Goldman Sachs view on crooked banker protests (17Nov11)

Credentials aside, it was her total ownership of the situation that unfolded over the course of the BBC Newsnight showdown with anchor Emily Maitlis and former Goldman Sachs partner Richard Sharp that launched her to the top of this week’s list of Truthdigger nominees—which, we should mention, included the Egyptian protesters and UC David English professor Nathan Brown. Penny managed to call out both Sharp, for trotting out the woefully predictable argument that big, socialist governments caused the global financial meltdown, as well as Maitlis for temporarily taking Sharp’s side. That changes after about one round of the debate, and soon Maitlis is telling Sharpe, “It’s a little bit rich, isn’t it, to hear a banker trying to blame other people for the crisis that we’re in.”