there will have to be some screw-ups at least even if Obama succeeds in pulling this around, and I'd enjoy any amount of TDS coverage.
Wasn't Crossfire canceled a short time after Stewart came on?
Course it's a pink tie.. that guy has some issues.
And it that one dude, Zurawik or what ever, is wrong. It is not the purvey of journalism to help citizens make smart choices, thats the purvey of consumer reports.
Journalism is there to be critical on all things and especially to ask the real questions in situations like the one we are in today. We have Freedom of the Press not so they can inform the consumer of what their corporate office wants them to hear, but to critically think and report on our world. Not to tow the political line, but to challenge political lines.
When these journalists and pundits clearly don't even know the purpose of the Press (such as the one guy I'm talking about,) then you know that real journalism is an endangered species, with people like John Stewart one of the few real 'journalists' left.
And Carlson is a retard. Stewart is clearly a democrat but to call him a 'partisan hack' is beyond ludicrous. Does he not remember John Stewart busting Bill Clinton during his administration? You could probably pull up dozens of clips of him hammering that administration over the years.
Last (edit) Stewart wasn't busting CNBC and Cramer, though they were clearly the immediate focus. He was busting on ALL of today's corporate media, particularly any of the 24 hour networks that propose to 'report' on ecconomics.. which AFAIK is.. all of them.
I personally can only hope that this isn't over. I'd be beyond happy to see this situation continue and for Stewart to just keep up his fantastic work.
God, he has so much material.
I mean, if he doesn't take "He's too powerful, nobody would dare touch him" and run with it, I'll be disappointed.
The best way to prove Carlson is absolutely meaningless would be to not acknowledge him at all.
Oh, but then he'd never be man enough to accept the invitation.
What a hypocrite.
The mistake we too often make is to confuse the way someone makes a living with who they are. Jon did the same thing Olbermann did a few years ago. He decided that someone with a platform should probably say something, then he realized he was someone with a platform. If the real news would do real news then comedy shows wouldn't be known for some of the best political analysis out there these days. As long as the so called "news" is doing what they are doing, then someone needs to say it.
I actually hope Jon just ignores him entirely. It's obvious Carlson wants the exposure.
The best way to prove Carlson is absolutely meaningless would be to not acknowledge him at all.
Your wish granted. JS didn't take the troll bait.
I swear that the Daily Show writers are looking over our shoulder. I know at least one of them is. http://www.videosift.com/video/Daily-Show-visits-the-Sift-Freaks-Out-over-Weather-Promo
Let's see. He helped to take down Crossfire, he gets one high level candidate after another on his show, he says something and the news media picks it up, sounds like a serious commentator to me.
The mistake we too often make is to confuse the way someone makes a living with who they are. Jon did the same thing Olbermann did a few years ago. He decided that someone with a platform should probably say something, then he realized he was someone with a platform. If the real news would do real news then comedy shows wouldn't be known for some of the best political analysis out there these days. As long as the so called "news" is doing what they are doing, then someone needs to say it.
That was around when the Iraq war started, and that was when the Daily Show started being a good show.
I'm not the voice of the Republican party!
I don't hate Jon Stewart!
Serious cat is not serious!
Internet is not serious business!
I'm not gay!"