Oh what a stunning surprise. The architects of trickle down baloney and black magic misery give the President a failing grade. The liars ignored the fact that their grading is based on a discredited Wall Street Journal Survey.
These very same go-to bitches for the sound, solid and endless profit spewing machines of Enron, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, AIG and the Bank of America actually believe they can credibly weigh in on President Obama.
That alternative universe of theirs must have become an insane asylum during the W. years.
And the gates of the asylum swung open this week when the looney tunes marched out in full lock step support of its collective whackonomics.
Check out the right wing looney tunes shows over at Daily Kos.
These morons unashamedly got it wrong for over a decade. Why on earth would they get it right today? The same twisted and failed ideologies continue to underpin their whackonomic make believe.
The cable TV pundits are pendejos who obviously don't even know their lying fraudulent schemes have been blown wide open by Jon Stewart this week.
The Huffington Post has the uncensored video clips of Jon Stewart's evisceration of CNBC and Jim Cramer.
Glenn Greenwald takes the Jim Cramer revelations a step further by pointing out Cramer is merely the face of the corruption that pervades financial reporting and the mass media.
That's the heart of the (completely justifiable) attack on Cramer and CNBC by Stewart. They would continuously put scheming CEOs on their shows, conduct completely uncritical "interviews" and allow them to spout wholesale falsehoods. And now that they're being called upon to explain why they did this, their excuse is: Well, we were lied to. What could we have done? And the obvious answer, which Stewart repeatedly expressed, is that people who claim to be "reporters" are obligated not only to provide a forum for powerful people to make claims, but also to then investigate those claims and then to inform the public if the claims are true. That's about as basic as it gets.
This is how we were obviously misled into Iraq. The mass media bought into W. and Cheney's fake allegations about WMD's and the imminent make believe threats about mushroom clouds without bothering to check whether or not the information was even credible.
Perhaps the most egregious instance of this media cowardice is that there are very few occasions when media stars were willing to address criticisms of their behavior in the run-up to the war. With very few exceptions, they have systematically ignored the criticisms that have been voiced from many sources about the CNBC-like role they played in the dissemination of pre-Iraq-War and other key Bush falsehoods. But on those very few occasions when they were forced to address these issues, their responses demonstrate that they said and did exactly what we're all going to spend today mocking and deriding Cramer and CNBC for having done -- and they continue, to this day, to do that.
While Jon Stewart exposed Jim Cramer, Greenwald believes that the press corps and mass media are as guilty as Cramer.
But there's absolutely nothing about Cramer that is unique when it comes to our press corps. The behavior that Jon Stewart so expertly dissected last night is exactly what our press corps in general does -- and, when compelled to do so, they say so and are proud of it.
Those of us in the national netroots hope Jon Stewart will likewise shred the cable TV punditry as he did in 2004 with Crossfire.
CNN's Crossfire no longer exists thanks Stewart who charged the hosts, whom he defined as "political hacks" with participating in theater instead of reporting. Stewart also criticized the hosts for "hurting America" for promoting theatrics over honest reporting. Stewart rightfully labeled the meeting place for the media, known as Spin Alley as "Deception Lane."
Indeed. We have been living in Deception Lane for well over a decade.
It is time to give up the fake news programs as well as the pundit fairy tale circuses and read trusted sources of information instead.
I now have a complete understanding of why my beloved late father would frequently refer to the TV as "The Idiot Box." Dad had it right a very long time ago.
