‘Left, Right & Center’: AIG Angst; Happy New Year, Iran!
Have the American media become too fixated on AIG and its nefarious bonuses -- at the cost of focusing too little on the whereabouts of the other gajillions of dollars doled out in bailout funds? What's to become of Timothy Geithner? And how about those warm New Year's wishes that winged their way to the people of Iran from the U.S. and Israel?Have the American media become too fixated on AIG and its nefarious bonuses — at the cost of focusing too little on the whereabouts of the other gajillions of dollars doled out in bailout funds? What’s to become of Timothy Geithner? And how about those warm New Year’s wishes that winged their way to the people of Iran from the U.S. and Israel?
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