MSNBC producers told ‘not to incorporate’ Cramer’s Daily Show interview into their programming.
MSNBC producers told ‘not to incorporate’ Cramer’s Daily Show interview into their programming.
TVNewser reports that “MSNBC producers were asked not to incorporate the Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart interview into their shows today.” By TVNewser’s count, Cramer’s Daily Show interview was only mentioned once on MSNBC today and that was during the White House press conference when a reporter asked for Obama’s reaction. TVNewser explains further:
Gibbs wasn’t sure if the president had, but Gibbs did. “I enjoyed it thoroughly,” the Press Secretary said.
On Cramer’s network, CNBC, the subject has only come up twice today, including when master marketer/CNBC personality Donny Deutsch brought it up briefly around 1pm on “Power Lunch.” “I’m a huge Jon Stewart fan,” said Deutsch, “He does what he does he does his job. But I’m also a huge Jim Cramer fan.” [...]
Cramer appeared on his regular “Stop Trading” segment during “Street Signs.” But the Daily Show did not come up.
TVNewser writes that “insiders” say that Cramer “will talk about Stewart tonight on Mad Money (6pmET & 11pmET).”
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How can I focus on this Stewart + Cramer spat or the Steele + Limbaugh spat when I’m so disturbed by the news that Bristol Palin broke up with the baby’s daddy? OMG another bastard in the Palin family. Oh, the humanity of it all.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pmbawk bawk ba-BAWK!!!!
March 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pmI’m shocked! Shocked, I say!
No big surprise after Cramer was on a couple of weeks ago on Morning Joe, and Mika gave Cramer a big hug.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pmIsn’t nice how the people that matter all enjoyed the testimony of someone that manipulates the stock market and knows how to game it all? Admitting to criminal behavior? Truly disgusting comment. I just can’t imagine what he was thinking to say something like that unless he is as heartless as Ari Flyswatter.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pmLet’s hope Mr. Cramer admits on his own show the same thing he admitted during the Stewart interview – that the 24-hour financial networks have been serving Wall Street more than they’ve been serving you and me. Who knows? Maybe he’ll quit the TV show business after what happened yesterday. That would be nice.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pmSo Rachel Maddow won’t be able to mention it on her MSNBC show… I think yesterday or the day before she did almost refer to it in her interview with Megan McCain (she kept saying “financial news networks” generically).
I wonder if she will be able to mention it on her Air America radio show (the part that isn’t just the audio-only version of her MSNBC show).
March 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pmMSNBC producers told ‘not to incorporate’ Cramer’s Daily Show interview into their programming.
– - Well, knowing full well Keith Olbermann’s history, I’m guessing that edict was met with scarcastic scorn, at the least. Let’s see if he ignores that. Keith has burned every bridge he’s crosssed.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pmCramer is not a stock guru as he uses the media to drive, artificially, stock prices up or down.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pm“MSNBC producers told ‘not to incorporate’ Cramer’s Daily Show interview into their programming.”
This is a never ending story with MSNBC. First, they had to deal with ADHD ranting Rick Santelli and now it is the snake oil character Mad Money Jim Cramer. These two so-called financial guru clowns are certainly tanking MSNBC’s reputation.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pmI don’t think they planned on Cramer being that eviscerated.
It was that devastating.
It was that discrediting to NBC (GE).
March 13th, 2009 at 5:28 pmi only watch the first 1/2 to maybe 3/4 hour, but i didn’t hear a mention on the TODAY SHOW (NBC) this morning… thought it was odd…
because there was mention of the times that jon talked about cramer the past several days, and cramer was on the other morning and they talked about it … cramer was all cocky, and said something like ‘hey, he’s a commedian’…
the silence now is deafening…
March 13th, 2009 at 5:28 pm.
Major CYA from the MSMBS…
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March 13th, 2009 at 5:28 pm.
So, MSNBS heralds a man that helped manipulate the public trust in AIG and Bear Stearns; A trust that ended up shifting and shafting thousands of people into the poor house.
Ahhh…
… That LIBERAL MEDIA for ya!
