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recessionomics
Prepare to be Outraged Again Over Wall Street Bonuses
Looks like those clever backdoor bailouts orchestrated by the plethora of carefully placed henchman throughout the highest levels of government has paid off—Goldman Sachs will pay out the biggest bonuses in its history after a "spectacular first half." More »
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Comment by ChillbearLatrigue: All Investment banking firms are not created equal. Goldman Sachs is apparently one of those firms that our Don Corleone... 24 Responses | Other threads
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mysteries
Why Isn't Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone's Rockstar Writer, Blogging On Rolling Stone's Website?
Fans of Matt Taibbi, frequent Bill Maher guest, 2008 NMA winner and Tom Friedman's worst nightmare on steroids, have long wondered why Taibbi blogs for True/Slant and not Rolling Stone. It's time for some answers! More »
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Comment by mattchew03: I have an (arguably irrational) hate for Matt Taibbi. 15 Responses | Other threads
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hit pieces
Matt Taibbi's Relentless Hounding of Tom Friedman Continues, Thankfully
In 2005, Matt Taibbi wrote a takedown of NYT mouthbreather Tom Friedman's unique idiocy that remains the greatest thing ever written about the mustachioed private-jet-frequent-flyer. Now Taibbi has a new piece; top ten anti-'stache material. More »
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Comment by Iceland Spar: At the risk of instant alienation of everyone who reads this website - I actually like Tom Friedman. And From... 28 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Rolling Stone Writer Tells Off National Review Writer On Crash
New York magazine's daily online chats about the election are usually just mildly interesting, since the journalists involved tend to be overly polite to one another, because who knows who you're going to be sending a job application to someday? Even Gawker Media veterans and that Daily Kos maniac act all pleasant. But Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has never been one for such fraternal niceties, and when nymag.com threw him a sparring partner from National Review, the predictably caustic lefty went to work with his fangs, at one point typing, "tell me you're not ashamed." It was awesome and just really uncomfortable at the same time. Highlights: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MissNormaDesmond: What no one ever seems to mention is that many if not most people who defaulted lost their homes not... 4 Responses | Other threads
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matt taibbi
Rolling Stone Political Writer Is Useless
"Someone should tell Taibbi that it's the predictable disgust of people like him that make the culture-war posturing of people like Sarah Palin so resonant with the many, many folks who like pick-up trucks and plasma TVs and aren't ashamed of it." [Portfolio]
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By Ryan TateComment by Mediahohoho: This is an especially awesome paragraph: But watching Palin's speech I had no doubt that I was witnessing a historic, iconic... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Rudy Giuliani has "the vestigial stoop of a once-chubby kid who grew up hiding tittie pictures from nuns"
HuffPo gets to the bottom of Erica Jong nemesis Matt Taibbi's philosophy of journalism: Q: "You spend a lot of time describing the physical features of the people you attack — is there a particular logic, or reasoning behind this?" A: "Um... it's funny?" [HuffPo]
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Comment by transgenic_mouse: Damn, I thought I was alone in my Taibbi-crush. Does anyone have any biographical info on him? His Wikipedia entry's... more » | Other threads
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rolling stone
Buy A Rolling Stone T-Shirt. It's Iconic Or Something
Rolling Stone, America's most frustrating magazine (yay, Matt Taibbi; boo, excruciating music coverage) has been having some trouble selling ads lately. So to help revitalize its "iconic and revolutionary brand," the magazine has slapped some of its classic covers on t-shirts. They're for sale at Macy's for $36 each. Eh, not really worth it. Oh, wait: each shirt comes with a free subscription to Rolling Stone. Eh, still. Better idea: make the magazine better so it sells. "The new collection of Rolling Stone tees appeals to today's cross-channel lifestyle, bringing together the influences of fashion, music, celebrity and entertainment," says a Macy's exec. "Macy's is honored to be exclusively bringing back these covers in a new, wearable way." OH NOW I GET IT. [via Ad Age] -
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Matt Taibbi Does NOT Want To Fuck His Mother
