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Some Reality For The Reality Based
JustOneMinute — The WaPo actually makes the long trek to the Wilton office of AIG Financial products and speaks with the guy in charge (Gerry Pasciucco, another dollar a year man brought in with Liddy last fall): The handful of souls who championed the firm's now-infamous credit-default swaps are, by nearly every account, long since departed. Those left behind to clean up the mess, the majority of whom never lost a dime for AIG, now feel they have been sold out by their Congress and their president. "They've chosen to throw us under the bus," said a Financial Products executive, one of ...

AIG “distraction” descends into mob mentality as ACORN’s “Working Family Party” organizes bus tour of AIG exec homes
Flopping Aces — ... Instead, the vicious circus has escalated out of control. AIG employees have found themselves the target of a particularly vicious public campaign. A powerful Congressman, virtually foaming at the mouth with fake indignation and spittle, was demanding names, while another elected official suggested they just “kill themselves”. Others are recipients of emails suggesting “the firm’s leaders “should be executed with piano wire around their necks.” ...

A couple of lost things regarding the AIG “bonuses”
No Runny Eggs — ... The Washington Post did some actual journalism the other day, and took a look at AIG’s Financial Products subsidiary. Allow me to highlight a couple of key paragraphs from the story, written by Brady Dennis: ...