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Now welcome to the Best of Left Podcast, for clips today from Saturday Night Live, the

Rachel Maddo Show, the Young Turks, the Tom Hardman program, the Onion Radio News,

and the Countdown with Keith Overman and the Colbert Report.

It was a part of this week that Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs, received these

swine flu vaccines for their employees from the Center for Disease Control, despite massive

shortages of the vaccine nationwide.

Which brings us to a segment we like to call, Really, With Stephanie Meaghan.

Look, I understand you're an institution, like all institutions you need vaccines, but

before schools and hospitals, do you not know that you currently have a serious PR problem?

I mean, really, I know that you guys swine flu is almost as terrifying as drinking tap water,

or sending your kids to public school, but really? Really, can you not read how mad people are at you?

When most people saw the headline Goldman Sachs get swine flu vaccine, they were super happy,

until they saw the word vaccine. Really? Your job is to predict the future, so the next time someone

offers you medicine before they give it to pregnant ladies, see if you can predict how well that's

going to go down. I mean, really? Really, and really, you do realize that as bankers you should try

to distance yourselves from the word swine, have you never seen an editorial cartoon, picking a top hat,

pockets full of money, making it way too easy, guys. Really? Really? And by the way, are flu shots

like bonuses now? Are you worried that if you don't give them to your top people that leave,

where are they going to go? I don't even watch the news, but no one is hiring. Really? Really?

Also, just a tip, if you're trying to convince people that you care about things other than money,

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