{"id":193655,"date":"2008-11-26T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/26\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-a-wsj-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:21:00","slug":"shoot-me-i-agree-with-a-wsj-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/26\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-a-wsj-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Me, I Agree with a WSJ OP\/Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like me, they ask the question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/article\/SB122757194671054783.html\">Why are Robert Rubin and other directors still employed?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good question.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, my guess is that the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span> hates Bob Rubin because he worked for Clinton, and they have CDS.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>It may be further exacerbated by the fact that  his policies were so completely slanted toward the financial services industry, so the cognitive dissonance makes their heads hurt.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it&#8217;s because he has been consistently anti-worker, pro-Wall Street, and now we know that he&#8217;s just an incompetent with a good line of crap to feed people.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >C<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">linton <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >D<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">erangement <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >S<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">yndrome<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like me, they ask the question, &#8220;Why are Robert Rubin and other directors still employed?&#8220; It&#8217;s a good question. Truth be told, my guess is that the Wall Street Journal hates Bob Rubin because he worked for Clinton, and they have CDS.* It may be further exacerbated by the fact that his policies were so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193655"}],"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=193655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}