Matt Taibbi

American journalist and author Matt Taibbi writes for Rolling Stone magazine and appears as a political correspondent on Real Time with Bill Maher. Hailed by some as the next Hunter S. Thompson, Taibbi describes himself as a "dissolute, drug-abusing anarchist." Mother Jones: The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi (April 19, 20005)

On September 03, 2009 Taibbi posted an article on RollingStone.com regarding Health Care entitled "Sick and Wrong" that argues the 2009 health care reform bill was being put together with the support of the health care industry, not the American people. The article was accompanied by a series of videos highlighting his points.

1. The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (2008)
2. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire (2007)
3. Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season (2006)
4. The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia (With Mark Ames and Edward Limonov) (2000)

On July 2, 2009, a Taibbi article entitled "Inside The Great American Bubble Machine argued "how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression"http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine

In 2005, Taibbi wrote an article for the New York Press, entitled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope." The article was publicly condemned by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. Representative Anthony Weiner issued a press release encouraging New Yorkers to gather up copies of the offending New York Press and throw them in the trash. New York Press editor-in-chief Jeff Koyen resigned from his position shortly after the article was published. New York Press: Keep Pope Alive

"The kind of journalism I do is supposed to be funny, but in kind of a horrifying way. I figured the presidential election would be a great subject. But I had never covered a story where I couldn't find a way to express how bad it was. In Russia, I would see these horrible, ridiculous things, and at some level I was actually amused by them. I was able to find them funny but also horrible. In America I didn't really find it amusing; it was just horrible." Salon: Politics-a-palooza (May 12, 2005)