Eliot Spitzer On Matt Taibbi and Goldman Sachs

[girl gone mad]

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On Taibbi's Rolling Stone article: "it was good journalism"; just becuase it is a conspiracy theory "does not mean it's wrong, there are conspiracies".

On the banks: it's good that the banks have come through the financial crisis; taxpayers have put trillions into Wall Street, "the question is does that generate jobs?"; "Where is their capital going?"

The former Governor also concisely and coherently covers asset bubbles, the loss of our manufacturing base, bankrupt states and the lack of regulation.

This is an excellent interview, worth watching.

[Bleacher Creature]

1. Damn, he really pisses me off.

Spitzer is so smart, so articulate and so damn good on the issues. Why did he have to throw it all away on something so idiotic?

[travelingtypist]

2. ^^^^^

What they said.

[IDFbunny]

7. When the whole call girl thing broke I thought "BFD"

I had no issue with call girls as long as it was on his own dime. Then I found out that he was a prosecutor that delighted in taking people down for the same. Had he been more gracious in the past I would have been much more sympathetic but he looked liked like a hypocrite freeper; quick to punish others, and quick to do it themselves when nobody is looking.

[PA Democrat]

3. If he had a R after his name, he'd probably still be in office.

[GETPLANING]

4. Big party over at GS tonight

Their tab for hookers and liquor will set records for many escort services.
Ironic, isn't it?

[pjt7]

5. Goldman Sachs should be paying a 77%

tax rate for getting so many Billions.

[MessiahRp]

6. I don't know if they're always this way but Bloomberg's interviewers were night and day better

than CNBC and Fox Business' shills. That was a thoughtful, respectful interview. They didn't slam him for his scandal, they listened to what he had to say about the financial markets and knew he had something to offer.

Great work. What were the anchors names again?


Rp

[OhioChick]

8. K&R n/t

[truedelphi]

9. Notice the woman announcer's concept of "job creation"

She starts to say -- "But if Goldman does well, they well be able to start hiring more people."

She seems to think that the whole world revolves aruound Wall Street.

And if it wasn't for the fact that Obama's appointees seem to share only her view, we might have different polices that help ouyt those on MAin Street with some REAL JOB CREATION, not just jobs at Goldman Sachs.