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Jon Stewart absolutely destroyed CNBC last night on The Daily Show. The first half of the bit (Approximately the first 4 minutes) goes on the offensive against Rick Santelli who was supposed to be a guest on the show before he “bailed out.” Santelli is one of the few rational, intelligent, and authentic personalities on CBNC, frequently going against his peers’ opinions. Even so, he is still on CNBC. Since CNBC is basically a rah-rah cheerleading outfit for Wall Street, Santelli’s attack on mortgage payment subsidization (See Santelli’s Chicago Tea Party) makes him an easy target.
So that is funny, but it isn’t the best part. Stewart goes on to illustrate just how wrong CNBC has been throughout the emergence of the recession / bear market / depression / bubble bust. He does it with video clips from CNBC that pump Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia, AIG, Bank of America, and General Motors (GM). He takes jabs at Fast Money and Squawk Box — “Reasoned financial reporting that combines the raw speed of fast money with the intelligence of a box of parrots. You just had to know how to listen!”
He has clips from Wall Street executives (i.e. John Thain) where they say essentially “everything is ok!” And what takedown of CNBC wouldn’t be complete without clips of Jim Cramer? So he nails that, too.
“If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice I’d have a million dollars today provided I’d started with $100 million dollars.” How do they do it?”
And to cap off Stewart’s hilarious piece, he ends with a gut-busting clip from an interview between Squawk Box‘s Carl Quintanilla and Ponzi-criminial Sir Allen Stanford that you just have to watch yourself.
Well done Jon Stewart!