Erica Jong says Matt Taibbi wants to fuck his mom! But he can't, so instead he channeled that desire into print by calling Hillary Clinton's arms "flabby." It's all part of the feminist author Jong's theory of "Misogyny, Momism, and Militarism," which she chronicled on the Huffington Post. "Momism is a kind of Oedipal obsession with the bad mother — to counter a boy's attraction to his good mother...You cannot fuck your mother so you must revile her," she explains. Taibbi, the angry Rolling Stone writer who is the most entertaining political journo in America, surprisingly took offense to Jong's logical inference that his use of an accurate adjective in a magazine story pointed to his own desire for incest. So he replied: you're an old, ignorant hack, Erica Jong! More »
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Comment by plasticene: The most maddening thing about Jong's original post is the real-estate snobbery. She manages to stick in that she's writing... more » | Other threads
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Hunter S. Thompson Is Dead, You're No Longer Edgy
After teabagging Barack Obama for the past nine months, Rolling Stone political writer Matt Taibbi still considers the magazine's political coverage Gonzo-esque: "We have the license to talk about things that other people won't because we're a music magazine and we don't have to worry about access for anything." While it is true that Rolling Stone's access is shit, Obama's only fear in talking to them would be not getting a halo drawn over his head. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail was about the 1972 election. But maybe Rolling Stone has license to talk about things that they think other people won't because it's irrelevant. [MediaBistro]
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By rebeccaComment by TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim: Umm -- think Rolling Stone has been blowing it. Not that there's much they can do about their circulation... but... more » | Other threads
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matt taibbi
Matt Taibbi Sends His Love to 'Vanity Fair'
While we don't have a copy of Old Man Wenner's Guide to Popular Music, a reader informs us that in the latest Rolling Stone, psychedelic journo Matt Taibbi writes: More » -
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Gawker's Week in Review: We Became Kinda Straight
• Gawker Media pooped out yet another baby: Introducing Deadspin, our heterosexual attempt at sports blogging! More » -
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Democracy Prevails in New Orleans!
We've already conclusively determined that erstwhile New York Presser Matt Taibbi went boating with Sean Penn in New Orleans last week. But sometimes — believe it or not — plebiscite isn't the best methodology for determining an individual's whereabouts. Thanks to the reader, then, who located this comment on a Blogcritics.org item: More » -
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We Reported, You Decided: Matt Taibbi Is Spicoli's Gondolier
Yesterday we asked if you thought that was quit/fired New York Press columnist Matt Taibbi going for a New Orleans boat ride with Sean Penn. Oh, do you think so. Indeed, this is about as close to unanimous as these things get: More » -
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Taibbi Moves to New Sinking Ship?
In all the excitement over the sinking of Sean Penn's New Orleans rescue boat, we totally overlooked the real New York media angle on that story. More » -
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Russ Smith Either Did or Did Not Rape the 'Press'
Just as we were hoping. Publishing part of quit/fired former New York Press columnist Matt Taibbi's broadsides at the paper's founder, Russ Smith, yesterday elicited impassioned responses. It's clear now that Smith is, as Taibbi charged, responsible for the evisceration of the paper. Or else it's clear that he's not. More » -
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Taibbi: 'Press' Was Mugged
Finally, an explanation for why the New York Press sucks. In an interview published in The Toilet Paper, freshly resigned/fired Press columnist Matt Taibbi — who looks like the "computer-generated love child of Ashton Kutcher and Peter Beinart," as a mildly deranged reader recently pointed out — points the finger squarely at Press founder and former owner Russ Smith (who, in fairness, has pointed many a finger at Taibbi over the years). More » -
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Taking a Poo on the Way Out the Door
Well, we kept waiting for someone else to cover it, but apparently we're the only ones who care (and, frankly, we don't): With the new editors at The New York Press getting all settled in, that means some old warhorses are leaving. And by "warhorse," we mean "smug I'm-in-a-better-place-now-anyway asshead," and by that we mean "Matt Taibbi." The famous Pope death chronicler decided to announce his resignation once the new editors came in, in typically classy, honorable fashion. More » -
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NY Press: Letters to the Editor
A NY Press reader subtlely voices his displeasure with Matt Taibbi's April 16th article, "Unfair Hike": More »
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