He commented, "You Americans blind yourself with your high integrity and your democratic morality against peddling influence, but they were peddling influence".
The tapes are the equivalent of the cynical e-mail messages in which Henry Blodget and other Wall Street analysts acknowledged that the stocks they were peddling were mostly dogs.
A blonde with a big smile winked at me, nodded toward a room upstairs, and said, "Wallace Stevens, eh?" But it wasn't just intellectual experiences — they were peddling emotional ones, too.
Hours after Cameron said they were "peddling nonsense" and "resorting to total untruths", the two leading Brexit campaigners said the public deserve to hear the arguments debated in person.
Mr. Spitzer had the good idea to pore over Wall Street's e-mail to find out what bankers and analysts really thought about the securities they were peddling.
But don't forget that the Detroit automakers rolled out sweetheart deals in the summer, in which they were peddling SUVs with employee discounts.
I've almost been run over by students on bicycles that were too busy talking on their cell phone instead of watching where they were peddling.
Then those Bear Stearn guys were taken to court over those crazy emails that seemed to indicate they knew the funds they were peddling were chock full of toxic swill, but the Feds screwed that one up too.
Maybe it's the highwaisted jeans and big hair they were peddling, maybe it was the jingles and slogans that were just so much better than today (after all, the jingle from Old Navy's 4th of July commercial this year made us want to gouge our eyes and ears out...)...
Often they are peddled with a "power" message about taking charge or getting ahead.
Even when tax cuts can be justified economically, and even when they are peddled by the most poised of grin-freezing campaigners, they are no longer the magic vote-winners they once were.
