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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Hey, no, I know, I know.
	I'm sitting here and I am recalling all of these instances.
	Such as when Peggy Noonan said that Sarah Palin was somewhat vulgar.
	And David Brooks was talking about the elegance of Barack Obama.
	And I can't help but think what a bunch of dupes.
	We're dealing with a mean and cold guy here, folks.
	And what's he doing bowling in the middle of an economic crisis for crying out?
	Who cares what the score is?
	Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	And it's great to have you with us, folks, as we wrap up another big week of broadcast excellence.
	Rush Linbaugh here.
	You know the rules.
	Open line Friday.
	When we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
	You get to determine what we talk about.
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	That is a huge career risk taken by me.
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	So here's the phone number.
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	You know, this uh this comment about the Special Olympics, his bowling score was so low, it's like the Special Olympics is something.
	Uh he's apologized for it.
	Everybody involved is accepting the apology.
	The uh Special Olympics people, Mr. Shriver's talking about how this is a a teachable moment and so forth.
	This shouldn't surprise you there, but there are some media uh websites here who are and and uh entities who are a little bit upset about this.
	ABC's the note is very angry about this, uh and so is uh some people at the politico are not happy about this.
	Jake Tapper at ABC not happy about this, but it's um and you know everybody's using the well, what if Bush had said it?
	Folks, it's there's a double standard here, and it's it's a mistake to start playing that game.
	Everybody knows uh that that if Bush had said something like this that it would be roiling headlines, it'd be no such thing as a teachable moment, even if he had uh apologized.
	I th I I still think there's something larger than this.
	I still think that whole appearance last night was a mistake.
	The whole appearance last night was not presidential.
	This is this is something that now that that's just me.
	I fear what I really fear is that we have a culture in this country now who thinks this is what a president ought to do.
	I think we have a culture in this country that thinks this is cool, that finally a president is just like a real guy going on all these television shows like every other celebrity does.
	Like every other pop culture icon does.
	So whereas you and I of a certain age and a certain generation have certain expectations and standards about what is presidential, it's changed with a lot of people, and a lot of people think this is really neat, and a lot of people think this is really cool, and they don't care what Obama says.
	The fact that he went on the program, that shows that he's also a new president.
	He's in touch with us.
	He goes places that we watch.
	Uh, and so it's it's uh we we clearly are having a a uh we're gonna bipolar country.
	We have a bipolar country.
	It's not just enough to say that we're polarized, but we have here a bipolar country.
	Uh now the fact that he can make this joke about Special Olympics.
	Uh, people, uh there's no question that's something very mean to say, and it's not it's not the first time that he has said so.
	What is the other joke that he made about uh oh he made a joke about Nancy Reagan in seances.
	I'm I'm telling you, this man is angry, and he has a chip on his shoulder, and his wife does too.
	Uh they they are there's some angry people.
	They are they're really angry, but above and beyond all of this.
	There is the Nitt Romney said this last night on Larry King Alive.
	Where's the focus?
	We've got major, major problems here.
	He's out making them worse, and he's acting like a pop culture celebrity.
	He's acting like what he is.
	A cover figure for people magazine, a cover figure for Vanity Fair, A cover boy for OK magazine, a cover boy for gentlemen's uh quarterly, GQ, whatever it is, uh, and and this is what people want in their president these days.
	Uh we'll we'll discuss this in greater Oh, by the way, we do have our microphones are everywhere.
	I have I have some friends.
	At the Tonight Show, we had a microphone backstage.
	Leno rehearses everything.
	You may think this is an improv show, but it is rehearsed to the T. Leno just be rehearses, rehearses, rehearses, and we have a little bit backstage audio pre-show.
	And now we take you behind the scenes as President Obama prepares for the tonight show.
	All right, Mr. President.
	I have a list of questions Jay will be asking you.
	One of them is a really easy one about your bowling game.
	And if you have improved since the primaries, we think you should make a joke here and say, I don't know, I don't uh that that now I bow like a all time, especially.
