Martin Shkreli – Moe Lane

In which @jaketapper gets off a good one.

Oh, this is good: “I’m sure there are many ailing individuals out there who might like to remove [Martin] Shkreli’s smile with the business end of a shovel.” For those who don’t remember, Shkreli is that unmitigated jackass who jacked up the price of a public domain drug, then got arrested for securities fraud. Not for jacking up the price, though. What happened there was that people looked into his past in the hopes of finding SOMETHING that could be used to nail the [expletive deleted]er to the wall, and lo! There something was.

So, yeah, I’m sure that Jake Tapper is right. Not that any of us are suggesting that people do that impromptu removal, of course. But this Shkreli certainly has racked up quite the negative reputation, hasn’t he?

Maybe people shouldn’t do crimes and THEN hike generic drug prices.

Just as a quick push-back to this title: “Martin Shkreli Says Drug-Price Hikes Led to Arrest.” …Sort of. The drug-price hikes in question led people to take a good, long look at Martin Shkreli, in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, he did something that people could legitimately arrest him over. And, hey! Sometimes you roll the dice and you get a crit, just when you need it most.

Moral of the story? Thou art mortal.

Background here.

My RedState post on Martin Shkreli is up.

Found here. Short version: crony capitalist resigns from company that he doomed. System will blame everybody except Obama administration. Also, and more privately: what the heck is with all these autoloading music and ads these days? It was infuriating.