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Former Obama Pitbull Now Shilling for Hedge Funds
 

Edmundo Braverman's picture
ST
(Human, 14,705
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 7:58am
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In many ways, I'm a huge hypocrite. It's a terrible character flaw of mine, but one I've learned to live with. And I make every effort to call myself on it when I'm at my worst. I also like to think that I'd do anything for money - a real OG. But I know deep down that there are things too distasteful to me to do for any price. This is also probably a character flaw of mine, but one I've mostly learned to live with.

For example: I'm not above screwing a competitor to achieve my own ends, though I'm usually the first to cry foul when it's done to me. And I'd like to think that I could go to that competitor after I screwed him and convince him to pay me so I don't tell any of my friends how to screw him as well, but I probably couldn't do it with a straight face.

Lucky for PR firm McClean/Clark, Anita Dunn doesn't share my inhibitions (or any obvious sense of decency). Who is Anita Dunn? For starters, she's the former White House communications director under President Obama, and she's now a Managing Director at SKDKnicerbocker - a Democratic consulting firm. She's also a world class Wall Street hater.

As WH communications director, Dunn framed many of the administrations arguments against Wall Street and in favor of increased regulation. She was particularly rough on the hedge fund industry, scapegoating it above most other sectors of finance. So you can imagine my surprise when I learned that she's now selling her services to the very industry she publicly vilified to make it all go away.

As White House communications director, Dunn helped President Obama criticize hedge funds as a key factor of the financial collapse—and she has continued that criticism, at least in public, ever since.

An industry outsider who was pitched on Dunn’s proposal told the Washington Free Beacon that he was surprised to see the former Obama official involved in the effort. “First we see Dunn attack us on television,” he said, “and then she tells us to hire her to head off the exact attacks that she herself is hurling at us. The entire thing begins to stink like a protection racket.”

That's actually an excellent choice of words. In a protection racket scheme, you're buying "protection" from the misdeeds of the people who are selling you the protection. That's pretty much exactly what's on offer here. If the hedge fund industry will hire Dunn and her cronies, they'll protect the industry from their old pals in Washington. Or at least they'll give it the old "college try" and bank a ton of fees.

So now Dunn is going to bat for the very industry she did her dead level best to gut while she was a Washington insider. I guess I shouldn't be surprised (though I'll be surprised if any of the funds take her up on the offer).

I'd love to be a shrink in DC. Those guys have to treat the most off-the-wall personality disorders in the world. Imagine what it must take mentally to wage war on your sworn enemy and then switch teams midstream for money. I know I couldn't do it.

I'll leave you with one of Anita's greatest hits. Should be popular in the hedge fund community over the coming weeks. Sure, let's hire the chick whose hero is Mao Tse Tung.

Comments

happypantsmcgee's picture

Isn't the best person to work

O
(Almost Human, 9,627
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 8:19am

Isn't the best person to work for you the very person who constructed the way to beat you? And, as far as she goes, her job is to serve her master be that the WH or Hedge Funders. She should be the best shill she can be for whoever is signing her paycheck.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford

filenotfound's picture

Wait a second, you mean to

(Chimp, 14
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 8:26am

Wait a second, you mean to say someone in politics is a hypocrite and selling out for money!? Well this changes everything.

In reply to filenotfound
Edmundo Braverman's picture

filenotfound wrote: Wait a

ST
(Human, 14,705
 
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 on 2/14/12 at 8:33am
filenotfound:

Wait a second, you mean to say someone in politics is a hypocrite and selling out for money!? Well this changes everything.

LOL +1

Mzz's picture

That is the nastiest lip

O
(King Kong, 1,506
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 8:36am

That is the nastiest lip licking I have ever seen.

Edmundo Braverman's picture

Holy smoke, I just went

ST
(Human, 14,705
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 8:44am

Holy smoke, I just went HUMAN.

Mzz's picture

ape shit coming your way

O
(King Kong, 1,506
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 8:49am

ape shit coming your way

RagnarDanneskjold's picture

Uncle Eddy has evolved above

HF
(King Kong, 1,031
 
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 on 2/14/12 at 8:57am

Uncle Eddy has evolved above us mere apes.

In reply to Edmundo Braverman
Kassad's picture

Edmundo Braverman wrote: Holy

IB
(King Kong, 1,237
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 9:05am
Edmundo Braverman:

Holy smoke, I just went HUMAN.

