that’s good of you.

here, from link above: “For some reason—call it “fear of getting busted”—all sorts of Santelli/Tea Party shills have been coming out of the closet with their shady affiliations. Like Megan McArdle, who has been leading the attempt to discredit our investigation from her blog at the mighty Atlantic Monthly online. Yesterday she threw in this disclaimer at the end of one of her many obsessive blog posts attacking our article:

“Full disclosure: It’s pretty much an open secret in DC, but given the content of the article I’m discussing, I think I ought to mention that I live with Peter Suderman, who once worked for Freedomworks. Other than giving me the name of the right employee to email to make inquiries (no word back yet), I haven’t asked him about his former employer, and he hasn’t told me anything. I debated whether to write about this, but since I’m not actually defending Freedomworks, I think it’s kosher.”

Right, so even though Megan has about as gigantic a conflict-of-interest as is humanly imaginable–namely, she spoons every night with a guy who was on Freedomworks’ payroll—and even though her article absolutely defends Freedomworks by attempting to discredit Freedomworks’ critics—she nevertheless concludes, against all logic, “I think it’s kosher.” Speaking as two Jews to a McArdle, we want you to know that your conflict-of-interest is about as kosher as a bacon-cheese-and-crab-melt sandwich.”

linking to Megan McArdle is, probably, more questionable than covering/posting Playboy’s “investigative” journalismo..
Playboy dips a toe into investigative journalism
Megan McArdle
The Atlantic, 02 Mar 2009 11:47 am
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/03/did_playboy_just_disappear_an.php#more

theATLantic would be disgraceful, even as a Georgia Lampoon-zine..

Standards, may we keep them high, even if others’ lower..

“So, to sum up the events of the past few days boys ‘n’ girls: We publish an investigation into the fake-grassroots “Tea Party” protest campaign underwritten by rich Republican rightwing interests, exposing Rick Santelli’s role as the launch event MC, and three days later, Santelli is bitchslapped down by his bosses, he’s cancelled from the Daily Show, forced to issue a Bukharin-like confession, FreedomWorks confesses that it was behind it from the start as we wrote, and every media outlet in the country from the New York Times on down is writing up the scandal. ”

http://exiledonline.com/cnbc-bitch-slaps-santelli-into-line-freedomworks-admits-it-organized-grassroots-tea-parties-jon-stewart-cancels-santelli-megan-mcardle-queefs-on-our-founding-fathers/

For this blog to pander to the seriously weak reporting at Playboy smacks of some ideological or personal vendetta against Santelli

morons

Santelli asks a bunch of *brokers* if they are happy about paying their taxes, and they all go insane. (I never suggested raising their taxes, but it sure seems like a good idea now. )

With all due respect to TBP, ordinary people who are one payment behind on their houses are not what caused the stock market to collapse. Santelli is mad because he thinks my bathroom remodeling crashed the stock market? That is not just wrong economics, it is wrong everything.

I am mad because Santelli’s friends never mentioned that my life’s savings were invested in derivatives. My bathroom remodeling was not speculation, I honestly thought I would have a job this year. AIG junk bonds were speculation.

I say we round up people who are losing their houses, and losing their jobs, and losing their lives savings, and ask them if they are happy about bailing out a bunch of brokers.

You guys are a riot ….

I’d like to hear from the guys in the pit that morning, that wolfman character or whatever…

story’s probably waning anyway…cause tomorrow we’ll get another smoking crater to discuss

TRB

For Marcus – the best part of Obama’s plan – taxing industry on emissions. What a crack up, because who will pay more for the widget or service… yep, all of us…

Also – If the top 1% paid 100% of their income to the government – that only constitutes around 1.7 T. If those over $250,000 paid all of their income to the government – that gets you to 3T… So, just by those numbers and taking ALL of their income (100% marginal tax rate and no deductions), the math doesn’t add to 3.6T. That, and everyone with their own business would quit because of no incentive to work anymore… It is a “can’t get there from here” scenario…