	That's a bit strong, uh sir.
	Why don't you save uh save it for Letterman?
	Uh what about this?
	I am now bowling like uh one of Jerry's kids.
	Sir, people will be offended with that one.
	But everybody loves Jerry's kids.
	Well, yes, sir, but oh, oh, this is it.
	This is it.
	Uh I'm now bowl like I am in the Special Olympics.
	That's it.
	That's the right.
	I ain't talking this over with David Axel Rada.
	I'll be right back.
	Special Olympics.
	Yeah, that's my favorite one.
	Thanks.
	Teleprompter.
	I couldn't be president without you.
	No problem, Mr. President.
	Join us next time when we go behind the scenes with President Obama and his friend, but teleprompter.
	Everybody's picking up on this teleprompter now.
	Everybody.
	I saw the funniest picture, Obama, you know, a picture of Obama walking out of the ocean in his swim trunks.
	When he's over in Hawaii, there's a teleprompter.
	That's been photoshopped in the picture.
	You know, to it to it to a certain segment of the country, the man's a joke.
	To a certain segment of the country, Barack Obama is it is a bad joke.
	It is a scary, frightening, incompetent joke.
	And not the kind of joke that you laugh at.
	The kind of joke that goes, oh my God, what the hell did we do?
	To another part of America, this guy is a messiah.
	This guy is exactly what we need, and and there is no amount of logic, no amount of information, uh contradictory or whatever to what they believe that is going to change their minds.
	There's nothing that is going to change their minds about the man.
	Uh they're predominantly uh young people.
	Uh and uh I'd say up what would you say, snurdly, this this phenomenon probably extends to people in their thirties.
	Well, maybe, yeah, but uh some cases early 40s, but I mean it's almost a hundred percent when you get into the twenties.
	The uh early twenties to late twenties, early thirties.
	You might have some stragglers in the forties and so forth.
	Uh, but I think once you start getting to that age, you're just talking about loyal democrats are gonna stand by the guy no matter what.
	This I'm talking about a cultural shift that has taken place.
	That uh that uh these are like people are possessed.
	They're like zombies.
	They really are uh are zombies.
	He can't do anything wrong no matter what he does.
	But to us appearing on the tonight show, no sitting president's ever done that.
	There's a reason.
	Presidential uh uh comportment uh uh behavior is very serious.
	It's not given to lighthearted joking, particularly in times like this.
	Now that's what it is.
	We now know, you know, the White House say it was an offhand remark.
	That means off teleprompter.
	It was an off-the-cuff remark, that means off the teleprompter.
	Hey, you know, he was just shooting from the hip.
	That means he's shooting without the teleprompter.
	Careless remark, a careless remark is very sorry for it.
	A telepump teleprompterless remark is is what uh he had a he had a political market bottom last night, if you ask me.
	And I'm uh this is I'm not going at this from the political correct angle, folks.
	Uh it's it's this is to me, it is it is far more indicative of a truth.
	We we live in a world in which the American left is is basically a myth.
	A series of myths that we have been told that they are the compassionate ones, that they are the caring ones, that they're the ones that have all the love and the tolerance, that they're the ones that care about the downtrodden and the little guy.
	When in fact they make fun of them, when in fact the left holds these kinds of people in contempt and uses them for their own advantage, the disadvantaged, I don't care what category of disadvantage, the downtrodden economically, they're props.
	They're nothing but props.
	They are used, they are never assisted, they are never genuinely helped, and yet everybody believes that the real compassion.
	Oh, yeah, I really I Peggy Noonan and Eastman is so elegant.
	He's so refined.
	Sarah Palin, so vulgar.
	Sarah Palin, so in fact let's do some audio sound bites here.
	Uh and by the way, before we get to that, I just have two, we're gonna start with number four and five here in just a second, Mike.
	The uh real outrage today continues to be AIG and uh and and what happened yesterday in Congress.
	This is just to me, this is unacceptable.
	We now have mob rule the way it started in Nazi Germany.
