NBC Stars Whimper About Jon Stewart's Skewering of CNBC

Dan Gillmor 7:32 pm Tue Mar 10, 2009

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger.

The poor widdle babies at NBC are soooo unhappy with Jon Stewart's skewering of CNBC's stock-market boosterism and stupid behavior. If you haven't seen it watch this first and then come back:

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Josh Marshall's team at Talking Points Memo, calling NBC's Jim Cramer and Joe Scarborough "the two whiniest grown men on television," pulled together the NBC stars' on-air complaints today. A few fair points peek out from the forest of rants, but the TV personalities' thin skins are remarkable given how much crap they dish out to others all the time.

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