Daily Show: Jon Stewart Visits Dora The Explorer on CNBC Tour FULL SEGMENT MUST-VIEW

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COMEDY CENTRAL The Daily Show w/ JON STEWART - March 10, 2009: Hilarious response tonight from Jon Stewart to Jim Cramer's tour of talk shows Tuesday. Jon points out the hypocrisy, takes on Joe Scarborough, and visits Dora The Explorer and MTV's The Hills.

[Wetzelbill]

1. There is no logic to picking a fight with a comedian

Jon Stewart makes fun of people for a living. And usually much smarter people than Jim Cramer who have way less ammo to deal with. Not a good move.

[RaleighNCDUer]

31. Particularly a totally unnecessary fight -

Cramer COULD have said - 'Yep, I got that one WAY wrong', and that would have been the end of it. Instead he says "I never said that!", as if he doesn't know what videotape is.

How can anybody so STUPID get a TV show telling people how to invest?

[Wetzelbill]

35. he must have one huge ego

and underneath it plenty of insecurities, because he let it get to him way too much. He should have had a little bit of a sense of humor about himself, instead he tried to belittle Stewart and he looked like a fool. Well more of one.

[burning rain]

51. Sadly, I don't think the value of the advice is even very relevant.

I think what asses like Cramer and Santelli are valued for are their populist hair-pulling, teeth-gnashing cathartic rants, whether or not they contain any good counsel. It's a sort of primal scream therapy; making sense isn't the point.

[RaleighNCDUer]

56. Only, they rant FOR the machine, instead of against it.

Beale: Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition! And woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble!!

So, a rich little man with white hair died. What does that got to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to us?

Because you people and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now.

Because less than 3 percent of you people read books.

Because less than 15 percent of you read newspapers.

Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube.

Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube.

This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation.

This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.

This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world.

And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people.

And that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died.

Because this company is now in the hands of CCA -- the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the 20th floor. And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network.

So, you listen to me. Listen to me!

Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.

We're in the boredom-killing business.

So if you want the Truth, go to God.

Go to your gurus.

Go to yourselves!

Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth.

But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear.

We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true!

But you people sit there, day after day, night after night -- all ages, colors, creeds.

We're all you know!

You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here!

You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal.

You do whatever the tube tells you --

You dress like the tube.

You eat like the tube.

You raise your children like the tube.

You even think like the tube.

This is mass madness, you maniacs!

In God's name, you people are the real thing.

We are the illusion!

So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now.

Turn them off!!


EDIT: For those who don't recognize it, that was Howard Beale, in Paddy Chayefsky's incomparable "Network"

[earcandle]

2. That was Fabulous Heroic Snark!

Thanks Jon Stewart!

Sorry about what happened to your folks. 

[opihimoimoi]

3. And the GOP wonders WHY..........they have made the transition from Leaders to LOSERS in record time

Using Lie Cheat Steal Mode...they blunder onward using blinders.....crashes are frequent these days

[vanlassie]

4. Jon OWNED the whole lot of them. He is MUCH smarter than they are.

[TheEuclideanOne]

32. Absolutely

I love the Jon Stewart show and watch it regularly. This may be the funniest bit of all time, bar none. He definitely OWNED them. As other people have mentioned, don't mess with a comedian, but if I can add... don't mess with a comedian as brilliant as Jon Stewart who has been owning people just like them for years. He is several leagues above the whole crowd. If Cramer is smart, he will just shut up, say nothing and pretend this never happened.

[peacetalksforall]

37. Yeah! Let Cramer pass it on to Joe to bring up every hour. Make sure the Ms there

to nod and look hurt and serious.

[truedelphi]

61. I'm wishing that Obama would contact Stewart's writers befiore making

Appointments

That is how good I feel Jon is.

[okieinpain]

73. funny thing to me is why is a comedy show doing this and not

the media.

[TheEuclideanOne]

82. That is a really good question.

The media is comforting him, if anything else. I think that if the media would cover things like this, then maybe we would be calling them "the news" like we did back in the day. It is not likely to happen, you can't have reports like this without actual reporters who do research and ask actual follow up questions based on their research.

[DUlover2909]

5. Thanks for posting!

Is funny! Yes! :hi:

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[IdaBriggs]

47. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[bjobotts]

6. How did someone like Joe Scarborough ever get a show to begin with

[bjobotts]

7. He has no insight and is an egomaniac but is also so nauseating-pooh

[roguevalley]

62. mika brzinzinski's (sp) dad is Zbigniew and he wasted scarborough

on the show on air. I wish I could find the link. Mika looked like she wanted to die.

