Matt Taibbi Takes on Tom Friedman

In 2005, New York mag put him at $300k.

http://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index3.html

 

Many thanks, 21.

 

Apparently, only the people who write for this book should be able to write about any issue involving the environment, globalization, TARP, mortgage bailouts, or oil prices. Anyone else is a hypocrite.

 

Wonder what Taibbi's pad looks like? He may be a pretty good writer, but he also comes off as smug a-hole who never really had to struggle very much to get where he is. He can thank his dad for that I guess, but I figured his dad would teach him a little humility. Not so.

 

His politics aside, most journalists would never work again after that pope list. It would be one thing if he did it as a kid, but he was 35 when he wrote that and based on when it was published, it was weeks before the Pope died.

He's an immensely talented petulant little brat.

 

Indeed I do. Love to find the seams in life and exploit them.

Its really hard to fathom that someone could write a book called "Hot , Flat ant Crowded" who's has benefited from the building of malls.

 

My sweet lord. For what?

 

Actually, I thought 'hot, flat, and crowded' was about a shopping mall.

 

or Walmart

 

I always had trouble listening to people like Leo DiCaprio on this subject, knowing they were living in megamansions.
I never suspected Friedman was one of them, too.

 

The truth's a bitch, ain't it?

 

If you really wanted to go for a zinger you would have said the truth was inconvenient. But we all know you're not that clever, hondo.