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Taibbi Goes On The Air

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Taibbi in his first TV interview since the "Squid" was let loose. Hat tip Calgary Schmooze




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Thu, 07/02/2009 - 18:20 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 18:56 | Link to Comment alien-IQ
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Naturally, it had to be a Canadian news interview. No American financial news outlet ( or Any mainstream American program for that matter) seems even remotely willing to dedicate so much as a second of airtime to say anything negative about GS unless it's a vague momentary comment.

It's pathetic and maddening.

The article by Matt Taibbi was absolutely brilliant. I hope it finds a huge audience. I've tried to circulate it as widely as possible. I hope other do the same. It's important information. Or at the very least, like it says at the close of the article:

"And maybe we can't stop it, but we should at least know where it's all going."

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 19:42 | Link to Comment Jim B
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Agree completely, money and influence talks! Good interview!

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 19:01 | Link to Comment agrotera
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I hope his summer assignment into healthcare won't prevent him from incubating incubating ideas for more raw truth articles...the only thing that will change our system is if the masses understand the truth about the financial-government complex and i know, most people say that is impossible, but i am just not going to give up on it.

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 22:56 | Link to Comment Lets_Eat_Amen
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i agree with you that change won't come easily. I imagine that mass of ignorannt Americans needed to effect change will only come after a serious subtraction in their quality of life has been made. When they identify that their lifestyle has been jeopardized to a point that they're defensive in a way that parallels a survivialist instinct, then and only then, will people organize in a fashion that will scare our government to be rewickered in a way of substance that can be carried forth. till then, the dollar menu and camel lights will will be all the creature comforts necessary so this malaise to continue.

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 23:38 | Link to Comment agrotera
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Hi Lets_Eat_Amen!

I have an obsession going with the idea, that no matter how you slice it, if the public really understood the layers and layers of events that have unfolded over the last 9 months (not to mention the eternal problem of crime and injustice) and weren't thrown off by the idea that it's just too complicated to understand, that we could actually have an effective movement for complete government and financial overhall that could disrupt the cozy fed puppetmaster of our govenment and all law makers and as such, a syndicate of operations that are untouchable.

Think of the power that the AIG bonus issue had--i certainly DO NOT advocate violence, but the protesting and unrest that took place, then take 20trillion dollars ( who knows what the real number is) then divide that by 165million (AIG bonus #) and i think that is the BEGINNNING of what you get if people were going to protest the GIVING of money to failed entities and the 300 shareholders of the federal reserve just gets more 6% dividends on that 1% of all the 'bailout' money floating around in the system...that money never went for lending...people know it but they still cant put two and two together to say NO! it was wrong in the first place, and it has to be revoked!!! all the bailout and the power that goes with the federal reserve to orchestrate these messes....

I keep on wondering how to get the whole thing into a package that the public can swallow, and it will make everyone so sick, Washington will have to respond to what is RIGHT and honestly GOOD!!!!!

Nice to hear from you L_E_A!!!!!

PS Someone said the other night that we need a twitter revolution--140 characters to flood people's awareness...maybe it would be, "revoke the federal reserve act, take back all tarp and other money affiliated with acronyms for financial black holes." No, it would have to include other stuff, anyhow, let's call it the 140 project...maybe the project would come in chapters preannounced?

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 09:41 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 07/04/2009 - 18:20 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 20:05 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 20:59 | Link to Comment Mazarin
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Beavis: Goldman's Sack, get it? Heh heh.
Butthead: Yeah, heh heh, like Goldman's testicles.
Beavis: Yeah, like a sperm bank.

PS: nice squid shot. iconic. perfect. do you think Goldman's people have acid blood too?

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:09 | Link to Comment mezcal
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The Taibbi GS piece is now officially up at RS.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_b...

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:39 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:39 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 07/03/2009 - 09:31 | Link to Comment Gabriel Gray
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Before that happens he'll get a midnight call from Rahm Emanuel to see how he is doing.

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:08 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:41 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 23:36 | Link to Comment Alberto (not verified)
Fri, 07/03/2009 - 02:09 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:41 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:41 | Link to Comment Stuart
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Excellent interview. More and more I find BNN a refreshing change to CNBC for some open, honest interviews.

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 00:03 | Link to Comment My cognitive di...
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Now will this empower or create more fear?

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 02:58 | Link to Comment Broken_Trades
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BNN is great. They just need some better looking people - or more makeup...

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 15:52 | Link to Comment Uomo senza nome
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CNBC is good for watching hot chicks, old bald dudes and green shoot nonsense all together in one sinking boat. Accurate finance & economic reporting, not so much. BNN and Bloomberg over CNBC by a country mile.

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 19:24 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Fri, 07/03/2009 - 12:01 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 07/03/2009 - 13:06 | Link to Comment Unsympathetic
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Could ZH rehost Taibbi's response to the GS article that was once posted at smirkingchimp?  That page has already been removed from their server.

Fri, 07/03/2009 - 14:07 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Fri, 07/03/2009 - 15:55 | Link to Comment Uomo senza nome
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I elect "Goldman Sachs Fraud" or "Golman Sachs thief" but I really don't know much about SEO. Maybe there are people who can do SEO better than Golmans can?

Sat, 07/04/2009 - 02:18 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 07/04/2009 - 03:26 | Link to Comment agrotera
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WRONG

Capitalism good. 

A government run by a privately held corportation named the federal reserve and all it's protected agents like Goldman Sachs, a vampire squid silently sucking the life out of capitalism is not compatible capitalism or with we the people who want to maintain the republic of the United States of America.  So...

 all powerful privately held federal reserve and toobigtofail banks, not good.

Our republic hasn't vanished, just people having their say, and that may change even if it is not Obama who makes the change.

Sat, 07/04/2009 - 18:12 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 07/04/2009 - 02:54 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 07/04/2009 - 06:01 | Link to Comment Comrade de Chaos
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it's rather moronic to hear "you are so ignorant" from someone who didn't care to read more than a few articles and replies in here. We are pro capital and for FREE MARKET. We are in here because our capitalist way of life is under fire.

Posting some offensive comments in here must be the new job description / duty for every CNBC intern from now on.

 


Sat, 07/04/2009 - 13:32 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Sat, 07/04/2009 - 03:03 | Link to Comment agrotera
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HAHAHA

anonymous, your words don't rewrite history and as you good and well know, no one here is anti-capitalist or anti-big corporation---but,  anti big toobigtofail and monopoly, i think so...

i am pretty sure, even though it is a quite holiday weekend, you will still be outed as the shill that you sound like by others as well. 

Sun, 07/05/2009 - 12:51 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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