Stewart to Cramer: "I wear the Daddy Pants"

The state of journalism is a metaphorical waste-land.

It's like the movie "Mad Max," where Mel Gibson rides around in a post-apocalyptic Australia regulating mofo's with a dingo and a sawed-off shotty. Mel regulates with that noble weapon to preserve the last vestiges of civilization, humanity.

John Stewart is Mad Max – regulating what has become a post-apocalyptic waste-land of journalism. Print, representing civilization, is dead, the only survivors are hollow vestiges of what they once were – cannibalistic and void of their former glory.

Television represents the ruthless pack of nomadic parasites, roaming the wasteland seeking whatever they can scavenge.

The closest thing we have to Edward R. Murrow, and Mad Max, right now is John Stewart. He's replaced investigative journalism with bold-faced accountability.

Now-a-days we don't have to probe and ask questions to shine the light on people's lies, we simply show them lying.

This method seems to be working, I mean, Stewart almost made CNBC's Jim Cramer cry last Thursday on The Daily Show. I felt bad for Cramer, I thought he was going to stroke out. When Stewart said, "roll 212" I thought I heard Cramer's bowels void.

See it here.

But I'm glad somebody's doing something.

Madoff is the first of what SHOULD BE a long line of Wall Street scumbags convicted of running ponzi schemes. It almost makes the vote for Obama worth it. But no one's made bankers and CEO's more accountable to the government since FDR.

I'm not one for over-regulation – but enough if enough. When the "private sector" that the middle class entrust with their wealth uses that capitol as a personal piggy bank and use American's 401 K's to pay for private jets and meetings in strip clubs, I think regulation is a good thing.

In this case I think a royal ass kicking is in order.

And if Madoff's wife gets to keep any profits from his robbery, I say Americans take a page out of France's book. Storm Wall Street and make our own Bastille Day. Viva Liberte!