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Roll Away the Stone – Updated by PigPen

By Eastan McNeal on December 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM in Current Affairs

* Bumped Up *

Rolling Stone Magazine Finally Eats Crow.

**UPDATED by PigPen below the fold, to add more confusion.
Read this and weep, grapefruit partizan kooks.

“Some parts of the new reforms border on INSANITY..”

Duh!

I told you so.

I just read the RS (Rolling Stone) article by Matt Taibbi titled Obama’s Big Sellout.

Then he got elected.

What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.

I am sorry. I honestly thought Obama was responsible for the presidency he owns. According to this article he doesn’t own anything! He is a tool. He is a puppet. He truly is The One. He is one of the prep-school “scholarship” kids that gets to pretend he is one of the elite and becomes the patsy for their biggest heists ever. Poor little butterfly boy became the one who opened the gates of the kingdom to the thieves. The One who pulled the trigger inside the Improvised Economic Device – the Trojan Horse that finally gave the lords the key to the lock boxes holding each and every one of our last coins.

I wonder where this RS author got or gets his inside information. Are some of the pissed off Bard, Princeton and Yale folks, who were left out of the “big one,” getting even? Many of the author’s facts are already being disputed. Reading American Prospect contributor Tim Fernholz’s summary on the RS article, however, triggers boredom and it is much more fun to read the Rolling (facts? what facts?) Stone story than to try to stay awake through this from the prospect:

The problems Taibbi tries to describe aren’t some kind of ridiculous cabal. They come from group-think and structural influences and as a result of a complex interplay of interests and institutions; the policies they produce aren’t either good or evil, they’re in need of analysis to determine which help regular people, which hurt them and how to change the latter into the former.

Even considering the publishing source, I think this is perhaps the beginning of the end for many Obama kool-aide drinkers. Does it matter? The crooks already have the loot and the keys to the rest of the loot, so they don’t need him anymore. They might as well just let him keep reading out loud in public. There is nothing he can do to stop this now. If you can make trillions over ten years, based on a few billions put into a snowball started in a president’s first year, then you don’t need him to do anything more. He did the trick. “Now, roll over, puppy.”

TAIBBI:

Whatever the president’s real motives are, the extensive series of loophole-rich financial “reforms” that the Democrats are currently pushing may ultimately do more harm than good. In fact, some parts of the new reforms border on insanity, threatening to vastly amplify Wall Street’s political power by institutionalizing the taxpayer’s role as a welfare provider for the financial-services industry. At one point in the debate, Obama’s top economic advisers demanded the power to award future bailouts without even going to Congress for approval — and without providing taxpayers a single dime in equity on the deals.

How did we get here? It started just moments after the election — and almost nobody noticed.

Oh. Who do I kid? Barry will be salvaged at least long enough to launch, like a Russian Rocket, the Chicago Climate Exchange and a few other tricks. These poor skid-mark kids, that the rich kids pretend to let into their clubs, will act like abused wives and keep doing what they are told to do, because they believe it is what they have to do to please the abusers. When he is in doubt Barry, as he is programmed to do, just stands in front of the mirror and reads these words tattooed down the inside slope of his middle finger: “The needs of the many cool rich kids outweigh the needs of The One.”

Oh my. While writing this little piece it seems the blogosphere is erupting with a battle over which pampered rich kid writer is wronger. OOO. When you write like that it make me so mad I could just slap a wet noodle across your desk. Take that, you naughty penman!

Here is a sample comment on a Reuters article debunking Timmy’ debunking.

I was happy to see this piece, I had “fact-checked” Tim Fernholz’s piece against Taibbi’s in several places and in each case found exactly what you did– it was in fact Taibbi’s that held up and Fernholz is doing exactly what he accuses Taibbi of, namely getting his facts wrong.

And, even on his own blog, Tim’s own readers are saying:

Yeah, I’m sure a lot of folks are actually going to take your word over Taibbi’s How does it feel to be a second rate Ari Fleischer? Apologia is all the so-called progress media has left.

and..

Really, these countless apologies for Obama are getting tired.
Your priorities seem a bit out of whack here. Instead of critiquing Taibbi’s critique, how about making your own? You seem to have enough evidence for one, and yet, you choose to defend Obama instead.

and..

