I spent some time on the internets last week engaged in an altercation with one Teresa Rice, of Pittsburgh, PA. Ms. Rice, the proprietress of a blog with the unprepossessing title “Teresaamerica.org,” had accused Ron Bloom, who runs the Auto Task Force at the Treasury Department, of being a secret “Maoist”.
http://teresamerica.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-white-house-mao-lover-ron-bloom.html
I bemusedly attempted to convince Ms. Rice and her cohort (a set of characters right out of the riot scene in "The Day of the Locust,") of the incongruity of believing that a former Lazard Freres banker with a Harvard M.B.A. was actually using his position in the Department of the Treasury to plot a new Great Cultural Revolution, but they were not to be deterred, and I found myself banned from the blog for may pains.
In any event, in the course of the episode I found myself listening to a terrific Brookings Institution podcast with Steve Rattner, who headed Bloom’s team during last Spring’s restructuring of Chrysler and General Motors. The entire discussion can be found here, along with a transcript:
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/more+articles/Organizations/Non-profits,+Activist+Groups/Brookings+Institution
http://teresamerica.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-white-house-mao-lover-ron-bloom.html
I bemusedly attempted to convince Ms. Rice and her cohort (a set of characters right out of the riot scene in "The Day of the Locust,") of the incongruity of believing that a former Lazard Freres banker with a Harvard M.B.A. was actually using his position in the Department of the Treasury to plot a new Great Cultural Revolution, but they were not to be deterred, and I found myself banned from the blog for may pains.
In any event, in the course of the episode I found myself listening to a terrific Brookings Institution podcast with Steve Rattner, who headed Bloom’s team during last Spring’s restructuring of Chrysler and General Motors. The entire discussion can be found here, along with a transcript:
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/more+articles/Organizations/Non-profits,+Activist+Groups/Brookings+Institution
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