Matt Taibbi correlates happiness with Valerie’s Bertellini’s ass size:  Friedman plots exactly four points on the graph over the course of those 30 years. In 1989, as oil prices are falling, Friedman writes, “Berlin Wall Torn Down.â€� In 1993, again as oil prices are low, he writes, â...

In 2005, Matt Taibbi wrote a takedown of NYT mouthbreather Tom Friedman's unique idiocy that remains the greatest thing ever written about the mustachioed private-jet-frequent-flyer. Now Taibbi has a new piece; top ten anti-'stache material. His original story was all about The Earth is Flat, and wh...

In the new issue of Rolling Stone, National Magazine Award winner and onetime Observer 'Power Punk' Matt Taibbi offers a little bit of George W. Bush fan fiction in the form of a fake interview headlined Bush Apologizes: The Farewell Interview We Wish He'd Give. Subheadlined "W. comes clean—o...

Today on the Huffington Post, Ben Cohen interviews National Magazine Award-winning Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi. Back in April, Mr. Taibbi got into a spat with another HuffPo writer, novelist Erica Jong, that hinged mostly on his description of Hillary Clinton's "flabby arms." In th...

WPvideo 1.10 They laugh alike, they walk alike, sometimes they even talk alike: MCCAIN PLAN: “There Are Areas Off Our Coasts That Should Be Open To Exploration And Exploitation.” During a media availability in Arlington, Virginia, John McCain said, “I also believe that lifting the ...

Matt Taibbi’s article “ Jesus Made Me Puke” about his experience going undercover at an evangelical Christian religious retreat demonstrates another deep flaw in the philosophy of Skepticism — its deeply incurious streak. The one that seeks to debunk rather than discover answ...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire By Matt Taibbi Spiegel & Grau New York, 2008 In the pointy-headed northeastern America of my experience there were no legends of wandering prophets, no dinner-table discussions ab...

A little after 6 p.m. at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Condé Nast president Richard Beckman was sharing a drink—vodka, olives—with Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend. The two were discussing the same thing everyone in the lobby of Jazz at Lincoln Center at the Time Warner Center was talking about: Wh...

Erica Jong says Matt Taibbi wants to fuck his mom! But he can't, so instead he channeled that desire into print by calling Hillary Clinton's arms "flabby." It's all part of the feminist author Jong's theory of "Misogyny, Momism, and Militarism," which she chronicled on the Huffington Post. "Momism i...

After teabagging Barack Obama for the past nine months, Rolling Stone political writer Matt Taibbi still considers the magazine's political coverage Gonzo-esque: "We have the license to talk about things that other people won't because we're a music magazine and we don't have to worry about access f...