I was waiting for it all day, Tim’s anguished defense of his rich pals. And sure enough……I notice that for all the panting outrage the main point seems to be that he objects to Taibbi’s imputations

So this is what an exploding head smells like. Roll away the stone!

This article was just a chance to marvel over blind supporters turning their backs on The One as more light is shed upon the inner workings of the current administration. See Bronwyn’s Harbor story for even more. Matt Taibbi’s article, no mater how you lean politically, should scare anyone who understands Taibbi’s premise. Therefore it is NoQuarter’s duty to liven up your day today with a little bit of rockin’ fun. Crank up your speakers.

UPDATE. Before you go listen, jump below the videos and and checkout PigPen.

Mott the Hopple (Medley: Proud Mary – Roll Away the Stone)

Leon Russell (Medley: Queen of the Roller Derby – Roll Away the Stone)

This is rich. The left end writers are not the only ones fighting in a confusing cloud of disagreement. It appears that Obama has become a Peanuts character, the “Pigpen-of-Clarity,” creating a swirling, blinding dust storm for which he can give himself another B+.
pigpeno

The disagreement over whether we have gone as low as we can has reached the White House. On Sunday talk shows, top White House economists disagreed about whether the recession is over.

Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, appearing on ABC’s “This Week.” said flatly “everyone agrees the recession is over.”

Christina Romer, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “I’m not going to say the recession is over.. ”

Cage Match!

  • starfish

    I enjoy Matt Taibbi’s articles and this one is no exception, BUT he does go to great lengths to tie all the bad Obama officials to President Clinton as if Clinton is still directing their activities — which he is certainly NOT.

    These guys worked FOR Clinton; he listened to their advice and took it when he thought it was a good idea, BUT President Clinton is NOT responsible for what these characters are doing NOW — they are working FOR OBAMA now.

    The blame is Obama’s and NOT Clinton’s.

    • Eastan McNeal

      I agree. The writer did not miss any opportunity to make the Clinton links. But I somehow got the feeling that Taibbi was implying that these guys learned a bit under Clinton and now they RUN the current president.

      • starfish

        “But I somehow got the feeling that Taibbi was implying the these guy learned a bit under Clinton and now they RUN the current president.”

        Well, yes, anything Taibbi can do to trash the Clintons.

        • Elsie

          I agree. Taibi never did have any kind words for the Clintons. S____ him.

      • goldengrahme

        The GW Bush devotees screamed “Clinton started it.”

        The Obama Bots say, “Bush and Clinton started it.” That way they wiggle off the hook. When in doubt (or losing ground), punt; that puts
        the ball in the opponent’s hand.

        Hey, don’t knock it if it works.

        But I have something to share. I just viewed
        a great one hour discussion that harkens back
        to the dark days of li’l Bush and how Rupert
        Murdock gamed the political process. It’s called, “Outfoxed.”

        http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/45.html

        I think you will recongize most of the interviewees…across the political spectrum–
        from politicians to reporters and analysts to a former CIA contributor on a national network.

        • wanderer

          Anybody here remember the old joke that ends with the punchline, “Prepare three letters …”?

    • trixta

      Exactly, starfish! Taibbi and his fellow Bot “reporters” keep making Clinton Obama’s foil. This rhetorical strategy is not only glaringly obvious, but getting old. That and the following meme: “BO is basically good and pure as the driven snow, but others keep derailing his good intentions and policies…blah, blah, blah.”

      • starfish

        The other fall-back dodge from the Obots is to claim that Hillary would have done the same as Obama.

        NO, she would NOT have done the same as Obama … not even a close call.

        • Ginger Snaps Back

          starfish, we all know that sooner or later there will be no choice BUT to say, “Hillary would have done the same thing.”

          We are not even a full year into this administration and I’m just hoping for a coup from either the right OR the left.

          Something tells me, either way, it is going to be either one or two females that will ultimately try to save what is left of this country at the top of ticket(s).

          Stay tuned.

          • Carlaforhillary

            I have already heard several times that “Hillary would have done the same thing.” I have also already heard that is Hillary’s fault that Obama put more troops into Afghanistan. She did advise him to do that, but that is only after he made a point of saying Afghanistan was the right war during the primary, and only after he didn’t send enough troops and then dithered on sending more.