	We have people up in Southport and Fairfield, Connecticut who are harassing AIG employees in their homes, in their front yards.
	This is mob rule that has been ginned up.
	The United States Congress needs to be ashamed.
	The United States Congress is an embarrassment, the United States Congress is incompetent, the United States Congress is dangerous.
	They put the bonus law in the stimulus bill.
	That nobody read the stimulus bill contained the details of these bonuses.
	I don't care who put it, I don't care if it's Chris Dodd, I don't care if it's Geitner.
	The bonuses were in the stimulus bill that nobody read, and I can't stomach the fact that every damned one of these members of Congress, and I don't care what party we're talking about, gets to sit up there and act like they were blindsided and didn't know about it.
	Maybe they were blindsided and didn't know about it.
	The only way they could have been blindsided and not know about it is if they did not read what they voted on.
	And most of them didn't, but then to get to sit there and destroy the lives of individual citizens tells me that the whole concept of the individual in this country is on the wane.
	When the United States Congress, in conjunction with the White House, can target with legislation individuals and do so with dishonesty, and blame the individuals.
	And then create mob rule and death threats against these individuals.
	It's irrelevant to me whether or not these bonuses are moral and whether or not they're right.
	What is happening is irresponsible.
	It is unconscionable.
	It is unacceptable in a free society.
	In the America I know, this would cause protests in Washington, not in Fairfield, Connecticut.
	What happened yesterday at the United States House of Representatives would cause people marching in Washington.
	Every incumbent would be thrown out in 2010.
	This is unacceptable.
	We are not Soviet Russia, and they are not the Politburo.
	But you can't tell the difference some days in the way they act, in the way they speak.
	Yes, we know that Richard Holbrook was on the board of AIG.
	Yes, we know that Richard Holberg pocketed over seven years, 800 grand or six years, whatever.
	We're not surprised by this.
	That's an inside game.
	It is a cabal.
	It is these egghead academic ivy leaguers who just make a circuitous route stopping at AIG, then they'll go to Citibank, then they'll go to the administration.
	Then they'll go to the Fed.
	And after they leave there, then they'll go back to the private sector all the while, pocketing what they can from every stop along the way.
	And then they portray themselves as the best and the brightest and the smartest among us.
	They are going to ruin this country.
	They're in the process of it now.
	And while this is happening, the president of the United States is appearing on a late night comedy show.
	He admits that he is bowling in the White House bowling alley.
	He admits he's not working, and he makes a joke making fun of disabled people.
	And apologizes for it, and everybody accepts it.
	Teachable moment.
	Because we all know he really didn't mean it.
	Sorry, he did mean it.
	You can tell what's in people's hearts when they're not on the teleprompter.
	Back in a second.
	Welcome back to Open Line Friday.
	Ladies and gentlemen, Timothy Geithner and Barack Obama are lying.
	They are lying through their teeth about when it was known about the AIG bonuses, particularly Tim Geitner lying through his teeth.
	Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com, a great blog has come up with the evidence, and we have the audio to prove it in mere moments.
	But first, I want to return to a comment I made at the opening of the program, the vulgarity of Sarah Palin.
	I don't care that members on the left, people on the left and Democrats trashed her and said she was vulgar.
	That's because she was effective.
	But what infuriated me all during the campaign was how supposed conservatives, pseudo-conservatives, people on our side who are pseudo-phoning intellectuals of the New York Washington media axis, who have a desire to be accepted by the wrong crowd in politics, had to also go after Sarah Palin is unfit and vulgar and uncouth and raw around the edges.
	So last night, while Barack Obama is making fun of special Olympics people, special Olympics kid, while he's making fun of them.
	Sarah Palin on March 7th, 13 days ago, addressed the 2009 Special Olympics on her website, SarahPack.com.
	As you watch this, she's holding the baby, Trig, and she says this.
	When I first held Trig, it was like an hourglass turned upside down.
	My heart filled up with love as my mind emptied itself of all the different worries and fears and concerns that I had and carried those while I was carrying him.
