From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. And here's a viewer on CNN last Wednesday.

Can somebody tell me why they aren't handing out pitchforks right now and we are not charging AIG headquarters on mass?

A new Gallup poll conducted Tuesday finds that 59% of the people are outraged at the AIG bonuses.

Another 26% say they're bothered.

The outraged have it two to one.

Rage, it seems, is all the rage.

Here's AIG CEO Edward Liddy in a House committee room Wednesday, reading a choice piece of recent AIG email.

All the executives in their family should be executed with piano wire around their necks.

Liddy said he was worried for the safety of the AIG bonus recipients.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, who wanted their names,

said he wasn't persuaded. Not him or anyone else, it seems. On Capitol Hill, the people's

representatives were representing all week long. We could demonstrate with a tape montage of angry

legislators, but that's so been done.

Let's just say that outrage is in the House and the Senate.

Here's Iowa Senator Charles Grassley with a helpful hint on how AIG executives could have improved their image.

If they'd follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say,

I'm sorry, and then either do one or two things, resign or go commit suicide.

And in the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

It was a bipartisan rage aroma until it became a partisan rage-off when some Republicans suggested the nation's top Democrat was insincere in his expression of outrage.

This put White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in the ridiculous position of verifying that the smoke coming out of the president's ears wasn't fake special effects smoke, but real outraged citizens smoke as real as anyone else's.

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