            When I read the article, I didn’t feel as though the author blamed the Clintons, but in retrospect and seeing the responses here, I do agree. My response to how the author treated Obama was that the author blamed his admin and not Obama. He totally went light on Obama.

            Especially when calling the tea party protestors stupid and racist – but failed to point out that the economic advisors are 99% white men. (One woman)

            • Ginger Snaps Back

              Carla, leave it to a woman (women) to clean this mess up. We have done it before. We will again. There’s no doubt.

              I also do not doubt history will remember our age as the lowest tide for democracy.

              Rather, history will remember that women for the first time in modern history took control of the free world.

              Hopefully, it will stay that way.

  • Peggy Sue

    I’ve read the Taibbi article. Devastating. Of course, I’d like to know what Matt Taibbi was looking at last year, while passionately beating the Obama drum. Where was all the analyses and investigation before the election? From Taibbi or any other of the so-called brilliant “journalists?”

    Btw, I understand the President will be on 60 Minutes tonight, trashing the banks and financial institutions he willingly gave huge goodies to. According to the President, they [the banks] just aren’t getting it.

    Really? I think they get it perfectly–they’re running the show with tacit approval from DC.

    So far, President Obama has been all show. Talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk. I predict if he continues in this vein, there will be increasing numbers of unflattering articles, more howls, more heads exploding. The only thing worse than a convert to a particular religion is when the same, said convert finds out he/she has been duped.

    It will not be pretty.

    Good piece, Easton!

    • Ferd Berfle

      So far, President Obama has been all show.

      For sure–and haven’t we all seen this dog of picture before (and just recently)?

      Aside from the sideshow barking, he is mainly just a lot of putrescent hot gas trying to find a vent.

    • trixta

      “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street,” Obama said.

      Hmmmm….

      “I’m not a crook,” Nixon said.

  • Obamastolemycounty

    Yes, kool aid drinkers all over the country are suffering withdrawl! Gotta love these road signs!

    http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/will-last-%E2%80%9Cprogressive-obama%E2%80%9D-please-turn-out-lights

    • kgirl1028

      the black agenda report is not pro Obama. I read their articles during the election. TO them Obama is just a black man who is futhering the whites agenda is this country and shafting blacks.

      • Peggy Sue

        I agree, kgirl. I read the Black Agenda periodically and they have been very critical of the President. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, I was startled by an article that basically said even if Republicans were to win in 2012 [they were speaking specifically Sarah Palin] it would make little difference because both parties had sold their soul and there was no appreciable difference in the candidates or their abilities.

  • Diana L. C.

    I can’t imagine my brother reading Rolling Stone any more, but his Christmas letter this year sure made it seem that he had read this article. He was on the Obama wagon from early in the primary, because (he said) Obama got so many young people involved in politics. I told him after he said that he was using bad reasoning, as most young kids I know equate the voting for politics as the same as voting for the next American idol.

    In any case, he doesn’t mention O anymore, and I’ve pretty much cured him of talking the Democratic Party’s agenda, while also letting him know that I don’t agree with the Republicans much either.

    Washington is too out of touch with the rest of the country. We need a “sea change,” as the saying goes.

  • Peggy Sue

    PS: Yes, the Clintons are always fair game for the Far Left.

    • Eastan McNeal

      I think that is what is contributing to the head explosions. Some of the very mud these critics threw up to the Clintons is starting to come back down on Obama.

      Watching this is almost as fun as a Rush / O’Reilly feud.

      • trixta

        Eastan, while it is true that some Bots are finally admitting that BO is the Wall-Street President, they always manage to blame the “bad” Clintons as a way to remind us that Obama is essentially a “good” guy who is being lead astray by others. Even in their criticisms they are handling BO with kid gloves. In contrast, its a veritable mudfest when it comes to the treatment of the Clintons. As I mentioned above, this rhetorical strategy is being employed by the MSM in a very conscious and deliberate way. This is their strategy to divert any anger away from Obama even while he is coming under more scrutiny and criticism. After all, Obama’s “innocence and goodness” must not be compromised in any way.

