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GusFrerotte · 10-30-2009, 08:40 PM

Taibbi rocks, but why he did a piece on sports is beyond me? He was a founder of The Exile in Moscow, the English language rag in Moscow in the mid to late 90's. He did great articles on the corruption in the Yeltsin era then came back to America and ended up with the Rolling Stone gig(He writes for The Nation, etc). He is a pretty good writer. His recent stuff on Wall Street is great in explaining how the market was inflated, etc. Yes he is over the top, but you have to be to keep folks reading unfortunately nowadays. THe younger crowd needs the attitude and entertainment factor to read. I am sorry to hear him think Fletcher was a dumb move. London has basically been the only good FA move Snyder has made, other than the Haynesworth signing.

10-30-2009, 08:40 PM	#16
GusFrerotte Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Detroit area Posts: 4,153	Re: Matt Taibbi on Dan Snyder Taibbi rocks, but why he did a piece on sports is beyond me? He was a founder of The Exile in Moscow, the English language rag in Moscow in the mid to late 90's. He did great articles on the corruption in the Yeltsin era then came back to America and ended up with the Rolling Stone gig(He writes for The Nation, etc). He is a pretty good writer. His recent stuff on Wall Street is great in explaining how the market was inflated, etc. Yes he is over the top, but you have to be to keep folks reading unfortunately nowadays. THe younger crowd needs the attitude and entertainment factor to read. I am sorry to hear him think Fletcher was a dumb move. London has basically been the only good FA move Snyder has made, other than the Haynesworth signing.