[hootinholler]

18. Isn'tthat what happens to congressmen who

Have an intern show up dead in their office?

-Hoot

[DutchLiberal]

88. He has to make MSNBC not look liberal.

[AlbertCat]

8. He also saved us from "Crossfire"

Remember?

Called Tucker a "dick".

Killed the show.

The Right may have O'Reilly "lookin' out for" them, but we have John Stewart! And all he has to do is play clips and call it as it comes.

[tavalon]

12. And Stewart is ten times better than O'reilly

Crossfire was the day I knew Jon was far more than just a comedian, he cares about politics and he's on our side.

[dbmk]

20. Don't know about sides

But comedians, and this one in particular, just have no problem letting it rip when their bullshit detector goes off. Its pure gold to them.

And that more or less automatically puts him on a certain side of the politiccal spectrum for the last decade+.

[tavalon]

75. I'm not saying he won't rip our side when we deserve it and we often do

but he tipped his hand with crossfire.

[Grinchie]

9. The Repug Media Meagphone looks like it may have some Competition

And behind that sanctimonious, condescending NBC damage control team, they are scared shitless, because they haven't seen this for a very long time.

This truly eviscerates the guts out of the Right Wing media, because it pulls away the curtain of fraudsters that they have spent years grooming to be successful and trusted.

I trust John Stewart, because like any intelligent person and a great comedian, he has to look at all sides of these media sound bites with the attention to detail of a lawyer examining a contract, plucks out the misplaced commas, the craftily ambiguous sentences, and outright lies, and lays it out on the line for the clients who them slap their heads when they see how badly they would have been screwed.

Stewart is impeccable, and I'm sure that the repugs are starting up the pressure machine as we speak.

[bobburgster]

10. Picture Speaks A Thousand Words

Stewart doesn't need to be a genius to expose these guys...he just needs a little research time and a good video editor.
He does a great service pointing it out though...

[Ladyhawk]

77. I hope he pays his researchers well.

He consistently airs clips most others were content to flush down the memory hole.

[tavalon]

11. Note to self:

Never piss off David Letterman or Jon Stewart. Ever.

[rambler_american]

13. Brilliant!

effin' brilliant!

[liberal N proud]

14. That was hilarious

Picked on by a comedian. :rofl:

[Buzz Clik]

15. Did Stewart ever mention that Cramer's whining tour actually got started on The Colbert Report?

[Ladyhawk]

76. Yes, I loved the puppies / kittens segment. :) nt

[tclambert]

16. A good comedian knows how to deal with hecklers.

They hone that skill in the comedy clubs early in their careers. And they study (yes, study!) Don Rickles, you hockey pucks. And those idiots on CNBC? They are nucking futz if they take on a comedian.

[psychmommy]

17. omg. this just hysterical.

get them jon. how you like that idealogue schmo.

[JHB]

19. The insecurity just oozes off Cramer (and Scar)...

...(among other things that ooze off them, of course).

If JS was fundamentally wrong and was just "cherry picking" a bad call or two, anyone who had actual confidence in themselves would have just brushed him off like a flea.

That's not how Cramer reacts: he makes the rounds (which JS also mocked) making the case to defend himself (complete with his own cherry-picked clips of right calls (and those really qualify as "cherry picked")). Why? Why bother?

Because Stewart nailed him! Pegged him as the loudmouthed goofball with a "morning zoo" soundboard that he is. I note that in his cherry picked clips where he was right (not this clip, but one in a CNN reoport on this "controversy" -- where he told people to take what they really need for five years and pull that out of the market) was from some other show where he's talking to the host in a rational manner, not his own shoutfest.

I wonder if I can score a grant to set up a research project to assess these guys (all pundits, really) for accuracy?

[Alcibiades]

66. Oh, and Cramer's really pouting like a baby

Actually, most babies are more mature. Meanwhile, Joe is throwing a tantrum.

It really upsets them when they are called to account by a comedian whose logic is superior to their talking points.

Cramer smears Stewart as a mere "comedian," as if that somehow rendered him beneath his dignity. Cramer himself, meanwhile, does a road show for the college circuit, making him the financial guru equivalent of Carrot Top.

[Ladyhawk]

78. As I watched this, I was thinking, "Stewart is completely comfortable with himself."

I was also wishing I was that confident. :)

While watching Cramer, I realized he was going to lose because he has no confidence. The sad fact is he should realize why he has no confidence: BECAUSE HE WAS REALLY REALLY WRONG ABOUT A LOT OF IMPORTANT THINGS. He cannot admit this to himself or his audience. He cannot admit having a failing.

I think confidence must come, eventually, from admitting to our own mistakes, owning them, learning from them and moving on. I'm in the process of learning this, but I don't always do it very well.

