Jon Stewart on Lenny Dykstra

I love listening to Dykstra talk, and thinking that folks actually gave him money.

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Lenny Dykstra moment of zen

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-july-14-2009/moment-of-zen—-lenny-dykstra-s-debts

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by DJCahill on Jul 15, 2009 7:52 PM CDT reply actions

That was just awesome.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jul 15, 2009 8:15 PM CDT reply actions

Yes. That was funny.

That's why they call them business sox

by egriffey on Jul 15, 2009 8:19 PM CDT reply actions

I knew someone would be posting this

that was great. The clip of Cramer was a nice ending.

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by t ball on Jul 15, 2009 11:14 PM CDT reply actions

His Cramer thing

Bothered me, but don’t get me wrong—it was very funny in this clip because of that context.

by brettgardner on Jul 16, 2009 12:29 AM CDT up reply actions

Don't know why the Cramer thing

should bother you. Cramer is just another carny barker.

by DJCahill on Jul 16, 2009 5:43 AM CDT up reply actions

Exactly

That’s what it bothered me. Stewart was a sanctimonious prick about a carny barker.

by brettgardner on Jul 16, 2009 9:16 AM CDT up reply actions

A highly rated

carny barker that some rubes take seriously.

I got zero problem with making fun of Cramer, or even the late Billy Mays for that matter. Similar jobs, trying to sell crap to make money for themselves.

by DJCahill on Jul 16, 2009 9:32 AM CDT up reply actions

He's an entertainer

With supposed knowledge.

I have no problem with making fun of him. That’s perfectly fine. It was the pretentious lecturing Stewart did—which was not funny at all—that I had the problem with.

by brettgardner on Jul 16, 2009 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions

It was a lot deeper than a pretentious lecturing.

It was about the entire network essentially throwing itself behind retardedly leveraged companies and claiming that they knew the market was going to keep expanding.

To me, if someone pretends to be a financial genius and gets a lot of people in trouble by recommending stupid things to them, he can expect some criticism and even hatred, especially from those who believe the network hype.

“Pretentious” definitely isn’t the right word to describe that interview (or lecture or whatever). Cramer’s advice (as well as the advice of the other hosts on MSNBC) lost a lot of money for a lot of people. Yes, a lot of other people lost money as well, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that the horrible advice from so-called financial experts was completely ass backwards.

Cramer is the guy that the network uses (more or less) as its frontman, using such marketing angles as “In Cramer We Trust” which liken him to a god of finance. He wound up being sort of a scapegoat for the whole thing, mostly because he was the focus of Stewart’s “rampage” but also because he’s not afraid to go on the show and talk about it.

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by NoNameOnCard on Jul 16, 2009 7:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Anybody

Who trusts a network with anything, but particularly with financial advice, is a total dolt, and neither sympathy nor populist rage should be shown them.

I use straight news stories from big TV networks only as prima facie evidence of what’s going on in the world—I watch with a skeptical eye. If some buffoon took “In Cramer We Trust” seriously and blindly invested because of that, he got exactly what he deserved.

“Pretentious” is most certainly the correct word for what Stewart did. Here are a couple relevant definitions:

1. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
2. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.

I don’t see how that 30 minute lecture (longer in the uncut version), cathartic though it may be for someone with no understanding of the market or without common sense, is anything but a pretentious, unfunny showing by a guy I watch every night for his humor.

by brettgardner on Jul 17, 2009 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions