One of my pet peeves is that when your typical corporation has an epic failure, they often just treat it as a image problem, and hire a PR firm rather than actually try to fix the problem itself. The latest example is AIG, whose record epic failure (they just posted the biggest loss in all of corporate history) is burning through hundreds of billions of taxpayer money, but they decided that the solution is to hire the PR firm Burson-Marsteller to improve their image. And yes, you’re paying for it.

Rachel Maddow gives us the inside skinny: