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Taibbi: Guess Who's Getting Rich Off The Cap-and-Trade Bill? Our Good Friends at Goldman Sachs!
Crooks and Liars —
I wish I'd been paying closer attention to this, because now I have a whole lot of questions that weren't there before I read Matt Taibbi's latest story for
Rolling Stone: "How Goldman Sachs took over Washington by engineering every major market manipulation since the Great Depression."
But first, the "good" news:
WASHINGTON -- Landmark legislation to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions was approved by the House of Representatives in a close vote late Friday, securing a hard-fought victory for a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's agenda.
After months of negotiations, the Democratic-controlled House has narrowly ...
I'm the innocent bystander
The Sideshow —
... have treated Matt Taibbi's blockbuster on how Goldman Sachs and their little friends run the world with much seriousness. Even Randi Rhodes apparently prefers to talk about Michael Jackson. I mean, come on. ...
TPM coverage of Taibbi, Goldman Sachs: FAIL
Corrente —
After posting excerpts (June 26, 2009) from Matt Taibbi's evisceration of Goldman Sachs -- if one may be said to eviscerate a tapeworm -- I read this post by the great Avedon:
I do find it kind of strange that hardly anyone aside from Lambert and Susie Madrak have treated Matt Taibbi's blockbuster on how Goldman Sachs and their little friends run the world with much seriousness. Even Randi Rhodes apparently prefers to talk about Michael Jackson. I mean, come on.
Well, I thought, gosh, she's just got to be wrong! I mean, with the left blogosphere for us, who can be against ...
Morning thread
Eschaton —
I wonder, if a link to Matt Taibbi's piece about how it's Goldman Sachs' fault falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Signed, Not Atrios ...
Gucci Little Piggies
Obsidian Wings —
... leave out many of the details and in-depth treatment. If Kevin only read the excerpted version, then his criticism would be valid - there isn't enough meat on those bones. Actually, it reads like a disjointed, non-sequitur, meandering piece of little substance (the full version is here). ...
Matt Taibbi Gets His Sarah Palin On
Megan McArdle —
This Eric Martin post reminds me that a number of you have asked me what I thought of Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone piece on Goldman Sachs. What I think, sadly, is that Matt Taibbi is becoming the Sarah Palin of journalism. He seems to deliberately eschew understanding his subjects, because only corrupt, pointy-headed financial journalists who have been co-opted by the system do that. And Matt Taibbi is here to save you from those pointy headed elites. Taibbi is a gifted narrative journalist, whose verbal talents I greatly admire. But financial meltdowns don't offer villains, for the simple reason that no one person or ...