	Everyone wants their baby to be perfect.
	And with Trig, that's exactly what we got.
	Everyone worries about what the future holds for their newborn child.
	With Trig.
	We have hopes and concerns and dreams, just as we do for all our children.
	But one thing is certain for our family, and that's that Special Olympics is going to be a big part of his and our future.
	Sarah Palin, the uncouth, the unpolished, the rough around the edges, the vulgar.
	Discussing her special needs child Trig and the Special Olympics.
	Later in her website post, she added this.
	Now, thanks to Special Olympics, we know for certain that Trig is going to have every opportunity to enjoy sports and competition that all of our other children have.
	I know I don't have to worry that he's going to be on the sidelines when he wants to be in the game.
	You know what the difference is between a hockey mom and a special Olympics hockey mom?
	Nothing for our family.
	And for millions of other families with special, special children.
	Special Olympics gives us confidence and excitement for his future.
	And we've got big plans for this little guy.
	And we can't wait.
	Sarah Palin on her website, SaraPak.com, talking about the address there's to the 2009 Special Olympics on her website as she was holding her down syndrome child Trig.
	I just wanted to contrast that.
	The supposedly vulgar and uncouth, rough around the edges, embarrassing Sarah Palin, with of course the elegant, the suave, the cool, the calm, the willowy, the weightless.
	Barack Obama.
	At his teachable moment.
	Making fun of special Olympics people.
	Grab audio soundbite number two.
	Joe Biden.
	In fact, where is do we have?
	This is uh just a second.
	Just a second.
	Where is uh go grab cut nine?
	We're gonna use cut nine again.
	Cut nine first.
	This is Joe Biden back during the campaign, uh, talking to a Missouri politician who's in a wheelchair.
	Uh Chuck Graham, State Senator's here.
	Stand up, Chuck.
	Let him see you.
	Oh, God love you.
	What am I talking about?
	I tell you what, you're making everybody else stand up, though, pal.
	I tell you what, stand up for Chuck.
	Stand up for Chuck.
	They're Joe Buddha.
	Oh, I mean, these people are so elegant.
	They're so sensitive.
	They're so aware.
	They're so compassionate.
	Here's Biden, Wednesday in Washington, speaking at the White House Recovery and Reinvestment Act implementation conference.
	Because of the rules, the president, I can't stop you from doing some things.
	But I'll show up in your city and say this is a stupid idea.
	You think I'm kidding.
	This is the only part the president was right about, don't mess with Joe.
	Because I mean it.
	I'm serious, guys.
	I'm serious.
	I'm absolutely serious.
	Whoo, we're frightened out here.
	Joe Biden.
	Yes, he said this is the only part the president was right about.
	Don't mess with Joe.
	What a collection.
	What have we done?
	What have we done to our country?
	This is absolutely horrible.
	So he shows up, he's talking to state officials about the implementation of the stimulus bill, the community, the recovery and reinvestment act, implementation conference.
	And he's telling these people if they don't do it right, he's gonna show up and he's gonna tell them that they're stupid.
	You think I'm kidding?
	It's the only part the president was right about.
	Don't mess with jokes.
	I mean it.
	I'm serious, guys.
	I'm serious.
	I'm absolutely serious.
	This administration is a joke.
	It's not the kind of joke you'll laugh at, though.
	It's a joke that makes you cry.
	Sir Douglas Quint.
	She's about a mover.
	Walking down the street.
	All right, the uh Congressional Budget Office, and everybody was waiting for this number today.
	The Congressional Budget Office says that the federal deficit this year will now top 1.8 trillion dollars.
	That is exactly half of Obama's proposed budget.
	1.8 trillion.
	The Democrat Party was having cows when the Bush deficit was 400 billion.
	This is 1.8 trillion, and there's no end in sight to the new spending.
	This is to destroy the individual and liberty and freedom and the capitalist system that made this country great.
	1.8 trillion.
	But we live in a bipolar culture.
