Goldman Sachs vs. Rolling Stone (Matt Taibbi)

[MysticPotato68]

Her eyes are shifty. Every time she lies.

[vNorilor]

Taibbi's logic on the bailout is mind numbing.

[drpapa26]

Will someone tell that CNN (w)anchor to shut his fat mouth, so that I can actually hear what matt and megan have to say???? Chrissakes, he sounds like a bad case of verbal diarrhea.

[billyelliot1975]

I think Matt Taibbi did a better job when he worked for Playboy.

[billyelliot1975]

Since when was Rolling Stone an authority on the financial markets...mmm, way out of their depth.

[wovokanarchy]

This is America. People are screwed over on a daily basis. Live with it

and become the screwers and not the screwed. This is what makes capitalism and America great. Go live in France if you don't like it.

[Amph1tryons]

@wovokanarchy I'm so tired of people saying "Go live in Canada/France/Italy/Europe/Som­alia if you don't like it here." I would chose France in a heartbeat over the states. You realize a person doesn't get to chose what country they are born in. We do have some control over what our given country looks like - for now at least.

[Michaeltickledick]

@wovokanarchy Wonderful logic. Murder happens too in America. Should we "live with it" and let murderers get away with it? People steal things every day. If someone steals your car should you "live with it", should the person get off? What makes this any damn different? If I steal from your kids college savings and get caught I should get in trouble? If crimes were committed the bastards should pay. I am a moral person, so I can't "live with it". I am not a sociopath.

[wovokanarchy]

@Michaeltickledick You probably voted for Obama in the last election and thought ''real change'' will occur now. Look up the NDAA and ask yourself why Obama would sign a bill that denys you of your Constitutional rights. America is a plutocracy run by corporations and that's why theft is a moral and ethical standard that America has always followed, from Plymouth Rock until today. We all should just get on board and take what we can get and screw the rest. The real American Dream.

[Michaeltickledick]

@wovokanarchy Nope, I was living overseas and didn't vote. Why would you assume that I voted for Obama? He has protected the damn banks, both parties do. I am saying to punish people who have broken the law and acted immorally. I also knew what to expect from Obama, who is another neoliberal corporate Democrat. Again, using your logic, if we were in Nazi Germany you would be saying "oh well, kill a Jew, act as immorally as the monsters". No thanks, but have fun.

[Michaeltickledick]

@wovokanarchy Besides, YOU should go live somewhere else. Go to a place where there is no question that violence, theft and exploitation will go unpunished. Here there is little chance, but there is a slight chance, should social movements begin to change things. Maybe you should move to Colombia. You could kill a union organizer, organize a death squad and kill opposition candidates (40 killed in 2011). Do it well and the US will give u lots of "assistance". 

[86BBUB]

Megan McArdle - you make me cringe.

[mentalphysicalism]

What about the "criminals" who sold the toxic stuff to Goldman Sachs?

[4390100]

This lady here must have got a lot of money from these criminals, what Goldman did was morally wrong and leads all of these people astray and makes massive white collar fraud legal in many peoples eyes such as this insane woman here. If you rob a bank with a gun or knife you must go to jail, but if you have a briefcase and wear a suit you can take it all home with you.

[tigerone1970]

Megan: "What is not legal for them to do is to sell me a car that is now what they represented it as."

GS even went further than that. Not only did they sell the customer a car they claimed was brand new, they sold a car with faulty brakes and bad tires. And then they took out an overpriced life insurance policy on the buyer.

Megan: "It is very morally satisfying to track down people who did things to us..."

Then legalize robbery, as long as they didn't use a gun.

[ridewave444]

Looks like another bitch who's caught up in her own limited "financial" world. Intentionally clueless as fuck.

[freedomdreamzz]

this is the price on society that Matt mentioned Right and wrong v legal and illegal. Right is truth and Honesty and Rightous! wrong is just wrong. legal and illegal are just degrees of deception (Fraud). its alright to decieve if you are getting paid for it and of course your own greed is understandable. She sleeps at night because she has no conscious. The Atlantic is a Zionist controled Mag.

[stargell777]

@freedomdreamzz "Zionist-controlled mag?"

[andrewepdolan]

not worth arguing something you haven't read!

[fatass514]

"i don't know how this makes sense on any planet in any universe" ahahahhaha

[screwusernames0O0]

i wish i could fly to nyc and protest

[hannahunney]

Megan should've read the documents before discussing them.

[dalecampbl9]

that woman needs to die.

[dalecampbl9]

keywords "MINIMUM LEGAL STANDARDS" LOL

[dalecampbl9]

the RICH don't give a shit about anything but their own bank accounts.. they blow up the country, get a few hundred million, and they retire. that's it. that's the reality of a deregulated free market system, and IF YOU ASK EVERY SINGLE GOP IN CONGRESS, THEY SUPPORT IT BY REFUSING TO ARGUE AGAINST IT.

[Damothedevo]

So what you're saying megan is that wall street is a conglomerate of lieing sacks of s$%t. And just because they wear suits does not mean they aren't compareable to the scum that builds up if you don't clean your toilet. Thank you for finally saying it.

