Allegations that had been made prior to this afternoon: Bernanke and the Fed told Ken Lewis to keep Merrill’s losses in the lock-box or KL would lose his job/kidneys. Now, courtesy of Represenative Darrell Issa, we’ve got the exact same allegations, but with sinister turns of phrase like “inappropriate threats” and “cover-up.” He didn’t say anything further because, as we hope Bernanke will tell him in this voice tomorrow, “you got nothing.”
Not sure why, but Steve Liesman, looking quite flustered and as though he was about to cry, read us a statement out of the Fed from April that said it/Bernanke acted with the “highest integrity” when it came to the BAC/MER deal. Don’t worry, Liesy-girl, Benji’s got this one.
And speaking of jobs, not of the smear but blow variety, Governor Sanford apparently got himself a few from his “dear friend” while in Argentina. Now get back to work.
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I think he was flustered because he got caught flirting with the lady in red before reading the statement.
Cramer on Issa: “We have too much democracy in this country.” First the 1st amendment, now the franchise.
Has anyone seen a copy of the email? I have.
Dear # 1 Boones Fan Club Member,
So you think you gonna cross me and mess with my shit? Opening your fucking trap and flapping your lip. Don’t fuck with me honkey or you gonna get dropped. I’ll snap off your neck with a crackle and pop. If you say anything, you’ll beg me to die, ’cause I’ll make you suck my dick then I’ll nut in your eye. I’ll stomp on your world as if my name was Godzilla. I’m coming for you mother fucker!
Sincerely yours,
Krazee-Bearded Banker.
@2 he was flustered b/c he takes it personally when people say bad stuff about the fed
How’s everyone doing today?
@4 awesome
In our world we use words like honor, blanus, boonesclops. You use them as punch lines.
Colonel Lewis
@4
I prefer the term cracker rather than honky. Of course white devil works too.
Steve Liesman goes to bed every night wearing his Fed pajamas. He has a poster of Greenspan on his wall, and has copies of Fed minutes under his bed that he jerks off to like a 12yr old with his dads Playboy stash.
“You’re here because you got nothin. You got nothin in court, you don’t got the book keeper, you got nothing! Nothing! And if you were a man you would have done it now. You don’t got a thing! You punk!”
Hey Issa,
Suck my dick.
Kisses,
BB
NEWSFLASH!!!: All polititians are full of shit. Some just hide their stench better than others.
~the Muleskinner~
@13 Bernanke is not a politician. Issa is so full of shit it’s incredible.
Thanks 14, but I wasn’t referring to Bernanke, and while I agree with you about Issa, I was commenting on Sanford.
P.S. Bernanke is full of shit too.
~the Muleskinner~
@ 14
Clearly your defination of politician needs refreshing.
Bernanke should punch Issa in the mouth
Beard already cut out Lewis’ liver and gave it to Steve Jobs as a show of force. Just imagine what he’ll do to Kenny when he really loses it!
@16 your spelling of definition needs refreshing.
Charlie Gaparino – the ends justify the means.
Gaparino was a move I perfected in high school.
Charlie Gasparino, actual quote: “I would’ve put a gun to Ken Lewis’s head.”
Larry Summers has nothing to do with this.
Politics = making sausage. Not for the squeamish or the honest.
David Faber has laid down the mark for Charlie Gasparino. At 191 pages it is TLDR but it’s #12 on Amazon despite this. What’s Charlie’s book about anyway?
David Faber is recommending Teldar Paper?
@26
It’s like Emily Post but for gym etiquette.
Lucky his “friend” wasn’t from Bangcock.