Cutting through the crap, with Matt Taibbi

Along with John Pilger, Abby Martin, & the handful of honest journalists left standing, I love Matt Tabbi. Here he sums up what’s wrong with politics & the media, in a few short lines.

“Klobuchar is a pure distillation of “electability,” i.e., a Washington reporter’s idea of what a Midwesterner finds charming. She isn’t funny, but her tireless marketing of her funniness matches the reportorial concept of what a “sense of humor” is in politics.

Her ability to speak at length without revealing deep ideological belief is also prized by our kind. This is what Washington for decades told people they wanted, instead of health care, peace, job security, etc.”

Perfect summary.

Contemporary neoliberal/neoconservative politics – two wings of the same plutocracy:

All BS and PR, hiding the ugly face of a crypto-fascist, deeply corrupt and authoritarian globalist corporate oligarchy.

Yep.

Now, what are we gong to do about it?

JTR,

April 30, 2020

See also (among other important works):

Brain Wash – Perlmutter

Manufacturing Consent – Herman and Chomsky

Necessary Illusions – Chomsky

Data Trash – Kroker

And the writings of Matt Taibbi, Piers Robinson, Orwell, Huxley and Thoreau