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Watch Your Mouth

When my mother told me to watch my mouth, I would cross my eyes and literally try to watch my mouth, just to be a smart-aleck. Usually it kept me occupied enough so that I wasnt able to say anything stupid.

By Laura Mazzuca Toops | Updated on October 31, 2013

When my mother told me to “watch my mouth,” I would cross my eyes and literally try to watch my mouth, just to be a smart-aleck. Usually it kept me occupied enough so that I wasn’t able to say anything stupid.

AIG CEO Robert Benmosche should have attempted this strategy instead of saying what he did in his recent interview with the Wall Street Journal. Instead, he got off this gem about public reaction to the ill-timed AIG bonuses that were granted after the federal government bailed the insurer out:

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