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        Objectivist titan smites American CEO at gym
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CNBC and Vanity Fair contributor Vicki Ward said Fuld was attacked at the gym on a Sunday following the bankruptcy. "Frankly, I sat there and listened and I'm with the guy who apparently, the day before Barclays announced they were coming in and Lehman had already filed for bankruptcy, went over to him in the gym and punched him because that's how I feel when I, you know, when I watched that," Ward said on the Oct. "I didn't think he was contrite at all, I thought he was arrogant." previous reports about the incident that reportedly occurred Sept. "From two very senior sources - one incredibly senior source - that he went to the gym after ... Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold. And frankly after having watched this, I'd have done the same too." Ward determined Fuld deserved the beating based on his testimony before the committee. He blamed, as you say, naked short sellers' over and over in case we didn't get the point, when in fact hedge funds like Harbinger had money locked up in Lehman and was shorting it to try and make the most of the money that they already had.