        • Eastan McNeal

          Trixta. I have actually started a project that involves reading, listening and watching a lot of left wing transmissions. I will, thanks to you and starfish above, watch and listen for that. Just as Bush bashing is getting old with the moderates I would think that, except for the loonies, that Clinton bashing eventually has to loose its shine. At least we can hope to see some change in reporting as the Obama team obtains a larger ownership stake in today’s events.

          • trixta

            Sounds like a fantastic — and much needed project– Easton!

          • arky

            …Clinton bashing eventually has to loose(sic) its shine.

            Really, it’s almost like beating a dead horse. Give it a rest.

      • TeakWoodKite

        Or a Levin Savage fued or a O’Reilly Frankin feud. Taibbi is pound for pound the bigget crow eatin kool-aid drinkin one of them all.

        My favorite was when Tingles left Ann Coulter out to dry on a street corner in DC, one fine day during the primaries on live TV.

        oops> :0

  • steve1

    Look, I’m the one, who told you so……..From day one!
    Mr. President, Barrack Obama has made his point in history, being the 1st “Blk president!” He doesn’t have to doo anything, anymore…hs place in history has been made! What can we expect???? Clinton, 2012!

    • Animal Control

      if only!

  • TeakWoodKite

    They might as well just let him keep reading out loud in public.

    All Hail TOTUS!

    Roll Away The Dew Stone.

    Some come to laugh their past away
    Some come to make it just one more day;
    Whichever way your pleasure tends
    If you plant ice, you’re gonna harvest wind

    .

    Neat read, Easton McNeal.
    After a year, no make that more than two,The Tightope is a difficult thing to traverse. After having traveled so far out the rope, how is it Tabbi is just now coming to see that it is not the Yellow Brick Road he has been walking?

    When are you gonna come down
    When are you going to land
    I should have stayed on the farm
    I should have listened to my old man.

    You know you can’t hold me forever
    I didn’t sign up with you
    I’m not a present for your friends to open
    This boy’s too young to be singing the blues

    Or to quote a now top 10 Obama-ism;

    “the president “looked at it and said: ‘To be fair, this is what we told the commander to do. Now, the question is, have we directed him to do more than what is realistic?”

    • TeakWoodKite

      Hope….. and …. Change?

    • AF catfish

      “the president “looked at it and said: ‘To be fair, this is what we told the commander to do. Now, the question is, have we directed him to do more than what is realistic?”

      For people who know the context of that quote, it is so scary.

      At least Bush knew he didn’t know a lot.

      • WMCB

        That is scary – it gave me chills the first time I read it. Excuse me, but you are the CIC of the most powerful military in the world. They are not a political tool to wield differently every time the polls change, they are DEADLY.

        Decisions as to what you want them to accomplish need to be made BEFORE you start issuing orders that get people killed, you arrogant TWIT, because those orders WILL be obeyed. This is not a fucking game, your PR advisors are irrelevant, and you don’t get do-overs.

  • TeakWoodKite

    p166 Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
    by Anthony C. Sutton

    The financial elite knowingly and with premeditation assisted the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in concert with German bankers. After profiting handsomely from the German hyper-inflationary distress of 1923, and planning to place the German reparations burden onto the backs of American investors, Wall Street found it had brought about the 1929 financial crisis.

    .I make no direct or implied inference that BO is Hitler. What I do think Taibbi missed all along, was that history can and often does repeat itself. Albiet with variations on a Theme. I have been wrestling with a retrospect of looking back and asking myself if I have sacrificed objectivity for a principle or the emotional vacuum, like so many who DO question what is advertised, Where has Taibbi been? Dumpster Diving in BO behind.
    (Glenn Gould – Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 [12 - 19])

  • elaine

    Rather than displaying the usual NQ knee jerk brand of Clintonesta loyalty, how ’bout some of you start defending the policies: the repeal of Glass-Steagal, the CRA & NAFTA. Please defend the policies if you think they were so grand. I’d love to hear the arguments. Policies, like the above mentioned, take years to work through the system, they don’t end at the end of a President’s term. Start with the repeal of Glass-Steagal, I need a good laugh. Any defenders? Or is all this loyalty just cult of personality noise.

