http://blog.indecisionforever.com/2009/03/13/jon-stewart-and-jim-cramer-the-extended-daily-show-interview/

(sadly, this crisis really leaves no other option to people with an intelligence level above the category “total idiot”)

“Tigerhawk?” Is that you?

Keep it up. A major public service has been done here, and we appreciate it. (And tell us about the PB “erasure” soon, eh? Or at least let us know if there is a joke order involved.

The worst part is that I have no way at all to tell whether you are serious or not. Friggin scripts. “So if I told you candidate X had a child out of wedlock would that make you more or less likely to vote for him?” and then the person on the other end of the phone gets all pissed, or worse, angry at X. Sweet fuck people need to stop being stupid.

The shrill, desperate comments by koch brownshirts are even better. I can just skim and laugh for days

The real losers in a foreclosure are usually the banks, not the homeowners. Most bubble buyers didn’t make down payments anyway, and they’re underwater, so it’s really not much different than leaving a rented house, except that your credit score takes a hit. That’s why so many people are choosing to walk away, even if they can afford their mortgages. There are exceptions (like this guy, who got REALLY REALLY bad advice from CNBC – this makes them look far worse than the Daily Show clips: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/cnbc-should-this-owner-walkaway/ ), but that’s the situation for the typical person who bought during the bubble.

Therefore, the biggest beneficiary of this scheme are the banks, who are getting paid thousands of tax dollars for each readjustment. It’s also nice for the people who would have been foreclosed that they’ll get to keep their nice house instead of moving into a cheaper one or an apartment. The losers are the taxpayers and anyone who wants to buy a house at a price that isn’t artificially inflated.

It’s on youtube and google video, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTAk54c8tFQ

Honestly John was ripping one everyone at CNBC except Santelli (aside for him simply not showing up, which I agree was bad form), I don’t watch CNBC, given the clips Stewart showed, I’d tend to agree with him, that they are pretty much a failure as a business network, but generally speaking, NO MEDIA I have seen was on top of the economic crash.

I wont defend Santelli, I have no idea who the hell he is, other than a guy that made a comment that went viral on the internet, and ended up getting a whole bunch of average Americans out on a Friday protesting the fraudulent waste of our treasure that is the Obama (wait he didn’t even write it did he) Stimulus plan. Those Americans were pissed pre-Santelli and we are still pissed post-Santelli, you lot can continue to demonize us if you like, but I think eventually you will be one of us as you see more and more what the “utopia” I assume you “thought” you were voting for looks like.

That isn’t that we love the GOP or McCain, it is just…. aw hell who am I fooling here? Okay, fine, so I know who Santelli is and i’m part of the whole Freedomworks nexus. You got me, okay? So, you want to dance on my grave? Laugh at me? Go ahead. Thing is, I need a job. These are tough times. Sure, Bush and the Freedomworks machine are responsible for fucking everything up, and this Santelli tea party thing is the most amateurish astroturf campaign imaginable, but like I said–I need a job. Freedomworks pays. They even pay the guys who pay me to troll around commenting on sites. I’m the guy who still pretends I’m neither left nor right, that i don’t know who Santelli is, that it’s all grassroots, bla bla bla. Okay, so there’s that.

Now, to continue the script I was given. Read it if you want to, but just know, I was paid to say it:

Hopefully in the coming years the constitutionalist, libertarian, green, natural law and objectivist parties will take over the field, and the crooks of the past will be banished, though I’m sure given time and power these parties themselves will become as corrupt as what we have to put up with now, that is simply the way of human nature, particularly with a media which is not vigilant and in many cases are as corrupt as the politicians they support or deride.