[lbo-talk] Taibbi: Plutocrats Still in Charge, Empire Still Suicidal

[socialismorbarbarism]

Eric Beck on Taibbi: "Well, I guess if you've got a formula that
works, you might as well go
with it. What did Spy magazine used to call it, Script-O-Matic? A
little New Deal nostalgia here, a little populist outrage there, some
nationalist cant about "our" economy," all lined with a
high-testosterone writing style, and boom--you've got yourself an
article."

This is very unfair. We all know that the Democrats are in bed with
the financiers. But Taibbi’s story “tells the facts and names the
names,” the fine slogan of Counterpunch that Counterpunch rarely
fulfills.

Taibbi’s piece is excellent reporting. It is not easy to do.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:07 PM,  <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
>> The latest:
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>> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/188551
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