    • starfish

      Well, your darling boy has been president for almost a year now (and was a U.S. Senator before that) and the Democrats have been in charge of Congress for a few years — so why haven’t they, working together, done something to restore Glass-Steagal and undo NAFTA?

    • starfish

      BTW, it was Republicans who pushed through the repeal of the Glass-Steagel Act with veto-proof majorities in both Houses.

      The bill that ultimately repealed the Act was introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (Republican of Texas) and in the House of Representatives by Jim Leach (R-Iowa) in 1999. The bills were passed by a Republican majority, basically following party lines by a 54–44 vote in the Senate[12] and by a bi-partisan 343–86 vote in the House of Representatives.[13] After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions.

      The final bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate 90–8 (one not voting) and in the House: 362–57 (15 not voting). The legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999.
      http://tinyurl.com/yh78999

      • NomNomNom

        re-the overturn of Glass Steagall, in addition to its being passed largely by republicans, it occurred as a result of a clandestine 262 page amendment the “Commodity Futures Modernization Act” inserted into a 10,000 page omnibus spending bill by Phil Gramm, republican as noted, just prior to the christmas recess when no one would be looking for hidden amendments.
        http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/72168

        • Peggy Sue

          Yes, Phil Gramm, John McCain’s original economic advisor, who told Americans that they were whiners, that the economy was A-ok. I was glad when Gramm left the campaign! He was toxic.

          But we should not forget that Greenspan and Rubin eventually convinced Bill Clinton to support the repeal of Glass-Steagall, after 4 legislative attempts to repeal and/or badly compromise the act since Reagan’s early years.

          It was not Bill Clinton’s finiest moment.

          But where is President Obama, calling for a Pecora committee? That’s what FDR did and that resulted in passage of the Act into law.

          I listened to President Obama this evening on 60 minutes. He is an attractive, seductive individual.

          But where are the actions to match the words? He didn’t run for POTUS to support the “fat cats” on Wall St?

          Okay, Mr. Prez. What do you intend to do about it? The words are not enough. The anger and discomfort is not enough. Step up to the plate and you’ll have my respect and the majority of the American public.

          Until then? Nada.

          If you want to be a leader then act like one. Otherwise, step aside and let someone else take command. The last thing the public needs is a lousy actor. We had 8 disastrous years of that already.

          And sorry. A lousy actor is exactly what you look like right now.

        • andrew

          Yeah, I forgot about that one. Where do the republicons get off complaining democratic bills are too long to be read, after thumping that 10,000 page monster down for a hurried vote just before Christmas recess?

    • Ferd Berfle

      Were you even alive during Clinton’s presidency? You sound as though you weren’t. Clinton managed to do a lot of good things, some not-so-good, and a few bad. But he had to contend with a Republican -led Congress in the last two years of his first term and all of his last term. Considering that, I’d say he did a pretty good job.

      Your dud-in-chief can do nothing–even with a stacked deck.

      • Peggy Sue

        In comparison to the Presidents of my memory, Ferd, Clinton did a damn good job. He squandered the last of his term on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, but even so–he was better than most [from my limited lifespan and recollection].

        Was he perfect? Oh God, hardly. But Hillary had a point: what didn’t you like about the Clinton years? The peace? Or the prosperity?

        I’d take Bill Clinton in a New York minute!

      • sowsear

        As I remember, from Clinton’s election right up until the end, he was barraged with accusations, lawsuits, and finally the impeachment attempt.
        I’d say he did pretty well considering…At least he took care of the deficit. Would we could say the same of Bush and now, The Ofamous One.

    • nan

      He was against Glass-Steagal and was up against a veto proof majority and has often said he should
      have signed it anyway.

  • Janis

    Fergawdzsake, fuck Rolling Stone magazine already. That place is the first refuge of the woman-hating middle-aged pro-porn white-collar “liberal” male who makes a good game about anything that doesn’t impinge on his right to get pot and a fuck doll or two on demand — or one of his handmaidens who thinks he loves her and is pro-choice because he paid for her last abortion to keep his wife from finding out about them.

