Despicable is to soft of a word for this.
Posted on 06/17/2008 6:43:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger.
Evening, June 3rd, in a muggy, dragonfly-beswarmed place called the Pontchartrain Center, just outside New Orleans. Half a continent away, amid yet another legacy-smashing fusillade of unsolicited invective from Bill Clinton, the excruciating Obama-Hillary mess is finally wrapping up, in a pair of anticlimactic primaries somewhere over the darkened plains of Montana and South Dakota. But here in the Big Easy, John McCain has chosen this moment to mount his first general-election attack against the Great Satanic Liberal Enemy — who, as luck would have it, turns out to be a Negro intellectual from Harvard who's never served in the military. And this is supposed to be a bad year for Republicans?
You'd never know it from listening to McCain, whose kickoff speech is the same election-year diatribe that Republicans have been giving for decades, one long broadside against those goddamned overgrown Sixties weenie liberals who hate the flag, love the bomb-tossing enemies of America and are bent on the twin goals of ending the system of free enterprise and placing every aspect of our lives under government control. McCain pegs Obama as a man who wants to take America "backward," to the failed ideas of the Sixties. "I'm surprised that a young man has bought into so many failed ideas!" he says, to furious applause. Then, spitting out a forced, ugly laugh that he must have practiced many (but not enough) times in the bathroom mirror of the Straight Talk Express, he adds, "That's not change we can believe in!"
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
2ndDV, it’s a well known fact that this irrelevant hippie mag led by the president/editor who had a fling with another man BLEEDS Dumocrat blue and even bragged about it in an editorial last year. They’re as relevant political-wise as a used tampon.
That illustration by Victor Juhasz is deplorable. This article is disgusting.
I’m sorry, but this has to be one of the worst things I’ve ever read in my life. It makes me cry.
It’s Rolling Stone. Does anyone here really give a damn?
More to the point, if RS *wasn’t* printing this trash, then I’d be wondering what was really going on.
Screw “Matt”. This cherub doesn’t have a clue. I suffered through the first page of his trash writing and couldn’t go further. Save yourself the trouble.
Reading this article was like walking through an open sewer.
Early years
Taibbi spent his childhood in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, attended Concord Academy, and attended Bard College at Annandale on Hudson, New York, spending his senior year abroad at Leningrad State University. His father is Mike Taibbi, an NBC television reporter.
Career
In 1992 Taibbi moved to Uzbekistan, but was forced to leave six months later after writing articles critical of the country's president, Islom Karimov. Afterwards, Taibbi worked for The Moscow Times as a sports editor, before moving on to work in Russia and Mongolia as a professional athlete and as a correspondent for Montsame, the Mongolian National News Agency.
While playing professional basketball in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Taibbi contracted a serious case of pneumonia and returned to Boston for treatment. After recovering with his family, he returned to Russia and became editor of the expat paper Living Here. He then joined Mark Ames in 1997 to co-edit the controversial English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, The eXile. Taibbi said about that experience, "We were out of the reach of American libel law, and we had a situation where we weren’t really accountable to our advertisers. We had total freedom."
So this RDDB, studies in Russia, Gets booted from Uzbekistan, but when he gets sick he runs home to the good old USA for treatment.
If this guy hates McCain as much as this article indicates, then that reinforces the need to vote for him.
The illustration was one of the most disgusting things that I have seen in some time. It is the scribblings of an immature and diseased mind. I saw McCain’s cell in Hoa Lo prison - the author of this tripe and the twit illustrator wouldn’t last a day there.
Rolling Stone longs for the days when their ilk spat on soldiers, because at least their magazine was relevant then.
That “comic” is absolutely disgusting... Honestly, I don’t even want to read the entire article if this is what this author and his editors think is “funny”. What jerks!
For all his frantic recanting of the many embarrassingly bipartisan episodes from his Senate past, McCain has never betrayed even a nanosecond's worth of memories from the central catastrophe of his life: his capture and torture in a Vietnamese prison.
The leftist tool author is insane. McShill is a 'Rat stooge and he's recanted nothing.
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Remember, this rag is Rolling Stone, which had the infamous Obamessiah cover.
Despicable is to soft of a word for this.
Basically true, though the actual place Obama wants to take us is a little older, say, Russia in the 1930s.
Ping.
Taibibi appoears to be an arabic name. It may be a factor driving this POS’ behavior..
Rolling Stone changed the cover of their magazine featuring Obama - replacing ‘radical roots’ with ‘destiny’s child’.
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