Much has been made by the revalation that Standard & Poor's made a $2 trillion accounting error when it provided the government its rationale for downgrading U.S. debt from AAA to AA+.
But what is less known is that their analysis included several other noticeable errors:
- Kept referring to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as "Chuck"
- Repeatedly added an extra "b" to "debt."
- Comparison of the debt ceiling debate to the final battle between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort incorrectly asserted that Hermione was romantically involved with a Quiddich bat.
- Sassy comments about Michelle Obama's thighs could be construed as somewhat extraneous
- Initial draft repeatedly referred to Standard & Poor's as the "Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger."
- Olde English font hard to read
- Cover letter inexplicably addressed to Sue from "Glee"
- Semi-erotic doodles of Ben Bernacke in the margins not whited out
- Shout out to all the Capricorns in da house felt a bit forced
- Most of the analysis of long-term currency fluctuations copied directly from Wikipedia
- Confused the gross domestic product of the United States with that of Tatooine
- Track changes edits made by Michele Bachmann not all accepted.
this was august 8. i's almost the end of september. where the f&$@ are you?
ReplyDeleteSorry. We've been on the road with the Perry campaign.
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