Congrats Eddy!

heister's picture

Lol, bitch looks like an

O
(Neanderthal, 2,831
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 9:32am

Lol, bitch looks like an uglier and dumber version of yoda.

Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays

Xepa's picture

Is Eddy the first human on

CO
(Gorilla, 520
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 9:43am

Is Eddy the first human on this site? :o what does it feel like?

OhYeah's picture

If you ask me this a great

 
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 on 2/14/12 at 9:53am

If you ask me this a great idea. Go to Washington create new problems and than leave and become a lobbyist to deal with those very same issues you created. For all we know this is what all the lawmakers who become lobbyists do. This chick just did it harder and better. Now she's perfectly set up to become the baddest and toughest lobbyist too. It all makes sense if their only in it for the money to begin with.

"Sincerity is an overrated virtue" - Milton Friedman

technoviking's picture

Is it kinda like the way the

O
 
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 on 2/14/12 at 9:54am

Is it kinda like the way the government hires hackers? She knows how to villify the industry, thereby knowing the tactics to defend it also??

In reply to Xepa
duffmt6's picture

Xepa wrote: Is Eddy the first

IB
(Neanderthal, 2,475
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 10:22am
Xepa:

Is Eddy the first human on this site? :o what does it feel like?

No I believe that was ANT.

"Social cohesion and puritanical morality place roughly on my list of concerns between whether I'll pick up jock itch at the gym this week (not likely, since I don't go the gym) and whether it'll rain in Christchurch, New Zealand next Tuesday."
-Eddie

Yohoo's picture

Edmundo Braverman wrote: In

 
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 on 2/14/12 at 10:43am
Edmundo Braverman:

In many ways, I'm a huge hypocrite.

She is just being a huge hypocrite like you.

She is also doing it for the money like you would have done

So why are you jelly and acting shocked?

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

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Yohoo's picture

heister wrote: Lol, bitch

 
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 on 2/14/12 at 11:00am
heister:

Lol, bitch looks like an uglier and dumber version of yoda.

You must be a miserable ugly fag.

Only a fag would call a woman dumb because he is jealous of her move.

She is balling and you are still sucking dicks in your cube.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Boothorbust's picture

Where did this Yohoo person

O
(King Kong, 1,130
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 12:32pm
happypantsmcgee's picture

Unless someone ie Patrick,

O
(Almost Human, 9,627
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 1:01pm

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford

seabird's picture

If you wanna tell her shes a

PE
(King Kong, 1,558
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 1:17pm

“...all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

- Schopenhauer

In reply to happypantsmcgee
duffmt6's picture

happypantsmcgee wrote: Unless

IB
(Neanderthal, 2,475
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 1:19pm

"Social cohesion and puritanical morality place roughly on my list of concerns between whether I'll pick up jock itch at the gym this week (not likely, since I don't go the gym) and whether it'll rain in Christchurch, New Zealand next Tuesday."
-Eddie

happypantsmcgee's picture

I just banned him. If someone

O
(Almost Human, 9,627
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 1:29pm

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford

In reply to seabird
UFOinsider's picture

(Adam Sandler SNL

O
(Human, 10,475
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 3:33pm

I notice that the older I am the more I sound like Illini Programer

- accountingbyday

Cash4Gold's picture

Can anyone recommend a good

ST
(Gorilla, 667
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 3:48pm
In reply to Cash4Gold
UFOinsider's picture

Cash4Gold wrote: Can anyone

O
(Human, 10,475
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 3:51pm

I notice that the older I am the more I sound like Illini Programer

- accountingbyday

Edmundo Braverman's picture

Now the Drudge Report is

ST
(Human, 14,705
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 3:55pm

In reply to Edmundo Braverman
UFOinsider's picture

Edmundo Braverman wrote: Now

O
(Human, 10,475
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 4:25pm

I notice that the older I am the more I sound like Illini Programer

- accountingbyday

charmander's picture

Let's get a pool going for

IB
 
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 on 2/14/12 at 4:27pm
Pike's picture

I love it happy...I love it.

IB
 
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 on 2/14/12 at 4:29pm

Good is the enemy of Great

In reply to Pike
UFOinsider's picture

Pike wrote: I love it

O
(Human, 10,475
 
Points)
 on 2/14/12 at 4:50pm

I notice that the older I am the more I sound like Illini Programer

- accountingbyday

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