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March 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pmand,
MSNBC producers told ‘not to incorporate’ Cramer’s Daily Show interview into their programming.
good thing for them it’s friday, ’cause jon would be SURE to mention it…
March 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pmnow the daily show crew has more time to think about their reply…
yeow! come monday…
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Q U E S T I O N:
What do you call a financial an@list that can’t forcast well?
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A: UNEMPLOYED!
(or should very well be!)
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March 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pmCNBC really lucked out today. The morning show has a segment entitled “Call of Shame” on Fridays and, of course, Madoff won the award this week. The honor would most certainly gone to Cramer if Bernie hadn’t been perp-walked yesterday.
It was funny to hear no mention of the interview on CNBC today. I am sure that they are as embarrassed as Mr. Cramer is. On the other hand, you’d think the channel would be used to that by now since Cramer makes a fool of himself on his “Mad Money” program every day . . . as does his former partner, Larry Kudlow, anytime his ugly mug is on the screen.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:36 pmWhere Stewart is concerned, I was so pleased to see him dispatch Cramer last night.
Now, might I suggest that he book Rush Limpdick, (m)Ann Coultergeist and Little Seanie Vanity for the same treatment. After that, there’s a long, long list of guests I would like to watch him eviscerate as well.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pmObviously, CNBC isn’t the only network that indulges in the sin of omission or commission.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pmLet’s see if Olbermann violates the mandate…
March 13th, 2009 at 5:41 pmDammed Liburl media anyhoo.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:42 pmHmmm, it’s on the MSN web main page right now.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:45 pmStewart tore apart way more than Cramer or CNBC last night – he tore down those whole ridiculous greedy-yuppie bubble this country’s been operating in since the ’80’s, and he did it in a way that has left all the yuppie greedheads at all the networks at a complete loss for words.
They wish they knew what to say about that interview, but there’s nothing in their repetoire that responds to it. It was a comprehensive indictment of the way business, media, and government have hopped into bed together to screw the rest of us.
Somebody fire Brian Williams, and let Stewart take over the real news – he’s better at it than anyone in decades.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pmMSNBC and CNBC programmer should hear from their viewers. There was no problem playing and replaying the Santelli and Cramer rants, but now that the Jon Stewert interview reflects poorly on CNBC, its not allowed to be shown. What a bunch of hypocrites! Although I wouldn’t want to see either of the fired, wouldn’t it be fun to have Olberamann or Maddow interview Jon Stewert to talk about his disappointment in financial gurus and how these guys game the system? Stewert clearly expressed how investors feel about those who profited from the losses of regular folks. He could simply refer to Cramer et. al. as “he whose name cannot be mentioned.” That would be funny!
March 13th, 2009 at 5:54 pmI thought Cramer came off as weak during the interview and boy was Stewart prepared!
March 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pmTry the best homepage
Jon Stewart asked why the media didn’t do its job revealing “the con”, which also requires a complicit political system.
Cramer talked about boundaries. Here’s a boundary breaker on health care reform:
The White House health care reformer made $1.4 million on the sale of Triad Hospitals to Community Health Systems. Nancy-Ann DeParle sat on the board of Triad. Her firm was the original buyer, but CCMP Capital Partners was outbid by CHS.
For this and for-profit hospital PAC donations to key Congressional leaders (with no facilities in their state) go to:
http://stateofthedivision.blogspot.com/2009/03/sticky-fingered-politicians-tackle.html
March 13th, 2009 at 6:10 pmI can see why they would forbid this. They might want to be very gentle with Cramer for awhile. He needs hugs, soothing baths, soft music, kind words.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:10 pmThe silence is partly for legal reasons…
The could get sued big time if Stewart’s basic assertions can be proven true.
They enabled market market manipulation — at least — and were co-conspirators at worst.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:13 pmOk, let me get this straight. No one on MSNBC can talk about the Stewart/Cramer match up (like Keith or Rachel), but Cramer can talk about Stewart on his show?
