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theprof00 said:

twest whats funny is people like you who try to discredit the show.
Why don't you try watching this episode and see exactly how hard hitting it is.

Yes it is comedy, but to say that the pieces they run are doctored or made up in any way is ignorant. Things that they talk about actually did happen. But instead of the report sounding something like an essay it sounds more like a conversation.

EDIT:PLUS most of their news comes FROM news channels. You can see the emblems. Jim Kramer went on the air in an interview and said "oh so I'm getting attacked by a comedian now? What does he know, he runs a variety show"

THen Scarborough says "Maybe jon stewart can tell us what the market is going to do for the next 5-10 years, it's terrible that he will cherry pick someone's mistakes and then make a face resulting in a pavlovian laugh from the crowd."

Then last night he had Kramer on the show. He showed clips that people didn't even know existed of Kramer talking about insider trading and illegal trading activity in futures and highly recommended it. The question is, how do you trust people like scarborough or kramer or these "news sites" when they are completely selling you "snake oil".

Wow, dude it's a comedy show, no need to defend it's credability....because comedy doesn't need to be believable.  Sure the stories they cover are based in legitimate news but the content is not selected on the basis of keeping viewers informed but rather amused and entertained.  As a result you should always question whether you've heard the full story from them....or better yet just enjoy the humor and look to other sources for your news.

I watch the show and it is funny, he has mastered the art quite well and the results speak for themselves.  But with that said the Daily Show should not be the basis for forming an opinion about a topic any more than Red Eye is. 

In this case I don't think they are too far off the mark TBH, all of these guys who pick stocks and tell people to buy or sell are full of crap.

My take on the situation is pretty simple, Cramer got on Stuart's radar after his criticism of Obama, that part is pretty much a given since Cramer was a nobody before his comments and who cares what a nobody got wrong?   Once you're on a comedian's radar he is going to do any material about you that he thinks will get a good laugh.  Stuart probably thought he would get one segment out of it and that's it...but Cramer being insecure fought back which told Stuart he struck a nerve and that there was comedy gold to be had by pressing the issue.  At this point Cramer is doing it to himself by engaging in it and not backing away from it, I have no sympathy.  He should have laughed it off and ignored it, now the wound is going to fester because he took it from a short segment on TDS to media brawl which people won't forget any time soon.