    Just go back to the whole reason that stupid rag even exists. Just listen to the type of music they like — and the type of music they hate and mock — and that’ll tell you everything you need to know about why they were all over Barky like stink on shit last year. There’s some bands and musicians that they hate who I swear to you, they would be hailing as a conquering heroes if they’d just drugg and ass-rape one 13 year old girl. Their favorite put-down for the music they hate is:

    “Chicks dig it.”

    “It’s safe for your grandmother.”

    “That’s a girly band.”

    Seriously. The woman-hatred directed to anything with tits that isn’t kneeling and sucking is preposterous. It’s a laughable rag for the midlife crisis “hipster” set.

    • Peggy Sue

      So . . . you’re discounting the critical examination of Barack Obama by Matt Taibbi due to sexism?

      But can I safely assume you had no problem with the sexism exhibited during Barack Obama’s campaign against Hillary Clinton, and then later against Sarah Palin?

      Just asking. Myself? I took exception to the word witch, bitch, whore, trailor trash, c**t [just to name a few] during the Democratic primary and GE.

      But we all have our threshold of tolerance [or intolerance].

      I think mine is obvious.

    • Peggy Sue

      Had a post spin into the ether. Retrieve if you can. I’ll send an email.

      Thanx.

    • andrew

      Those are overly broad and highly sexist generalizations. Misogynism isn’t the only human disfunction these days. “Misandry” is also a word.

      • lorac

        Ah, I see, since we now laugh off the accusations of “racism”, now you think we’re going to shriek and hide at accusations of misandry?

        misandrew, is more like it. At least until you come to your senses.

  • glennmcgahee

    Janis, I could not agree more.

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    Wow Janis! Why don’t you tell us how you really feel? LOL! I couldn’t agree more. The Democrat left wing are the largest sector of misogynists ever to band together. It took me a long time to see them. Something to be thankful for in the last election…like being hit with a bucket of ice water.

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    And, BTW, I couldn’t care less what that bunch of throw-backs think or write about anything.

  • elaine

    Agreed Phil Graham is bad news & yes I’m aware of how the repeal of Glass-Steagall came down & I do suspect there was some sort of horse trading(quid pro quo) between the repeal of Glass & the passage of the CRA. And yes, I’m more than old enough to recall the Clinton years & btw I’m way too fiscally conservative to be an Obot or a Dubya. I’m not a Keynesian or a Globalist, but who cares, this is not about me.

  • http://! stodgie

    i thought you might like to know that obama has given himself a b+ for his first year. sounds right he grades himself and not others. what a tool!

    • Peggy Sue

      Wow, stodgie. Wish I’d had that option while I attended school–grade thyself.

      What a wonderful world it would be!

    • starfish

      Obama may give himself a B+ but Rasmussen shows him, today, with his LOWEST poll numbers ever.

      http://tinyurl.com/5tnd2b

      I think Obama is on happy pills if he thinks he deserves a B+.

  • beachnan

    Since Obama was asked to grade himself, and very genrously gave himself a B+. I think he deserves an F. Please Mr. President, give me an example of something that is not failing at this point. What a putz.

    • Pico N Alvarado

      >>> Please Mr. President, give me an example of something that is not failing at this point

      Well, he HAS kept our boys out of Northern Ireland, hasn’t he?

  • http://www.r4-ds.pl r4i

    I saw the band at their very first reunion show in monmouth and again a week later in Hammersmith. The improvement in the space of a week was immense, partiularly Mick Ralphs. I went wanting to see a band I neve rmanaged to see as I was too young back then. What I didn’t expect was to see a band on fire – truly superb and uplifting. Ian Hunter is officially the coolest 70 year old on the planet.

  • I’m a Linda too

    You know, I want to post the first paragraph from Taibbi. This shows the problem with delusional Obama supporters perfectly.

    Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers “at the expense of hardworking Americans.” Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it’s not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.

    Gee, where does one start with this. He wrote this obviously they way he supported Obama, filled with his own views, not reality.

    Did this idiot even try to pay attention to the real facts? I mean really, he would have been better of saying “Obama promised he was going to make everyones wish come true and give them all 1 million dollars and I believed his promises”.

    Where the hell was this guy and he wants to call himself a reporter? Please just come out and say, OK, your a Fiction writer and you specialize in Fantasies.

