Goldman conspiracy theorists must be rejoicing at reports that Hammerin Hank was frequently on the Batphone to GS headquarters during the fun and games of last September. Demonstrating that Goldman alumni in government can play by the rules, HP even went through the formality of getting the required waver before picking up the phone and dialing Lloyd's digits. Among the things Mad Max just knows went on include Paulson getting the final tally for how much in bailout funds AIG needed to make GS whole and how Goldman would fare if MS lost a game of bankruptcy chicken on Lehman's heels.
Paulson's spokeswoman Michele Davis confirmed the telephone conversations with Blankfein took place but denied Paulson had any intention of helping Goldman specifically.
"Suggesting that AIG was saved for the sake of one firm is as ridiculous as saying firemen put out a fire in a skyscraper to protect just one of the thousands of people in the building," Davis said in a statement.
When the fire chief used to have the corner office in that skyscraper, anything is possible.
Posted by NakedShort , Aug 10, 2009 11:19AM
Where is Greg's Mom? I really would like to hear how the weekend's festivities played out.
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:25AM
she's still recovering from a little DVDA action down in Negril...
Posted by merkin capital partners , Aug 10, 2009 11:29AM
waver = one who waves?
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:30AM
Is a waver a more physical version of a waiver? Like, Paulson getting the high five to talk to Lloyd?
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:31AM
Hank proves yet again why an MBA from Harvard is better than a CFA or MBA from anywhere else. Everyone else wasted their education funds unless they went to Harvard.
~Guy Who Knows How to Stir Shit Up
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:33AM
Greg = Fired
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:34AM
Greg, I'm going to cauterize your asshole with my Grandpa Cecil's vise and a butane torch.
-Jeff Macke
Posted by Seaman Bodine II , Aug 10, 2009 11:35AM
In the words of Beuford T. Justice to his son:
"Greg, the next time I see your mother, I'm going to punch her in the face."
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:36AM
Waiver, greg. Waiver.
Posted by Tax Chick , Aug 10, 2009 11:40AM
Waver is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Ouder-Amstel, and lies about 13 km south of Amsterdam.
So Hank acquired a town before he called LB...
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:41AM
How many women with Harvard MBAs run Japanese mega-corporations?
~The Guy Who Knows How To Stir Shit Up
And, Greg, don't let the critical, jizz mopping, over-weight, used tampon suckers get you down. They can't even get jobs writing ransom notes so they show up here.
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:41AM
I was setup by Hank and Lloyd. Bastards!
- Thain
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:52AM
Hey Semen Bodean: Greg doesn't go to your place of employment and knock the dicks out of your mouth while you're working so leave him alone.
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:52AM
@12
Me too. Them aigs ain`t frash.
- KL
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 11:53AM
Pop Quiz:
on August 9th 1969 Charles Manson and his followers killed several people in a frenzied kill/murder spree
on August 9th 1945 The US killed 80,000 people after dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Which story do you think got the most coverage and which story got virtually zero column inches? Your media/miltary/industrial/banking complex sucks a$$.
Posted by Riskybusiness , Aug 10, 2009 11:58AM
@15 - August 9th is the anniversary of dropping the second atomic weapon. Who memorializes the second anything?
Posted by Anal_yst , Aug 10, 2009 12:09PM
Oh yay, more Gretchen Morgenson riling-up the ignorant populist ire! What a f*cking cooze, argh
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 12:11PM
BALLS.
BALLS IN MY MOUTH.
EVERY MORNING.
BALLS.
-Opening stanza of Chapter 1 from "BLANUS. The Greg Michaels Story"
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 12:11PM
@16, we had that extra bomb laying around and figured "what the Hell?"
@15, you will notice that Charlie Manson's little foray took place on a multiple of 10 anniversary. Back in aught-five (and esp in '95), there was a lot of hurlyburly surrounding Little Boy/Fat Man.
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 12:14PM
@15, this is a free country, you can go ahead and spell out "ass" here. You can even say "fuck". Our first amendment "complex" is pretty great
Posted by Seaman Bodine II , Aug 10, 2009 12:17PM
@13
ten kids
in a cadillac
stand in line
welfare checks
let's all leach off the state
gee, the money's really great
dobie de do wap say what yeah!
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 12:34PM
title should be "are you there hank? It's me, Lloyd blankfein"
Posted by Seaman Bodine II , Aug 10, 2009 12:40PM
@22
i feel so ashamed, knowing the context
Posted by Bob Lawblaw , Aug 10, 2009 1:31PM
@15
And that was after GS shorted the hell out of Nagasaki
Posted by HeadlessHorseman , Aug 10, 2009 1:43PM
@ 4 & 10
Thank you for that!
@ 13 Funny stuff. While I don't have any grudge against SB, I hadn't heard that in a while.
@ Greg
Is the ventilation fucked up at Dealbreaker headquarters today or something? Sounds like it's about time to open up a fucking window and get some fresh air. This post was neither informative nor funny. A failure on both counts.
Moreover, each day of your vapid and uninspired ramblings reveals new and innovative methods that you've identified to confound written language. The fact that you continue to be so successful in such endeavors, despite the advent of spelling and grammar checking software some twenty years ago, is nonetheless an impressive achievement in its own right. In fact, as I write this, I’m repeatedly shutting my dick in my desk drawer in honor of your accomplishments.
Lest I be accused of being unconstructive, I'll leave you with a helpful hint: find one of those inner-city grade school dropouts that the media is always profiling (unless the Democrats are in control, in which case they cease to exist) and bribe him/her to do some fucking proofreading every now and again. Just think…you might keep a kid of drugs and give him/her a sense of self-worth. On second thought, you might drive the little fucker to take up drinking a few years earlier than he would have otherwise…as a direct result of the daily abuse that must be editorializing your rough drafts. Well, I tried.
Posted by guest , Aug 10, 2009 1:55PM
Sounds to a lay person as though some of those a--holes assigned by GS to attack Goldman666 or whatever that guy Morgan's website was in Florida have been deployed here. This is news, it was presented humorously, get the f--- over it!
Hank Paulson should be in jail, with his girlfriend, Lloyd.
Bring on a Pecora investigation!