Matt Taibbi

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?

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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.

taibbi's a smug libertarian misanthrope

libertarian? really? I have the strong impression he is very pro-regulation. views seem to align closely with Moyers & Company. I enjoyed Griftopia and have been reading his blog for years. Have I completely misread him?

@stet (after a million x-posts): Yeah, but I was just surprised he never brought that up.

i have trouble taking guys who are angry all the time seriously. you can't possibly be that angry.

it's a tough job!

some people r v angry

many people in fact

most people maybe

hello dere (and I don't even get paid)

libertarian? really? I have the strong impression he is very pro-regulation. views seem to align closely with Moyers & Company. I enjoyed Griftopia and have been reading his blog for years. Have I completely misread him?

he's a paulite w/r/t anything monetary policy and thinks things like nyc parking are bloomberg conspiracies to screw innocent westchester drivers like him from driving into the city for cheap

but its hard to fault someone whose best years were so dependent on drugs and prostitutes for being a libertarian

lol

i don't think a 'paulite' would have written this article: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/my-advice-to-the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-20111012

there was more to my sentence

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/new-york-to-repeat-chicago-s-parking-meter-catastrophe-20120613

doesn't seem to jibe with your depiction of his stance on parking

read upthread milo, already did this

where has taibbi called for a return to the gold standard?

I've never seen him suggest that farming out government services to the private sector is a good thing - cf. parking. Not terribly libertarian of him.

I understand the ease of characterizing self-righteous, loudmouth white guys as libertarians... but that covers a lot of 'progressives,' too.