	And the people who blindly support Barack Obama, who think of him as nothing more than a cool celebrity, don't even have an idea what a budget is, much less a deficit.
	And they certainly don't think it's bad if it's his.
	It must be for a good reason.
	Because you see, nothing could be worse than the last eight years.
	I played in the golf tournament last week.
	I tell you this quick story before we evidence for you the fact that Tim Geitner in Congress are lying through their teeth on the AIG bonuses.
	Playing golf last weekend, and uh one of my one of one of my partners was uh a good guy.
	Identified himself as a yellow dog democrat, North Carolina.
	So and I teased him, I said, How do you like the destruction of wealth going on?
	Hell, Russia can't get any worse it was the last eight years.
	Can't get any worse.
	It can't get any worse, it was the last eight years.
	This man's not in his 20s or 30s, he's in his 60s.
	Blind obedience.
	Democrat Party in Barack Obama.
	1.8 trillion dollar budget that's trillion with a T. Tim Geithner, thanks to Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com.
	Tim Geitner, the tax cheat and the Secretary of the Treasury, and Congress claim that they were blindsided by the AIG bonuses late last week before anybody had a chance to stop AIG from paying the bonuses.
	I can't tell you how flipping mad what happened yesterday in the House of Representatives makes me.
	I've been alive 58 years.
	I've been paying attention to things since I was twelve.
	And I've been through the House Post Office and the House Bank scandal.
	But what I saw happen yesterday and all week leading up to yesterday rivals the most outrageous, dishonest, disingenuous, near criminal act I have ever seen.
	The House of Representatives enacting legislation to tax a certain number of people at 90% on bonuses they were paid, acting as though they had no idea this had happened.
	It was in the stimulus bill that was written in Nancy Pelosi's damned office.
	Those bonuses were exempted.
	Limits on those bonuses were exempted.
	The bonuses were known when they wrote the stimulus bill.
	It happened in Nancy Pelosi's office, and Barney Frank helped write it.
	They passed a law and they sent it to the president and good old Special Olympics teleprompter Obama signed the damn thing.
	Would never have happened had they not exempted it.
	It was in the bill.
	It was in the law, and they act yesterday like they got blindsided.
	And they act yesterday like somebody pulled a trick on them.
	I detest these people.
	If the mob is mad, if the mob is angry, go ahead and be mad at AIG if you want, if you want to follow popular sentiment, but if you're not mad at the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate, if you are not fit to be tied over what they are doing, the assault that they are making on individual liberty, the founding of this country.
	They are acting as potentates with limitless power.
	Most of them are incompetent.
	That's where your anger ought to be directed, and the chance you have to vent your anger is 2010.
	And there's a story out there today, folks.
	What's his name?
	Stu Rothenberg, one of the inside the beltway Democrat pollsters, got a little story.
	Democrats getting worried about 2010.
	Is it time to worry?
	It's not because of Obama, because nobody expects Obama's support to go anywhere.
	But boy, where's if there's anger at Congress, Rothenberg says that's the perfect recipe for the incumbent party to lose big.
	He said anger is what caused the Democrats to lose 50 seats in 1994.
	And there was anger, and it was anger over corruption.
	It was the House Bank, the House Post Office, 40 years of near dictatorial rule, and they're back into it again.
	Here's Nancy Pelosi.
	It's unamerican to enforce U.S. laws.
	Folks, if you're angry, your anger needs to be directed at your government, not your fellow citizens.
	You're being whipped into a frenzy the way they were whipped into a frenzy in Nazi Germany.
	And I will explain what I mean by that when I get to a New York Times story in just a moment.
	But back to Ed Morris's piece.
	Geitner in Congress claim they got blindsided by the bonuses for AIG late last week before anybody had a chance to stop them.
	However, C-SPAN's video library tells a very different story.
	There's a clip from March the third, a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee, in which Democrat Congressman Joseph Crowley of New York specifically mentions the upcoming payouts of over 162 million dollars in bonuses to AIG execs.
