Once again John Stewart and the writers at The Daily Show come with some of the best analysis of the political hypocrisy surrounding the occupy Wall Street movement.  Republicans are more than happy to divide Americans when it comes to gays, liberals, the media, the poor, but criticizing the super rich who have wrecked the economy and were repaid with trillions in bailout money is beyond the pale for these class warriors.

UPDATE:

The guys over at The Colbert Report continued on the theme of Republican hypocrisy concerning the current economic situation caused by Wall Street.  The GOP nominees are quick to label those in the Occupy Wall Street movement as lazy bums who can and should go out and get a job yet they constantly ask the Obama administration, “Where are the jobs?”

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For more on this I recommend Glenn Greenwald’s excellent post on the subject.

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Jon Stewart on the recent CNN ratings woes:

CNN and fact-checking:

Hilarious hypocrisy:

Pointless journalism, “just saying…”:

CNN gives up:

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For a more in depth analysis of the segment see Ryan Chittum’s blog at Columbia Journalism Review.  Chittum admits that the clips used by Stewart are selective, but there is still an important aspect to overall critical assessment of CNBC business reporting:

[W]hat makes this [segment] so interesting is what Stewart does to pierce the CNBC bubble on several different things that make the network so disliked by business journalists generally: Its lack of a line between opinion and reporting (and lack of disclosure about who’s a reporter and who’s not). Its Siamese-twin closeness to Wall Street. Its rah-rah rooting for the stock markets. Its inanity in interviews that too often veers into sycophancy. On the other hand, if there is a discomfort among the business reporters with CNBC, it might be because the network’s bad practices are only extreme manifestations of wider cultural problems in their profession.

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