Jon Stewart gutted Jim Cramer like a trout…

File under “un-bleeping-believable”: I knew Jon Stewart had it in him. If you have watched the Daily Show for any length of time, you’ve seen him take guests to task in ways that are very much not intended to be funny (see Tucker Carlson interview). He has an intellect, and ain’t afraid to use it. I’ve been following the Jim Cramer/Jon Stewart drama, and kind of figured it would come to a head with a few one-liners about the media, and then pleasantries and maybe a book plug or something. I didn’t expect Jon Stewart to eviscerate Cramer…with video!…and then lines like: “I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it’s not a [f-ing] game.” And so on. But to see Cramer squirm and stammer like he did was horribly uncomfortable and, admittedly, somewhat satisfying. Stewart used Cramer as the conduit for his criticism of all of CNBC. It was exhausting, shocking, good fun… See the whole thing here. (Once I upgrade my Wordpress, I’ll embed the videos. To date, I’ve been afraid of the upgrade because I don’t know if I can pull it off w/out blowing up everything to this point; we’ll see…)

Off to Toledo in a few minutes. Z and I are paying a quick weekend visit to honor thy parents/grandparents…