I hope you don't call me a hypocrite, when I say that just about every elected official who is whining about these bonus payments is responsible for them to begin with.

The bonus program at some of these places is ridiculous. When I was growing up, a bonus meant an additional income for a job done better than expected. Nowadays, it means extra pay just for fogging a mirror. But who can blame AIG for following through on a program that Congress knew about, and did nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, to stop.

Yes, Conservative media mongrels look silly, but no one looks sillier right now than anyone who said "yes" to TARP and the bailouts.

I've posted about this on my blog, that TARP was aptly named. It means covering up everything you don't want voters to see. That is the legislation our wondrous Congress approved.

This whole AIG kerfuffle is media-driven nonsense meant to persuade the American people to take umbrage with suit-wearing specters, whether they be politicians or money-men. Ask anyone that doesn't spend their time in front of a tv whether they're upset about a damned AIG, and they'll probably ask what an AIG is, in the first place. That, or they'll simply concede that it's much too stressing to keep up with all the greedy assholes taking taxpayer dough, and the opportunistic pols and pundit mock umbrage. Before last weekend, all the AIG money-grubbers were creeps, and now this week, it's no big deal that the bastards are supposedly getting what they're owed. Who the fuck cares anymore? Who's mad with whom about what at this point?

I, for one, am sick and tired of watching these media buffoons play the public like fiddles over blarney like this.

The deal was stamped out late last year. The news about these deals were all over. What the swine media is in the process of doing is regurgitating details that were already well known to anyone paying attention in order to absolve the Republican administration that struck the deals to begin with.

Why are we all falling for this nonsense? Just to stay within the zeitgeist?

This bullshit is pathetic.

Can we kill her with a trident?

Chez,

You'll need more than a stick of gum to kill Malkin

A recent quote from Rush:
"A lynch mob is expanding: the peasants with their pitchforks surrounding the corporate headquarters of AIG, demanding heads. Death threats are pouring in. All of this being ginned up by the Obama administration."

Huh. No surprise that Rush considers the American Public "peasants." Just a surprise that he did so out loud.

Keep going, Rush.

Yeah, isn't it interesting that Rush said lauded Rantelli "ginning up" the peasants with his theatrics at the CME. Oh, but that's because Rush's con-servative intellect is steeped in oblivious, reactionary bullshit posturing. It's also because Rantelli's call for "tea parties" was all a Republicon PR scam that would be exposed as such if they continued promoting them. The faux AIG reluctant outrage is, too. The GOP has planted many a lame mine on the political playing field for the spineless Dems to step on. The Dems planted a few themselves, but they forgot where they placed them, so they tread as if the field were a bed of eggs in order to not arouse suspicion.

The Republicons has been bullying and setting the swine media's agenda for so long, now that it is "lost in the wilderness," the dumb media bastards don't know whether they can or cannot pretend to be angry at the "fatcats" they fluff in their on and off-hours.