The Daily Bail

I present these AIG commercials with some commentary. They were annoying enough when AIG was still a viable insurance company, now that they've failed and are actually engaged in stealing from your kids, we need new words to describe the visceral loathing we feel. Several more of these commercials are inside including a satirical copy.

It's so painful for taxpayers we can't even laugh properly. The squalor is presented below in numbered format.

1) Any company whose national marketing was built around obsessive 8-year olds discussing anything, deserves prima facie ridicule for insulting our inteligence.

2) Now add that the company in question, AIG, is a financial company and that they used these fiscal whiz-kids specifically to scare adults into switching all their investment and retirement products to AIG. Doubly Insulting.

3) Then the company in question goes bankrupt less than 2 years later from its own poor investments. That's supposed to be the hilarious reward for those of us offended by these ads. Possibly the greatest irony that coincidence could ever create, right. Not so fast. Read #4, #5 #6 and #7.

4) It is revealed that the company in question, AIG, fucked up so extra-ordinarily that taxpayers might have to lend them some cash while they sell some businesses. But taxpayers are assured there will be no losses. Less funny.

5) It is revealed that the company in question, AIG, needs the loan increased to $150 billion and the terms weakened because they can't really sell any of their golden assets. The type of funny where you realize the joke is on you.

6) It is revealed that the company in question, AIG, lost $61 billion in 3 months and now they really need the loan terms modified plus $30 billion more of that borrowed money from your kids. The type of funny where your colon makes the e. coli rumbling noise.

7) It is revealed that the company in question, AIG, was saved primarily to protect Goldman Sachs. And that the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, is the one who made this decision while he was serving as Treasury Secretary of the United States. The type of funny that sends people to withdraw cash, buy shotguns and ammo, stockpile food and bury gold in their backyards.

For a primer on AIG click here. A dozen of the best background pieces all in one link.