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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Writer Taibbi’s new book ‘The Great Derangement’ goes on sale May 6 and he’s put out a promotional video for it that roasts a corrupt White House and an acquiescent corporate media for eight years of greed, terror and blatant, murderous lies. His fellow citizens aren’t exactly spared, either…
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Monday, February 18th, 2008

MSNBC joins the club of network nitwits who cannot seem to differentiate between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden. This one was pretty blatant…
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007

‘The US vs. John Lennon’ chronicles the egregious lengths the US gov’t went to in order to silence an artist who had the audacity to speak out. Of course, Lennon came from an age when artists did that sort of thing, and he wasn’t the only one to get on the authorities’ nerves. But we don’t live in that world anymore…
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Monday, October 29th, 2007

Exclusive Q&A with writer Taibbi. Snippet - “If and when I ever get to be Interior Minister, one of my first acts is going to be the putting to death of anyone who thinks God interferes in the outcome of things like sporting events and elections. I’d want to have a giant shark tank built expressly for this purpose. Just throw them in there and then dump a couple of barrels of cow blood in the water…”
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

SS: …Why do you believe that an artist’s opinion on politics should matter? GP: I don’t participate actively in expressing political views and always turn down the offer of appearing on bills for political causes. Surely, everybody’s opinions on politics matter, apart from very stupid people, who should shut the f?!k up…
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned. After much internal debate, Times executives - including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. - made the decision to end the subscription-only TimesSelect service…
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