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RUSH: Jim Cramer, poor guy, his head\u2019s about to explode out there, the CNBC reporter. He continues to be appalled by the Drive-By Media, when they\u2019re simply acting the way the Drive-Bys always act without fail. Now, Jim Cramer is experiencing what I have been talking about and dealing with for two decades, and he doesn\u2019t understand it. He was an Obama supporter. He is a liberal Democrat. But I want say, ‘Welcome to the club, Jim.\u2019 Because you\u2019re finding out what it\u2019s like to run afoul of your own guys. Now, his laments are part of a piece that he has written at his website, MainStreet. And, Jim — he might be out there, he\u2019ll certainly hear about this, because I certainly mean this as assistance. I\u2019m trying to help Mr. Cramer here. <\/p>\n

‘Suddenly,\u2019 he writes, ‘I find myself in the center of a firestorm over Obama\u2019s economic policies, taking enfilading fire from the ‘liberal\u2019 media (from serious columnist Frank Rich to entertainer Jon Stewart) while being defended by Rush Limbaugh, the standard-bearer for the Republicans. I\u2019m uncomfortable being in the crosshairs of columnists and comedians I enjoy, and I find the embrace of Rush Limbaugh most certainly strange if not antithetical to many of my viewpoints.\u2019 Now, Jim, maybe since you\u2019re so smart, it should have dawned on you over the years just how many undeserving people do get in the crosshairs of people like this. This isn\u2019t new. You are by no means the first. For some of us, Jim, this is part of the day, this is part of our careers: to be in the crosshairs of the White House on down through its PR media. You\u2019re uncomfortable being in the crosshairs of columnists and comedians you enjoy? And you find the friendly embrace of Rush Limbaugh most certainly strange? Just trying to help here, buddy, because you\u2019re right about what you\u2019re saying, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re being taken down. Jim, it\u2019s also because you\u2019re being effective, just like Santelli was effective. They\u2019re trying to take you down, Jim, because you\u2019re effective about this, and you\u2019re on television, and you are influencing the way people think. <\/p>\n

He says: ‘Take Frank Rich and Jon Stewart. Both seize on the urban legend that I recommended Bear Stearns the week before it collapsed, even though I was saying that I thought it could be worthless as soon as the following week. I did tell an emailer that his deposit in his account at Bear Stearns was safe, but through a clever sound bite, Stewart, and subsequently Rich — neither of whom have bothered to listen to the context of the pulled quote — pass off the notion of account safety as an out-and-out buy recommendation. The absurdity astounds me.\u2019 Jim! Shazam, Jim, you find out personally that your liberal media buddies take sound bites out of context? Really? Who knew, Jim? Jim, this is what happens on a daily basis to people on my side of the aisle. Now that you find yourself on our side of the aisle, in that you question whether Obama\u2019s policies are gonna light a fire under the private sector, you\u2019re getting the same treatment. This has been part-and-parcel of people like me\u2019s career and day for 20 years. <\/p>\n

And then he writes this: ‘It is funny how the right is certainly very civil as my old friends and new allies as of last week, Fred Barnes and Sean Hannity, don\u2019t hold my left wing social view against me when they talk about my criticism of the president! I always love anyone from Fox on the team because they are fierce in their defense with much less gratuitous slamming.\u2019 Now, wait a minute, Jim. See, I thought those of us on the right were always the mean-spirited ones, and you\u2019re finding out it\u2019s your buddies on the left who are the mean-spirited ones and you\u2019re finding out that people don\u2019t hold all of your views against you when they agree with a couple or three of them. See, Jim, we\u2019re talking about the country here, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re welcomed by people on our side because we generally fear for the kind of country we\u2019ve known. We fear for what it\u2019s going to become. We fear a total transformation from a country based on individual liberty and capitalism and free markets to Central Planning, control of outcomes, and general expansion of the welfare state, all for the purposes of expanding the power of a particular political party, and in this case President Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s no strange fact that we welcome anybody to our side on this who agrees with us in our thinking, and who cares whatever else you believe about things. Those things come into play down the track, but we\u2019ve got priorities here now. And then he closes by saying: ‘But if it stays ad hominem,\u2019 meaning the attacks, ‘we will all be betrayed and the train wreck will become inevitable.\u2019 Count on it to stay ad hominem, Jim. See, you\u2019ve never noticed it because it\u2019s not ever been directed at you, but this is how Democrat White Houses and Democrat media deal with their enemies. They demonize them, they villainize them, they never discuss the merits of their issues, Jim. They never talk about substance, it\u2019s always discredit the image, the reputation of whoever is an effective, in their minds, critic. You have joined the club of effective critics, so you\u2019re not to be engaged and debated. You are to be cleared away; you are to be disreputed, disrespected; you are to be impugned, and your reputation is subject to assault and attack, which is happening now. The more you keep it up, the more the assaults will continue on your reputation and the effort to demonize you and distance you from the people who you\u2019ve always thought were your friends. I gotta take a quick time-out. Rush Limbaugh, the little commentary there aimed at Jim Cramer, trying to help him understand what has happened to him and why, why it will continue if he remains to be effective, and why it\u2019s not so bad to have us as friends. We all want the same thing. We want to save America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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