Matt Taibbi is now the Occupy's Fuhrer?

[cleller]

There's a piece from the Atlantic Wire trying to resurrect Occupy with a story on Matt Taibbi. Without trying to be ironic it points out that Taibbi grew up the son or a broadcast journalist, attended prep schools and Bard College. He has since gone on to make a living criticizing establishment journalism, living in Russia, throwing cream and horse semen pies, and then his pinnacle: The 52 Funnest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope in 2005:

http://buffalobeast.com/70/52funniest.htm



Of course, this is distasteful, and has no place in journalism, but far worse; there's not even one funny line in their. 52 chances and still a bomb? Some example of a man.

[XingTheRubicon]

Some people get paid to bitch.

Other people pay to listen to people bitch.

The rest of us have jobs.

[OUstud]

My English teacher junior year of high school showed us an article by him about jails in Texas. We were supposed to find examples of rhetoric. Needless to say, it turned into more of a "find the logical fallacies" lesson. The guy is a panderer, no better than his right-wing opponents.