(Sigh)
Billy, will you please make some indication of when Taibbi ISN’T PO’d at someone?
And will you please tell me why, given his other rants, I shouldn’t think that what’s got him ranting about rap is the profits being made? Profits, after all, don’t fit into a Marxist ideology.
He makes some valid points so far as he goes in your quote, , but looking at what he says in your quote, within the context of the rest of what he’s been writing the last year or so, a different picture emerges, and frankly it’s one that I guess neither one of us would be comfortable with.
My original comments, as regards him and Yeltsin, hold. The idea that Yeltsin was an oinker dressed up as a drunk, as I said, was and remains beyond question. He was at best as Taibbi says, an inconsistent reformer.
But in reading more of Taibbi the last day or so, I’m coming to the conclusion that his problem with Yeltsin had more to do with him being a reformer, not his inconsistencies.
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