- An interview with Ben Wetmore, the author of the “script” for James O’Keefe’s failed sex boat “prank.”
- The implementation of TARP “[set] up exactly the wrong incentives as we head into the next credit cycle.”
- Attacking, again, the idiotic cliche that America is a “center-right nation.”
- Larry Summers’ airport problems.
- Senate Republicans killed a successful jobs program, for fun, and no one cares.
- Carl Paladino’s campaign filings are, predictably, full of weird secrets.
- A Guantanamo detainee is on trial in lower Manhattan right now — steps from Ground Zero! — and stupid New Yorkers refuse to be terrified.
Thursday link dump: Get me rewrite
O'Keefe's scriptwriter speaks, the lessons of TARP, and more Senate obstruction
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Alex Pareene