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Originally Posted by Boris The Great
Its wasnt exactly honest because Stewart only attacked this issue after guys from CNBC dared to speak out against Obama financial policies. All of his criticisms of the network are valid, to be sure, but all of them could have been made months and even years before now. It wasnt until Santelli and Cramer dared criticize Obama that this was raised. That isnt honest criticism, thats reactionary gotcha-ism to change the subject.
And it wasnt exactly fair because if this was pointed out to Stewart, that he was essentially playing an attack dog for the administration while criticizing the ethics of others, he would play his game about being a comedy show and not being part of media or journalism. The clown outfit tends to come off and on whenever it suits him.
I like Stewart for the most part, but this is one of his more blatant examples of wanting to have it both ways.
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He gets to have it both ways, he's an intelligent outsider with a good opinion(and good writers)
That's a huge assumption about the Obama connection. CNBC had as much to do with the timing of it as Stewart and I don't mean by bringing up Obama.