Taibbirea: A New Low in New York City Media

Great post, GV. Having lived in NYC for 23 of my 30 years, I'm pretty well sick of this shit, too. Is California any better, though?

Btw, I think that's Christopher Hitchens in your photo. Here's Taibbi.

Posted by Allah at March 4, 2005 2:13 PM

P.S. It will surprise you, I'm sure, to learn that Wolcott's a big Taibbi fan. See his latest.

Posted by Allah at March 4, 2005 2:21 PM

Thanks be to Allah for the correction. I am appalled at myself.

And of course Wolcott's a big Taibbi fan. Has been since that summer night in the Hamptons with the full moon, the canoe, the mandolin and the moose.

Posted by Gerard Van Der Leun at March 4, 2005 2:27 PM

Ouch! I can almost feel his pain

Posted by Steel Turman at March 4, 2005 4:09 PM

Separated at Birth

Posted by chris at March 4, 2005 5:02 PM

Pathetic creature has the look of a practicing homosexual.

Posted by NC3 at March 4, 2005 6:36 PM

Not sure if this Taibbi is related, at all related to TV journalist Mike Taibbi who is noted on the MSNBC website as having one son named Matthew, if that is the case the elder generation is at least in name, Roman Catholic, and one relatative is Orthodox clergy.

In other words - if they are the same family it would seem no one is talking to Junior.

My guess is it's the same Matt that is writing over at Freezerbox.

Oddly he left an email link over there...

Posted by Huw Raphael at March 4, 2005 10:08 PM

NC3,

He has the look of a practicing shaven ape.

Posted by Steel Turman at March 4, 2005 10:09 PM

10 Funniest Things About Mike Taibbi’s Death

1. As cancer eats his guts out, he says, "I don't deserve this!"

2. His last thought is that he wasted his life.

3. He rolls over, his false teeth fall out and bite his nose off.

4. No one shows up to mourn.

5. New Yorkers open the New York Press, read that Mike Taibbi died, and say, “Who’s Mike Taibbi?”

6. He is packaged in a cheap pine box. The bottom cracks open, he falls out, and lands face down on a pie. Headlines Read. “Comic Corpse Pies Self.”

7. In his last moments he looks up at his family. He says, “Please remember me.” They lean forward and say, “Who?”

8. He couldn’t afford a hearse, so they take him to the cemetery in a garbage truck.

9. The undertaker ran out of short pants, so he decks Taibbi out in a pink thong.

10. He is reincarnated as a cockroach. Pope John Paul III smacks him dead with a rolled up newspaper.

Posted by Professor Plum at March 4, 2005 10:31 PM

Okay, so, inspired by your recent post about the LAT, who are NYP's biggest advertisers? There are still a lot of Catholics in NYC.

Posted by DTLV at March 5, 2005 10:47 AM

If the NYP is anything like the "alternative" free weeklies in Philly, the biggest advertisers are call girls.

Posted by Eric Blair at March 5, 2005 6:43 PM

That paper went to shit when Russ Smith sold it.

This Taibbi character was, I think, hired shortly thereafter. I can't picture Russ Smith putting up with the garbage he writes, and this is far from Taibbi's first offense. A real POS, and not funny.

Posted by spongeworthy at March 7, 2005 9:47 AM

Only question is, who's worse - the insect that wrote that, or the paper that printed it?

BTW, if I may - are you not that crazy about NYC?...

Posted by Liz L. at March 8, 2005 4:22 PM

Matt Taibbi has a long history of this type of thing,
e.g. sexually mocking the 911 victims in his "newspaper" the exile www.exile.ru/112/feature.php
and publishing a "how to manual" on how to commit mass murder in high schools and in the workplace. http://www.exile.ru/112/feature.php
This should not be very surprising since he and the paper are closely associated with Russian neo-fascist Eduard Limonov and his National Bolshevik Party. http://exile.ru/limonov/limonov36.html

Posted by Pete Ekman at November 11, 2005 9:10 AM