	The very same number that inflamed Washington last week.
	You know who he's talking to?
	He's talking to Tim Geithner.
	He makes these revelations to Tim Gitner, who said he only learned about these bonuses on March the 10th.
	Here is Mr. Crowley, Democrat New York talking to Timothy Geitner.
	This last month, AIG paid 343 employees of AIG FP, their financial products division, created the financial hole that AIG is in, and in turn a multi-billion dollar bill For American taxpayers of $56 million in bonuses and are slated to pay an additional 162 million dollars in bonuses to 393 participants in the coming weeks.
	And there's more.
	Further bonus payments totaling approximately 230 million are due to 407 participants at AIG's Financial Products Division in March 2010.
	This makes no sense to my constituency.
	In other words, everybody knew about these bonuses.
	What you just heard was from March 3rd.
	Democrat Congressman talking to Tim Geitner.
	Everybody knew about these bonuses.
	Congress even knew enough about it to question Geithner on it.
	And we even learned something that I didn't know that there are more bonuses to be paid out a year from now.
	$230 million are due to 40 seven participants at the Financial Products Division in March of 2010, one year from now.
	This is March the third.
	This is nine days before Geithner initially claimed to know anything about it.
	It's a farce.
	This whole thing is a joke.
	It is a diversionary tactic.
	It's worse than a diversionary.
	It is a lie.
	This whole thing is a lie from your government perpetrated by the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership of the House of Representatives to cook up artificial outrage over contractually obligated bonuses.
	Ed Morris says it's a freak show.
	It's a circus.
	Populous circuses.
	It is a freak show, but it is worse.
	This has to be a violation of the oath of their office.
	What they are doing.
	It may not seem like chump change.
	People saying it's chump change in comparison to all the bailout money.
	And then but 165 million standalone to going to individuals is not a small amount of money.
	I agree with that.
	But people are being tugged in the wrong direction on this.
	And the best and the brightest, the wizards of SMART, are lying through their teeth.
	And the primary culprits, and I don't mind being partisan here, are liberal Democrats.
	And one of the things we know about liberalism is that it is a lie.
	It has to lie in order to survive.
	It has to create demons.
	It has to create enemies that have to be destroyed.
	So while the president of the United States, and he claims he didn't know till March 10th, and I don't believe that.
	I don't believe the president of the United States didn't know anything about that.
	I don't I don't believe Geitner didn't know.
	We know now Geitner knew on March 3rd.
	We knew Congress knew before March 3rd.
	Do you understand this?
	On March the 3rd, 17 days ago, Geitner was asked by members of Congress about these bonuses.
	We ought to get some, we ought to get some uh audio from Crowley.
	If we have any, if there is any.
	I would love to have audio from Crowley acting shocked and stunned and surprised about these bonuses on a date later than March 3rd when he brought them to everybody's attention.
	And if Crowley knew about them on March 3rd, when did they really know about it?
	They knew enough to start asking Geithner about it on March 3rd.
	Geitner, self-contained here, lying through his teeth when he says he only knew about this on March 10th.
	I didn't know I only learned the full scope of what it on March 10th, he's saying.
	We have been insulted, our intelligence has been insulted.
	We are being played like village idiots.
	We are, they are, they look at us as suckers who will believe anything.
	And it's all to protect their dirty little rear ends, their corrupt little rear ends.
	I'm having trouble describing how I feel with not uttering without uttering any profanities here.
	I haven't been this mad in a long time, and I'm mad not just about their behavior, but I am really mad and saddened at the same time at how damned easy it's been for these people to mislead this country.
	That's what's scary.
	It has Been too damn easy to create a mob aimed at the wrong people.
	A mob being used by the Democrat Party to destroy the United States of America as you and I have known it.
	This is about liberalism, folks.
	This is not about politics as usual.
	This is about an ideology or a psychology, whatever you want to call it.
	Systematically, now with no strains, no constraints, nothing to stop them.
	Finally, implementing every dream they have ever had to destroy this nation as pounded.
