Shows how stupid Jon Stewart is!

To the people blaming Bush for this mess, do you realize it started with the Clinton administration?  Yes, Bush  has done plenty of things to mess up this country but this for once is not entirely his fault.  Also, the Obama administration and congress have no clue what they are doing and they're going to mess it up even more.

Sadly BH you are incorrect.  If the Clinton administration and the congress and senate of that presidency including Nancy Pelosi had not repealed the Glass-Stegal act in 1999 the financial and housing mess NEVER would have happened.  Would you like to know why?  I am sure you have no idea or are ignoring this fact like the rest of the leftist liberal lemmings.  The Glass-Steagall act was put in place after the Great Depression to prevent Banks from buying and selling mortgage securities and Securities companies from taking deposits.

If this had NEVER been repealed the ability to make risky loans and sell them would not have been impossible, only the originating bank would have the risk as they could make the loan but not sell it off.  This made them entirely the one's at risk when making loans.  The liberal leftist idiots that said 'everyone deserves to have a home' and you can even use your welfare as income are the ones that allowed it.  Not to say that the greedy banks and mortgage companies are lacking in blame but with no regulation they went nuts like kids in a candy store.  The Bush administration did nothing about it however it did take quite some time after the repeal of the act for the shell game the banks and mortgage companies were playing to crumble.  Even if Bush had wanted to the law had been repealled he could not have just 'put it back'.  Another law would have had to been drafted and passed by the same congress and senate that repealled the Glass Steagall act, not likely.  So take your lumps as well.  You like to blame Bush forgetting that the laws of the land are drawn up and voted in by the legislative branch (congress and the senate) which have been even since 2004 and well in the Dems control since 2006.  So get off your high horse and take your lumps too.

Say what you want about Jon Stewart and his political leanings, CNBC had this coming, regardless of Santelli's rant.  Too many people base their investment decisions on what gets "reported" on CNBC.  Just cruise by the individual stock blogs on Google Finance or Yahoo Finance, and read what investors are writing.  It's pathetic how little most people understand about Wall Street and what really drives the markets.

CNBC reaches a wide audience and should be held to higher standard of reporting with so many influenced by their comments.  Jon Stewart's dressing down of the network was overdue, IMHO.  Ironically, The Daily Show more frequently passes for real news, and CNBC more frequently qualifies as entertainment.

Bush gives the Obama team a head start by letting them in on information in advance and they still can't make a plan.  Unless you count attacking media people they disagree with.  Is that the answer?  Attack the oppostion.  Obama will be considered one of the worse Presidents of all tiime at the rate he is going.  The debt mountain was high enough already.  Now we get to add health care reform and endless fear spending.

I'd just like to point out that the Clinton never had nor created a surplus for all you dumbasses that think so. Read a godamned book and learn instead of read the comment above and post the same crap over.

It speaks poorly of the "right" for someone like Bob in a previous post here to go all "Limbaugh" on our asses and think he has a clue about what's good for this country. First of all, it's to have a sense of humor when the always clever Stewart opines. What does Bob expect John Stewart to do? Hold his tongue and not be critical like his right-wing radios heros? No, Stewart mocks and exposes the creeps that should be taking a lions share of the blame for this awful mess we're in. Bob and Rush and Hannity and that ilk blame Obama who walked into a hornets nest. Limbaugh is a traitor. He's a rich, self-serving smooth talker who's paints himself and the Repubs as victims now that they don't have the power yet sneered at the "whiners" on the left during the Bush era. Either way his propaganda machine hums along as briskly as ever with no shortage of mouth-breathers like Bob who gobble up the crap with a trowel every single friggin' day. I'm hopeful like most Americans, based on popularity polls, that Obama is someone we can trust at least and given time get us out of this mess. With or without the support of Bob.

go john stewart.  right on. tell it like it is.   the truth.why should we bail out all those losers.  but lets send israel 900 million dollars. and why is the suicide rate for our military higher than the casualty rate in iraq? come on lets get our act together. please

Bob,

Apparently you don't recall but your "Leader"  Rush Windbag started all of these blowjobs!

it's funny, people judging Obama by his first 1 1/2 months in office. Keep in mind, he has 8 years of YOUR Bush's blunders to clean up. Give him time. Man, it's like night & day flipping back and fourth between fox news and everyone else. On Fox we are heading to the appocalypse. On msnbc we are headed to the promise land. You angry right wing republicans are the reason this country is in the crapper so quit trying to saty relevant please.