[diddlysquat]

21. Stewart's best!

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. Um. Jon. Pendejo means pubic hair.

[unapatriciated]

24. that's one of the meanings...

in can also be slang for asshole

[ogminlo]

26. Comedic irony...

That's why "pendejo" is funny coming from Dora.

[Cha]

74. Or big

stupid.

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. Much of language is rarely literal.

I'm going to assume those things between men's legs aren't really used for soccer or tennis. ;)

[Chorophyll]

23. So good. So exquisite.

And it's so much fun to watch Cramer and Scarborough react. They just dig themselves deeper and deeper...

[90-percent]

25. Jon

Hey, he's only doing what anybody with a staff of one hundred would do.

Joey has staff envy over Jon. Maybe Joe's show is crappy because he has junior high interns doing his research instead of a paid professional staff of one hundred like Jon has?

Hey, gimme a staff that big and just watch how funny I can be, baby!

-90% Jimmy

[AlbertCat]

50. Joey has staff envy over Jon.

Baloney! Joey's show is crap because Joey is full of crap. He hands Jon all the material he needs. Joey creates BS and Jon just points it out.

Crammer is the Gallagher of finacial markets. I wonder when he's gonna hit a watermellon with a sledge hammer. (And it will be as unfunny as Gallagher.)

[gtar100]

69. It's probably also hard to find a large staff willing to produce BS, let alone believe it too

I can imagine there's more than a handful of people on Joe's staff who more than a few times a day say to themselves, "It's just my job, let it go."

[Jefferson23]

27. Stewart pulls it off again, lol.

[Yavin4]

28. Jon Stewart. Comedian?

I didn't know he was in The Watchmen.

[Pacifist Patriot]

30. Why oh why would you get into a pissing match with a satirist?

John is always funny, but I cannot remember when I howled so much throughout an entire segment. My kids thought I was losing it. Thank goodness I was wearing headphones though. I think the Dora segment might have scarred my youngest for life.

[backtoblue]

33. bwahahah

:rofl:

[Faygo Kid]

34. Scarborough is such a tool.

As is Cramer, of course. A little skepticism about the "free market" a year ago might have helped, but no way. Tools.

[ihavenobias]

36. K & R n/t

[madmom]

38. The jester speaks the truth......

In societies where freedom of speech was not recognized as a right, the court jester - precisely because anything he said was by definition "a jest" and "the uttering of a fool" - could speak frankly on controversial issues<2> in a way in which anyone else would have been severely punished for, and monarchs understood the usefulness of having such a person at their side


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester

[wryter2000]

39. Oh, lordy

I hope this keeps up. Come on, Cramer, are you going to take this lying down? :rofl:

[ensho]

40. thanks for putting this on I hadn't seen it. it was GREAT!

in more ways then one.

[peacetalksforall]

41. Don't forget to praise his writers and lawyers, also. The peaks were:

the comback to the 'variety' show and the indignation of Joe and the hurt of Mika (is that her name - I don't watch anymore). He was right to include shots of those two.

Jack Welsh's boys and girls are all geared up to deal with the idiot who dealt lies. Their shuffling and positioning is hilarious in itself.

Cramer reminds me of Tweety. Both coached to act, but their coaches left them to look like fools some of the time for Tweety and most of the time for Cramer.

I think it's Ludlows turn now.

[eyepaddle]

42. This entire saga is just so full of win it is incredible

I especially loved the shot at Joe Scsarborough--"I like my morning news like I like my coffee--white and bitter." :rofl:

[Raster]

49. White and bitter and with a dead intern under my desk.

[Grinchie]

68. Scarborough looks like a typical Redneck, but they is much more than meets the eye.

He gets a stint in Congress and fights against any number of things that would help American workers.

He suddenly announces his resignation to "Spend more time with the family"

Intern found dead from blow to the head, causing a heart attack.

Divorces his wife of 15 years after having two kids

Finally leaves Congress for good on 9/7/2001

Marries the Aide to Jeb Bush in October 2001

Starts up media megaphone in 2003 and cheerleads Bush as he invades Iraq.

Continues this gravy train until he is done, or his masters say he is done.

Personally, I find it difficult to imagine what kind of coercion or threats could make a person become such a lying, repugnant sack of crap like Scarborough, but it fits right in to the Repug way of shaping opinion.

[NorCalDem]

43. Again, dont' FUCK with Jon Stewart... n/t

[fascisthunter]

44. oh my.... "next"

keep it comin' republicans....

[beac]

46. Stewart 3, Cramer 0.

I hope Cramer keeps whining b/c this has been one of the funniest Daily Show bits ever!

