Jim Cramer scheduled to be guest on Thursday's "The Daily Show"

[Imran Siddiqui]

As I watched the Daily Show, I kept wondering if Cramer's real purpose for appearing was to set himself up for a rebirth of his image, so he is now seen as a Wall Street investigator.

Which is why I think people who are like "Stewart pwned Cramer!!1!" are missing the point.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Yeah, but doesn't he then have to, you know, do something different? Whether that was Cramer's goal in poking the bear or not, if an actual change comes out of it I'd be happy. (Note actual change, not just rebranding, which I suspect won't work in this case since Stewart will just destroy him again in the future if he tries to claim changes that aren't manifested.)

[Imran Siddiqui]

He'll just take the uptick in ratings... and as shown earlier Cramer was calling out some companies beforehand, just every once in a while. As long as he continues that, he can say he's doing what he says.

[Darius871]

Yeah, but doesn't he then have to, you know, do something different? Whether that was Cramer's goal in poking the bear or not, if an actual change comes out of it I'd be happy. (Note actual change, not just rebranding, which I suspect won't work in this case since Stewart will just destroy him again in the future if he tries to claim changes that aren't manifested.)

See posts 196-197.

[chequita guevara]

I know this has been asked over and over and over again, but which regulations were dismantled? Don't say, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, because you should know that's a retarded answer.

Why is it a retarded answer? It undid parts of the Glass-Steagall Act and specifically prohibited the government from regulating credit default swaps.

[Drake Tungsten]

John Yoo pwned Stewart on The Daily Show tonight. Stewart was on a mission to embarrass him and ended up visibly frustrated and disappointed.

[Theben]

Monday, January 11, 2010
The Daily Show with John Yoo - January 11, 2010
***************************
The Daily Show
January 11, 2010
Guest:
John Yoo
***********************

Stewart: everyone on earth hates your ****ing
guts and fears your broken soul

Yoo: yeah but people love you so it’s the same

Stewart: it seems like they came to you and
said ‘give us permission to crush a child’s balls’
and you said ‘how hard?’

Yoo: that’s true but we were under threat by
nutjobs with boxcutters

Stewart: so you weren’t following the law
but panicking?

Yoo: no there’s a special law to follow if you’re
really really scared

Stewart: I didn’t know that was in the Constitution

Yoo: Congress and the Supreme Court could
have stopped us

Stewart: really how?

Yoo: they could have defunded our ball crushing

Stewart: if they know you're crushing
balls day and night

Yoo: all they had to do was follow the screams

Stewart: but I thought we signed a treaty
banning torture

Yoo: yeah but there’s nothing in the treaty
about not crushing balls

Stewart: but we prosecuted people for torture

Yoo: but not for ball crushing

Stewart: I’m so confused

Yoo: look we either ball crush or we give the terrorists Miranda rights

Stewart: no in between?

Yoo: dude I don’t make the rules

Stewart: according to you the Framers wanted
us to have a dictatorship

Yoo: yes but only when a President has allowed
a massive terror attack to happen - then you
can go to town

Stewart: I see

Yoo: our best Presidents were all radical
dictator war Presidents

Stewart: why did you even bother following
the law when your whole philosophy is
‘terrortime baby - **** the law’

Yoo: look I never actually told Bush ball
crushing was legal

Stewart: jesus christ I don’t know if that the
worst thing I’ve heard or not

Yoo: look America needs a Lincoln or Hitler or
Bush even if the price is sometimes a power-mad fascist like Nixon or Obama

Stewart: you sir, are one sick, sick man

Yoo: thank you Jon

Stewart: no really I thank you - now I understand
the banality of evil that allowed the Holocaust
to happen

?

[Drake Tungsten]

Yoo haters are forced to make up an entirely different interview to get the result they longed for.

[Theben]

It was the most interesting search hit I got on "yoo daily show". Too early for anything good.

And the computer I'm on atm has Flash disabled. No viewing until I go home...

[Asher]

http://www.puppetgov.com/2010/01/12/yoo/

Not available in Canada so I can't see it either.

Someone transcribe?

[Drake Tungsten]

Someone transcribe?

It was basically like every Poly thread on the topic ever, with Stewart as the pissed-off lefty using the word "torture" as often as possible and Yoo as the uber-rational righty pointing out that there's a wide range of interrogation techniques, many falling short of torture, and that someone needed to determine what was torture (and therefore not allowable for American interrogators to use in the war on terror) and what wasn't.

[Guynemer]

...and then we crossed the line anyway.

[Drake Tungsten]

When Jon Stewart Fails.

There is an unexpected silence in the liberal blogosphere after last night's highly anticipated Daily Show episode, in which Jon Stewart hosted John Yoo, the author of many of the Bush administration's torture memos and one of the people most responsible for giving legal sanction to the practice of torture. That's probably because Stewart found himself completely outmatched by a charming, tactful Yoo who seemed far better prepared to defend granting virtually unlimited powers to the executive branch than ever before. Put simply, Stewart failed to make Yoo look like he had done anything wrong. In fact, he made him look entirely reasonable. Stewart fares slightly better in the extended interview, but on the whole he was visibly out of his weight class.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=01&year=2010&base_name=when_jon_stewart_fails

Wow. Even TAPPED agrees that Stewart got pwned...

[Boris Godunov]

But they also go on to note the bull**** Yoo spouted that went unchallenged.

This is the problem with expecting comedians to fill the role that has been vacated by journalists...

[Drake Tungsten]

Spencer Ackerman thinks Stewart got pwned, as well.

John Yoo Wins Battle of ‘The Daily Show’

It’s a testament to Jon Stewart’s extraordinary abilities to speak sensibly in an age of insanity that we expect him to skewer knaves like John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel torture advocate, who appeared on “The Daily Show” last night. Stewart has a great command of the facts and of his medium. Still, maybe it shouldn’t disappoint us to recognize that Yoo skillfully deflected most of Stewart’s assaults.

http://washingtonindependent.com/73759/john-yoo-wins-battle-of-the-daily-show