Washington Post
(/aside "Is the mind-control teleprompter turned on yet? It is? Good, let's roll.")
Hello, my name is Timothy Geithner and I'm going to discuss some facts so that you can quickly forget them. As you may well be aware there is a huge financial mess. People note that it may be due to lack strict regulation, deregulation, or lack of opposition to deregulation.
What I need you to do me a favor and forget is that I'm the guy that was in charge of all those possibilities. See the Federal Reserve is separate from the Government and I was in charge of the New York branch that oversees Wall Street. I could choose to strictly enforce or even read extra broadly all regulatory statutes related to the banks, financial institutions and instruments. I could have decried any deregulation, exceptions granted to leverage ratios and finally I could have pressed for any omissions or changes in regulations I thought were necessary.
What I need you to also forget is that I did none of these things, have now become the Treasury Secretary. We are now going to bet the entire economy and future based off my lack of ability to recognize and address the prior crisis but we will now fix it by being more charismatic and also more hopey and changey. I want you to remember that it is all the fault of Bush. It isn't the fault of anyone in New York associated with you know, overseeing Wall Street and banks.
Thanks and now please forget this information we have now disclosed.
(/aside "And we're out." "No I'm not too worried, Stewart and Colbert aren't going to go after any of this because it is associated with Obama man. I mean "no one" has conveniently found anything funny about him yet in oh.... two years. Yeah I know he has Special Olympic Bowlers challenging him to games and a VP that is insane gaffe machine but.. you know we mean funny in that Republicans are fun to call idiots way.")
(/aside "Is the mind-control teleprompter turned on yet? It is? Good, let's roll.")
Hello, my name is Timothy Geithner and I'm going to discuss some facts so that you can quickly forget them. As you may well be aware there is a huge financial mess. People note that it may be due to lack strict regulation, deregulation, or lack of opposition to deregulation.
What I need you to do me a favor and forget is that I'm the guy that was in charge of all those possibilities. See the Federal Reserve is separate from the Government and I was in charge of the New York branch that oversees Wall Street. I could choose to strictly enforce or even read extra broadly all regulatory statutes related to the banks, financial institutions and instruments. I could have decried any deregulation, exceptions granted to leverage ratios and finally I could have pressed for any omissions or changes in regulations I thought were necessary.
What I need you to also forget is that I did none of these things, have now become the Treasury Secretary. We are now going to bet the entire economy and future based off my lack of ability to recognize and address the prior crisis but we will now fix it by being more charismatic and also more hopey and changey. I want you to remember that it is all the fault of Bush. It isn't the fault of anyone in New York associated with you know, overseeing Wall Street and banks.
Thanks and now please forget this information we have now disclosed.
(/aside "And we're out." "No I'm not too worried, Stewart and Colbert aren't going to go after any of this because it is associated with Obama man. I mean "no one" has conveniently found anything funny about him yet in oh.... two years. Yeah I know he has Special Olympic Bowlers challenging him to games and a VP that is insane gaffe machine but.. you know we mean funny in that Republicans are fun to call idiots way.")
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell
