“What a joke American journalism is. Our entire Army is on its knees before a few thousand gun-toting religious fanatics in the Arabian desert, and here’s our government, taking food out of the mouths of foster kids and single moms to go binge-shopping with our tax money in the Sharper Image catalog of the industrial world. And what’s on TV? Fucking Suri Cruise? Are you kidding me?â€
Taibbi describes much that is wrong with the way we purchase advanced weapons systems, the way we eliminate social programs in favor of government handouts to the military-industrial complex (remember Eisenhower’s warning?) and the way the American press can be counted on to miss the story. Taibbi’s piece in Rolling Stone is a great read.