Matt Taibbi Quotes

We need a new media channel, the press version of a third party, where those financial pressures to maintain audience are absent.

It’s time to admit this is a failed system. You can’t sell hatred and seriously expect it to end.

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don’t really know where that comes from, because I think I’m actually the opposite of a cynic.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she’s a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

‘American Sniper’ is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.

America’s always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That’s one of the things we’re probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians’ jobs… When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that’s when the real weirdness begins.

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.