Wired on Henry Blodget
November 29th, 2008 by frederickiiHow gratifying must this last year have been to Henry Blodget, in which Eliot Spitzer has been exposed as a preening, self-indulgent hypocrite while Henry’s own fortunes and reputation have phoenixed (verb, intransitive) with the success of his website, Alley Insider. Wired covers it all. It’s worth a read, but it’s worth more to know that he is doing well because he is actually a really good guy, genuinely self-effacing and pleasant, somewhat nerdy in a pleasing, WASPish way. He was no more criminal, and on balance probably much less criminal, than the average guy on Wall Street. The whole place is a semicriminal racket and it was certainly weird to see him take a fall for so many other people.
This picture makes him look sharklike and predatory, and is therefore misleading; however it makes him look cool, so there we go. Despots play favorites, even if they are enlightened.
