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Cramer: “There Seems To Be A Market For This Kind Of Idiocy”

Jim Cramer‘s first-person essay in New York is fascinating:

  cramermay29.jpgOver the objections of just about everyone at CNBC, Jeff Zucker green-lighted the idea after I made a direct appeal to him. Mad Money debuted that month. On the show, I say stupid things, yell ‘Booyah’ with alarming frequency, and occasionally wear a diaper or jump into a pile of lettuce to illustrate the finer points of investing.

God knows why, but there seems to be a market for this kind of idiocy. In that first year, the ratings took off; the network put the show in not one, not two, but three time slots; I made the cover of Business Week; and less than a year later, I was improbably filling college halls with cheering student fans (for some reason, college kids are an especially eager audience for my show). But sometimes it feels like for every person who likes what I do, there are a dozen who hate me for it.
 

So, he wonders to himself, “Why do people care so much about this Cramer bozo?” Here’s his answer…

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