You know, the other day, when I remarked that Politico’s tale “Obama and Wall St.: Still Venus and Mars” was “another piece in a continuing series” of “Wall Street human beings whining about all those times White House higher-ups have ever-so-mildly allowed certain language to slip from their larynxes that makes the financial industry outside to be some kind of villain for that age its over-leveraged, incompetent speculation led to the near-collapse of the entire economy and required taxpayers to shovel untold billions of dollars at also-huge-to-fail banks so that they could survive,” I wasn’t kidding. And yesterday, The Fresh Republic’s Jonathan Chait was having the same thought:
It seems to me as if the hurt feelings of this tiny (albeit very rich) segment of society has received enormous attention in the media. After all, there are a abundance of groups in this nation at least as numerous as CEOs and with no less cause for grievance, and yet we hear about their wounded egos far less often.
I questioned intrepid Reporter-Researcher James Downie to tabulate how many times Politico alone has run some version of the “business upset at Obama” tale.
Then [sic] answer turns outside to be, a abundance of times.
A whole abundance of times, really. Going back to February of 2009, Downie found 28 separate articles in this vein — 19 in 2010 alone. And since the TNR search was confined to reported pieces, this does not much comprehend Roger Simon’s hysterical “leave Britney alone” column on how sad it made him to see human beings fighting class warfare, just since wages are stagnant and upward mobility has slowed to a halt and income difference is at historic highs.
Please click on over to see Chait and Downie’s wonderful listicle. For my part, I’d like to capture a moment to pay tribute to all of the human beings who complained about how sad the White House was making them over that age they nearly wrecked the economy in 2010, some of whom much saw fit to sign their names to their remarks.
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Anonymous Banker
Anonymous Bank Lobbyist
Anonymous Top Business Lobbyist
Anonymous corporate lobbyist
Anonymous Corporate Representative
Anonymous Executive
Anonymous Executive At A Top Bank
Anonymous Financial Executive
Another Anonymous Financial Executive
Still Another Anonymous Financial Executive
Anonymous Financial Industry Lobbyist
Another Anonymous Financial Industry Lobbyist
Anonymous Lobbyist For A Giant Wall Street Bank
Anonymous Lobbyist For One Of The Top Five Wall Street Banks
Anonymous official At A Large Bank
Anonymous Senior Banker Who Is Deeply Plugged Into Washington
Anonymous Senior Executive At A Wall Street Bank
Another Anonymous Senior Executive At A Wall Street Bank
Or Maybe This Is Just The Same Anonymous Senior Executive At A Wall Street Bank, Who Knows?
Anonymous Senior Industry Official
Anonymous Senior Private Equity Executive
Anonymous Senior Wall Street Lobbyist
Anonymous Source Familiar With Discussions
Anonymous Sources At AHIP
Anonymous Sources At Goldman Sachs
Anonymous Wall Street Executive
Another Anonymous Wall Street Executive
Anonymous Wall Street Lobbyist
Robert Daleo, CEO, Thomson Reuters
Tom Donohue, President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Tita Freeman, spokesperson, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Jeffrey Garten, Dean of the Yale College of Management, “Body Language” Analysis Hobbyist
Brad Hintz, former Lehman CFO, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein
Jeffrey Immelt, chairman/CEO, Common Electric
Insiders Familiar With Internal Discussions
Bruce Josten, lobbyist, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Karen Klugh, spokeswoman, American Financial Services Administration
Nancy McLemon, president, Organization for International Investment
Bill Miller, senior vice president for Political Affairs & Federation Relations, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Roger Nicholson, Senior Vice President, International Coal Collection
Other Executives
Other Industry Officials
Other Major Corporate Titans
Martin Regalia, chief economist, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Joanna Schneider, executive director for external affairs, Business Roundtable
Ivan Seidenberg, Chief Executive, Verizon Communications (ALSO)
Scott Shay, chairman, Signature Bank
Distinct Financial Industry Insiders
Some Corporate Leaders
Some On Wall Street
Some More On Wall Street
Some Other Human beings On Wall Street
Wall Street Executives
More Wall Street Executives
Much Bigger Wall Street executives
The Rest Of The Wall Street Executives
Wall Street Officials
Wall Street’s Top Political Players
Christopher Whalen, investment banker, author and cofounder of Institutional Risk Analytics
Mort Zuckerman, billionaire complainer
They came, they saw, they whined — and in an amazingly profitable year, at that! God only knows how terrible things will get if things really commence going terribly for Wall Street.
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