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"NYT: Countrywide subprime exec not guilty by reason of being a woman"

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Blogger elvisd said...

Hefty manjaw.

10/26/13, 4:43 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm still trying to understand why Franklin Raines isn't wearing an orange jump suit. I could be wrong, but I think if the people who looted Fannie and Freddie in the 90s had gone to prison, it might have had a chilling effect.

10/26/13, 5:19 AM

Anonymous Cail Corishev said...

I'm not surprised that her female coworkers cited her "stylish dress" as a primary reason for backing her. I'm a little surprised the NYT would let that slip into the story, though.

I guess when you feel like you're in charge of everyone else's words, you don't have to watch your own.

10/26/13, 5:41 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have always felt that Aril Glaspie, (US ambassador to Iraq pre Gulf War 1), was unfairly let off the hook because she is a woman.
Famously she told Saddam that the USA had 'no opinion' over an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Of course, nopthing could be further from the truth.

Not trying to rub it in, for the sake of nstiness, think of all the negativity that arguably flowed from Gulf War 1, (perhaps Twin Towers, Afghan invasion, economic crisis etc etc), and waht could have been avoided if a sager ambassador held that position.

10/26/13, 5:44 AM

Anonymous Bill said...


Anonymous said . . .

I have always felt that Aril Glaspie, (US ambassador to Iraq pre Gulf War 1), was unfairly let off the hook because she is a woman.
Famously she told Saddam that the USA had 'no opinion' over an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Of course, nopthing could be further from the truth.


You could react to this the way you do, pointing it out as one of life's great mysteries. Or, you could react to it the way I do: observing that the fact that she wasn't punished is evidence (though not proof) that she was following her boss's instructions rather than ad libbing.

10/26/13, 7:18 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've noticed( I have no credentials) that women get top jobs in an organization just before a collapse ensues.
Either they are the straw,or millstone, that breaks the company's back or it is a principle built into life that the girls' prominence guarantee the doom of an enterprise, no matter how venerable the organization is.
Cue Janet Yellen.

10/26/13, 7:38 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Male Whistleblower = Probably a lying backstabber pretending to be good

I think you have that slightly wrong:

Male Whistleblower who blows the whistle on a female executive = Probably a lying backstabber pretending to be good.

10/26/13, 7:55 AM

Anonymous Big Bill said...

Don't buy that "Preet Bharata, hard-charging Manhattan Federal Prosecutor" stuff.

He/she is employed to spend tons of money doing discovery, identifying as many crimes as he/she can, and then entering into cheap financial settlements with the Bankstas that:

(1) immunize the corporations and their leadership from future prosecution for those specific crimes, and

(2) immunize them from OTHER crimes that might be constructed out of the same transactions and occurrences.

The Bankstas know that Preet will agree to a settlement in which (1) no one goes to jail, (2) they only have to pay pennies on the dollar, and (perhaps best of all) (3) no one else can come after them later.

They LOVE it when they have a pretend fight with Preet!

10/26/13, 8:31 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha, ha! So, the NYT touts that she had, " . . stylish dress and demeanor."?? And this is part of the reason she was well-liked and successful (and possibly innocient)???

The NYT -- so sexists, so hypocritical!

10/26/13, 9:25 AM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

"Anonymous said...

I have always felt that Aril Glaspie, (US ambassador to Iraq pre Gulf War 1), was unfairly let off the hook because she is a woman.

Famously she told Saddam that the USA had 'no opinion' over an invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Of course, nopthing could be further from the truth."

She claimed that her instructions came directly from James Baker, and that it long been American policy that the Iraq/Kuwait dispute was none of our business.

10/26/13, 10:35 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would she have been treated so deferentially if she were ugly?

10/26/13, 11:04 AM

Blogger Kaleberg said...

It's actually a sign of progress. Now a woman can be one of the protected good old boys. Granted, she had to stand trial, unlike the rest of the criminals, but at least she got off just as if she were a man.

10/26/13, 12:53 PM

Anonymous E. Rekshun said...

SS: "...she must be innocent by reason of not being a man, let me point out that by the same logic, she must be guilty by reason of being white."

Race trumps gender.

14 y/o daughter, 19 y/o son. Hhhmmm, two different fathers?

At least she was a stylish dresser.

10/26/13, 3:45 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The quality of lenders had been dropping spectacularly year after year."

Don't you mean the quality of borrowers had been dropping?

10/26/13, 4:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It seems to me that the NYT was just repeating the argument of the lawyer. Sailer is really good at seeing what he wants to see regarding media bias.

10/26/13, 9:30 PM

Anonymous Eluy said...

Steve, what made you think the Housing Bubble had quietly burst around August 1st 2007?

10/27/13, 4:00 PM

Anonymous Harry Baldwin said...

I've noticed . . . that women get top jobs in an organization just before a collapse ensues.

I've noticed that blacks get the top leadership position in a nation just before a collapse ensues.

10/28/13, 7:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Would she have been treated so deferentially if she were ugly?"

Dude... but she is ugly.

10/28/13, 5:29 PM

Anonymous whistlin' in the wind said...

Plenty of female whistleblowers have been put through hell. It's just that you are not going to hear about them unless the stuff they're whistling about is approved for public consumption. Karen Silkwood is a good example. Catherine Austin Fitts only survived in good measure because of her wealth and shrewdness. Plenty of female whistleblowers have gone down in flames. But in some circumstances they may do better, because they are often minorities in the environments they're working in, and no one wants to be seen persecuting "minorities." That changes as the environment changes. Being female is no protection for a whistleblower unless the MSM wants to use her as a holier than thou story that makes them look like good whistleblowers too.

10/30/13, 7:18 AM

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