    ? A tax plan to soak the rich? Nafta? Bankruptcy Bill? Bad bad McCain, according to Obama, supporting wealth bankers at expense of hardworking Americcans? Don’t you almost feel sorry for Taibbi? He is apparently not living in the real world.

    Obama was promising to tax the middle class and we had a fight between Biden and Obama as how low the income would get hit. All his reccomend’s made clear we all were going to be hit. NAFTA…the idiot who was making secret assurances to Canada, “pay no attention to what I say, it’s just campaign rhetoric”. And…ha ha ha ha ha….Americans, not bankers? rofl Obviously again, he didn’t even read investigative pieces written on Obama, the debates….the guy who wouldn’t even vote on a cap of interest rates so he could secure his new Wall Street suppporters that were “very happy with his vote”.

    Thank you Matt Taibbi, you have managed to almost make us feel sorry for you that you live in a fantasy world. But, like I said, ALMOST, because you share the blame in giving us this loser, because you couldn’t stop using our tv and print to promote your delusional lies to get him elected to apparently absolve your inner problems.

    Now, pull up a chair next to Bill Maher and the two of you can apologize for you massive naivete.

    ok, done with my rant.

    • jbjd

      IaLt, I so hear you. What is it with these people? Is the only way to criticize BO at this point, to pretend, you could not have known who he was before now, because he kept hidden from your scrutiny? Geesh; I don’t call myself a reporter but, I certainly can read. How else did I know who Obama was, years BEFORE Matt Taibi seems to have caught on?

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  • creeper

    Roll the stone away, it’s Independence Day

    A little something for those of us who are feeling abused…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbv5iJEDzN8

  • http://N/A breeze

    MORE INSANITY FROM THE LEFT:

    Kerry fundraising letter:

    Defeat Sarah Palin and Tea Parties

    Sen. John Kerry’s new fundraising letter seeks to make a bogeyman of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement and rally liberals for the 2010 midterm elections.

    By Patrik Jonsson
    Staff writer
    ChristianScienceMonitor
    December 15, 2009

    A new fundraising letter from Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts gives a strong hint about how Democrats may try to stir their base to action during the 2010 election season: scare them with the prospect of a Sarah Palin nation.

    .“Think GOP obstruction is bad now?” Senator Kerry asks in a fundraising letter sent out Tuesday morning by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.”

    In recent months, the political right has been energized by Ms. Palin, whose “Going Rogue” book tour has boosted her favorability rating, and by the Tea Party movement, which has channeled the anger of fiscal conservatives outraged by Obama administration spending. Together, they kindle the worst political fears among many liberals, summoning visions of gun-toting, Glenn Beck-watching, right-wing radicals.

    With the Democratic caucus holding 60 seats in the Senate – exactly the number needed to defeat a Republican filibuster – Kerry suggested in his letter that “the loss of even one or two would flip crucial votes in their favor and doom President Obama’s agenda.”

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    READ THE REST OF THIS FARCE HERE:

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1215/Kerry-fundraising-letter-Defeat-Sarah-Palin-and-Tea-Parties

  • http://N/A breeze

    MORE INSANITY FROM THE LEFT:

    Kerry fundraising letter:

    Defeat Sarah Palin and Tea Parties

    Sen. John Kerry’s new fundraising letter seeks to make a bogeyman of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement and rally liberals for the 2010 midterm elections.

    By Patrik Jonsson
    Staff writer
    ChristianScienceMonitor
    December 15, 2009

    A new fundraising letter from Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts gives a strong hint about how Democrats may try to stir their base to action during the 2010 election season: scare them with the prospect of a Sarah Palin nation.

    .“Think GOP obstruction is bad now?” Senator Kerry asks in a fundraising letter sent out Tuesday morning by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.”

    ——————————————–

    READ THE REST OF THIS FARCE HERE:

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/1215/Kerry-fundraising-letter-Defeat-Sarah-Palin-and-Tea-Parties

  • Ferd Berfle

    Who in their right mind takes The Rolling Stone Seriously? I stopped when I graduated form college in 1982 after being thrust into the real world. TRS is just Mad magazine with photographs and lesser writers.

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