Rolling Stones writer Matt Taibbi has to reconfirm his liberal bona fides. His earlier efforts have grown stale.
Taibbi's anti-Catholic screed "The 52 Funniest Things About The Upcoming Death of The Pope" (New York Press, Mar. 9, 2005) has been pulled down and can now only be found in the dark recesses of Internet archives.
He cannot be expected to write a sequel to The Exile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia (with Mark Ames, New York: Grove Press, 2000) now that he has (presumably) quit using H.
Ever since his criticisms of the investment firm Goldman Sachs were construed as "anti-Semitic," Taibbi might even have been facing banishment from Starbucks.
This has all of the makings of a serious crisis for a "progressive" like Taibbi.
What to do?
The most obvious starting point, for a loathsome anti-traditionalists of his ilk, is anti-white invective.
His latest establishment screed ("The Republicans Are Now Officially the Party of White Paranoia," Rolling Stone, Sept. 4, 2015) can be summarized in two sentences.
The upcoming national elections will plausibly be, as Taibbi writes, "a turnout battle between people who believe in a multicultural vision for the country, and those who don't." The remainder of his text is merely a sustained deprecation of "those who don't."
Most of his words are therefore unworthy of serious attention, let alone a response.
After all, what can be the reply to such as Taibbi when their tirades barely rate as the intellectual equivalents of schoolyard "raspberries"? The best his audience can do, perhaps, is to shield their faces from his rancid spittle.
Concerning the one sentence that he managed to type lucidly, however, I pray that it would serve as a rallying cry for those who are too cowed to speak plainly.
Unless your vision for national rejuvenation involves airplanes full of Africans, boatloads of Arab immigrants and semi-trucks full of Mexicans unloading their passengers to a HUD house near you, then I suggest that you line up on the side of "those that don't" want to follow Nimrod's doomed building plan and that you not stand by while Europe and the United States are being possessed by the spirit of the Tower of Babel.
"From one man he [i.e. God] made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands." (The Book of Acts, the Bible, chapter 17, verse 26; New International Version.)
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