re: #71 iceweasel

Anyone reporting on this sensibly is blaming dems as well as repubs. Like Taibbi.
I don’t even think you’ve read his financial columns at this point. If you had you’d know that. You didn’t know that they weren’t written for RS, and you didn’t know any better than to characterise him as not respected within the industry, as on a par with someone writing for the National Enquirer.

I am starting to think you’re just repeating talking points you’ve heard somewhere, or you have a reflexive pro-corporate bias for some reason.

iceweasel,

sorry your way off on this. I know Taibbi didn’t write those “financial columns” for RS, what I’m saying is that he is basically a Rolling Stone gonzo type journalist, I know his style. He ain’t writing for WSJ or Bloomberg either. So no goal there. I read through what you linked before replying, and based my opinion on what he wrote. I also gave you a key example with his use of “secret” which was a demonisation on his part.

As far as “repeating talking point you’ve heard somewhere” please, don’t be patronising you know me better than that I hope, this is a subject I know very well. Most of these media hacks didn’t know a swap option from a flea market before the “credit crunch”. Now they have boned up on the subject and are looking for scalps, memes, political points and to sell their rags.