Jon Stewart Mocks Financial Networks: 'Hot Ladies Talk Money with Bald Dudes'

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By Jeff Poor | January 24, 2008 - 21:33 ET

It's really frightening to imagine that people who get the bulk of their news from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" will be making what they probably think are educated decisions at the ballot box come Election Day.

Stewart, who is now a self-proclaimed economist, said on his January 23 show, "Our economy is tanking." And now you can add financial media critic to Stewart's list of titles.

"For insight, I turned to the two major financial networks to find out what is going on, or as they're known around here, ‘hot ladies talk economy with bald dudes,'" Stewart said.

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However, CNBC's "Fast Money" contributor Pete Najarian got the distinction of being called "one hot bald dude."

Stewart discounted the financial journalism on CNBC and FBN as nothing more than putting "horrible things" into a "more euphemistic form," when he mocked an interview with former Treasury Department Secretary John W. Snow that took place at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland:

Stewart: "And how about, the bank just foreclosed on your house?"

Clip of Snow, being interviewed by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo: "The housing correction is going to take some time."

Stewart: "See - it turns out that you owning a house was actually a mistake."

Although Stewart was attempting to be funny, he actually was right - owning a house you can't make the mortgage payments on is a mistake.

"The Daily Show" returned with new shows January 7, despite the continuing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike. Stewart's playing the economic hardship card in his routine is ironic, because he apparently understands the monetary importance of the show versus not crossing the striking writers' picket line.

When asked about the return of the late night talk shows and the two Comedy Central shows, "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," Mona Mangan, executive director of the WGA East, said, "I think we would prefer they didn't come back." Mangan spoke about the strike January 23 at an Americans for Tax Reform roundtable in Washington, D.C.

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Hot ladies talk to bald

Hot ladies talk to bald dudes-------sounds like he's jealous

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.

Not quite correct, but close

"See - it turns out that you owning a house was actually a mistake."

Actually, the truth is that it turns out that you buying a house that YOU CAN'T AFFORD was a mistake.  It's a mistake that I shouldn't have to pay for!

 

 

If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. --George Orwell

Too smart to fool

It's understandable that Stewart wouldn't like the business networks.  Reporters who really understand business and economics interviewing businessmen/women and economists and watched by people who understand business and economics -- it's hard to get away with rampant doom and gloom reporting with these people. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

How dare Jon Stewart

How dare Jon Stewart ridicule financial terminology!!! The nerve! The --- what? Oh, it's a comedy show? On Comedy Central? Where he makes fun of the media? 

Huh. Never made the connection.

:-\

Jeff

It's really frightening to imagine that people who get the bulk of their news from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" will be making what they probably think are educated decisions at the ballot box come Election Day.

 

Yeah, it's that American Idol/Sanjaya "voting" mentality that really scares the sh!t out of me too in this election ...

There's a large chunk of the

There's a large chunk of the population that bases their vote on other inane things, too.

And get this: some of the them are even conservatives!!! 

I actually found the part

I actually found the part about the bald guys funny (yes, I am going bald too).  However, Stewart should be held accountable for mocking the Italian stereotypes in regards to Cavuto.  Where is Jackson? Sharpton?  Oh, only blacks can complain?  My bad.

I remember Jon Stewart from

I remember Jon Stewart from the MTV days, and I always thought he was whiny and irritating, not smart and funny.  The people who thought Jon Stewart was funny in those days were the same people who thought Andrew "Eunuch" Shue on Melrose Place was the ultimate man.  And that Bill Clinton was the ultimate President.  I used to watch the Daily Show when Craig Kilborn was on...but I stopped watching the day they replaced him with the breathtakingly untalented Jon Stewart.  The only thing worth watching on Comedy Central is South Park.   

You guys really do need to

You guys really do need to lighten up. He's a comedian. Anyone who gets the majority of their news from the Daliy Show would very likely not be getting any news if the show didn't exist. If you are going to lament, cry for people who aren't interested in what's happening in the world unless it's funny, not for the guy that manages to make it funny. Or more accurately, the team of writers that used to make it funny :)

Incidentally, people who think the economy is fine and dandy, nothing to worry about, think the media is being alarmist. People who think we're in deep doodoo think the media is being too positive...

Isn't that a decent indication that the media might be fair and balanced, no pun intended, in it's economic reporting?

J.S.

I thought it was mildly funny. The writers are on strike after all.