As long as Matt Taibbi exists, I will always suck
Please let it be known that I’m not advocating the murder of Matt Taibbi, if you believe that’s what I’m trying to imply in the headline.
But the fact is, I read Taibbi’s stuff and realize that I’m an obit writer for the Lake Okoboji (Iowa) Bi-Monthly Chronicle in comparison. Though, honestly, it’s unfair for me to compare myself to Taibbi. We have such disparate styles, after all. His style being that of a brilliant political analyst for Rolling Stone, while my style is more like that of an unemployed guy who occasionally defecates on the keyboard and hits send.
Taibbi is really good. His article “The Worst Congress Ever” was must-reading prior to the 2006 election, and that is just one of endless cutting and focused articles he’s produced over the years. His talent is again on display, as he tries to shed some light on the farce of a budget President George W. Bush recently passed off on Congress.
Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush’s Billionaires
If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family — the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune — would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.
The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion.
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That’s not only bad government, it’s bad capitalism. It makes legalized bribery and political connections more important factors than performance and competition in the corporate marketplace. Beyond that, it’s just plain fucking offensive to ordinary people. It’s one thing to complain about paying taxes when those taxes are buying a bag of groceries once a month for some struggling single mom in eastern Kentucky. But when your taxes are buying a yacht for some asshole who hires African eight year-olds to pick cocoa beans for two cents an hour … I sure don’t remember reading an excuse for that anywhere in the Federalist Papers.
–WKW
February 26th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
[…] “Elected to the House in 1998, Tancredo has not only led the fight to deport every undocumented worker in America — a proposal that would cost at least $200 billion — but has called for halting all immigration, legal and otherwise. In one unforgettable move, Tancredo wanted to deport the family of an undocumented high school boy who was profiled in The Denver Post for his perfect grades,” wrote Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone, declaring Tancredo one of the 10 Worst Congressmen in America. […]
February 27th, 2007 at 6:50 am
I see… so you’re going along with your friend’s opinion.
Your friend might have just fallen for the media frenzy; the media went along with the Iraq War propaganda as well.
The mass media is like a herd of sheep with Murdoch as its shepherd. So, I blame Murdoch for the propaganda campaign for the Conquest of Iraq, against Tancredo, and now for the ludicrous bombing of Iran.