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Rand Paul: Public Health Care Just Like Slavery
May 13, 9:16 AM ET| Matt TaibbiForwarded to me by friend Joe Sonka at barefootandprogressive, here is a very amusing clip of Rand Paul squaring off against Bernie Sanders on the issue of health care.
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Newt Gingrich Running For President: Welcome to the Freak Show!
May 11, 4:49 PM ET| Matt TaibbiWas pleased to learn this afternoon that Newt Gingrich is formally announcing his run for the White House. I literally cannot wait to get back to covering the insane reality show that is the presidential race, especially since the Republicans seem determined to run the most entertaining collection of mutants seen on earth since Tod Browning’s classic Freaks.
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Pakistan's Insane Military Spending: Up There With America's
May 11, 9:48 AM ET| Matt TaibbiI was reading Thomas Friedman’s column on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan this morning and came across this passage:
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The British Royal Family: Are They Assholes?
May 9, 3:24 PM ET| Matt TaibbiAfter a long hiatus, the Supreme Court of Assholedom reconvened in recent weeks to consider perhaps the most difficult case in its brief history; the British Royal family.
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Loony-ass Insurgents vs. Waffling Bores: GOP Presidential Fight Starts Tonight!
May 5, 10:44 AM ET| Matt TaibbiYes, you read the news right: there is going to be a 2012 presidential debate this evening. Five Republicans are getting together in Greenville, South Carolina to kick off the long process of burying their party as a mainstream political force for the next decade or so.
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Video: Jon Stewart: Pakistan 'Could Have Caught Osama With a Rod and Reel'
May 4, 9:53 AM ET| Julian BrookesHe lived half a mile from a military academy, in a giant walled compound eight times the size of adjacent properties. He burned his trash, instead of putting it out like everyone else. When local kids kicked their ball over his wall, a guy would come out to give them money for a new one, rather than let them in. What more of a tip-off did Pakistani intelligence need?!
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Mailbag: Why I Can't Vote For Ron Paul
May 2, 12:24 PM ET| Matt TaibbiA quick one-question mailbag, since I’ve been getting a lot of mail on one issue of late.
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2011 NFL Mock Draft
April 27, 3:08 PM ET| Matt TaibbiSince there are only 113,000 of these out there, I figured I needed to do one.
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Video: Talking Welfare for the Rich with Max Keiser
April 26, 10:00 AM ET| Matt TaibbiMade an appearance on Max Keiser’s show last week – wanted to put the clip up online. I love Max because he’s even angrier and crazier than I am. His “Goldman Sachs are scum!” performance on Euro TV a few years back is one of the funniest TV-talking-head hits of all time, the gold standard I think. I still look at that clip to cheer up every time I get depressed.
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How the Fed Bailed Out Super-rich Bankers' Wives (Sit-down with Eliot Spitzer)
April 22, 9:58 AM ET| Matt TaibbiI had a fun sit-down with Eliot Spitzer last night to talk about the "Housewives" story -- he's probably my favorite interview on the finance stuff because he knows this material so well, and always has interesting things to add. In any case, here's the video from last night's appearance:
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Best Way to Raise Campaign Money? Investigate Banks
April 21, 9:27 AM ET| Matt TaibbiA hilarious report has come out courtesy of the National Institute of Money in State Politics, showing that Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller – who is coordinating the investigation into the banks’ improper mortgage dealings – increased his campaign contributions from the finance sector this year by a factor of 88! He has raised $261,445 from finance, insurance and real estate contributors since he announced that he was going to be coordinating the investigation into improper foreclosure practices. That is 88 times as much as they gave him not over last year, but over the previous decade.
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Mailbag: The Levin Report on Goldman; Donald Trump, Bad Grammer...
Morning, folks… feeling sick today, going to retreat to my bedroom and watch the Investigation and Discovery channel all day long, tuning everything else out.... | More »April 18, 11:24 AM ET| Matt Taibbi -
Talking 'Real Housewives of Wall Street' on Imus
April 14, 11:44 AM ET| Matt TaibbiWanted to post the video from my visit with Don Imus this morning, in which we talk about the “Real Housewives of Wall Street” story. The one piece of information in this interview that will be new, to those who’ve already read the piece, is that along with Christy Mack, Susan Karches, Wayne Huizenga, John Paulson, and the Arab Bank of Bahrain, there is another interesting name on the list of Fed loan recipients: Kenneth H. Dahlberg. Dahlberg, for those of you who’ve seen the movie All The President’s Men, was the Minnesota chair of Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President, whose check to CREEP ended up in the account of one of the Watergate Burglars.
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Mailbag: Republicans Are Only Too Happy To Spend -- On the Rich
April 13, 12:14 PM ET| Matt TaibbiI received a letter yesterday in response to our new "Real Housewives of Wall Street" article that I thought was worth responding to publicly. I got a number of strange letters yesterday in fact (though most were funny -- one just read "guillotine time muthafuckaz!" in the subject line and nothing else), with a number of comments that suggested some elements in the story were unclear.
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