Matt Taibbi Quotes - Page 4

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• For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.

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  Successful, Political, Watches

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• Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

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  Airplane, Two, United States

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• In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

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  Country, Thinking, Years

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• There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

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  Wall, Thinking, Government

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

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  Jobs, Class, People

  "The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi". Interview with Janelle Nanos, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2005.

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• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

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  Jobs, Sick, Credit

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• Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

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  Capitalism, Objectives, Values

  "The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia". www.rollingstone.com. June 21, 2012.

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• At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

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  Party, Roots, Tea

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• The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

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  Nfl, Environmental, Problem

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• The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.

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  Discovery, Two, History

  "A sense of adventure" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

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• If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

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  Law, Ifs

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• It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

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  Tea, Would Be, Racist

  "The Truth About the Tea Party". www.rollingstone.com. September 28, 2010.

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• When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I would be asked to write the review. The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays.

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  Book, Writing, Two

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• The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

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  Party, People, Tea

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• It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.

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  Views, Hands, Law

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.14, Spiegel & Grau

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• The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

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  Responsibility, Self, Joy

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• In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will "take our country back" from everyone they disapprove of. But what they dont realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.

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  Meaningful, Country, Party

  "The Truth About the Tea Party". www.rollingstone.com. September 28, 2010.

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• It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

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  Reality, America, People

  "The Idiocy Behind the '9/11 Truth' Movement". www.alternet.org. September 26, 2006.

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• The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

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  Dream, Winning, Play

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• Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

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  Media, Trying, News

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

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  Player, Nfl, Giving

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• By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

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  Wall, Player, Helping

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

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• You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

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  Military, Night, Russia

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• You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

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  Thinking, Jail, People

  "Justice Department's New Get-Tough Policy Is, Well, Not". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. February 20, 2013.

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• What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

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  Office, Campaigns, Favors

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