Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by Lemon_Pie

(cue the approving uproar in the audience)

And that's why he doesn't take shots at obama (yet). His audience. And I don't mean the one in the studio. Advertisers don't like it when you lose your target demographic, and networks don't like it when you lose your advertisers.

Down the road, if this president becomes as unpopular as the last, it'll be a nightly roast.

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

And that's why he doesn't take shots at obama (yet). His audience. And I don't mean the one in the studio. Advertisers don't like it when you lose your target demographic, and networks don't like it when you lose your advertisers.

Down the road, if this president becomes as unpopular as the last, it'll be a nightly roast.

He's poked at Obama several times. There's at least one or two WTF's???every week on that show.

He doesn't get vindictive, but he DOES point some questionable, less than flattering "to-do's" out on a pretty regular basis.

[alnorth]

Stewart just clubbed Cramer like a baby seal.

I have always hated Cramer's show because I'm basically a buy-and-holder and find his show to be unwise and silly. Even with my bias, I started to feel sorry for him in there.

The lesson here is: don't... ever... f***... with... Jon Stewart. When he makes fun of you, laugh it off and let it go away. When you publicly get offended by the Daily Show and start slamming him, Stewart's writers will move in for the kill.

[irishjayhawk]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Stewart just clubbed Cramer like a baby seal.

I have always hated Cramer's show because I'm basically a buy-and-holder and find his show to be unwise and silly. Even with my bias, I started to feel sorry for him in there.

The lesson here is: don't... ever... f***... with... Jon Stewart. When he makes fun of you, laugh it off and let it go away. When you publicly get offended by the Daily Show and start slamming him, Stewart's writers will move in for the kill.

I thought Cramer at least held his ground slightly. Though, I don't think it was what NBC intended. He ended up more sympathetic to the audience. Perhaps that was the intent, but somehow I doubt it.

I wonder if those promos disappear.


Also, was it me or was the "I was just explaining these things not condoning them" excuse really, really unbelievable.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Stewart just clubbed Cramer like a baby seal.

I have always hated Cramer's show because I'm basically a buy-and-holder and find his show to be unwise and silly. Even with my bias, I started to feel sorry for him in there.

The lesson here is: don't... ever... f***... with... Jon Stewart. When he makes fun of you, laugh it off and let it go away. When you publicly get offended by the Daily Show and start slamming him, Stewart's writers will move in for the kill.

Cramer isn't against buy and holding, per se. He just says it's not the way to make the most money, and he's right.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Silock

Cramer isn't against buy and holding, per se. He just says it's not the way to make the most money, and he's right.

Thats correct. The best way to make money in the stock market is to be psychic, or possess an abnormal amount of dumb luck.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Thats correct. The best way to make money in the stock market is to be psychic, or possess an abnormal amount of dumb luck.

Again, that's not at all what he's saying. Buying and holding is fine, but you have to constantly research whether or not it's a good idea to hold on to your stocks at all times. People that held on to GM stock all the way down are kicking themselves right now. If you were monitoring your investments, then you would have known that it was a good time to get out instead of holding it all the way to 50 year lows.

I'm not saying that he's 100% right about everything he says, because I think he does have a few things fundamentally wrong. But there is truth in some of the things he says, too. He's not advocating day trading or anything like that.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Silock

Again, that's not at all what he's saying. Buying and holding is fine, but you have to constantly research whether or not it's a good idea to hold on to your stocks at all times. People that held on to GM stock all the way down are kicking themselves right now. If you were monitoring your investments, then you would have known that it was a good time to get out instead of holding it all the way to 50 year lows.

I'm not saying that he's 100% right about everything he says, because I think he does have a few things fundamentally wrong. But there is truth in some of the things he says, too. He's not advocating day trading or anything like that.

I apologize, I misunderstood. In that case, I have no problem with this. I evaluate everything I have a couple times a year, though I dont necessarily panic after a bad year. It takes a lot for me to trade, but I still at least ask myself why I still own this. (even if you had a great year, then I ask "Is this for real?")