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Matt Taibbi responds to two criticisms of his blistering article about Goldman-Sachs. The criticisms are:
- You're clearly anti-semitic in targetting Goldman.
- It wasn't just Goldman doing this stuff, why focus on them?
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Taibbi responds to critics of his Rolling Stone Goldman-Sachs article
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:15 PM EDT
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I understand that Taibbi is a little crass for general audiences, but I just can't help liking the guy...
Two, even if it is true that “everyone else was doing it”: so what? Who cares? To me this response is highly telling. We published a piece accusing Goldman Sachs of systematically ripping off pensioners and other retail investors by sticking them with rafts of toxic mortgages it knew were losers, of looting taxpayer reserves to cover its bad bets made with AIG, of manipulating gas prices to massive detrimental effect, of helping to explode an internet bubble that caused over $5 trillion in wealth to disappear, and numerous other crimes — and the response isn’t “You’re wrong,” or “We didn’t do that @!$%#, not us,” but “Well, Morgan did the same stuff,” and “Why aren’t you writing about Morgan?”
Why didn’t we write about Morgan? Because we didn’t. Because it’s your turn, you @!$%#s.
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#1 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:19 PM EDT{"commentId":8188101,"authorDomain":"hobodrifter"}
Taibbi is my leader.
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#2 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:53 PM EDT{"commentId":8188211,"authorDomain":"Blearc"}
Where's the anti semitic come from? and has Morgan been around since pre-Great deppression?
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#3 - Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:58 PM EDT{"commentId":8189001,"authorDomain":"fredegrar"}
Where's the anti semitic come from?
Apparently it's because Taibbi "looks" to be of arab descent, Goldman is a stereotypically Jewish name, and the word "tribe" was used in the article. On the bright side, I don't think anyone credible has accused him of anti-semitism - just some whacko hate-mail writers.
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