Taibbi Tells It Like It Is

Matt Taibbi is the single best political writer on the scene today.  Writing mostly for the Rolling Stone, he did award-winning, heavy-lifting work on the Great Crash of '08 and all of its fallout.  On that subject and every other, what sets him apart is an academic fussiness with research, fact and detail, coupled with a rapier-like wit.  He will gore your ox, and mine, and make us both laugh out loud while he does it.

Here's a few excerpts from his latest, followed by the link to the full article.  Worth a read.
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Beltway Democrats may not deserve good luck, but it looks like they could have plenty in the next presidential race. Heading into the weekend, Scott Walker, a man born to be slaughtered in a general election, is suddenly leading the Republican pack in the Iowa polls.  Walker is surging thanks to his performance at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, where the union-busting governor inspired raucous applause with his "I was a dick in Wisconsin, and I can be one in Washington, too!" stump speech.

The entire narrative of modern conservative politics casts the United States as a fast-disappearing Eden of freedom and democracy that's under siege both here and abroad, surrounded by a constellation of enemies united (for some never-fully-explained reason) in their passionate hatred for the simple, God-fearing, freedom-loving American.

It's not just terrorists who hate us for our freedom, but lefty college professors, dilettante Hollywood actors, undocumented immigrants sucking up tax dollars in the form of entitlements, Al Sharpton, Jonathan Gruber, feminists, environmentalists who want to forcibly abort babies to keep more room free for trees, scientists who think global warming is real, the Manchurian President Barack Hussein Obama, etc.

The blurring of lines distinguishing these domestic political irritants and armed foreign

murder cults is rhetorically popular and has been for a while.  You can hear this pretty much

every time you turn on afternoon talk radio. 

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/scott-walker-gods-gift-to-the-democratic-party-20150227

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Write on, Matt Taibbi!