2008 VIDEO: CNBC bows to Mini-Madoff "Sir Allen" Stanford

By GottaLaff

Via The Daily Beast:

So the only person feeling as bad as Robert Allen Stanford's investors may be CNBC's Carl Quintanilla, who took obsequiousness to new heights (lows?) in this 2008 interview.

CNBC's Carl Quintanilla: "Is it fun being a billionaire?"

Robert Allen Stanford: "Yes.Yes, yes, I have to say it's fun being a billionaire."

UPDATE: Seems he's disappeared.

Betty Currie signs on, works on Obama team

You know, if we're really going back to the 90's, I'm going to have to demand more money and fewer wrinkles.

WASHINGTON — It's official. The old Clinton gang really is back together again. Answering the phones these days for the co-chairman of President-elect Barack Obama's transition, John D. Podesta, is none other than Betty Currie.

Currie, who is emerging from retirement in southern Maryland to volunteer at Obama headquarters, was the personal secretary to President Bill Clinton who became caught up in an independent counsel investigation into his trysts with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky.