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Turborama

(22,109 posts)
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 06:23 AM Feb 2013

Elizabeth Warren's Wall Street Smackdown Goes Viral

WASHINGTON -- A clip of Massachusetts freshman Sen. Elizabeth Warren posing a simple question to bank regulators this past week has been viewed more than 1 million times, putting it on pace to become the consumer advocate's most-viral video hit to-date.

" target="_blank">Three separate clips of the back-and-forth on YouTube combine for over 900,000 views, and a clip by HuffPost, which was the first to report on the exchange, has generated well over 200,000 views. It was Warren's first foray on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

The question that flummoxed the bank regulators: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial?

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/17/wall-street-warren-video_n_2707016.html

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Bluenorthwest

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2. A million already. Yesterday one of the more righ leaning Hagle typle posters was anouncing
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 08:23 AM
Feb 2013

that Warren was already fully 'marginalized' because Republicans don't like her.

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