by Belle Waring on August 3, 2007
You are really not helping your case for massively preferential taxation here, hedge fund guy:
Private-equity executives say they never dreamed that the tax status of their payouts would be questioned. “I don’t think that anybody felt it would ever be challenged,” said Scott M. Sperling, managing director of Thomas H. Lee Partners, a private-equity firm. Managers’ earnings are “capital gains in every technical and spiritual sense.”
That guy is so far at the front of the line that he may be up against the wall right this minute, absent any revolution whatsoever.
by John Holbo on August 3, 2007
Dean Barnett, after digging up ranty stuff in a Kos comment box, then noting the post itself was mild-mannered:
With the Yearly Kos about to convene, I think it’s important to note what the Daily Kos is and, more importantly, what it isn’t. Markos Moulitsas and his front-pagers had nothing to do with these comments. He and they have grown much too smart to engage in such public displays of idiocy. But Markos doesn’t lead the Daily Kos; he sits atop it.
An interesting standard: blogs are to be judged exclusively by their comment boxes.
This seems like a useful snippet for someone to have, for talking points purposes, if they are getting interviewed about the whole ‘Kos Hate Site’ thing. Prominent right-wing blogger admits Kos postings are, on the whole, even-keeled – as befits the site’s prominence. After all, surely right-wing blogs generate their share of angry comment box froth? Barnett is judicious, possibly to a fault:
the right has its sliver of kooks and misfits who jam every event into a one-size-fits-all-events ideological prism
Ahem.