A reader asks a good question about O’Brien’s deal:
So a joker working for a company bailed out (indirectly) by the government gets $45 million — for failing. Where’s the outrage, Captain Populist?
I don’t have any problem with O’Brien’s deal, though I wish he wasn’t getting the shaft (he hasn’t been great on The Tonight Show, but he’s funnier than Leno).
But if O’Brien was a Wall Street guy gettingt $45 million for failing, Obama would be all over it.