Thomas Frank wrote an excellent column in the WSJ today. I heard

[BrklynLiberal]

comments about it on the radio and wanted to post it..but it is a pay site, and I cannot even get access thru Bugmenot.
If anyone gets the article. please post it.

Thank you very much.

The article mentions that there were many who warned about the economic meltdown, but they were all marginalized by
the media. He also gives credit to Jon Stewart's "interview" with Cramer for being a crack in the status quo.

[RJ Connors]

1. Is this the article you are talking about?

Listen, you knew what the banks were doing and yet were touting it for months and months," said "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart to CNBC superstar Jim Cramer in their much-discussed confrontation last week. "The entire network was, and so now to pretend that this was some sort of crazy, once-in-a-lifetime tsunami that nobody could have seen coming is disingenuous at best and criminal at worst."

The applause Mr. Stewart has received for his j'accuse is the sound of the old order cracking. We have turned on the financial CEOs, inducting them one by one into the Predator Hall of Fame. We have gone deaf to the seductive rhythms of the culture wars. We have tossed out the politicians whose antigovernment rhetoric seemed invincible for so long.

And now comes the turn of the bubble-blowers of pop culture, the army of fake populists who have prospered for years by depicting the stock market as an expression of the general will, as the trustworthy friend of the little guy buffeted by a globalizing economy.

I got to it with no problem at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123734059279564981.html

And I don't have an account there.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Yes. Thank you very much.

When I tried to find it, the WSJ site would not allow me without an ID and PW. I tried Bugmenot to get them, bit it said that site had banned the use of Bugmenot because it was a pay site.