Seriously, the man writes some scathing essay about Bush or Cheney or Palin, and lefties eat it up. But let him aim that fire at Obama's and his advisory appointments, and suddenly we find out real quick which bloggers have a vested interest in protecting the Democratic Party and which ones care more about the issues. - Steven Perez

The Taibbi bashers have backed themselves into the corner of emotionally and irrationally defending the most corrupt and destructive players on Wall Street, while trying to pretend that they are progressives. Hilarious stuff. - Sean McBride

Reminds me of what happened with Greg Palast. As long as Palast tracked caging lists in Florida and detailed the dirty money-dealings of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, he was a fearless investigative journalist. But the minute he started looking into Bill and Hillary Clinton's financial misdeeds (Whitewater wasn't even a blip when he was finished digging), and suddenly Palast was an out-of-control hack who needed to shut the hell up, because can't you see that you're hurting the party?!? - Steven Perez

You know what really tickled me during all this? How prudish some of these bloggers has become over the past decade. I've been on some blogs that drop "fuck" and "shit" on a daily basis, blogs that used to laugh at the uptight priggishness of the mainstream media. Suddenly, when someone on the left takes a (deserved) whack at Obama, Taibbi's language and delivery become one of the primary issues. Time for another bloggers ethic panel, I guess. - Steven Perez

Thing is, on the The American Prospect site, which hosted the hit on Taibbi by Tim Fernholz, support for Taibbi against Fernholz is running at about 10 to 1, by my estimate. http://www.prospect.org/csnc... - Sean McBride

Yeah, it's kinda to sell the idea that the hyenas who deep-sixed the economy are somehow now good guys when they hang out with the Democrats. - Steven Perez

Some of the guys who deep-sixed the economy were some of the most powerful players inside the Democratic Party -- it goes well beyond hanging out with the Democrats. - Sean McBride

Was he as wrong about Palin as he was to blame Obama for Congress's mistakes? - Andrew C (✓)

No, and that's the point, Andrew. I'm read more than a few bloggers who pile on Taibbi's essay for being overall correct, but being riddled with errors. What the hell kind of standard is that? Either the man is full of shit, or he's not. And he's not. Frankly, the opposition to Taibbi is beginning to take on some of the same characteristics that wingnuts displayed for the GOP over the last decade, before they resorted to teabagging. - Steven Perez

Actually, Taibbi's recent article contained only one small factual error, regarding Jamie Rubin. All the many other facts in the article are right on the money. - Sean McBride

Which he later owned in his rebuttal to the Prospect piece. - Steven Perez

I doubt that Tim Fernholz will have the intellectual integrity and character to apologize for the numerous errors in his emotional and disorganized attack on Taibbi. He's a lightweight. (But compared to Akiva Moskovitz he's an intellectual and ethical giant. :) Sorry -- had to slip that in. Akiva seems to enjoy these slantwise exchanges.) - Sean McBride