Every time someone tries to tell me that MSNBC is a lefty station, I point out the only left leaning people they have on the entire network are Keith and Rachel. If their bosses muzzle them on this issue, I’m going to be pissed.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:19 pmThe biggest problem for CNBC and its parent company is that the interview ripped apart every critique the NBC gang tried to run at Stewart. “He’s a comedian”: fine but he made Cramer out to be a clown. “He takes thing out of context”: Comedy Central made the entire interview available on its web site. “He’s an ideologue”: nothing ideological about pointing out the failure of the alleged business news media to keep its reporting honest. And by the way, it isn’t like Cramer is a Republican.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:23 pmtom Says:
Where Stewart is concerned, I was so pleased to see him dispatch Cramer last night.
Now, might I suggest that he book Rush Limpdick, (m)Ann Coultergeist and Little Seanie Vanity for the same treatment. After that, there’s a long, long list of guests I would like to watch him eviscerate as well.
I doubt that any one of them would agree to come on Jon Stewart’s show, especially Limpdick. They are all scared spitless of him. The same thing goes with any of them appearing on Rachel Maddow’s show. Even though I was very disappointed in Rachel’s interview with Meghan McCain (I think it was a softball/fluff interview), Rachel is still my favorite interviewer on TV.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pmDoes anyone remember ‘Crazy TV Lennie’?
Why would anyone even consider Cramer’s advice?
March 13th, 2009 at 6:30 pmArchibald,
Hi PeachyCheeks lover.
Ready for another round?
Come give us some LOVIN!
March 13th, 2009 at 6:44 pmMaybe Keith and/or Rachael will work around the directive by using different footage? Maybe a shot of “The Beaver” or Opie Taylor getting a stern talking too? Cramer had that hang-dog, “golly I sure am sorry” thing going on.
Although, considering the probable future of Mr. Cramer’s career, perhaps the scene where Old Yeller gets put down would be more appropriate?
March 13th, 2009 at 6:46 pm(is that supposed to “ruffle” someone’s “feathers”, Archie?)
you don’t get it, do you, that we don’t do the personality cult thing?
that’s a “you guys” thing. just ask your Owner.
if KO never went on TV again, I just really would not care.
ok?
March 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pmSaw the interview took cramer to the cleaners ..now if the rest of the so called news media did that we might actually know whats been goin on for the last 8 years..
PS hey tweety mathews you could learn a thing or 3 from stewart you did a decent job with arihead but you could have done a hell of a lot better
March 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pmEnjoy the laugh, stupid troll. The show ain’t “in the can” yet.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:48 pmkeithwatch??? yea, THAT’s funny…
a google search of that quote only turns up where commenters have posted it on blogs…
ah hahahahaha!
March 13th, 2009 at 7:06 pmThis is more than just one cable channel not wanting to jump on a sister chaneel. The MSM hate it when they become the story. They love to find easy marks to tar and feather, but can’t handle scrutiny of the media itself.
Whenever they, the corporations who run them. or their buddies within the beltway face the public eye, they clam up.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:18 pmThe Bush Criminal Culture has overtaken all of America (MSM, Wall Street, FCC, SEC, DOJ, etc., etc.). Until the Criminals Bush, Cheney, Delay, etc. are behind bars, America will remain the Criminal Nation, the RepubliCons have created.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:23 pmSee? It’s than dang LIBERAL MEDIA at it again!
March 13th, 2009 at 7:33 pmAll you need to know about Cramer is written about in length at a website called deep capture.com
Then you need to call senators staffers and tell them it is time for senators to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Cramer and the rest for admitting to what you will read about in deep capture.com
March 13th, 2009 at 7:57 pmNow Cramer knows the diff between someone kissing butt and getting your butt kicked!
March 13th, 2009 at 7:58 pmWhere Stewart is concerned, I was so pleased to see him dispatch Cramer last night
chat
March 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pmHey that’s right – we’re surrounded by “patriot cells” as of today. Glenn “Red Dawn” Beck and President of Texas Chuck Norris are supposed to have unleashed a maelstrom of Rand-y Objectivism on us all today, to teach us what we’ll get for experimenting with socialism (and/or masturbation).
How’s it going out there, others? Any skirmishes to report?
