Matt Taibbi

to matt taibbi?

This election isn't close enough, with 0-0 being the most rational outcome.

I thought the basic premise of the Taibbi piece was fine--basically, what's the matter with Kansas? once again--except, unless I missed it (I read quickly), he completely disregards race. The idea that Obama would be getting some monstrous percentage of the vote if he were a better candidate, and if millions of putative Republicans wised up to their own interests, is rather naive. Give it whatever number you want, but there's some significant percentage of Republicans who just aren't going to vote for a black candidate--I never quite get why a writer like Taibbi just glides past that.

fwiw I apologize to matt taibbi and have sent him some cocaine and desperate russian girls as an apology

that was v big of you

This election isn't close enough, with 0-0 being the most rational outcome.

Picturing it:

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taibbi's a smug libertarian misanthrope, but he can be pretty funny too. he tends to upset pedantic, self-serious weenie libs who make terrible posts - the iatees of the world

damn

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the taibbi piece we're talking about is a blog post btw.

Pictures of people who are not mh imo ^^

sorry guys forgot to tell you I'm matt taibbi

matt haibbi

mh I accidentally sent you ukrainian girls and not russian girls I hope its okay

my preference, really

wait, who's in Alfred's pic, that's not Taibbi, lol

I am sorry guys, I admit, I am some guy's friend who has become an ad hoc stock photo. Not Matt Taibbi. Ukrainian girls still appreciated

i think in some ways he traffics in indignation porn - kinda like when i mistakenly tune into democracy now in the car in the morning and hear the daily litanies of outrage - and i like to be as indignant as the next person (i love long-gone protest folk and get a thrill out of long-gone recitations of atrocities in protest folk songs for some reason. i should probably see someone about that. a punk rock anger thrill. not thrilling in the atrocities. and those kinds of songs DO inspire me. to do what i have no idea. mostly they confirm over and over again what i already know and have known for decades.) but does it effect things positively or creatively? or is it just enough to print crimes/stupidities in print and let them sit there in print and be read by people who love to be proven right about how wrong people can be? maybe anger is enough. as a motivator for people to act or opt out or start something of their own. i wonder sometimes. when you add funny to the equation it even becomes more problematic for me because i DO read taibbi as entertainment. i dunno...

haha, i am totally listening to phil ochs right this second in the store! and it didn't even occur to me while writing that!

taibbi is michael moore doing a hst impression

Greenwald does the same, and writing for The Guardian has crystallized his indigna-porn tendencies. I don't read him daily anymore, especially when I know one of the other liberal bloggers or even Conor Friedersdorf will pick up one of his arguments.

listening to Pink while typing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_7xxzDkqzU

watching porn while indignantly reading this thread

I like reading Taibbi. He consistently finds (outrageous, yes) stories that I haven't heard about, explains shady financial industry goings-on clearly, and makes me chuckle.

greenwalds outrage is more humane than taibbis gonzo comedy, tho obvs they are both irredeemable monsters

Why, because they get paid for zinging and you don't?

keep it up w/the great zing corollary work in this thread champ

If lag∞n is getting paid wtf have I been sending all this money to PayPal for?

NOT getting paid

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thanking u for your passion lag∞n

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zing envy otm

once i publish my underground news zine none of u will be laughing

Truth.

you should put a 'made in brooklyn' tag after every zing

Truth.

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once i publish my underground news zine none of u will be laughing

Truth.

THAT WAS THE JOKE OMG DUDE

i knew one of the zing genius itt would attempt to work their magic on it

You ARE funny then! Phew.

if only i could find some way to monetize this talent, my ultimate dream

i definitely cringe when i read taibbi now. i wonder if he/context changed or it's just me. basically i feel like righteous anger shortchanges the seriousness of problems by creating more problems. and then i also pretty much rmde at his style.

maybe just rme

really though just sigh and skim

really need those Obama-bot lyrics for "Love Me I'm a Liberal"

("and that's why I'm turning you in" can stay)

scott, I'm not sure how you think Ochs' POV correlates to America's current-what's-left-of-the-left? The libs that Phil was mocking might as well be Michael Moore, who pseudo-lamented every Obama 'betrayal' for 3 years and is now urging his re-election.