Friday, December 11, 2009

Six Degrees Of Bob Rubin

Matt Taibbi's got a new piece out in Rolling Stone that, like his Goldman Sachs piece, pulls no punches.
I am grateful there's still room for good journalism in this world, because it calls out the people who should be held accountable. Their dirty work may go unpunished, but not unnoticed.
If you want to read all about it, land yourself at this Daily Kos diary, which includes a little background from others as well and links right up to to the RS piece.
If you don't want to work that hard, as I didn't, it's a nice synopsis of what we all know but have such a hard time living with.
And remember, it was people like Hunter Thompson who made it okay for Taibbi to say shithead in public print.
The point is that an economic team made up exclusively of callous millionaire-assholes has absolutely zero interest in reforming the gamed system that made them rich in the first place. . . .
There's no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation political talent whose graceful conquest of America's racial dragons en route to the White House inspired the entire world, has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent shitheads.

UPDATE: Okay, I admit it. I like Taibbi because he's hot.
Someone with a little different perspective did a little fact-checking. Matt may be a new Hunter Thomson, but he's no Woodward and Berstein. So, you decide.
I think, just because Matt Taibbi says it doesn't make it so. Often really, really not so.
It's almost as if he cherry-picked what he thought would fit with his narrative.
Isn't that what we're always on the mainstrem media about? Yeah, it is.

The problems Taibbi tries to describe aren't some kind of ridiculous cabal. They come from group-think and structural influences and as a result of a complex interplay of interests and institutions; the policies they produce aren't either good or evil, they're in need of analysis to determine which help regular people, which hurt them and how to change the latter into the former.
Doing the work is hard. But if you want to make a dent, you have to do it.
-- Tim Fernholz

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