The question above is title of Matt Taibbi's latest offering. I think that Mr. Taibbi is probably the best investigative journalist in the country right now. He's at it again over at Rolling Stone.
I don't think I need to add any commentary. I think he has the you-know-whats dead to rights.
Happy Blogging!!!!!
Kay
Sadly the golden rule applies.
ReplyDeleteWho has the gold makes the rules!
He is the best. He was on Bill Maher recently and made so much sense as he always does. I keep thinking I will subscribe to Rolling Stone to support this excellent work. They and Vanity Fair are about all that support real investigative reporting anymore. Blogs would do it but don't have the resources for the most part and must pick up what someone else already discovered. Taibbi goes out to get the story and stays on it until he does.
ReplyDeleteJams: Sigh.
ReplyDeleteRain: Indeed. And I appreciate it greatly that he does. He carries on the tradition of the great journalists of our history.
Kay -- I read the article and hung my head. Shame to Wall Street and shame to the people that look the other way when it comes to their egregious shenanigans. Each one of us needs to stand up against their debacle. -- barbara
ReplyDeleteThis is all so aggravating!
ReplyDeleteI really can't understand why we put up with being fleeced this way. It is a shame for all of us.
ReplyDeleteGah...WWED?? What Would Egyptians Do? They'd get to the end of their rope of tolerance and throw the buzzards out! But no....we can't do that. We'd wind up in jail with the other poor schlubs. It reminds me of my driving days in Iowa. I have received two speeding tickets in my more than 60 years of driving: both for exceeding the speed limit in the quaint little Iowa town where I worked. Ticket #1 was for going 16 mph in a 15-mph zone (two blocks from the office), and ticket #2 was for going 18 mph in roughly the same area. I know this shows my recidivist tendencies, but what burned me was that in my 10 years of driving past traffic stops there, I saw only ONE man being pulled over to get a ticket. And he was black. The police were just doing their job: saving the world from housewives on their way to work. (Which is kind of like the people in the airports now, saving the world from grandmothers with the highly dangerous, though very common, 4 oz. toothpaste containers which are half empty.) Same kinda thing now with the Wall Street crooks? Pound the poor and the powerless and let the rich guys go free.
ReplyDeleteHow do you pronounce his name, anyway? TIE-bee?
ReplyDeleteThat was excellent journalism! You know, it was only about a year ago when journalists were dreading the possible end a vocational era; guess that one worry under the bridge in an era of unprecedented, rapid-cycle political drama.
ReplyDeleteMy first response to The Rape of America's Middle Class Retirees was depression and victimization. Now? Over it, pissed, want my damn money back. Now!
On the same subject ... anybody seen “Inside Job” by Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs, which won best documentary Academy Award? It was made by Ferguson after some of his friends warned about the coming of the meltdown that included "a great deal of very unethical and illegal behavior."
ReplyDeleteHaven't seen it myself; would like to.
Was he the one who said the same thing at the Oscars? Whoever it was won for best documentary.
ReplyDeleteHeard him on Charlie Rose saying what I've been wondering for a long time as have so many others.
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