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As to the PR finesse, it worked so well the first time, that I suspect the number of civilian casualties this time around will be much lower. In fact, it I'm very optimistic that it will indeed be a "let-them-eat-cake walk!"

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So, we should give the slightest credence to a backward pompous jackass who gets their "tips' from an ancient "writer's guide" so poorly written, so old and outmoded, as to prompt Prof Geoffrey Pullum to refer to it as "the book that ate America's brain." Right, that also explains your issues accessing this site; your computer is also an antique. Here's a tip for you; go back to your dissembling neo-con friends and pass your BS on them. I have no problem accessing this site or understanding the writers. It's the moronic anonymous critics that bug me... And, buy a new Mac while you're at it. You might actually learn something.

Another great Story Daniel! Keep on the Bastard's Trail!!

Thanks for another great investigative story Daniel! I know I would never have found time to discover that sleaze-ball Wilkinson's involvement in promoting the latest attempts by the well-rewarded bankster-class to keep our hard-earned taxpayer dollars, -- and those of our children, and grand-children and great-grand-children etc. -- flowing in to reward them for their global economy devastating misdeeds. It's certainly horrifying to see that they have turned to a "dirty-tricks" specialist like him; but, of course it's hardly surprising, since it's just what one would expect from such a completely amoral, even immoral, group of grifters.

Speaking about the financial crisis and continual governmental coddling of thugs and thieves, by the way, I find it very interesting that the only slogan that caught fire during the whole meltdown period was the completely ridiculous claim that the zombie-banks are "TOO BIG TO FAIL." [As if the 9,000 other U.S. banks couldn't pick up the slack, while we left the six big derivatives and CDO/CDS gambling giants sleep in the beds they had buttered themselves.]

"Too big to fail" ... hmm, wasn't the Roman Empire too big too fail? Wasn't Napoleon too big to fail? [Well his armed forces anyway!] Wasn't the British Empire too big to fail? Wasn't our own globe dominating Empire too big to fail, and as little as forty odd years ago? Wasn't even GM too big to fail? Oh, yes, and then we heard the same a few years ago, and again again quite recently, about Chrysler! And guess what, they all failed, and quite spectacularly as well!!

What I would like to know is why no one ever challenged such a stupid assumption as "too big to fail," a phrase that was somehow immediately "off the table" -- another such dangerous consideration stopper, -- and hence all consideration of "simply allowing the market to work," the way these same clowns have been telling, and forcing, other countires and the U.S. working class to do for decades, became suddenly unutterable, if not, indeed, unthinkable. We could only "bail them out," go completely "socialist" -- i.e, fully Stalinist -- by imposing restructuring, or face an immediate Apocalypse!! Certainly the sleepy-headed mainstream media just nodded its sorry head, and repeated mumbling "too big to fail" in a thousand different pathetically unimaginative op-ed pieces. [Which is why folks like YOU and journals like Mohter Jones are so damn important!!]

Is it not even more amazing that no one raised the really very obvious counter slogan, one that is actually quite TRUE, namely: "REWARDING CRIME GUARANTEES ITS REPETITION!" Good Lord, every parent or baby-sitter in the nation should know that much! And yet, not only did no one manage to speak such a palpably relevant truth, we even let the clowns at the Fed, Treasury and within the Obama administration, DO precisely that utterly STUPID thing!! And since our sorry excuse for a government has STILL done no serious investigations, not even audited, or even been allowed to LOOK at, the books of the worst offending banks, not even fired a single top CEO or CFO -- i.e. fraudmeister -- involved, nor punished the bought-off bond rating agencies for giving "AAA" ratings to what they knew damn well was at best "DDD" garbage, nor begun to look into restoring previous several good legal regulations implemented after similar scandals, as recently as Enron and WorldCom, and of course, after the very similar S&L fraud of the 80s, nor appointed any independent committees to look into whatever new regulations are clearly needed, nor appointed or empowered any agency to enforce whatever regulations are now or may soon be implemented, it is -- and I can't stress this too strongly-- nothing short of ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED that, just as soon as things quiet down a bit, WE WILL SEE YET ANOTHER SUCH DISASTROUS FINANCIAL BUBBLE AND CRASH, albeit probably in some slightly different, new, BUT equally opaque "asset product bundles." And these too will result in more huge fortunes, -- many even going to the very same crooks whom we have just rewarded. Much worse still, We are also GUARANTEED TO SEE some still deeper, perhaps even ultimately socially-fatal, DEPRESSION for the other 99,99% of all Americans, the ones, evidently who, while very numerous, are certainly NOT "too big to fail." Only NEXT TIME THERE WILL SIMPLY NOT BE ENOUGH MONEY, NOR FOREIGN HELP FROM OUR INCREASINGLY DISGUSTED CHINESE, JAPANESE, EUROPEAN AND ARAB BOND HOLDERS -- who will probably also have dropped the dollar as a reserve currency by then -- TO RIDE TO OUR TEMPORARY RESCUE!!

