{"id":2193,"date":"2009-03-13T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2009-03-13T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T01:27:00","slug":"theres-a-market-for-cocaine-and-hookers-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"&quot;There&#8217;s a market for cocaine and hookers too!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SbrxvL3Gl2I\/AAAAAAAABIQ\/vvPWXM4ooKM\/s1600-h\/steartcnbc.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312824503376975714\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 188px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 141px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SbrxvL3Gl2I\/AAAAAAAABIQ\/vvPWXM4ooKM\/s320\/steartcnbc.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The obvious comparison was to Jon Stewart&#8217;s &#8220;<em>stop hurting <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Ameri<\/span><\/em>ca&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Stewart#Crossfire_appearance\">Crossfire appearance<\/a>, but this one almost had a Frost\/Nixon vibe to it. The loud, bombastic <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">Cramer<\/span> meekly sat there taking punches for the entire episode, with a &#8220;hand in the cookie jar&#8221; look on his face. This was the evisceration of Jim <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">Cramer<\/span> and it was a sight to see.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/watch.thecomedynetwork.ca\/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart\/best-of\/jim-cramer-interview-uncut\/\">Comedy Network<\/a> and watch it, because the Stewart\/<span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">Cramer<\/span> interview certainly lived up to the hype.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312824569568388642\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 206px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_L6NW1UySEKs\/SbrxzCcXZiI\/AAAAAAAABIY\/IK2uA8T3_Kk\/s320\/stewartcramer.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Red Tory recaps the show <a href=\"http:\/\/redtory.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/12\/cramer-cnbc-get-pwnd\/\">here<\/a>, and includes the clips the Daily Show pulled of Kramer saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What\u2019s important when you are in that hedge-fund mode is to not do anything remotely truthful because the truth is so against your view, that it\u2019s important to create a new truth, to develop a fiction<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can also check out a sampling of the reaction over at <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/13\/fight-night-cramer-vs-stewart\/?em\">The New York Times <\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hgCJW44hHLCExcRYpZzigG9kuiFAD96TE2QO0\">AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obvious comparison was to Jon Stewart&#8217;s &#8220;stop hurting America&#8221; Crossfire appearance, but this one almost had a Frost\/Nixon vibe to it. The loud, bombastic Cramer meekly sat there taking punches for the entire episode, with a &#8220;hand in the cookie jar&#8221; look on his face. This was the evisceration of Jim Cramer and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}