Picture 1037.pngA lot of people are losing it over the “pitchforks” comment that came out of Barack and The Bankers’ lunch date last Friday. And that’s a terrible shame, because it’s overshadowing this little ray of hilarity, brought to us by the good people at the Boone’s factory, who had the foresight to package that shit in mini-bottles discreet enough for sneaking swigs of at the table:

Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis cracked a joke at the expense of his peers who’d lavished praise on the administration: “Mr. President,” he said, “I’m not going to suck up to Geithner and Summers like the other CEOs here have.”

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Comments (14)

  1. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    No Kenny is just going to be sucking up
    the Big O.

  2. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    …but he will suck them off

  3. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM

    Scotch muscles.

  4. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 4:07 PM

    He is starting to resemble WC Fields

  5. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 4:13 PM

    “Scotch muscles” @ 3 FTW.

  6. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM

    wow he is a savy business man. He will not be made the fool…
    lets hear it for ken!

  7. Posted by Lowly Assistant | April 3, 2009 at 4:20 PM

    Never thought I’d say such a thing, but go BAC!

  8. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM

    good for you ken
    now come out and tell the story about how paulson blackmailed you into buying Merrill

  9. Posted by Novice | April 3, 2009 at 4:55 PM

    @8 That was a few months ago with leaks that Paulson wouldn’t look kindly on BofA walking away from Merrill.

  10. Posted by Killjoy | April 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM

    no need to suck up, just make sure his jaw doesn’t clench and he can breathe out his nose

  11. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM

    in all honesty, i’d be alchablushing at that meeting too

  12. Posted by guest | April 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    Were Ken Lewis & Mom Boucher separated at birth?

  13. Posted by guest | April 4, 2009 at 2:32 AM

    Photos of the WH high school dance last Friday.
    Who got to dance with Barack.
    http://bit.ly/9Ddw7
    @12
    weak.

  14. Posted by guest | April 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM

    Lewis looking very Angelo “Orange Man” Mozillo like in this photograph, are they hitting the tanning beds together?

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