	Back in a second.
	You want to hear something disgusting?
	You want to hear something that would make you ashamed of your fellow citizens, New York Times today's scorn trails AIG executives even in their driveways.
	The AIG executive who was nicknamed Jackpot Jimmy by a New York Tabloid, walked up the driveway toward his bay windowed home in Fairfield, Connecticut Thursday afternoon.
	How do I feel?
	Repeating the question he'd just been asked the media is outside his house, asking him questions.
	How do I feel?
	I feel horrible.
	This has been a complete invasion of privacy.
	Hey, Jimmy, who'd you vote for?
	I wonder who James Haas voted for.
	I wonder who he gave money to.
	I don't know.
	I'm just asking.
	Mr. Haas walked on his pink shirt, a burst of color on a slate gray afternoon.
	You have to understand, he said there are kids involved, there have been death threats.
	Looked like he was fighting back tears.
	I didn't have anything to do with these credit problems.
	I told Liddy I'd I'd rescind my retention contract.
	And he ended the conversation with the media with a request, leave my neighbors alone.
	Too late.
	Jean Wissen, who has lived down the block for twenty four years, stopped her car in front of Mr. Haas's house before he arrived home.
	She was angry about the bonuses paid to its executives.
	She said it's despicable, it's disgusting what these people have done.
	They should be forced to give every cent back.
	Miss Wissen, Kurt, a convenient dupe.
	Why can't she get mad at the real criminal waste and spending of her own elected officials who are spending her and her family into a debt that they will never see the end of.
	These bonuses in years past help make AIG executives into prominent local citizens.
	They own big houses.
	They have contributed to a lot of charities.
	But now these executives are toxic.
	And those communities are rattled and divided.
	Private security guards have been stationed outside their houses.
	Sometimes a local police drive by.
	AIG employees at the company's office were told to avoid leaving the building while a demonstration was going on outside.
	The memo also advised them to avoid displaying company-issued ID cards when they left the office.
	To abandon tote bags or other items with the AIG logo.
	One AIG executive, who didn't want to give his name, said it's bad if not worse than McCarthyism.
	Everybody sacrificed the employees of AIG's division for their own political agenda.
	The public's anger, he said, is coming from bad facts as a result of somebody else's agenda.
	Or just bad facts, period.
	Instead, he said the so-called bonuses were in fact just payments that had been promised long ago to workers, including technical and administrative assistance.
	AIG employees are not the only ones seeking protection, and executive at Merrill Lynch, where bonuses have also come under fire, said that some employees had asked whether the firm would cover the cost of private security for them.
	And there will be protests.
	The Connecticut Working Families Party, which has support from organized labor, is planning a bus tour of AIG executives' homes on Saturday, with a stop at the AIG office in Wilton, Connecticut.
	We're going to be peaceful and we're going to be lawful in everything we do, said John Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families.
	I know there's a lot of anger and a lot of rage about what's happened.
	We're not looking to foment that unnecessarily, but what we want to do is give folks in Bridgeport and Hartford and other parts of Connecticut who are struggling and losing their homes and jobs and their health insurance an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit default swaps can buy.
	New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he um is now aware of the security concerns of AIG employees.
	He said we'll be sensitive to those issues by doing a risk assessment before releasing any individual's name.
	To the bus tour company.
	So your government in Washington and the government in New York is sitting idly by while angry mobs, fomented by lies and deceit from the U.S. Congress, now target private citizens who couldn't in their wildest dreams do the damage to this country that elected officials in Washington are in the process of doing.
	Mr. Sturdily finally made contact with Carol, the caller from Baltimore who did not...
	She did call us back.
	She didn't want to be the front of the line last week, so we're putting her at the front of the line today.
	I uh you better ask her if she'll accept being at the front of the line today again.
	By the way, where's Larry Wilkerson?
	Powell chief of staff warning about the spreading of hate and violence that I'm responsible for.
	Where were you today, Mr. Wilkerson?

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