On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was prepared to be my entire 401k that Cramer was going to
> accuse Stewart of taking that video out of context in some way.

He did... just not on the show:

http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/cramer-takes-white-house-frank-rich-and-jon-stewart

"Take Frank Rich and Jon Stewart. Both seize on the urban legend that
I recommended Bear Stearns the week before it collapsed, even though I
was saying that I thought it could be worthless as soon as the
following week. I did tell an emailer that his deposit in his account
at Bear Stearns was safe, but through a clever sound bite, Stewart,
and subsequently Rich -- neither of whom have bothered to listen to
the context of the pulled quote -- pass off the notion of account
safety as an out-and-out buy recommendation. The absurdity astounds
me. If you called Mad Money and asked me about Citigroup, I would tell
you that the common stock might be worthless, but I would never tell
you to pull your money out of the bank because I was worried about its
solvency. Your money is safe in Citi as I said it was in Bear. The
fact that I was right rankles me even more. I never said the same
thing about Lehman, where your accounts weren't safe. I expect a
skewering from the comedian Stewart. I was shocked, however, that the
rigorous Rich wouldn't investigate further and relied on the show's
truncation of the truth. After all, how many times were the pull
quotes from reviews by Rich used against him when he may have been
panning a play in his former role as entertainment critic?"


-- 
Kevin M. (RPCV)

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