The funny thing: when I used to work in the same office as Taibbi's agent, I told her I was a fan, and he asks her: Is a young, hairy-knuckled young Jew?" She answered in the affirmative. Apparently, most of us are.
@D2theMatthews: Specifically, "great octopus wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
@D2theMatthews: To be fair: that's an octopus and Taibbi is describing a vampire squid. Squids are faster, leaner and more invisible. And vampires are undead, hard to kill and easily disguised.
I'm not a big Taibbi fan, but I don't believe that anyone that uses a squid/octopus metaphor is anti-semitic because some shut-ins found a fifty year old illustration of a nazi squid. It's more likely that Taibbi's sealife metaphors are derived from repeated viewings of Sigmund the Sea Monster.
@uncle_wiggly: Standard Oil was called the Octopus before the trustbusters broke it up, and nobody ever accused the Rockefellers of being Jews. So, not.
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It's actually -ink.- And it's not a squid, it's an octopus.
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Some say that calamari is Italian slang for mafia. Yes? Verifiable?
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I think we can let Taibbi off the hook, but God is on notice for actually creating something that should not be seen outside my nightmares.
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The image was also used to denounce Standard Oil back in the day.
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@Adrian Chen: There are even more!
#tips
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Does this have anything to do with this? #america
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@allyzay: At least the olds above justify hyperbole. These young & pathetic "new guitar Gods," not so much.
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