Matt Taibbi, New York Press

• 01 Jul 2004
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Via Unfogged, Mike Matt Taibbi’s takedown of Christopher Hitchens and his fellow hyper-self-righteous members of the journalistic profession. As ogged points, out, there’s a deep desire to cheer upon reaching the following:

I’m off on this tangent because I’m enraged by the numerous attempts at verbose, pseudoliterary, “nuanced” criticism of Moore this week by the learned priests of our business. (And no, I’m not overlooking this newspaper.) Michael Moore may be an ass, and impossible to like as a public figure, and a little loose with the facts, and greedy, and a shameless panderer. But he wouldn’t be necessary if even one percent of the rest of us had any balls at all.

If even one reporter had stood up during a pre-Iraq Bush press conference last year and shouted, “Bullshit!” it might have made a difference.

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