{"id":185257,"date":"2011-08-22T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/22\/while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-bank-of-america\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:21:00","slug":"while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-bank-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/22\/while-we-are-on-the-subject-of-bank-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"While We Are On the Subject of Bank of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\" height=\"330\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjE1NjItNDg5OTg?color=C93033\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjE1NjItNDg5OTg?color=C93033\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\"\twidth=\"390\" height=\"330\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"clembedMjE1NjItNDg5OTg\" align=\"middle\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">When you offer a bribe, make sure that the mic is not live<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Look at the video for this gem.  A representative of Bank of America walks up to Rick Perry, and says, &#8220;Bank of America&#8230; We will help you out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/08\/boa_exec_caught_offering_to_help_perry_out_--_bank.php\">be Bank Of America&#8217;s director of public policy, James Mahoney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nope, no quid pro quo here, BoA has released a statement saying that, &#8220;Bank of America does not endorse Presidential candidates. The reference was about following up on the substance of the speech about job creation and economic growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we believe you, and we believe it when you say that MERS properly recorded mortgages, and that you f%$#s didn&#8217;t pay off the ratings agencies to rate your garbage as AAA,<\/p>\n<p>H\/t Cthulhu.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">No, not the unspeakably malevolent super-being, the contributor to the <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">OK, I&#8217;ve never seen the two of them together, so Cthulhu might actually be <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"> Cthulhu, but the mere fact that he is on a BBS, interacting with humans<\/span><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"> would seem to mitigate against this.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2021<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">Yes, I know, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;\">this is the internet, where no one knows if you are a dog<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you offer a bribe, make sure that the mic is not live Look at the video for this gem. A representative of Bank of America walks up to Rick Perry, and says, &#8220;Bank of America&#8230; We will help you out&#8221;. It turns out that be Bank Of America&#8217;s director of public policy, James Mahoney. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,1004,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-finance","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}