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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:41 PM Jan 2013

Matt Taibbi - Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever

Have Republicans, and the right wing in general, ever been more disjointed? More confused? More incapable of getting out of their own way?

Watching America's political conservatives try to counter-maneuver opposite Barack Obama's re-inauguration over the course of the last week has been an incredible comedy – like watching the Three Stooges try to perform a liver transplant on roller skates.

Let's review the basic timeline. First, Political Media, a conservative action group, decided to try to make an appeal to win the hearts and minds of Americans everywhere by declaring January 19th – previously known as Martin Luther King Day, to the rest of us – to be "Gun Appreciation Day."

They solicited hundreds of sponsors and sought to get 50 million people to sign a goofball petition (written in the style of the Declaration of Independence, with a plethora of "Whereas…"-es... Why do gun people insist on trying to use 18th-century syntax?) against the "tyrannical governments" that were out to take their guns. "Gun Appreciation Day" would also involve gun shows and other local events all over the country, meant as a counter-balance to the candle-toting gun control protests that were springing up over last weekend in anticipation of Obama's inauguration and the rumored plans for new gun legislation.

Read more conservative shenanigans of the past week: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/conservatives-have-their-worst-week-ever-20130123

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Matt Taibbi - Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever (Original Post) JaneyVee Jan 2013 OP
good...and I hope next week is even worse.... dhill926 Jan 2013 #1
I thought Matt Taibbi was a bad source frowned upon at DU? Dragonfli Jan 2013 #2
He's usually bashed by posters with 20,000+ posts just1voice Jan 2013 #3
Exactly - to that group, any criticism of the President on DU is a traitorous action. dbackjon Jan 2013 #4
"DU should be the place where we CAN critique the party and it's officials". trumad Jan 2013 #16
I know. dbackjon Jan 2013 #18
You got it exactly right. n/t A Simple Game Jan 2013 #6
Derp. WilliamPitt Jan 2013 #8
+1000 Wind Dancer Jan 2013 #10
Oh Horse fucking shit... trumad Jan 2013 #13
^^what trumad said^^ RainDog Jan 2013 #17
Like I said just1voice Jan 2013 #20
tell me about it RainDog Jan 2013 #21
waiting for the evidence of your accusation RainDog Jan 2013 #23
still waiting for you to present some evidence to support your claim RainDog Jan 2013 #28
That run-on sentence was greatness! snooper2 Jan 2013 #14
Welcome back, again...nt SidDithers Jan 2013 #19
Really? I still consider myself a bit of a newbie here. I had no idea. Why? JaneyVee Jan 2013 #7
Taibbi has criticized the Obama Administration in a number of articles. YoungDemCA Jan 2013 #12
But he also wrote one of the most iconic articles about Republicans: Worst Congress Ever RainDog Jan 2013 #27
good article riverbendviewgal Jan 2013 #5
This: Capt. Obvious Jan 2013 #9
they have ahd so many worst weeks ever, the last couple years. who can tell. nt seabeyond Jan 2013 #11
WTF? Taibbi writing about conservatives?... SidDithers Jan 2013 #15
You spoke for me. nt BootinUp Jan 2013 #24
This past week was the worst ever for conservatives? banned from Kos Jan 2013 #22
Watch out One of the 99 Jan 2013 #26
Keep it coming until they die a slow and Zoeisright Jan 2013 #25

dhill926

(16,234 posts)
1. good...and I hope next week is even worse....
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 01:53 PM
Jan 2013

and the week after that....and the week after that.....

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
2. I thought Matt Taibbi was a bad source frowned upon at DU?
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 02:20 PM
Jan 2013

I never agreed with that but I thought that was the latest.

As always, I think he does a fine job, maybe he will be more welcome here in future.

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
3. He's usually bashed by posters with 20,000+ posts
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 02:34 PM
Jan 2013

whom think every one of their ad-hom attacks is the most important thing in the world. I'm sure they'll lay off this Taibbi article because it doesn't address any Obama administration actions such as letting banking criminals go free, torturers go free, taking universal health care off the table, drone attacks, anti-gay "it's up to the states" talk or other such heavily researched and proven topics that loyalist apparatchiks experience extreme cognitive dissonance from reading.