I haven’t seen any of them yet, but they’re probably wearing some camo, so I’m keeping both eyes trained on my perimeter…
March 13th, 2009 at 8:33 pmbiranda and frickinredin flaggred for spamming…
March 13th, 2009 at 8:49 pmHowever criminal Cramer might be, I must say I thought he held up admirably, now that I’ve watched it. Jon Stewart was amazing—intelligent, sincere, pulling no punches, but respectful. That was a powerful and moving interview on his part. I want our leaders to care enough about Americans enough to do the same with the people they should hold accountable—like the banksters—and I want it televised.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:11 pmHEY! RACHEL’S TALKING ABOUT THE DAILY SHOW W/CRAMER!
and interesting take… about the numer of hits the video has gotten…
but she’s not holding back…
oh wow…
March 13th, 2009 at 9:30 pmSuch much for the “ban” Rachel Maddow just spend 5 mins on it it…
March 13th, 2009 at 9:30 pmBeat me to it, dhm…good for her.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:31 pmit wasn’t 5 minutes…
which paper is chutting down the BUSINESS SECTION?
i loved how she used the stewart/cramer story as a segue to that news.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:32 pmThe Wash Post
March 13th, 2009 at 9:37 pmthanks eagle… jeez… i THOUGHT that’s what she said, then thought THAT can’t be right, so i didn’t want to say…
wow… tha Washington Post is dropping their business section…
March 13th, 2009 at 9:39 pmyea for rachel! what happened, keith?! (unless i missed his reference to it…but i don’t think i did) here’s a raw story link talking about cramer’s show today and his lame response… “back to business as usual” http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cramer_dodges_any_mention_of_Jon_0313.html
March 13th, 2009 at 9:41 pmI didn’t see anything on Keith either….
My respect for him has found new limits.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:45 pmha, liz… i just thought of that, came back to ask if anyone saw cramer’s show, wondered what happened…
March 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pmMSNBC is foolish to try to bury this story. It’s looking like it might have legs.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:00 pmhttp://news.google.com/news?ned=us&ncl=1312859161
I’m not making any excuses for anybody but, is the Cramer story really a “top five” story? Maybe a “worst person in the world if he hadn’t folded like a wet newspaper” but, I’m not sure he’s top five material. Olbermann’s thoughts on the media at large are well known. Besides which, I’m sure Rachael managed to make her point with class and humor.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:09 pmgo legs, go… it looks like some are taking the story to good ends – close scrutiny of those shows…
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this headline sums it up well:
Jon Stewart Ices Jim Cramer With Earnest Anger, Not Bombast
U.S. News & World Report
and i’ve got to agree with this one, and wiley above:
At Least Cramer Took It Like A Man
Atlantic Online
i thought he held up pretty well… considering… all things…
March 13th, 2009 at 10:16 pmblogurban rumor, fred… bullshit too.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:18 pmHow can MSNBC possibly keep their viewers informed and advised if they omit a story of this importance?!?!?!?!
March 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pmDidn’t seem to keep Rachel Maddow from doing a segment on the smackdown.
Would be fun to know if this was Rachel going rogue or what…
Thought her commentary was very poignant. Especially pointing out that it wasn’t really the Daily Show’s funniest moment; but rather more of a resonating national sentiment…wanting to tear Wall Street hacks a new one….
March 13th, 2009 at 10:32 pmIf you watch the interview, Pete, you’ll see it’s about a whole lot more than Cramer. It’s about NOW. It’s about THE BIG ONE.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:36 pmNo, Fred.
Even if the “famous quote” were confirmed, which it isn’t, Cramer is the one with no balls. First, he takes a whuppin like a whiny little b!tch. (Like his dog’s b!tch.) Then he gets pulled from a scheduled appearance on Morning Joke. Then, on his own show, he runs from the subject with a lame tease.
The more I think of it the more I think the little POS isn’t worth Olbermann’s consideration.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:40 pmwiley Says:
If you watch the interview, Pete, you’ll see it’s about a whole lot more than Cramer. It’s about NOW. It’s about THE BIG ONE.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
If you are talking about the Stewart/Cramer interview, I understand.
