01-04-2009, 09:49 AM
I've had a pretty good look around here since joining and haven't found a link to this video yet. Apologies if it's already been posted but it's such a classic it deserves another look anyway.
It's a demolition job on the CNBC network by Jon Stewart at Comedy Central prompted by an outburst from a well known 'analyst/commentator' - one Rick Santelli at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange early last month. It addresses many of the issues raised in this article and, whilst comedy might seem a bit out of place considering the epoch-defining seriousness of it all, in this case it does one of the best demolition jobs I've seen on the shills, shysters, crooks and banksters at the heart of the mess. It certainly gave me one of the best sustained bouts of hilarious laughter I've enjoyed for a long time.
Note especially: "I have to say I find ...... cheap populism ... oddly arousing" and
"If only I'd followed CNBC advice I'd have a million Dollars today ..... provided I'd started with a hundred million"
Be sure to watch to the end too because the Alan Stanford 'killer question' bit is something of a Coup-de-grace. It should have you spluttering coffee everywhere if you just happen to have taken a sip and are not quite ready for it.
Brutal but utterly hilarious
It's a demolition job on the CNBC network by Jon Stewart at Comedy Central prompted by an outburst from a well known 'analyst/commentator' - one Rick Santelli at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange early last month. It addresses many of the issues raised in this article and, whilst comedy might seem a bit out of place considering the epoch-defining seriousness of it all, in this case it does one of the best demolition jobs I've seen on the shills, shysters, crooks and banksters at the heart of the mess. It certainly gave me one of the best sustained bouts of hilarious laughter I've enjoyed for a long time.
Note especially: "I have to say I find ...... cheap populism ... oddly arousing" and
"If only I'd followed CNBC advice I'd have a million Dollars today ..... provided I'd started with a hundred million"
Be sure to watch to the end too because the Alan Stanford 'killer question' bit is something of a Coup-de-grace. It should have you spluttering coffee everywhere if you just happen to have taken a sip and are not quite ready for it.
Brutal but utterly hilarious
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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