Matt Taibi’s in-depth Rolling Stone piece on the AIG fiasco is must reading — well researched and written in a lively style.
It’s so long it strains the eyes; you might want to print it out.
Warning: Just be prepared to shake your head and swear a lot.
Hmmm… MSNBC loudmouth Chris Matthews — the guy who’d interrupt and talk over the Pope — announces he’s signed a new deal with MSNBC lasting through the 2012 election. Which means he won’t be running for that Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat held by Arlen “Spooky” Specter after all.
The next day, the spectral-looking Specter gets in [...]
A caller to Stephanie Miller’s morning show on Air America today suggested a new name for “Hoovervilles,” which sounds so… 1932.
The name upgrade? “Bushboroughs.”
Works for me.
There’s an old joke in the radio business: “You have a face made for radio.” It usually refers to radio types who think — almost always mistakenly — that they’ll “make the jump” to TV some day.
“Very few people make the jump successfully to TV,” nationally syndicated radio talk host Dr. Dean Edell told me [...]
That’s what the clever Jon Stewart predicted just before George “The Dauphin” Bush slunk away from Washington.
But, as we’ve seen in recent weeks, there’s a group just as funny — or even funnier: The GOP’s Klown Korps. Well-dressed humanoids like Sens. Cornyn and Kyl. Or Mitch “Senator McChinless” McConnell. And [...]
Barack Obama wanted change, and he’s changed the White House. Now let’s move on to Congress, the weasels that P.J. O’Rourke referred to as the “Parliament of Whores.”
We also need to closely watch the Washington-based media and cable-news outlets that cover this slatternly assemblage. I’m a long-time TV critic at several major [...]