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" America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. "
Matt Taibbi
America
Two
Official
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" The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people. "
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People
One Thing
Complicated
" The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers. "
Matt Taibbi
Internet
Journalism
Business
" I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system. "
Matt Taibbi
Liberal
Product
Coast
" 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. "
Matt Taibbi
Real
Passion
America
" If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat. "
Matt Taibbi
Grow
Animals
Day
" Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. "
Matt Taibbi
Identity
War
Right
" One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. "
Matt Taibbi
American
Long
Journalism
" The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers. "
Matt Taibbi
Environmental
Workers
Problem
" The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed. "
Matt Taibbi
Run
Government
Financial
" For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next. "
Matt Taibbi
Need
Successful
Political
" You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented. "
Matt Taibbi
Follow
You
Think
" In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around. "
Matt Taibbi
Congress
Kind
Reality
" Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising. "
Matt Taibbi
Media
News
Products
" Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are. "
Matt Taibbi
Choice
Democracy
Good
" George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic. "
Matt Taibbi
Down
Way
Scary
" The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe. "
Matt Taibbi
White
Race
House
" What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them. "
Matt Taibbi
Big
Bubble
Kind
" In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change. "
Matt Taibbi
Change
Victory
Tea
" Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out. "
Matt Taibbi
Letters
Down
Tough
" I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit. "
Matt Taibbi
Loved
Born
News
" An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. "
Matt Taibbi
Street
Place
Hidden
" In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life. "
Matt Taibbi
Life
Land
Rest
" Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane. "
Matt Taibbi
You
Uniform
Everything
" America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. "
Matt Taibbi
Country
Ability
America
" Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. "
Matt Taibbi
Way
Construction
Been
" It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself. "
Matt Taibbi
Matters
Think
Become
" Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. "
Matt Taibbi
Making Money
Behavior
Street
" The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence. "
Matt Taibbi
Violence
Culture
Financial
" Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely. "
Matt Taibbi
Class
Ugly
Result
" Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. "
Matt Taibbi
Like
End
Laws