My biggest souce of entertainment this week...

[dragojustine]

I have been having so much fun watching the unspooling feud between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer.

Okay, full disclosure: When I lived with my grandparents, they watched Mad Money nearly every night. I think Jim Cramer indulges in shallow, idiotic, distracting, insulting hijinks to mask his own vapidity, that he creates artificially pumped-up enthusiasm and a deceptive sense of urgency to aid his self-serving boosterism, and that his presentation of his own expertise and certainty borders on the criminally irresponsible. Oh, and that he strikes me as a thoroughly unpleasant person who is going to scream himself into an early but very well-deserved coronary.

So it's not like I'm biased.

Part one, Part two, and Part three. They get steadily funnier, until the climax of the third one, which is pretty genius.

And now Cramer is going to be on the Daily Show on Thursday. Must watch! But what I really want to know is this: how could any celebrity think that it's a good idea to get in a pissing contest with Jon Stewart? I mean, you will lose that fight! Was Cramer stupid?

Random: I am making raspberry filled fudge brownies. If they turn out half as good as they smell so far, this could be really something. Thank God for Nestle pre-made dough (don't stone me! I know I'm a heathen!).

Comments

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Watching Jon Stewart gets me totally hot. SO MY TV BOYFRIEND!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

I know. Hot!

(you can have him, though, as long as I get Rachel)

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm ... Rachel .... Anderson Cooper is a hottie as well.

But Jon is still my fave. :D

[desertport]

Wow. I'd never seen Jim Cramer before (and probably would have flipped past him if I had; don't need sound effects with my financial news, thnx). But that one segment where he was being interviewed and talking up Bear Sterns... his body language so clearly telegraphed "I am lying" it's almost a shock anyone could take him seriously. I mean, with the cringing and looking anywhere but at the interviewer or camera and the grimacing. Holy crud. Guy couldn't hold still.

But Stewart so rocks. Thanks for the links!

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

I have no idea about body language. But just from listening to the things he says on different occasions, he's either wildly erratic with a horrible memory (charitable interpretation) or a pathological liar.

And yes. Stewart rocks SO HARD.

[ariadne83]

how could any celebrity think that it's a good idea to get in a pissing contest with Jon Stewart?

I don't know! How can anyone win against Jon?

Can't wait for Thursday.

[dragojustine.livejournal.com]

Well, my theory is that he's working off "all publicity is good publicity," which is I suppose the sort of thing he'd believe. But really.