I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.
Matt TaibbiEverybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.
Matt TaibbiI get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.
Matt TaibbiThe threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?
Matt Taibbi