Jim Cramer: The Flip-Flop that Ought to be Illegal

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How can it be that Bear Stearns Hedge Fund guys are going to JAIL for their misdeeds, but, Jim Cramer gets away with THIS?

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: June 21, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Author: donharrold

Length: 00:09:43
Rating: 4.71
Views: 81579

Tags: jim cramer mad money cnbc don harrold stock market dow nasdaq federal reserve bloomberg bartiromo pisani rick santelli

Video Comments:
BlackOps05 (November 18, 2008 at 8:03 pm)
You obviously seem to think im not getting your 'point'. I'm saying your point is moot because this guy ultimately doesn't matter. Who cares if tries to take back what he said. Like all talking heads, he is following what -insert choice of noun- want him to. So get off your high horse and stop trying to inflate your ego with your pointless little tirade, which is once more pissing me off.
donharrold (November 18, 2008 at 7:28 pm)
BLACKOPS05 - Wrong. You are, once more wrong. It's not "covering your ass" when you tell people that the very thing you said to do they should not have done because if they did they were "not listening". And, once more, this is not about "bad predictions". It's about saying things that you later blame your viewers for taking as advice.
BlackOps05 (November 18, 2008 at 6:27 pm)
'If "your job" is using the airwaves to mislead, then the FCC's job is to bring charges.'

Now this is where you piss me off. He isn't TRYING to mislead people, which as you mentioned is illegal, he is trying to cover his own ass, while irritating, isn't illegal. And if people make bad decisions based off someone elses predictions (aka wild guesses) then it IS their own fault and I have no sympathy for them.
donharrold (November 18, 2008 at 8:49 am)
BLACKOPS05 - Your "previous statement" is still off the point of my video. While you may not mind bad "predictions", there is a difference between "bad predictions" and what Jim Cramer does: Make "bad predictions", then, blame people for following them, etc. It is also not a defense to say it is "his job" to do those things. If that's true then there should be criminal charges brought. If "your job" is using the airwaves to mislead, then the FCC's job is to bring charges.
BlackOps05 (November 18, 2008 at 2:16 am)
"The lies, flips-flops, and, ought-to-be-criminal revisionist histories are what make Jim Cramer an utter disaster for any "investor"."

And this is new to our media? He's just doing his job, which is being an ADHD guy and put on a show that will hold viewers. Is he a jerk, sure. Is he a quack, fine. But to call him, literally, a criminal and that his should be IMPRISONED pisses me off. My previous statement still holds.
donharrold (November 18, 2008 at 1:25 am)
BLACKOPS05 - This video is not about his "bad preditions". It's about the flip-flops, the blaming of his viewers for "not listening" when if you LISTENED TO HIM you got screwed, it's about the network that promotes him as a guru when he's not. If "bad predictions" were what it was all about, I'd not do any of these videos. The lies, flips-flops, and, ought-to-be-criminal revisionist histories are what make Jim Cramer an utter disaster for any "investor". Oh, and, his picks suck, too.
BlackOps05 (November 18, 2008 at 1:01 am)
I have to say that everyone that hates on this guy because he made bad PREDICTIONS on PUBLIC TV are all dumb sheep looking for someone to blame. As for the guy that posted this video, your an asshole. Go bitch about someone that can ACTUALLY be HELD RESPONSIBLE. Here's a hint, our government for the last 16 years.
yannchambrier (November 17, 2008 at 4:42 pm)
"Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts."
Nietzsche

'nuff said.
babo457 (November 17, 2008 at 2:48 am)
this guy has been so dead wrong it's funny...his show only works in a bull market when every thing is going right...Even a broken clock is right twice a day...It's just annoying that this guy is so cocky and the fans of his show so blindly support him when he has been ridiculously wrong on his picks! His advice of "keeping us in the game" and happy days are here again cost me and many others a fucking fortune!
Visfen (November 17, 2008 at 1:42 am)
Fuck yourself, he didn't force you to buy the stock, you heard his arguments for it. Basically "it can't get any worse"... well, rule of thumb in a recession: it can always get worse.