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Topic: Good interview with Matt Taibbi
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| chucho | Posted – 11/30/2007 1:33:25 PM | show profile I agree completely: David Brooks IS an elitist snob and it IS better to call Thomas Friedman a buffoon that doesn't write well (which will bother him) than to say he's a rich guy advocating for rich people behind the facade of economic populism (which he will brush off): http://campusprogress.org/5mw/2226/interview-matt-taibbi |
| chucho | Posted – 11/30/2007 1:34:26 PM | show profile This one's good too. I really pissed off the liberals: http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/71/The_American_Lefts_Silly_Victim_Complex.html |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 11/30/2007 11:00:38 PM | show profile Yeah, he's really good. Surprising for a young cute guy, but I guess I'm being some kind of sexist/ageist there. His take on Seymour Hersh is great too. That guy knows what the score is. Speaking of which I think I have to put up yet another current events post on Iran.... |
| chucho | Posted – 12/1/2007 5:34:13 AM | show profile It reminds me of a friend in Egypt who said that one of the things that distinguishes America is that the society is characterized by self-criticism, which he say is lacking in almost all other countries, and that America does it the best and most frequently (than, say, Britain) and that's why he loves the culture. He's not talking about the conservatives, of course. That's why I'm a lib. . . ahem, progressive . . . you would NEVER see an article like that one Matt Taibbi wrote written by somebody from"the other side". Sure, you get that elitist prick David Brooks (whose love for Home Depot and the suburbs is undermined by the fact that he lives *not* in a Dallas suburb but rather in the womb of the "lib-ril" media establishment in Yankeeville, USA) occasionally saying that the Republicans are losing their core values. But these are light criticisms aimed not at correcting courses (or even genuinely believing that the courses need to be corrected) but at portraying a facade of objectivity -- and even that you do not see too often from the conservative establishment. Taibbi has actually drawn a line in the sand within the camp of the left-wingers, which I think this is a good thing. I'm not sure I've thought it out enough, but I think what the mandate is that leftists need to stop acting like 60s leftists and start applying a little more of the convictions toward core values without the white guys with dreadlocks and puppet theater and the "Free Mumia" and "the CIA/WTC connection" crowd and everyone else clumping in with their respective voices, muddying the water, and to turning the whole thing into a kegger for Fox News to make fun of. This should not be mistaken for adopting the values of the other side, as the Democrats did a long time ago (and continue to do by not cutting off funding to the Iraq war and FORCING Bush to veto that measure, for example). |
