• February 13, 2012

keating five

Good, bad, too long? You decide! We don’t have time to watch the whole thing, right now, due to Brain Damage. But the five-second version was pretty good. [Keating Economics]

We wondered when what’s his name, Obama, might mention how John McCain and his lobbyist boyfriends caused the previous collapse of America’s financial system — ha ha, not the Great Depression, but the Savings & Loan collapse. Full horrific video at noon tomorrow. Expect Sarah Palin to immediately show up somewhere and accuse Barack Obama [...]

Here’s some hilarious video from outside a McCain campaign stop in Ohio, where some older people chant “Keating Five,” which was the great group of corrupt senators (including John McCain) who caused the last collapse of American finance, in the late ’80s. This teevee reporter has no idea what they’re talking about, of course. [Blogger [...]

Hmm, this sounds kind of familiar if you remember the Keating Five and S&L Collapse: “Nevada regulators have shut down Silver State Bank. It was the 11th failure this year of a federally insured bank. Andrew McCain, son of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, was a member of the bank’s board, but recently stepped down [...]

It is sad to think we will never be here again, at the Xcel Center Hockey Rink, in St. Paul of Minnesota. Ha ha, just kidding. We are so ready to get the living hell out of here! Do you know how long we’ve been covering these two conventions, in two cities 1,100 miles apart? [...]

Do you have time to read a 45-page-long first-person alt-weekly newsfeature about John McCain’s long life of being a political crook in Arizona and how everyone there fears and hates him? Of course not! Lucky for you, Wonkette has a team of offshore article readers, in Bangalore, who go through this stuff and whittle it [...]