@flythedelorean: And the very best thing of all, there's a counter on the ball. So try to beat your very best score, and see if you can skip a whole lot more. #michelleobama
Dennis Kneale is, by far, the biggest tool on CNBC. You should read some of the caustic non-arguments that ooze from him. I'd be against calling him the geek strictly because he isn't very intelligent - if he's working on anything in the basement at all, he's melting army men.
Also: The essential difference between Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart is that Stewart knows he is a comedian. A comedian who plugs some pretty intelligent books a couple times a week, but still...a comedian.
Barnacle sounds so self-absorbed as he describes how self-absorbed the media is, displaying such a stunning lack of self-awareness as he talks about how we feed the beast, almost as if he doesn't know that he is the beast.
As for Cramer and CNBC in general, is anyone really surprised that this is where 24-hour cable news has deposited us? We pay people huge sums of money and give them oceans of dead air just to spout their opinions, essentially because the media itself is a stunningly un-self-aware and narcissistic beast that only wants feeding, regardless of whether the "food" has any value or not.
This guy is big on opinion: during the period from 2001 to late 2007, did he do any actual reporting on how dangerously addicted America's financial institutions were becoming to bad debt? Or did he just offer people who were in the market his opinions about how they could jump on the bad debt bandwagon, making sure that when the ship sank, everybody went down.
It's very closely analogous to the political entertainment media's subservient and obsequious selling of the Iraq War, with the same horrible and depressing consequences. The good news is that, in all of this, we the people are not powerless. We can always turn off the fucking TV.
man, you cannot counter-skewer Jon Stewart, they're just going to fry him .. and it's really weird that Meredith puts Cramer -- a fellow broadcaster on her network -- in the headlights and lampoons him on live TV... don't get me wrong, i think it's hilarious and warranted, but this shit would never happen 20 years ago :D
In retrospect, the "Mad Money" spinoff, "Mad Medicine," was probably not a good idea, a GE spokesperson said, particularly the "Lightning Round" segment at the end of each show when Dr. Cramer would listen to a caller cough and diagnose the illness.
A study conducted by Barron's found that only 3% of caller illnesses diagnosed by Dr. Cramer as cancer were, in fact, cancer. Also, a disturbing number of broken bones were rated as "probably just a sprain" in these fast and furious diagnosis call-in segments.
"Perhaps the lesson here is that medicine, like money, isn't the best topic for entertainers to pretend to be knowledgeable about," a former television executive said.
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Did anyone else lean into their monitors a little during the beginning?
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As is Jimmy.
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As for Cramer and CNBC in general, is anyone really surprised that this is where 24-hour cable news has deposited us? We pay people huge sums of money and give them oceans of dead air just to spout their opinions, essentially because the media itself is a stunningly un-self-aware and narcissistic beast that only wants feeding, regardless of whether the "food" has any value or not.
This guy is big on opinion: during the period from 2001 to late 2007, did he do any actual reporting on how dangerously addicted America's financial institutions were becoming to bad debt? Or did he just offer people who were in the market his opinions about how they could jump on the bad debt bandwagon, making sure that when the ship sank, everybody went down.
It's very closely analogous to the political entertainment media's subservient and obsequious selling of the Iraq War, with the same horrible and depressing consequences. The good news is that, in all of this, we the people are not powerless. We can always turn off the fucking TV.
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A study conducted by Barron's found that only 3% of caller illnesses diagnosed by Dr. Cramer as cancer were, in fact, cancer. Also, a disturbing number of broken bones were rated as "probably just a sprain" in these fast and furious diagnosis call-in segments.
"Perhaps the lesson here is that medicine, like money, isn't the best topic for entertainers to pretend to be knowledgeable about," a former television executive said.
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Did you see Mikki's face @ 0:10? Priceless.