{"id":4002,"date":"2007-10-24T23:52:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/matt-taibbi-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T15:22:44","slug":"matt-taibbi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/matt-taibbi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/antiwar.com\/dissent\/aw2007-10-20matttaibii.mp3]\n<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/11135532\/the_low_post_a_complete_archive\">Matt Taibbi<\/a> discusses the sad sight that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/16721264\/mccains_last_stand\/print\">John McCain&#8217;s last campaign<\/a> to be President, his failed PR stunt in the Baghdad market, his pandering to John Hagee and the Christianists, his waffling, flip-flopping, lying and scaremongering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/dissent\/aw2007-10-20matttaibii.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (16:28)<\/p>\n<p>Matt Taibbi is a roving national reporter and columnist for <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Smells-Like-Dead-Elephants-Dispatches\/dp\/0802170412\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-7396440-8470344?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1190440239&#038;sr=1-1\/antiwarbookstore\"><span class=\"sans\">Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire<\/span><\/a>, <\/em>a collection of his writings about the 2004 election. He lives in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain&#8217;s Last Stand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}