Get a Load of This Guy.

"AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yea, Right" is a recent blog written by Matt Taibbi, in which he gives his opinion on a recently released statement from former AIG employee Jake DeSantis. The statement released to the NY Times by DeSantis regarded his discontent with negative public opinions toward the recent follies that have risen to the surface pertaining to the financial giant. Taibbi vigorously ridicules DeSantis and his angelic, uninvolved, ignorant role in the falling of the beast. Taibbi maintains that this attempt to gain public sympathy by DeSantis is unethical, unrealistic, and down right inhuman. He calls his bluffs and gives plausible opinion on why certain things published by DeSantis are untrue and degrading to others if expected to be believed.

One example of this disagreeing is Taibbi's rebuttal to DeSantis' statement that he had no knowledge of the actions taken by his superiors and was basically a non-free-thinking robotic lap dog for the company who did what he was told and got what he was owed. Taibbi informs that even if this unrealistic scenario be true, in the real world (one of low to middle class standards) that there is no such thing as being owed anything. He points out that high payed executives have a skewed vision when it comes to money and don't realize that the money received as compensation comes from some one, somewhere. Instead it is money that is rightfully theirs due to there immaculate standing and abilities that they (being elitists) are empowered with. What a joke.

Although I agree with Taibbi, I do question the necessity of his vulgarities towards DeSantis....haha! Being a writer for the contemporary rock/pop culture magazine "Rolling Stone," Taibbi holds a fresh, no punches held point of view towards this situation and means to exploit this selfish bastard and his antics to the public.