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One of the points Stewart kept pressing is that Cramer, on his show, treats serious financial analysis as entertainment, which is why I’m disappointed that the interview itself is being treated as entertainment, as sport. “Stewart creamed him.” “What had been touted as the ‘week-long feud of the century’ culminated in a dressing down of CNBC and Cramer by Stewart….”
I don’t like being pedantic, but I don’t see much other choice: this is just the flip side of the coin, the chariot race giving way to a lion feeding. Stewart’s interview was invaluable, as political satire tends to be. But the interview is being treated as a watershed, for no other reason that I can discern besides the fact that it was conducted by a famous person on basic cable.
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