However, Cramer himself is not a major media figure. The ignorant masses, who probably don’t watch Olbermann in the first place, won’t understand. And, like it or not, Keith has bosses who he wants to keep writing him checks. Plus, it looks like this story is going to linger for awhile. He may be waiting for Cramer to dig a deeper hole.
Don’t get me wrong. I would love to see EVERY reporter with a shred of integrity call out the whole industry for their complicity in the events of the last several years. I would love to see every single on-air personality come clean. I’m just not convinced that it would have made much difference if Keith had dealt with it tonight.
March 13th, 2009 at 10:56 pmfred garvin Says:
Yep, he’s a hard core olbypologist.
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While YOU are the hardcore moronic troll
March 13th, 2009 at 11:14 pmJust shows how scripted and dishonest MSNBC is. Having NBC news and MSNBC as big brothers, does not surprise. The clock is ticking on all of them, the end is near for dishonest news agencies.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:19 pmdbearton, what about the numerous tax cheats that have been endorsed for major offices this year? I do not disagree with you on Bush, but should we not weed out all dirty politicians? Really a tax cheat running the IRS and scolding other tax cheats? He said he did not know he was supposed to pay taxes in his case. At best, he really did not know, and it was honest, but do you want someone so uninformed on the IRS tax code running the IRS, and at worst, he tried to steal from taxpayers and should never be in govt, maybe not even free, and at worst maybe in prison for not paying his taxes. Thoughts?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:35 pmSorry, stupid troll. Neither I nor anyone else needs to apologize for anyone who has an hour a night to explain their position to everyone who tunes in. And I don’t even have cable. I just don’t think that Olbermann, or anyone besides Cramer himself, needs to apologize for not covering this particular story tonight. I guess I find it hard to question the commitment of anyone with the balls to call a criminal President a criminal on national TV. And, MSNBC and NBC have covered the story even if some of us may quibble.
But, other stupid troll, it’s true that this incident may serve to force a return to integrity in the media. The criminals have only been out of power for a short time. It’s going to take reporters, and their bosses, a while to adjust to the fact that they won’t “disappear” if they tell the truth. FAUX, of course, will need to be torn down around Murdoch’s ears.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:56 pmI want to here more about those trumpeters. I had a spot where a whooper used to visit regularly but no more
March 14th, 2009 at 12:03 amYeah, I see your point, Pete. It’s better to savor the big picture that the Daily Show just sketched via Cramer (who was almost incidental to the broader message.)
March 14th, 2009 at 12:16 amCramer was one of the chief architects of this crisis.
And even if he wasn’t, his “SELL IT ALL” panicked meltdown after Bear Stearns collapsed was most certainly a chief facilitator of it. The DOW dropped 700 points that day, after Cramer’s little panic attack.
He doesn’t deserve to be on TV anymore handing out stock advice so I don’t know why anyone is worried about helping him keep his job.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:44 amHi there, dbadass.
I take a trip over to Wisconsin every couple years to, hopefully, see the whoopers. I love the Midwest! but, we’re talking swans.
Well. Minnesota has had a trumpeter reintroduction program for about thirty years. Lots of successes and more than a few failures. The local flock was started with “clipped” birds who were recaptured every fall. Some of the cygnets took off but no one knows where they went. (Damn, I’ll have to track down some official info for you but I’ll continue with the short version.)
Anyway, about the third or fourth year, they introduced a migrant pair who had been rescued from another pond. The female had run afoul of some fishing line and they were lucky enough to catch, and clip, her mate as well.
So the two pairs, after some sorting out of pecking orders, both produced broods (five between the two pairs if I recall). That fall the migrant pair led both broods South to parts unknown. Next spring the whole flock came back so, they moved the original residents to the zoo for a happy, and well fed, retirement.
Then they got inventive. The DNR had collected four cygnets, who’s mother was killed by a predator, from yet another pond. They caught and separated the males and females then released the two mixed groups to the two different ponds. That left the local flock with males and females from two separate parental lines. Long story short, we now have a thriving, migrant, flock of 16 as of last year. In fact, the local lake is probably at capacity. (Swans like their space when raising young and can be downright vicious.)
