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RUSH: You want to hear something disgusting? You want to hear something that will make you ashamed of your fellow citizens? New York Times today: ”Scorn Trails AIG Executives, Even in Their Driveways\u2019 — The AIG executive who was nicknamed ‘Jackpot Jimmy\u2019 by a New York tabloid walked up the driveway toward his bay-windowed house in Fairfield, Conn., on Thursday afternoon. ‘How do I feel?\u2019 repeating the question he\u2019d just been asked.\u2019 The media\u2019s outside his house, asking him questions. ‘I feel horrible. This has been a complete invasion of privacy.\u2019 Hey, Jimmy, who did you vote for? I wonder who James Haas voted for. I wonder who he gave money to. I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m just asking. <\/p>\n

‘Mr. Haas walked on, his pink shirt a burst of color on a slate-gray afternoon. The words came haltingly. ‘You have to understand,\u2019 he said, ‘there are kids involved, there have been death threats. …\u2019 His voice trailed off. It looked as if he was fighting back tears. ‘I didn\u2019t have anything to do with those credit problems,\u2019 said Mr. Haas, 47. ‘I told Mr. Liddy\u2019 — Edward M. Liddy, the chief executive of AIG, the insurance giant — ‘I would rescind my retention contract.\u2019 He ended the conversation with a request: ‘Leave my neighbors alone.\u2019 Too late. Jean Wieson, who has lived down the block for 24 years, had stopped her car in front of Mr. Haas\u2019 house before he arrived home. She was angry about the millions of dollars in bonuses paid to its executives. ‘It makes me absolutely sick,\u2019 she said. ‘It\u2019s despicable. It\u2019s disgusting what these people have done. They should be forced to give every cent back.” Ms. Wieson, a convenient dupe. Why can\u2019t 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. <\/p>\n

‘These bonuses in years past helped make AIG executives into prominent local citizens. They owned 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, and sometimes the local police drive by. AIG employees at the company\u2019s office tower in Lower Manhattan 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 and to abandon tote bags or other items with the AIG logo. One AIG executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared the consequences of identifying himself, said many workers felt demonized and betrayed. ‘It is as bad if not worse than McCarthyism,\u2019 he said. Everyone has sacrificed the employees of AIG\u2019s financial products division, he said, ‘for their own political agenda.\u2019 The public\u2019s anger, he said, ‘is coming from bad facts as a result of someone else\u2019s agenda — or just bad facts period.\u2019 Instead, he said, the so-called bonuses were in fact just payments that had been promised long ago to workers, including technical and administrative assistants. <\/p>\n

‘AIG employees are not the only ones seeking protection: An 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 may be more protests. The Connecticut Working Families party, which has support from organized labor, is planning a bus tour of AIG executives\u2019 homes on Saturday, with a stop at the company\u2019s Wilton office. ‘We\u2019re going to be peaceful and lawful in everything we do,\u2019 said Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families. ‘I know there\u2019s a lot of anger and a lot of rage about what\u2019s happened. We\u2019re 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 their jobs and their health insurance an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy.\u2019 … The New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, said on Thursday that AIG had handed over a list with the names of the bonus recipients. But he did not release the list. ‘We are aware of the security concerns of AIG employees,\u2019 Mr. Cuomo said in a statement, ‘and we will be sensitive to those issues by doing a risk assessment before releasing any individual\u2019s 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 US Congress, now target private citizens who couldn\u2019t, in their wildest dreams, do the damage to this country that elected officials in Washington are in the process of doing.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, where\u2019s Larry Wilkerson, Powell\u2019s chief of staff, warning about the spreading of hate and violence that I\u2019m responsible for? Where were you today, Mr. Wilkerson, on what\u2019s happening in the US Congress creating a mob against AIG people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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