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Great Lede

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

This one:

Flamboyant financier ‘Sir’ Allen Stanford expects to be indicted by a federal grand jury in the next two weeks, he told ABC News in an interview in which he cried, denied wrongdoing and threatened to punch his questioner in the mouth.

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8 Responses to “Great Lede”

  1. #1 |  Rhayader |  April 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Haha, sometimes news articles are best left to just one sentence. That’s as good as any I have seen.

  2. #2 |  Hys |  April 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    He also decries the indignity he faced having to take off his shoes at the airport. Seriously.

  3. #3 |  PogueMahone |  April 7th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    …and threatened to punch his questioner in the mouth.

    These are the moments I dream about.

    I can only imagine myself there, “Well then, take your best shot… Bitch.”

    Cheers.

  4. #4 |  Helmut O' Hooligan |  April 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Teary my ass! Stanford is “flamboyant” all right. He’s a charmer. He’s a great talker. He’s also an egocentric, callous, glib, manipulator. He lies like he breathes and probably loses track from one lie to the next. Psychopaths are often like that.

    The emotion, in my opinon, was premeditated. He worked himself up to that moment and has probably practiced to make such “outbursts” appear authentic. But he probably feels nothing. He’s only upset that the game might be over. And that’s all it is to him. A game. Little people like you and me are merely objects to be used, exploited and tossed away like garbage. Superior beings like him, free of any moral restraint, are in charge and the rest of us are suckers.

    Everything about “Sir” Allen, including the “sir”, is fake.

  5. #5 |  Chris Berez |  April 7th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    For the record, I saw that footage last night, and Stanford didn’t actually threaten the interviewer. He was speaking figuratively. When he said that, the interviewer said, “You’re going to punch me in the mouth?” and Stanford said, “No, I’m not going to punch you in the mouth” and put his hand on the guy’s shoulder. I think he was just expressing his feelings towards people who are bringing allegations against him he claims are false. He wasn’t literally threatening physical violence on the questioner.

  6. #6 |  adam |  April 7th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    They are going to love him in prison.

  7. #7 |  Andrew Williams |  April 7th, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    Speak the honest truth: who among us HASN’T wanted to punch a reporter in the mouth?

  8. #8 |  Boyd Durkin |  April 9th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    So where are the hard hitting interviews with Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Rummie, Condie, Frank, Polosi, etc…………

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