Reply #35: Isn't that nice of NPR to defend AIG. Awwwww.

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But that's why I limit my NPR (Now Primarily Republican) radio listening.

Yes I had heard elsewhere that golly, gee, they wrote those contracts before they crashed the economy.

It is a pity that NPR didn't mention how peculiar it still was that those contracts promised bonuses whether or not the traders participated in bankrupting the organization.

But golly, AIG was worried about losing that fabulous talent that destroyed our economy. So NPR helped the PR companies they hired with our bailout money to get the word out. Isn't that sweet of them?

Just trying to be "fair and balanced" I guess. Poor AIG was just trying to save those remarkably talented folks who went wild with their credit default swapping. Whatever would we have done without them?

I still listen to some NPR but am regularly irked by their inclusion of Republican propaganda points without the requisite balance in the other direction. Like just saying how it defies logic that a company would even want to reward staff who helped sink the company when the rest of us have had more modest bonuses reduced when our companies didn't do well in a particular year.