 

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)
4. Exactly - to that group, any criticism of the President on DU is a traitorous action.
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 04:35 PM
Jan 2013

DU should be the place where we CAN critique the party and it's officials.

 

trumad

(41,692 posts)
16. "DU should be the place where we CAN critique the party and it's officials".
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 05:23 PM
Jan 2013

You've been here since 2004 and you actually wrote that?

 

dbackjon

(6,578 posts)
18. I know.
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 05:25 PM
Jan 2013

It is funny. On here I am accused of being an anti-Obama/Democratic troll because I criticize actions.

On other, non-Democratic boards (like sports boards with a political section), I am accused of being an Obama ass-kisser who never criticizes him, or any Democrats.

 

trumad

(41,692 posts)
13. Oh Horse fucking shit...
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 05:21 PM
Jan 2013

He's bashed by one fucking douchebag who licks the balls of Wall Street

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
20. Like I said
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:07 PM
Jan 2013

ad-hom attacks that lots of people see from people whom regularly engage in such wastes of time. Honesty, take a look at yourself and your own "horseshit".

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
21. tell me about it
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:20 PM
Jan 2013

tell me about my horseshit. is it because I post about the issue of medical marijuana? because, except for a time there, I don't generally post here about anything else.

at one point, when someone was attacking me and others, accusing us of coddling pedophiles and being pro-rape - then, yeah, I struck back at the bullshit.

but, otherwise - tell me about my posts that you see as attacks.

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
28. still waiting for you to present some evidence to support your claim
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 03:09 PM
Jan 2013

since you don't seem to have any, I'll just assume you're a master baiter of DU, trying to stir up shit, as I noted before.

RainDog

(28,784 posts)
27. But he also wrote one of the most iconic articles about Republicans: Worst Congress Ever
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 12:38 AM
Jan 2013

That talked about the nasty shit Republicans were doing to try to keep Democrats from even voting on bills.

http://archive.truthout.org/article/matt-taibbi-time-go-inside-worst-congress-ever

There is very little that sums up the record of the US Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?

These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the US parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula - a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.


It just so happens that the Obama administration is the one that has raided legally-operating medical marijuana facilities in CA but refused to press charges against a bank that was laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists. Because, see, Tiabbi doesn't think it's okay to engage in that sort of rank hypocrisy without note, even if someone is a Democrat.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/13/matt_taibbi_after_laundering_800_million

The banking giant HSBC has escaped indictment for laundering billions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels and groups linked to al-Qaeda. Despite evidence of wrongdoing, the U.S. Department of Justice has allowed the bank to avoid prosecution and pay a $1.9 billion fine. No top HSBC officials will face charges, either. We’re joined by Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi, author of "Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History." "You can do real time in jail in America for all kinds of ridiculous offenses," Taibbi says. "Here we have a bank that laundered $800 million of drug money, and they can’t find a way to put anybody in jail for that. That sends an incredible message, not just to the financial sector but to everybody. It’s an obvious, clear double standard, where one set of people gets to break the rules as much as they want and another set of people can’t break any rules at all without going to jail."


Because real reporters don't look the other way when "your side" is doing something horribly unethical.

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
9. This:
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 05:08 PM
Jan 2013

The man was rushed by helicopter to a hospital in Cleveland. I sure hope that dude has private health insurance that he paid for. If it turns out that taxpayers had to foot the bill for a freaking helicopter flight to rescue the friend of some gun-toting conservative who decided to protest the socialist Obama administration by accidentally shooting a pal on Martin Luther King Day, that would be some kind of embarrassing, wouldn't it?





 

banned from Kos

(4,017 posts)
22. This past week was the worst ever for conservatives?
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:28 PM
Jan 2013

Not Obama's election and the loss of Congress in 2008? Not health care reform? Not bank reform? Not the reelection of Obama and net losses in the Senate? Not FDR's four terms? Not Clinton's wins?


Some gun nuts got hosed in the media and that makes it their worst week?

Taibbi is a fucking douchebag again.

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