Matt Taibbi

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• Lefty Indignation: Rolling Stones Taibbi Wants Public Executions for Party Crashers; NYT’s Rich: They Are Party Terrorists

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 835
  Has the left finally a reason to be impassioned by a threat to our national security? Michaele and Tareq Salahi seem to have provided that reason. After the Salahis literally crashed a White House State Dinner on Nov. 24 , the two demonstrated how vulnerable President Barack Obama could be to outside intruders. ...
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• Monday, November 30, 2009

  
  Rising in Phoenix — Authority: 129
  What are derivatives? http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/d/derivatives/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier “Derivatives are financial instruments that were created to reduce risk, and their use on Wall Street is known as hedging. In recent years, however, as their prevalence and complexity ...
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• Matt Taibbi’s Racist (and Hypocritical) Remarks in Rolling Stone

  
  UrbanGrounds — Authority: 139
  In case you dont follow the NFL or the plight of the hapless Detroit Lions, Calvin Johnson and Brandon Pettigrew are black athletes. Whom, according to Taibbi, are superior athletes to any white athlete who has the misfortune to cover them on a field. Didnt Jimmy the Greek get fired for saying pretty much the same ...
  2 days ago

• Must Reads

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  Susie Madrak: Tweety Gets To The Heart of the Abortion Matter With Bishop Tobin David Leonhardt: Budget Hawks Have a Buffet of Options With Health Bill Chris Kelly: A Rogue Thanksgiving Glenn Greenwald: Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed Karoli: Bill Bennett: Whitewashing Terrorism ...
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• FM newswire for 27 November, hot articles for your morning reading

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 534
  Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to interesting news and analysisDoomster nonsense of the day: China May Demand Physical GoldFeature article of the day, proof that science report is improvingPlus, an Afterword(1)  Today’s links“Teabagging ...
  4 days ago

• Taibbi: "Obamas big sellout?" (video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 440
  MSNBC-Dylan Ratigan, video (12:21): Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi, the Financial Times’ Chyrista Freeland and Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post discuss the divide between the recoveries of Wall Street and Main Street.
  6 days ago

• Why Is It the Media Persists

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 149
  in treating Sarah Palin like shit? Probably no politician, not even the previous so-called president or former president Clinton, have been treated so horribly by the media . It is true some of it is her fault, but there is prejudice against her for many other reasons, and I dont think it has a lot to do with ...
  6 days ago

• Yes Sarah, there is a media conspiracy

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 623
  Matt Taibbi   Matt Taibbi mostly talks about the media conspiracy against Sarah Palin, but I want to focus on another part of his post:   1) The political media has always taken it upon itself to make decisions about who is and who is not qualified to be taken seriously as candidates for higher office. ...
  6 days ago

• Why Do Conservatives Love Sarah Palin? Because She Never Stops Whining

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  by Matt Taibbi True/Slant cross posted at Alternet.org The really beautiful thing about the culture war, from an entertainment standpoint, is that it is fundamentally irresolvable. There isn’t a concrete set of issues involved, where in theory both sides could give in a little and find middle ground, reach some ...
  1 week ago

• You’re not paranoid if they really are out to get you

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  Matt Taibbi tells Sarah Palin that, yes, the media really are out to get her . But it ain’t just the media. And it ain’t for the reasons she probably thinks. And it ain’t just her they’re out to get: What the people who are flipping out about the treatment of Palin should be asking themselves is what it ...
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• Why Conservatives Love ‘Cartoon Combatant’ Sarah Palin

  
  PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog — Authority: 138
  Sarah Palin is the Empress-Queen of the screaming-for-screaming’s sake generation. Palin — and there’s just no way to deny this — is a supremely gifted politician. With Going... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Palin = Soma

  
  GDAEman — Authority: 113
  Soma is the name of the fictional drug featured in Aldous Huxleys Brave New World. Soma was a pleasure drug promoted by the "government" to keep the masses distracted. Brutal authoritarian methods were not needed to control the people in Huxleys authoritarian world, because the masses were busy self-medicating with ...
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• Regarding the Landscape of Incoherent White American Resentment

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  They call him Tweety Bird for a reason. Chris Matthews is the guy, with his political talk show on MSNBC, Hardball. He flits around, topic to topic, you never know what he’s going to say next, and he loves to ask strange hypothetical political questions, which he thinks are provocative and really challenge his ...
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• Must Reads

  
  Broadway Carl's Blog-O-Mania — Authority: 138
  Adam Blickstein: Conservatives Terrified of Bringing Terrorists to Justice Robert Reich:  Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make Some Kind of Awful Sense (Palin Version) and Fact-Checking Sarah Palin Is a Waste of Everyones Time, But Fuck It Bob Cesca: ...
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• Taibbi Strikes Again!

  
  Veritas Nihilum Vincet — Authority: 123
  Matt Taibbi nails the motherfuckers! I fucking love this guy! “We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret,” Blankfein, 55, said at a conference in New York hosted by the Directorship magazine. “We apologize.”…I’m almost beginning to feel sorry for Lloyd “God’s ...
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• So Thats What a Blood-Sucking Vampire Squid Looks Like [Coincidences]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 862
  Rolling Stone s Matt Taibbi famously called Goldman Sachs the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." Turns out Nazi cartoonists came up with that image first . ArtsJournal blogger Jan Herman found the cartoon , ...
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• “In What Respect, Charlie?”

  
  Godammit, I'm Mad! — Authority: 464
  As we all take cover from the media blitz surrounding the publication of Mrs. Palin’s “book,” it’s fun to recall our favorite Palinisms from the campaign. This video makes me feel kind of nostalgic… Another antidote to “Going Rogue”:  Check out the new book “Going Rouge ,” a collection of essays ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Doing Gods Work."

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Lloyd Blankfeins Enigma "An impish grin spread across his face," wrote the Times reporter about Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, responding to a question about excessive profits: "were doing Gods work." What did he mean? (See, "Im Doing Gods Work. Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs.") He did offer an explanation: ...
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• One-upping Gordon Gekko…

  
  Scenarios and Strategy — Authority: 107
  A guest post from (Roughly) Daily … source “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s ...
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• Study: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers Not Destroyed by Naked Short Selling

  
  gary-weiss.com — Authority: 548
  Readers of this blog may find this article in the Big Money of interest, particularly the last part, in which I cite an academic study that debunks the theory that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were brought down by naked shorting. The study was based on "fails to deliver" data, which naked shorting conspiracy ...
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