Last week Jon Stewart turned his satirical eye toward financial new network CNBC. The bit was picked up by the news media and led to Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, rebutting the charges. Of course, it didn’t end there; barbs were traded between Cramer and the show until it all came to a head Thursday night.

Cramer went on The Daily Show for an extended interview with Jon Stewart. Many were expecting some sort of public lynching, but what we got was a very serious discussion. Stewart called Cramer out on some contradictory and morally dubious behaviour, but he saved most of his venom for CNBC as a whole.
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Why is it that everything Stephen Harper tries to do becomes the potential trigger for an election? If you listen to Conservative Party spin-doctors you’d likely be led to the belief that the Opposition is building an offensive to take down the Government. Reality check: Mr. Harper, your Government is already at the will of the Opposition. If and when Michael Ignatieff wants to force an election he will do so and he won’t be stopped.

If anything is clear, this moment in time is not right for an election. This past week the Government has been in a deadlock fight with the Liberals over a proposed $3-billion fast-tracked stimulus fund. Why the uproar? Harper’s plan for getting the fund working fast is to bypass the generally required approval procedures for such funding.
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