After Cheering On Cramer, Morning Joe Is Silent About Daily Show Appearance

Today on Morning Joe, they talked about Syracuse winning, and how the kids in Park Slope are having a "virtual life" and how "the stability of [General Electric] was good" and how Rahm Emanuel shouldn't have sounded so gleeful about crisis presenting opportunities and how Bernie Madoff's apology was "lame," and how the movie "The Tao Of Steve" explains Barack Obama's approach to discussing the economy, and how the economy is like watching the Knicks, and pills and flasks. And there was good, substantive stuff on Afghanistan policy, and Mexico, and Dexter Filkins new book and the lessons learned from the Rihanna/Chris Brown incident, too.

But despite having participated in Jim Cramer's charm defensive, and brashly egging him on, and suggesting that there's a structural unfairness to the way Jon Stewart uses "transcripts" and research, and all but labelling the Daily Show as an outpost of pure partisan hackery, the Morning Joe gang couldn't seem to find the time to utter a single blessed word about Cramer's Daily Show appearance.

Though perhaps one is forthcoming!

Late night? I wouldn't have thought going home after the taping, taking a mild sedative, and curling up in a fetal position would have been that taxing for Cramer.

But, okay. Look for Cramer, I guess, next week on MJ. Still, one would have thought the typically chatty MJ crew would have mentioned it, if only in passing. Just saying.

OH! Peggy Noonan did get asked about bongs this morning, so that was kind of awesome.

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Comments

[carpdd]

Ahh the sound of silence !!!! Which is especially blissful any time Joe can be left speechless. Jim Kramer seems like a nice guy but he is , as Jon put it a part of a larger problem and given the track record of Mr. Kramer is well proven. I get so tired of Super Joe and his condesending atitude when it comes to anyone being criticized. As far as the Morning Joe show goes, I watch in spite of Joe. Mika , Willie and Mike add enough substanitive banter to make it worth watching. Joe is the epitomy of arrogance and a wonderful spokesman for the debilitated GOP. So rock on JOE !!! The democrats applaud your every outburst.

[bazokbros]

The way people are carrying on about this interview makes me think of a "Family Guy" episode when the annoying Jewish pharmacist character is running around yelling "oh my god, oh my god save John Stewart, he's our most important Jew."

I think the importance of John Stewart's commentary, who makes millions to do what he does, is being a bit overblown and overpraised. This "meeting" isn't that big of a deal.

[MarsAmbassador]

Then perhaps you need to watch it again and compare it with every single other news outlet, none of which are taking on Wall Street or any of the talking heads for their collusion with the corporate raiders who drove America and our life's savings into the ditch at top speed, jumped out the window just before it crashed with fistfuls of our money. Jon Stewart and Colbert are the only two legitimate journalists left in America who challenge and expose. And that is freaking pathetic.

[bazokbros]

Do you honestly believe what you just said? Two political comedians are the only "legitimate" journalists?

[Hawaii5-0]

Joe was probably afraid to comment on TDS because his show might be next.

[texfly]

I saw Cramer on the Daily Show and Morning Joe and what I saw tells me that the cast of Morning Joe did not see what I saw. They (all of them) are full of their own celebrity. Stewart's main attack was on CNBC, a NETWORK that does essentially ZERO invetsigative reporting of the financial industry. All they do is talk to CEOs, traders, etc and report what they say verbatim They NEVER dig into what is really going on, even though their "staff" are supposed to be experts and journalists. The are just talking heads that go for ratings to fatten their pay checks. God forbid that they do actual journalism and get at the bottom of of things. The same is true of the cast of characters on Morning Joe and a many other "news" networks. It is a shame that with so much bandwidth available for TV journalism, we have to rely on a comedfy show to shed a little light our most serious matters.

[blustate135]

I'm not usually up in time to see MJ but I couldn't resist recording it on Friday so I could see his reaction. I suffered through the entire 3 hours for NOTHING.

[Jack Nealy]

Although it would have made for great TV, having Scarborough debate Stewart would have been pointless. Joe does not nearly have the same grasp of finance like Cramer has, and the viewers would not have gained an ounce of insight because of it. I believe Cramer will be a more responsible agent in securities trades by getting called out on The Daily Show. It was painful to watch because I enjoy viewing both of their shows, but hopefully nobody would ever dare challenge the depth of Jon's civic awareness again.