There you go. I eagerly look forward to the return of these fantastic birds every spring. Some have been lost and, hopefully, some have paired off with others. Success stories like this make me proud to be a human. We can fix, at least some of, the damage we cause.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:56 amWell atleast until #77
March 14th, 2009 at 12:56 ampete I ment whooper swan not whooping crane. I have only ever seen the later on the texas coast. Whooper swan is a eurasian species.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:59 ampete I am jealous and a little embarassed to admit trumpeter is not on my life list.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:00 amIt is not surprising that the parent company wanted to make sure that its two most likely tattlers on MSNBC would be kept on a leash. Stewart meticulously detailed not only CNBC’s failure to call out this fraud as it unfolded but its complicity in same. There’s a new FCC in town, after all, and it may now be watching. Perhaps a Congressional inquiry is also in order regarding the role played by CNBC and other media outlets in Wall Street’s undoing of our financial sector and the looting of our nation’s wealth.
The complete dismantling of Cramer and his network by John Stewart was nothing short of breathtakingly surreal. Fake news my ass! Does anyone else see another Peabody in The Daily Show’s future?
March 14th, 2009 at 1:02 amSwans sound lovely. I was bemused by a Mallard couple foraging in a grocery store parking lot around midnight last night. It made a sad impression on me. Haven’t seen that before around here. So many ponds around—but they have signs saying “Don’t feed the ducks”. The ducks were beautiful. The parking lot was ugly, as were the scant orange cracker crumbs they were feeding on. Now I wish I had gotten them some sardines or something, though I don’t really know if that’s a bad idea or not.
The seagulls circling the Red Lobster parking lot about a block from where I live always cracks me up. We’re an hour’s drive from the mighty Pacific. Why?
March 14th, 2009 at 1:10 amdbadass, let’s call it a push. I had never even heard of a whooper swan.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:12 amMarch 14th, 2009 at 1:19 am
fred garvin Says:
Your Olberman site is crap and YOU are a moron
March 14th, 2009 at 1:31 amI don’t know what happened to my last attempted post but, welcome fred. You finally contributed to the conversation. Cranes are way cool! I regret to say I shot two sandhills back in my hunting days. And I would have shot more if they I had a taste for them. Alas, we all have our primitive sides.
wiley:
Gulls have been called white crows. Like most birds, they go where the food is. I can’t blame any critter for doing the same.
March 14th, 2009 at 1:34 amBack on topic:
Why is Olbermann the litmus test on this story? Every newscast I’ve seen has made some mention of the Cramer story. Are the GOoPers going to try and push the meme that “if Olbermann doesn’t cover it, it’s not news”? It wasn’t long ago that the meme was, “Olbermann isn’t real news”.
Hahahahahaha! Oh my!! How the worm has turned!!!
March 14th, 2009 at 1:42 amAs I said, fred, I don’t even subscribe to cable because I refuse to pay a penny to ANY corporate news service. I’m not going to pay ANYONE to lie to me.
Olbermann is an employee. He is expected to follow dorectives from his bosses. He’s not an oracle.
Maybe he’ll cover this story next week. Maybe he’ll resign. Maybe he’ll ignore it, on his own or on orders from above.
Regardless, it won’t change the story.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:04 amfred garvin Says:
No Olberman is not an armpit just because he says things you dont like. Try to remember how stupid and brainwashed you are. You dont even RECOGNIZE reality. YOU are a moron. You wouldnt know a good pundit from a Myna bird
March 14th, 2009 at 4:41 amOlbermann has not mentioned this story at all either before or after MSNBC’s apparent edict.
If any of you watched either Olbermann or Stewart you might have guessed that there is some tension between them, and that’s probably why Olbermann never touched it. It’s not as if he had been reporting on it, and then suddenly stopped, ala David Schuster. He never touched it.
March 14th, 2009 at 7:28 amJon Stewart has it exactly right about CNBC.
March 14th, 2009 at 8:06 amUnfortunately it’s a comedy show that brings up a serious point.
I listened and watched for a year as the financial expert Larry Kudlow told everyone we were living in a time of “goldielocks”.
These so called experts on CNBC know less than those experts at the Fed, the SEC, and the Treasury Department !
