I understand the anger. But you can't tell me in that whole AIG empire that there was not a few well meaning, honest people that worked their asses off to keep these people solvent. The press has said most of the bad apples are gone. Everybody yell out their windows, get it out of your systems and lets go about fixing this country.

This article could serve as a primer for “Biased News Creation, #101,” the prerequisite for “Goebbels On Repetitive Distortions Becoming Facts, #202.” The article’s rhetoric is splashy: “politicians flocked," “peppered with questions,” “populist anger increasingly blowing back,” “W.H. aids grasped for actions,” “bonuses undermined whatever political capital Obama has earned." Opinions are presented as “fait accompli” facts. Never pass up any ... More »

Excuse the excitement very much but there isn't much to this story. It's about 5% news and 95% hyperventilation. The headline is just the most depressing example of shoddy journalism. This thing was posted on msnbc.com too with no editing. It appears that General Electric is pissed over the drubbing Jim Cramer took. Also, the bosses at NBC told the troops not to mention the Cramer debacle, and even Olbermann and Maddow had to obey.

The WaPo seems to over-impose it's story line of Obama's decline onto the story. As a right wing newspaper that detracts the reader from readily digesting the story.