[gratefultobelib]

48. I woke up looking forward to this clip! Thanks so much! I do love Jon.

[FlyByNight]

52. A masterful, artful evisceration

If this were Little League, the mercy rule would have been used by now.

:applause:

[NewJeffCT]

53. It's Spanish for Jackass

that's fantastic. I'm laughing so hard I'm in tears...

[loyalkydem]

54. OMG

You guys have so made my day with this clip. Take that Kramer

[Bushknew]

55. JON uses his powers of comedy for good.

[ooglymoogly]

57. Don't mess with the Jon

He'll chew you up and spit you out while doing a flamenco dance on your head. Just a little warning to the room temps at CNBC.

[Patsy Stone]

58. Hi-larious!

:rofl:

[lumberjack_jeff]

59. OMG that was funny! n/t

[Richd506]

60. I'm beginning to think that Jon Stuwart is a more reliable news source

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

63. Stewart is hilarious. I love how serious Cramer looks on these shows.

[McCamy Taylor]

64. I love it! Financial news needs to clean house everywhere. Used to be you could always

count on financial news to tell the truth, because they were held accountable with dollars and cents if they lied. Not anymore. In the wacky world of Bush economics, the business news turned into Rovian propaganda, too.

[Libertas1776]

65. Thank God...

For JON STEWART!:patriot: I don't know what we would do without him. :bounce:

[BobKasp]

67. Jim Cramer Shorting Stocks, Manipulating Markets, Saying The SEC Doesn't Understand

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/11/jim-cramer-shorting-stock_n_173824.html

[progressoid]

70. I've seen this three times now.

Still funny.

[NancyBotwin]

71. I am seriously crying.

That was hilarious. The best part was the "variety show".

[Cha]

72. "Turd mining"! Jon

got 'em with that.

Does morningjoe really want to take on Jon Stewart?

That was so funny..thanks for making me laugh. :rofl:

[Buzz Clik]

85. "White and bitter" ...

[Ladyhawk]

79. Question: Will Cramer be dumb enough to keep this going? nt

[Ladyhawk]

80. Stupid question: Were those the real voice behind Dora the Explorer?

Obviously the footage was recycled, but I'm curious as to whether or not Jon recruited the real vocal actors.

[JNelson6563]

81. Stewart rocks.

So does Colbert. :toast:

Julie

[Joey Liberal]

83. Cramer is a whacked out loser nt

[Iggo]

84. Viacom in the motherf****in' hizzy!

:rofl:

I'm still cleaning little pieces of girl scout cookie off my monitor.

[Maestro]

86. How fun was that to watch?

Loved every second!

[pam4water]

87. Where is the alledged clip of Cramer saying sell everything and what is the date on it? Panic & sell

isn't really any better investment advice than hold Bear Sterns. Cramer is Mr. Market from:


"...
Ben Graham, my friend and teacher, long ago described the mental attitude toward market fluctuations that I believe to be most conducive to investment success. He said that you should imagine market quotations as coming from a remarkably accommodating fellow named Mr. Market who is your partner in a
private business. Without fail, Mr. Market appears daily and names a price at which he will either buy your interest or sell you his.

Even though the business that the two of you own may have economic characteristics that are stable, Mr. Market's quotations will be anything but. For, sad to say, the poor fellow has incurable emotional problems. At times he feels euphoric and can see only the favorable factors affecting the business. When in that mood, he names a very high buy-sell price because he fears that you will snap up his interest and rob him of imminent gains. At other times he is depressed and can see nothing but trouble ahead for both the business and the world. On these occasions he will name a very low price, since he is terrified that you will unload your interest on him.

Mr. Market has another endearing characteristic: He doesn't mind being ignored. If his quotation is uninteresting to you today, he will be back with a new one tomorrow. Transactions are strictly at your option. Under these conditions, the more manic-depressive his behavior, the better for you. "
-- Warren Buffet

http://www.sandmansplace.com/Mr_Market.html


Ok I'm not sure Cramer can handle the being ignored part.

[lostnotforgotten]

89. Video Link Dead

eom

[lostnotforgotten]

90. Video Link Here

http://crooksandliars.com/media/play/wmv/7539/26589

[BeyondGeography]

92. Thanks

:patriot:

[fortyfeetunder]

91. TKO by Stewart. Rematch on Thursday night

I can't wait for Thursday night. Cramer better show up or he will be sorry.

Jim Cramer -- Don't mess with Jon Stewart!

[pam4water]

93. It's harder to be funny than right. And it's hardest to be funny and right

so Jon is like 2 orders of magnitude better than Cramer.