[unite4change]

Please pass this on to everyone you know. Every American should see this. So once and for all, the GOP will stop the nonsense about minorities and poor people causing our financial crisis.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/

[aaronr2000]

Thank you so much for that link. I really can't wait to see it. I also wanted to see "House of Cards" by (get this) CNBC. But I think this will get the job done. I've been reading a lot and have come to that conclusion that the scapegoating on poor and minorities is a deflection of blame from the real culprits.

[HeavyDoug]

I recorded Cramer's show after the Stewart showdown. It was strange. He referenced the show, than played a clip. But the clip was a meaningless 15 seconds of Cramer and Martha Stewart making a pie. Then when they cut back to Cramer, he went into his stupid show saying nothing about the clip or the Jon Stewart show.

Very peculiar, very cowardly also.

[UpstateNY]

It's tough when a comedy show is the only place where the real questions are asked! Jon Stewart didn't pull any punches and kudos to him, Jim Cramer took it. None of the other talking heads on CNBC did and none of the other NBC 'newspeople' did either.

[suzonne]

What was that you said Joe...bluk ,bluk bluk, you big chicken.

[masha2008]

probably scared that he'll be next. i wish jon stewart would skewer you too, joe...and that vacuous mika. ugh!

[Tom Payned]

I didn't lose any money in the market, I pulled out when the Nasdaq was 5,000 and Bush was made president in 2000. So I have no bone to pick with Cramer. In fact I've never watched Mad Money, and other than the occasional clip on other shows, had no real knowledge about him.

However, after watching the "war" between Jon and CNBC I developed a bit of knowledge. Listening to the morons at MJ, calling out Jon to make stock choices, showed their obvious ignorance of what Jon was saying. Jon was never saying he and TDS could do better, as that wasn't their shtick, rather those who claim to be prognosticators should shoulder some blame for the way they misrepresented the actual machinations of Wall St.

Say what you will about Cramer, he manned up & spent an entire episode being grilled & having his own words thrown back at him. That took courage. Courage nobody else at CNBC has. Courage that nobody on Wall St. has shown to date. Courage that nobody from the Bush administration has accepted or been accountable for on any matter.

Cramer accepted some of Jon's ideas while admitting CEO's lied to him, but he should have known better. If only the Bushies would come clean, we could talk about how and why things went wrong so they never happen again.

[HopeGirl]

Mr J S, of the famous unexplained deceased intern, needs to be the next one to be hung out on the public clothes line as that rediculous piece of useless nonsense from a time long gone by.

[jotunloki]

Ridiculous.

[lesterbud]

And what about all the puppies missing in Rush Limbaugh's neighborhood - obviously where his weight gain is coming from.

[JZ735]

Cramer committed the ultimate sin for the sheeple who shill for Obama...he had the AUDACITY to criticize him, IMAGINE THAT???

[HopeGirl]

did he do that critic with or without Sterns you know what stuck down his throut? While hitting a gong, twirling a twirly, beeping a clown size horn...

you must be kidding

[charlygardel]

No, Cramer had the audacity to repeatedly, emphatically and loudly claim to have knowledge he did not have. He had the audacity to repeatedly, emphatically and loudly give people investment advice based on his "knowledge," "information" and "experience."

As it turns out, he is full of BS, and got called on it. Do you Republicans not believe that people should have some responsibility for the things that they do and the claims they make? Oh, right ... you just *say* you do, while pinning the Congressional Medal of Honor on any shmuck who screws up enough to deserve it.

[lizt]

For your info....Congressional Medal of Honor only goes to soldiers for extreme heroism. Other than that....everything you said is absolutely correct!

[Bushmills]

It would be great if they would replace Mika with a bonafide female journalist but that's probably asking too much. I tire of watching her pose for the camera - I bet she spends time in the mirror getting that just right. Send her and her dated pink lipgloss away, but that goes for Erin Burnett as well; another upper-class twit who snidely questions whether people on unemployment are avoiding work. And why is Andrea Mitchell allowed to report at all on anything involving the financial crisis when her husband was one of the architects of this debacle?

[HopeGirl]

J S needs a fluffer...she is that nobody fluffer.

How depressed her father must be that she sold herself like this.

[lizt]

Or better yet...keep Mika and replace Joe!