Did you all see that? The CEO of Overstock.com just posted a comment on my blog. (See previous post.) He was mad that I wasn't willing to automatically trust the contents of the article he funded, Deep Capture, without some critical thinking.
I read that really long article and I was nice enough to link to it. But, sorry dude, it seems these days you just can't trust anything to be what it is on its face. So don't take offense that I don't just read and believe. Clearly you cannot take anything you get from the media at face value these days: case in point, Jim Cramer trashing Overstock for for the purpose of short selling the stocks and making money off of it. So, I'm just saying, I read that article and found it illuminating but I'm never going to take what I read and just think, "Okay, this is all true and I should believe it." If anything, "Deep Capture" stresses our lack of healthy skepticism leading to this financial crisis at hand.
I think we all need to keep our skepticism at everything we encounter. It's the only way we can protect ourselves.
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The Daily Show and WAY Beyond - how Jim Cramer is a criminal
Holy mackerel! That Jim Cramer is even douchier than we suspected!
First, of course, is Cramer's appearance on the Daily Show. If you've got extra time on your hands, don't just watch this clip linked from Wonkette, but read the entire thread, including the comments. They meander out to all manner of things but they are good.
http://wonkette.com/406968/jon-stewart-jim-cramer-make-america-feel-pleasantly-uncomfortable
Here's some MSM coverage of it but it completely misreads the success of Stewart's interview, saying he was too serious for a comedy show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/arts/television/14watc.html?th&emc=th
Hey guess what New York Effin Times, if you or the other legion of MSM did their effin job and called these people out, like you're supposed to, the comedian could go back to making fart jokes, no problem.
Anyway, here's some more on how sinister and awful Jim Cramer is. Now, I'm not sure how much I trust this, since the elaborate article "Deep Capture" is funded by the CEO of Overstock.com, so my cynical side tries to see what he stand to gain. Never the less, worth the read:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/5/16720/74815
http://www.deepcapture.com/the-story-of-deep-capture-by-mark-mitchell/
This banking crisis get wackier and wackier.
First, of course, is Cramer's appearance on the Daily Show. If you've got extra time on your hands, don't just watch this clip linked from Wonkette, but read the entire thread, including the comments. They meander out to all manner of things but they are good.
http://wonkette.com/406968/jon-stewart-jim-cramer-make-america-feel-pleasantly-uncomfortable
Here's some MSM coverage of it but it completely misreads the success of Stewart's interview, saying he was too serious for a comedy show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/arts/television/14watc.html?th&emc=th
Hey guess what New York Effin Times, if you or the other legion of MSM did their effin job and called these people out, like you're supposed to, the comedian could go back to making fart jokes, no problem.
Anyway, here's some more on how sinister and awful Jim Cramer is. Now, I'm not sure how much I trust this, since the elaborate article "Deep Capture" is funded by the CEO of Overstock.com, so my cynical side tries to see what he stand to gain. Never the less, worth the read:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/5/16720/74815
http://www.deepcapture.com/the-story-of-deep-capture-by-mark-mitchell/
This banking crisis get wackier and wackier.
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