by
billdoskoch
on Fri 13 Mar 2009 09:34 AM EDT
From AP via CTV.ca:
Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism.
"I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a ... game," Stewart told Cramer, adding in an expletive during the show's Thursday taping. The episode aired at 11 p.m. ET on The Comedy Network and 12:00 a.m. on CTV in Canada.
It was perhaps the hardest lashing Stewart has given to a TV commentator since 2004 when he called Tucker Carlson and his then co-host Paul Begala "partisan hacks" on CNN's "Crossfire," the since cancelled political commentary program.
I will try to find time to say something about this tonight, but here's some tweets I made this morning:
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