See the entire incriminating Cramer admission of stock market manipulation here:
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/4210
March 14th, 2009 at 9:17 amAs for MSNBC’s censorship:
Media ownership study ordered destroyed
Sept 14, 2006
‘Every last piece’ destroyed
Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that “every last piece” of the report be destroyed. “The whole project was just stopped – end of discussion,” he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC’s Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/
“You can’t tell any more the difference between what’s propaganda and what’s news.”
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
March 14th, 2009 at 9:18 am15 August, 2006
Of course, as Stewart kept pointing out, it wasn’t about Cramer, it was about the lack of actual reporting on CNBC. Cramer made it about himself, but it wasn’t originally about him, and the eviseration wasn’t about him – it was about CNBC. Now CNBC deserved everything that they got – but they are not THAT much worse than CNN or NBC. People (mostly, but not exclusively Republithugs) can go on “Meet the Press” or “The Situation Room” and make any claim that they want. They may be asked hard questions, but nobody is going to grade their test. So Cheney can go on “Meet the Press” and tell Russert that the aluminum tubes could only be used for nuclear weapons, and, as Tim told Bill Moyers “nobody called me and told me anything different.” Knight Ridder called people and found out different. David Gregory and Wolf Blitzer are exactly the same – they will ask hard questions, but you can make up the answer – it’s not going to be checked.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:06 amNobody on television knows what’s going on with the economy.
http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20090314/Meltdown.Financial.Reporters/
If Stewart’s a comedian, I think taking Stewart seriously makes equal sense.
Stewart railed on Rick Santelli for his hypocrisy over the recent bailout of homeowners.
But here’s Santelli back in Sep 2008, arguing against the bailout of the banks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-1g0OZJIdk
There seemed to be a lot of accusation that Santelli was fine with bailouts as long as it was for Wall Street.
Watch the clip. That’s not the case. Santelli walks off at the end. Equally upset with Bush bailouts of banks as he is with Obama’s bailout of homeowners.
Stewart should retract.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:41 ambackup Says:
Stewart should retract.
March 14th, 2009 at 10:41 am
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No he shouldn’t. He pointed this out during the interview – that Santelli was equally anti-bailout for banks and auto companies.
March 14th, 2009 at 11:12 amWhen Stewart whose comedy show won an award a few years ago having something to do with news reporting, he actually said that his show winning this award should be a huge wake up call to the media who are supposed to do this for a living.
Stewart never denies he is a comedian, a satirist, but he also knows that his report of the news is more honest than the msm, and the public knows it.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:04 pmtoasterhead:
That’s not what Stewart was saying here. Check it out:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/05/santelli-show/
March 14th, 2009 at 1:31 pmHas Rush ever retracted? I am not making any comparisions between entertainers. I am just curious as it was suggested that Stewart should. I don’t follow either individual entertainers, It just made me wonder…
March 14th, 2009 at 1:34 pmA story about Stewart’s interview did make it on the front page of this morning’s Washington Post, which, bad as it is, goes much deeper into stories than any TV outlet.
backup Says:
Nobody on television knows what’s going on with the economy.
That’s for sure, but then again, there seem to be very few in the MSM that know anything about anything! The MSM, in general, is more of a corporate shill than anything else, and television “news” is pure crapaganda. I quit watching TV “news” in 1980 after the first Carter/Reagan debate when, after 20 minutes of Reagan drooling and slobbering all over himself, Tom Brokaw looked into the camera and said, “That’s why they call him the ‘great communicator’.”
March 14th, 2009 at 6:18 pmShorter MSNBC: I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!! LALALALA!!!!
March 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pmI will bring down ANY bush monument.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:24 amThose who control the media control the message, period. What bothers me is that there is apparently no way that we, the common folk, will ever get truthful information from the fascist controlled media. Don’t give me the old baloney of main stream media, these clowns are so for off to the right it’s not funny. We have elected a president who should address most of the injustices we’ve been forced to endure these last thirty years or so, we just have to keep his feet to the fire. The FCC is now in the control of the Democrats, let’s hope they’ll do something about the fascist messengers.
March 16th, 2009 at 8:20 am