Stories by Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi is a writer for Rolling Stone.
Karl Rove and Co. may be flirting with selling the public the same thing cult leaders throughout history have sold their followers: the afterlife.
Posted on Aug 30, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Establishment Dems treat their political party like a house in the fucking Hamptons. Who died and made these people gatekeepers to anything?
Posted on Aug 23, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Political hacks like Joe Lieberman have run the country for decades, but now that that they've fucked up Iraq and everything else so badly they've made "McGovernism" mainstream.
Posted on Aug 16, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Hillary Clinton's carefully scripted display of canned anger at Donald Rumsfeld was for his screwing up the 'execution' of the Iraq war, not because he thought invading Iraq was a good idea.
Posted on Aug 10, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
The Democrats must shed their corporate spokesmen and yuppie paranoia if they are ever going to win.
Posted on Aug 3, 2006, Source: RollingStone.com
Polling in this country has degenerated almost entirely into a tool for describing consumer behavior, whether the brand names are Coke and Pepsi, or Democrats and Republicans.
Posted on Jul 11, 2005, Source: New York Press
Newsweek's back in the news. This time with a cover story that seems to blame 9/11 and other intelligence and military failures on Deep Throat.
Posted on Jun 20, 2005, Source: New York Press
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's latest book on Globalization is a battle between twisted logic and atrocious writing.
Posted on Apr 25, 2005, Source: New York Press
Being on the campaign trail is like being trapped in a zoo exhibit with no shelter from the crowd, where the penalty for touching your own genitals is death.
Posted on Apr 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Do you really want to buy Matt Taibbi's new book that documents his drug-laced adventures as a flailing campaign reporter? He doesn't think so.
Posted on Apr 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
With the majority of the public against the war, Democrats have the perfect opportunity to differentiate themselves; so why are they embracing Reaganomics and pre-emptive war?
Posted on Mar 29, 2005, Source: New York Press
A former rabble-rousing liberal joins the 'with us or against us' crowd.
Posted on Mar 2, 2005, Source: New York Press
A new poll reveals that most Americans don't know their right from their left ... wing. The right knows this and leads the manipulation race.
Posted on Feb 25, 2005, Source: New York Press
The way the press fauned over the first lady's dress and its designer you wonder how well it'll resume its role as government watchdog.
Posted on Jan 31, 2005, Source: New York Press
Was the end of the WMD hunt last week actually 'little noted' or was it simply 'little covered'?
Posted on Jan 24, 2005, Source: New York Press
Geeky conservative Tucker Carlson's move to MSNBC appears to be yet another sign of 'right-shift' in cable news – but is that really it?
Posted on Jan 12, 2005, Source: New York Press
Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' issue struggles to portray Bush as the intellectual statesman just as it takes blogs to task for the lack of professionalism.
Posted on Jan 4, 2005, Source: New York Press
The DLC has joined Fox News and the GOP in savaging Michael Moore, blaming him for Kerry's loss.
Posted on Dec 3, 2004, Source: New York Press
A post-mortem of election post-mortems reveals the winner of the prize for worst campaign journalist of 2004.
Posted on Nov 19, 2004, Source: New York Press
Bush is our fault because too many of us found it easier to hate him than find a way to love each other. If we work on love, we won't need to rely on the cynics in the DLC to come up with the right "formula" the next time around.
Posted on Nov 13, 2004, Source: New York Press
Follow the competition – America's worst campaign journalist hacks go head to head in a bracketed tournament leading up to the election.
Posted on Oct 15, 2004, Source: New York Press
The fundamentalist Bible Belt got the war it wanted in Iraq – and look what they've done with it.
Posted on Oct 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It is a sad commentary on the state of campaign coverage that droves of reporters emerged on Friday with the exact same judgment, delivered with the exact same boxing metaphor.
Posted on Oct 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A much lauded ad campaign uses a new bag of tricks to shill its product, Snickers. Too bad that bag of tricks is just an innovative visual spectacle obscuring child labor issues and non-Fair Trade cocoa.
Posted on Sep 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Kitty Kelley's take on the Bush dynasty: consistently cold, calculating, predatory and unscrupulous, generation after generation. In other words, her book is a rollicking good read.
Posted on Sep 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What positive effect did the protests during the Republican convention really have?
Posted on Sep 11, 2004, Source: New York Press
The new Levi's ad campaign speaks to corporate America's secret wish to turn us all into dummies.
Posted on Sep 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The ancient Greeks believed inspiration made a man holier than a priest. Chili’s wants you to believe inspiration comes from barbecue sauce.
Posted on Aug 30, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The 'Washington Post' won't properly admit that it blew its coverage leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
Posted on Aug 18, 2004, Source: New York Press
Corporate-funded initiatives to get out the youth vote are often times more show than substance.
Posted on May 20, 2004, Source: MediaChannel.org
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