{"id":12517,"date":"2009-03-15T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=12517"},"modified":"2009-03-15T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T17:21:54","slug":"jon-stewart-fights-wall-street-and-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/jon-stewart-fights-wall-street-and-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Case of Stewart v. Cramer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

What is illusion? What is reality?\u0412\u00a0I think anyone\u0412\u00a0who is fully awake knows there is a slim to nothing veil between the two.\u0412\u00a0 As a nation and a world swirling for the past ten years under Neptune in Aquarius, we’ve watched reality replaced by fantasy, delusion, and deceit spun wildly out of control,\u0412\u00a0\u0412\u00a0affecting our foreign policy, our economy, and the news that’s supposed to report on both.<\/p>\n

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Take for example last week’s build up to the high-stakes media battle over the role of cable news networks in reporting news on the economic crisis, where the Comedy Network’s Jon Stewart and The Daily Show challenged CNBC’s Jim Cramer of Mad Money to a show down. Yes, that’s right. The Comedy Network. In what grew to be a headlining news event<\/a> Thursday night, we\u0412\u00a0watched\u0412\u00a0a modern-day “High Noon” <\/a> between two unlikely opponents:\u0412\u00a0 a man whose profession is that of a clown, versus a financial network pundit whose financial advice might as well have come from a clown–complete with bells, whistles, and flatulent sound effects.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the debate between Stewart and Cramer was that CNBC was deliberately manipulating the news, using the vehicles of punditry, stock advice and editorializing on its network to not only sway the market, but pimp the agenda of financial institutions and corporations to help them gain market influence. Stewart called Cramer on getting people to buy Bear Stearns (from an earlier show of “Mad Money”) while he knew full well Bear Stearns was going down. He called Cramer on how he\u0412\u00a0bragged about manipulating news\u0412\u00a0to favor personal investments. And finally he questioned Cramer’s network CNBC, a financial news network, and its motivation in serving big business interests instead of being an actual news network warning consumers about bad business risks.<\/p>\n

When you watch the debate<\/a> between the two, Stewart does not flinch from taking the knife to Cramer who was confronted by truth on tape that disputed every excuse he used while on the Daily Show to defend his behavior. Stewart dragged out reel after reel of what Cramer said on his show, versus what he told Stewart in the interview. In the end the\u0412\u00a0Money Pundit\u0412\u00a0was simply no match\u0412\u00a0for the Clown. It looked as though Stewart \u0412\u00a0shivved Cramer in the ribs. When he walked off the set Cramer was probably unaware that he’d been stabbed and his career might just bleed to death in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n

This is nothing new to Stewart, who killed Tucker Carlson’s “Crossfire”<\/a> show in 2004. Carlson, a conservative pundit, brought Stewart on to provide levity to the 2004 general election campaign season. Stewart, tired of the gotcha interviews and the way the right wing used cable news to shout down rational argument to debate political issues would have none of it. After calling Carlson’s “Crossfire” show damaging to America and democracy, he ended the interview by calling Carlson a dick. Five months later, “Crossfire” was canceled.<\/p>\n

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Stewart versus Cramer is a strange case indeed, but to be expected when Neptune, Chiron, and Jupiter are all in Aquarius, the sign of the people and more possibly, the people in revolt. Neptune began tuning us out when we impeached Clinton over Lewinsky. The financial free-for-all that led to our current economic demise was in high gear under Pluto in Sagittarius. Chiron began weaving its way through Capricorn and into Aquarius opening our awareness to what’s been going on behind the curtains of the Emerald City. Pluto in Capricorn, like a great clock ticking overhead, has no patience for smoke and mirrors. \u0412\u00a0Nor does it appreciate tentacles of big media forcing their agenda into our heads to buy on borrowed time and worthless credit instead of live within our means.<\/p>\n

News has devolved to become a spectator sport with embedded journalists, news magazine shows and punditry — one person’s opinion of the news replacing actual reporting of the news. What was supposed to be an information industry and the nation’s fourth estate that investigates, discovers and reports the truth to hold together the republic has\u0412\u00a0now become a vehicle for entertainment, truth be damned.\u0412\u00a0You may ask and rightly, just\u0412\u00a0where did reality go this last decade?\u0412\u00a0Its certainly not in the news.\u0412\u00a0It must have been voted off the island.<\/p>\n

What has happened to us as a country and a society to force us to rely on the Comedy Network to provide\u0412\u00a0fact and\u0412\u00a0accuracy to our news and reality, challenging us to think first\u0412\u00a0before we believe everything the news tells us? Why\u0412\u00a0is it in a day and age of 24-hour news channels, pundits and financial experts, that its the clown that gives us the truth?<\/p>\n

This current war between the Clown and the Money Pundit is not just a fight over who has the bigger set of balls in journalistic integrity. In these days of the nation’s economic crisis brought on by decades of neglect for the rules, de-regulation of industry and the deification of greed, this is a fight for control over our reality. Its a proxy war over who will influence the opinion of the American public, how we behave, and what we think. Who will win: The corporate interests of cable news or the free will of people who will think for themselves?<\/p>\n

Aquarius is playing with some crazy deuces, Jupiter and Neptune, and holds the wild card Chiron. Anything can happen.\u0412\u00a0I would wager that all bets are off — unless its the Clown that runs the house.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,<\/p>\n

Fe Bongolan<\/strong>
\nSan Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: What is illusion? What is reality?\u0412\u00a0I think anyone\u0412\u00a0who is fully awake knows there is a slim to nothing veil between the two.\u0412\u00a0 As a nation and a world swirling for the past ten years under Neptune in Aquarius, we’ve watched reality replaced by fantasy, delusion, and deceit spun wildly out of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1,14,601,762],"tags":[29,1788,1222,1221,274,52,1220,1219,1797,1223],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}