{"id":185559,"date":"2014-10-10T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/10\/the-aig-lawsuit-snark-too-good-not-to-share\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T02:10:00","slug":"the-aig-lawsuit-snark-too-good-not-to-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/10\/the-aig-lawsuit-snark-too-good-not-to-share\/","title":{"rendered":"The AIG Lawsuit:  Snark too Good not to Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First is Chris Arnade says that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2014\/oct\/09\/fart-elevator-audacity-lingering-anger-aig-bailout\">Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman of AIG, has that kind of fart-in-the-elevator audacity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The senior managing director \u2013 a top-ranking banker \u2013 walked onto the crowded elevator, focus fixed on her Blackberry, pressed the elevator button and farted loudly. As the smell filled the elevator, as others nervously coughed, some covering up giggles, her focus stayed on the Blackberry. Four floors later she left, commenting to a colleague, \u201cThe elevators are vile. The janitors are always on some break.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Another MD turned to me: \u201cThat\u2019s why she earns the big bucks.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cBeing able to fart?\u201d I asked.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNo, you idiot. Audacity. Audacity so great that you can fart on the elevator and blame it on someone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, of course, there is John Stewart commenting on the AIG Lawsuit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"278\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:3b4a3d11-e8a2-45f0-ab82-c5daa05018ab\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I wish that I could write like either of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First is Chris Arnade says that, &#8220;Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman of AIG, has that kind of fart-in-the-elevator audacity: The senior managing director \u2013 a top-ranking banker \u2013 walked onto the crowded elevator, focus fixed on her Blackberry, pressed the elevator button and farted loudly. As the smell filled the elevator, as others nervously &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1100,1002,1051,972,1028,1050,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-justice","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-snark","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185559"}],"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=185559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}