One can't hlp but wonder what might have happened instead if the obvious slogan "REWARDING CRIME GUARANTEES ITS REPETITION" had gotten itself established in the national psyche before the ridiculous "TOO BIG TO FAIL" had? Would we not then at least have seen SOME kind of firm action on the part of Obama and Co., rather than all this finger-twiddling waiting around, doing nothing and praying and hoping, quite unreasonably, that the problem might yet somehow magically disappear? But alas, who is that "sets the agenda" in world-historically important rhetorical matters such as these? Is it the reasonable folks, the parents and baby-sitters of America? Nope, it's the very very BIG folks, whose own failure, or indeed even the inability to turn one's own perfidy toward the whole world, into a windfall for oneself, is quite literally, unthinkable!!

Anyway, I apologize for straying so far from the immediate content of your fine story Daniel. But essentially we are both pursing the same basic story; the enormous power of slogans and propaganda to have at times CATASTROPHIC consequences when driven into the brains of the masses. That's why it's so important that you keep exposing Wilkinson's many half-truths and outright lies as he will soon be spreading them even more widely and insidiously!!

Keep up the GREAT WORK!! And that goes for all of you at Mother Jones!!

Best regards,
Bill Fusroy

Keith T. Syverson - brilliant!

"popinjay poseur's playground pugilism" - is this original? Your comment is brilliant. You should comment more often.

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The audacity of the US going back to its roots

It took a long time to get government into a corrupt mode. We need to start all over, even if it takes going back to what our founding fathers wanted for America ... namely just following the constitution. Get it out and dust it off. Otherwise, we end up with more of the same. And didn't history write that many British came to America to escape injustice and corruption in Jolly Olde England? Seems our government has become Jolly Old USA.

Mr. Wilkinson

A particularly insightful memory of mine regarding Mr. Wilkinson was a report from the heady days of Shock and Awe, Inc. My recollection (not going to fact-check it) is of a flabbergasted reporter at the information center had apparently offended Mr PR-issyfit, who was strutting the Iraq catwalk in pseudo-uniform camouflage fatigues. He was by no means a soldier. He drew upon his best imPrussian of someone significant, this self-same Mr. Wilkinson jabbed a bony claw of death into the reporter's chest, barking "THIS IS WAR!" The comical absurdity of this popinjay poseur's playground pugilism demonstrated the Brook's Brothers Of All Viceroy's romantic illusion of an embedded reporter's optimal position.

It's no surprise that a member of the cast & crew from the ensanguined masquerade of Regime Change (The Mother Of All Euphemisms) has found himself a part in another image production. In fact, his Madison Avenue attitude will only have to commute some two miles down Broadway to set up a disinformation center in Wall Street. It should be easier on his combat boots, if not his camouflaged conscience.

Too much coffee? anon, No.

Too much coffee?

anon,

No. Too many IT hacks fooling around with Grand Theft Argentina rather than doing their jobs. Too many excuses for said IT hacks with video game fetishes. An excess of BS. See this Loyal Bushie or Bobby Rubin for further details on the latter.

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Oh great more secret society push men .Ready to keep the there agenda alive with the money that was stolen from the american people.Iraq was a Freemaon secret society war all put all my chips on the table that he is a freemason or connected to some secret society in one form or another he was part of the first dictatorship in american history with Bush& Cheney regime.JFK was right about them go to youtube and watch the video. JFK warned us.....! he was asking for our help and then they killed him remember Oswald said he was a patsy and then they killed him.President John Quincy Adams in 1830 was elected to the U.S. house of representatives on the anti-mason party ticket and won that seat you want to know what else president adams said."Freemasonry is deceptive and Fraudlent.its promises is light-its performance is darkness." want more from Adams he also said Masonry ought forever to be abolished.it is wrong-essentially wrong-a seed of evil,which can never produce any good.When are going to WAKE UP

Care to compare Wilkinson's

Care to compare Wilkinson's bull to the bullshit Robert Rubin spread at Citicorp and the devastation that caused? Of course if you're just interested in partisan..... well of course you are.

Never mind.

To anonymous

Too much coffee?

Let me guess...Mr. Wilkinson

Let me guess...Mr. Wilkinson is also one of President Obama's..fianancial advisors?....and would some one please explain to me why all the Republican partisan, state D.A's..(you know the ones who DIDN"T get fired in Rove's partisan D.A purge) are still in office....? President Obama...? U.S.A.G. Holder?...why are the GOP partisan, the witch hunters of the Democratic politicians still in office and still prosecuting Democrats...? Please, don't use the excuse more important issues first...because we are supposed to have an co-equal, independent branch of government to take care of such things..its called the Department of Justice...

Mother Jones - Comments for "Guess Who&#039;s Selling Wall Street&#039;s Bull?"

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To anonymous

Let me guess...Mr. Wilkinson

Mother Jones - Comments for "Guess Who's Selling Wall Street's Bull?"