[lestliness]

I always go back to Jeffersons statement on corporate banks and it's true every time... these people operate like thieves. THe don't produce anything, they manipulate money and now they risk very little because the taxt payer bails them out.... it's an awful system.

[grandaddynative]

hope that bitch gets raped in her arse

[beancube2010]

Rolling Stone, at least its journalist investigators, doesn't stand a chance winning anything from Goldman Sachs, but Rolling Stone is Rolling Stone. They are the real style of American culture and they will dig as deep as they can. Release Bradley Manning.

[Hawaiianeye100]

Megan either works for or wants a job with Goldman Sachs. Why would someone make such bogus excuses for these obvious crimes. She's pretty but dumb.

[judithnarz]

this woman is such an idiot. Matt is right when he says: How in the world can you apologize for Goldman Sachs. From now on Atlantic will boycotted by me.

[grbnw]

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[jasoncsaki]

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[HermitGenius]

The great thing is that Matt Taibbi's father works for NWO controlled NBC News, so it wouldn't serve the bad guys well to harm him.

[JohnnyBGood11]

Megan was tore up how can this B!tch walk after that!

[goldengyrl2010]

That bitch is just a shill for Goldman and company.

[OnenessNow]

The People desire a new Transparency for the Wall Street Banksters.

[raffield1]

The Atlantic is such a piece of shit.

[SuperTrancend]

Taibbi is fucking cool lol.

[BemusedTIger]

lesson here is never trust an investment banker...unless they seem really trustworthy...in which case really really dont trust them

[colemiller56]

Poor Megan. A compatriot of hers wrote about using the skin of pauperized Irish infants to make fine gloves for the wealthy. Dame McGargle would be proud to wear them. From Swift to McGargle: Disproving the Theory of Evolution

[thesparitan]

@colemiller56 LOL nice

[mecormany]

McArdle has to be the shiftiest eyed, Goldman Sachs shill I've ever seen. Very good to see Taibbi rip her to shreds.

Jesus, she is pathetic.

[bunnasoo2]

So her argument is basically, if it's too complicated for her to understand, it's not immoral or illegal?

[sandrahn]

Megan is disgusting

[1thruZ]

6:42 is the best part.

[fknclarky]

@1thruZ ududududduhh

[TrainingStream]

@1thruZ 6:13 They ripped us off. HAHAHHA Duh listen to the guy in the middle you 2 got RIPPED OFF.....you are not the 1%

[MysticPotato68]

@1thruZ LOL

[rants2004]

Side note 1: The cutie aka Megan picked up Atlas Shrugged at the age of 16 and ever since she's never let facts get in her way of highschool Libertarian fantasy.

Side note 2: do we know if McArdle has lazy eyes to match her lazy intellect? I'm just curious.

[rants2004]

McArdle and Goldberg are the reasons that I no longer read the Atlantic. Basically these two have turned this mag into a sad farce. McArdle is so intellectually lazy that she doesn't even bother to do a half-assed research before coming on CNN! OBVIOUSLY journalistic duty is too "complicated" for this woman. Matt Taibbi should just refuse to "debate" this craven cretin just on matter of principle.

[CACHINFLIN7]

this guy taibibi is a hero... he deserves a nobel!!!!

[djtintle]

This McArdle chick is stupid. She brings up the used car analogy. They can sell you a car, but they can't bet on that cars engine exploding when you drive it off the lot.

That is essentially what Goldman did.

[kentmanuel79]

Wow that bald dude is a total shill. What a POS

[hippykiller77]

Megan McArdle is a troll and idiot. She was saying the housing bubble would cause a minor recession right up to TARP. If you want to lose your shorts, read her column and take her investment advice.

[sniperontheroof123]

@hippykiller77 Someone made an incorrect prediction about the future, therefore everything they say is wrong!

[Meowbay]

I recommend you all to view the documentary titled "Inside Job" (you can find it as a torrent you know where..), it will open your eyes. After that, try watching Zeitgeist Moving Forward here on YouTube (the official version, so not the trolls trying to save their monetary system and vested interests by mocking this movie or TZM).

[enslavetherich]

Goldman Sachs also helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit. (Cited from Der Spiegel.)

[pvisserandorra]

@enslavetherich They then shorted the Greek economy.

[Eastsideweezy]

@pvisserandorra You wouldn't!? You would just keep you money in that basket case or your clients and lose it all...

[strawman007]

The way her eyes are shifting around while she answers the question is a little strange. Would be nice to see a behavior specialist comment on this.

[Meowbay]

@strawman007 Well obviously she makes money on writing for (and defending) bankers and banks and the financial scams she protects. She's basically protecting her source of income and the bonuses she gets from writing articles that tend to move in a certain direction. She's a selfish fake.

[sniperontheroof123]

@Meowbay I'm sure the stock markets really care a lot about what she has to say, especially given hippykiller's claim about her investment record.

[daindigokid]

@strawman007

I was thinking the same thing.

[kaizersozey83]

@strawman007 the eye shift of to the left or up and to the left typically represents an imagined response or lie.

[jpoortman]

@strawman007 I'm not one, but she is probably mixing lies with truth. Switching between the halfs of her brain, fact and fiction. Not very good at hiding it.

[girlznguitarz]

One big melting pot=NWO.