Daily Show Squirm
Click here to see Jon Stewart cross examine Jim Cramer. I don’t see where Stewart gets off pistol whipping Cramer for the way he runs his show. It’s not like there aren’t other market shows among my 500 cable channels. Bloomberg, even Lou Dobbs, come to mind. Push the button! In any event, Cramer took it like a wimp. Maybe he’s not getting enough sleep. He was baking cookies with Martha Stewart before he went on the Daily Show. When does he do his research? Maybe he’s really some little Tammy Wynett. I think I’ll change the channel.
Silk Purse From an Earmark
The day after criticizing Bush’s signing statements the president issued a signing statement of his own complaining about the earmarks he said he would never approve in the bill he was signing. Got that? Victor Davis Hanson does in this column.
Bernie Madoff: Free at Age 220
At least you know where your money went if Bernie stole it.
Gift Exchange
The Brits feel Obama dissed them on Gordon Brown’s recent visit. Brown put some serious thought into his gift to the Messiah; a desk penholder carved from the sister ship of the HMS Resolute. The president’s desk is made from timbers in the Resolute. Classy, no?
The president gave Brown a 25 DVD collection of American movie classics and a Popeil Pocket Fisherman. Just kidding about the pocket fisherman.
According to the Sunday Telegraph UK, a White House official said, “There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment.” Later reports said the president was tired.
Mark Steyn, as usual, has an amusing take.
