he wrote a hit piece on Wes Clark in 2003 (
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20031215/taibbi) that had little or nothing to do with the substance of Clark's campaign. Anyhow I digress, Taibbi now works for the Rolling Stone and during his stint on Maher's show, he described in detail how the political reporters/pundits are a bunch of elites that get a kick out of marginalizing and trashing the candidates. Like a bunch of teenagers on steroids, THEY choose who should be annointed, and it happens. It makes me absolutely sick how much power and influence these creeps have - I see no solution.
Taibbi (who I hate for obvious reasons as a former Clark supporter) acted like a spoiled little whiney bee-yatch bragging to Tony Snow about how they (pundits/journalists) stay at the best hotels, fly first class, live the grand life during the primaries, etc, all the while in pursuit of destroying Democracy (my conclusion, my words, not his). It's a big JOKE to these people, for their own enjoyment. Like they get off on it.
We should round them up and burn them at the stake, IMHO. Sniveling asswipes.
:rant: