| didn’t get an answer, which I guess is not surprising. But in the
interim I found out that Newmark did, indeed, work for Goldman. I find
it funny that a business journalist has to disclose if he’s invested in
this or that stock, or short this or that security, before a newspaper
will allow him to have an opinion about anything even distantly related
to that company — but you don’t need to disclose anything if all you’re
doing is kissing your former boss’s ass.
Can you imagine what a craven, bumlicking ass-goblin you’d have to be to get a job working for the Wall Street Journal,
not mention up front that you used to be a Goldman, Sachs managing
director, and then write a lengthy article calling your former boss a
“national hero” — in the middle of a sweeping financial crisis, one in
which half the world is in a panic and the unemployment rate just hit a
25-year high? Behavior like this, you usually don’t see it outside
prison trusties who spend their evenings shining the guards’ boots. I
can’t even think of a political press secretary who would sink that
low. Hank Paulson, a hero? Are you fucking kidding us? |
Sunday | March 29, 2009