Richard Cohen has decided it’s time to defend Jim Cramer:

What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he’s wrong, as he was about the financial media, particularly CNBC and its excitable analyst Jim Cramer. They didn’t cover up the story of financial shenanigans. They didn’t even know it existed.

Oh well that makes it all better then. No wonder why CNBC, along with NBC and MSNBC spent the entire day last Friday setting the record straight and talking about how wrong Stewart was.

Whaaaaat? That never happened?

Well then why in the hell did the NBC networks just ignore what happened on the Daily Show? Perhaps the answer is simple – Stewart was right!

And when you read people like Cohen, you also get a real sense of why the Washington Post is suffering serious financial hardships right now.