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Jon Stewart is important, I think. In the echo chamber that is television, there needs to be some voice inside there that goes, "Hey, this isn't right!" It's one thing to blast political figures that are screwing us, but that's not so rare. At least Jon does it with humor, right? Where he really shines is when he focuses his attention on other media outlets and calls out their mistakes. This is what is so rare and valuable in a broadcast world where everyone enforces everyone else's power over imagination. It's not unfortunate that a comedy show happens to be the voice of reason... comedy has always been about perspective.
This interview was spectacular. I do think that Jim Cramer was strung up as the whipping boy for his whole network, but he was proven to be just as big a part of the problem as anyone else.
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