Of course stories like this never register on the Republican radar.
AIG's lords and lady of the hunt may find themselves under attack after luxury trip
By CORKY SIEMASZKO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, October 15th 2008, 1:11 AM
Ellis/AP
A traditional British hunt. Taxpayers may want to sic the hounds on the AIG executives who enjoyed another luxury vacation, this one including a partrigde hunt at a 5-star hotel in England.
Four top AIG executives flipped U.S. taxpayers the bird by spending $86,000 on a partridge hunt at an English country manor as the feds gave their struggling firm billions to stay afloat.
The heedless hunters and their guests traipsed through the fields in tweed knickers, firing at defenseless birds and later washing down pigeon breasts and halibut with "the finest wines taxpayers' money can buy," the London-based News of the World newspaper reported.
In interviews with undercover reporters, the AIG honchos said they were aware that the markets were crashing back in New York - but were more interested in bagging birds.
"The recession will go on until about 2011 - but the shooting was great today and we are relaxing fine," AIG honcho Sebastian Preil was quoted as saying.
Preil wasn't the least bit embarrassed that AIG, which got its first $85 billion bailout from the feds last month, needed taxpayer money to stay in business. The hunting trip came the week AIG got a second loan of $37.5 billion.
"We should be on an even keel in two years," he reportedly said.
Another AIG executive, Alvaro Mengotti, "slurped fine wine" while dispensing advice on surviving the financial crisis. "Invest your money in gold," he reportedly said.
The AIG hunting party stayed at Plumber Manor, a 17th century country house in scenic Dorset, southwest of London. In four days, they racked up a $17,500 bill for food and rooms.
Priel and a German businessman identified by the paper as Stefan Nill flew in from Frankfurt by private jet costing another $17,500, the paper reported.
Mengotti flew in from Spain and was driven to the hotel in one of the fleet of limos that cost $8,750, the paper said. Also with them was a client of Preil's identified by the paper as "Herr W. Underburg."
AIG spokesman Joe Norton confirmed Tuesday the hunt happened. He said "it was planned months (ago)," though he admitted it should have been cancelled.
"AIG's priority is to continue to focus on maximizing the value of the business so we can repay the federal reserve loan."
AIG got spanked last month after it was revealed that top executives spent $500,000 at a swanky California resort after the failing insurer got it's first infusion of bailout bucks.
mmmmmm....fried chicken & watermelon sound sooo good now! thanks a lot ;) but, back to the seriousness of this post: wait, it's actually a silly post. I hope Michelle enjoyed her Lobster!
Not only is it silly, it's probobly not even true. I found NOTHING in the mainstream news about this, this was only on right wing hate sites, one provided a supposed link to a NT times article, but it was a phoney link, it led to a message of "page not found". Other bloggers claimed that the Obamas' were elsewhere on the alleged date that this high crime of eating lobster occurred.
Also, this is very silly, I wonder if anyone can say with a straight face that the McCains have NEVER enjoyed a nice Lobster meal or caviar. Just because every morsel that the republicans eat is not reported by bloggers in pajamas, doesn't mean that republicans don't eat. I doubt that McCains eat nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and hamburgers. They have probably enjoyed their fair share of fine dining also. And why not.
I have enjoyed fine dining myself, including Lobster, and we are extremely middle class. If it's not a crime for a middle class person to eat Lobster, why is it so horrible that Michelle Obama ate Lobster. Oh yes, that's right, she's only supposed to eat "black" food, like fried chicken and watermelon.
If it turns out this story is true, I wonder if there will be repercussions for the hotel employee who "scooped" this story. I can't imagine that this type of confidentiality breach is NOT a violation of the rules where he works.
Hmmmm, very interesting, I did another google search. If you click on the link to the supposed NYP articles, it comes up "page not found", but if you do a google search, you can find a cache version of it.
It appears that NYP did briefly publish it, then scrub it off their website. This just tells me that they rushed to publish this, THEN did their fact checking, and when they could not corroborate this story scrubbed it off.
Guess this must be an example of the "liberal biased media".
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Of course stories like this never register on the Republican radar.
Not only is it silly, it's probobly not even true. I found NOTHING in the mainstream news about this, this was only on right wing hate sites, one provided a supposed link to a NT times article, but it was a phoney link, it led to a message of "page not found". Other bloggers claimed that the Obamas' were elsewhere on the alleged date that this high crime of eating lobster occurred.
Also, this is very silly, I wonder if anyone can say with a straight face that the McCains have NEVER enjoyed a nice Lobster meal or caviar. Just because every morsel that the republicans eat is not reported by bloggers in pajamas, doesn't mean that republicans don't eat. I doubt that McCains eat nothing but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and hamburgers. They have probably enjoyed their fair share of fine dining also. And why not.
I have enjoyed fine dining myself, including Lobster, and we are extremely middle class. If it's not a crime for a middle class person to eat Lobster, why is it so horrible that Michelle Obama ate Lobster. Oh yes, that's right, she's only supposed to eat "black" food, like fried chicken and watermelon.
If it turns out this story is true, I wonder if there will be repercussions for the hotel employee who "scooped" this story. I can't imagine that this type of confidentiality breach is NOT a violation of the rules where he works.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:IGLJD9OhJoMJ:www.nypost.com/seven/10172008/gossip/pagesix/obamas_fancy_snack_133922.htm+Michelle+Obama+Lobster+Page+six&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Hmmmm, very interesting, I did another google search. If you click on the link to the supposed NYP articles, it comes up "page not found", but if you do a google search, you can find a cache version of it.
It appears that NYP did briefly publish it, then scrub it off their website. This just tells me that they rushed to publish this, THEN did their fact checking, and when they could not corroborate this story scrubbed it off.
Guess this must be an example of the "liberal biased media".
Here is link to the blog site that broke this crime of the century story
http://mespace.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/michelle-obama-loves-her-lobsters-and-iranian-caviar/
If you click on the link provided in their "story" it leads to a NYT "page not found"
Edited 10/19/2008 11:31 am ET by idramamama
Edited 10/19/2008 11:35 am ET by idramamama
What point are you trying to make here?
My boss eats at expensive restaurants
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