{"id":182818,"date":"2015-06-01T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/01\/bloated-billionaire-bellyaching-bitch-bleats-bogus-beef\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:05:00","slug":"bloated-billionaire-bellyaching-bitch-bleats-bogus-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/01\/bloated-billionaire-bellyaching-bitch-bleats-bogus-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloated Billionaire Bellyaching Bitch Bleats Bogus Beef*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that yet another hedge fund billionaire is <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/01\/investing\/hillary-clinton-2016-leon-cooperman\/index.html\">upset that politicians don&#8217;t fawn over him like the people he employs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t need anybody crapping all over what I do for a living,&#8221; Cooperman told CNNMoney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/profiles\/cristina-alesci-profile?iid=EL\">Cristina Alesci <\/a>Monday. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Cooperman is the founder of hedge fund Omega Advisors, which has about $9 billion in assets. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He thinks Clinton is a hypocrite for painting a nasty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/16\/politics\/hillary-clinton-hedge-fund\/?iid=EL\">picture of hedge fund managers<\/a> and then asking them for money and trying to befriend them.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;[She] hangs out with all these people in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard and in the Hamptons and then the very first thing she has to say is to criticize hedge funds,&#8221; Cooperman, said. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Cooperman, 72, said he isn&#8217;t looking for praise, but declares he&#8217;s the living embodiment of the American Dream. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I have nothing to apologize for. I&#8217;ve made a lot of money. I&#8217;m giving it all back to society,&#8221; he says, emphasizing his large donations to places such as Hunter College in New York, Columbia University and Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You are not the embodiment of the American dream, motherf%$#er, you are a parasite who got particularly lucky.<\/p>\n<p>You poor delicate little flower.<\/p>\n<p>How about you take your billions of dollars and a nice warm warm cup of shut the f%$# up.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Yes, the fact that I could use this amusingly alliterative title was one of the reasons that I Posted this.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Yes, I did spend more time on the hed than I did on the article.  I&#8217;m kind of lame that way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that yet another hedge fund billionaire is upset that politicians don&#8217;t fawn over him like the people he employs: &#8220;I don&#8217;t need anybody crapping all over what I do for a living,&#8221; Cooperman told CNNMoney&#8217;s Cristina Alesci Monday. 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