Television Finds House Expert on New York’s Neurosis

On the morning of Sunday, Jan. 11, while many New Yorkers were looking around to find a place to watch the Giants-Eagles playoff game, NBC News correspondent Mike Taibbi was looking around to find someone to interview about the mind-set of the victims ripped off in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

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Taibbi: Mocking People is Easy; TV is Hard

Today on the Huffington Post, Ben Cohen interviews National Magazine Award-winning Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi.

Back in April, Mr. Taibbi got into a spat with another HuffPo writer, novelist Erica Jong, that hinged mostly on his description of Hillary Clinton’s "flabby arms." In the interview with Mr. Cohen, Mr. Taibbi explains Read More

From Russia With Lust

On a Saturday night in May, Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi were drinking Pepsi and smoking American Spirits in a one-bedroom apartment in a high-rise near Times Square. They took turns leaning over a plastic compact disc case, snorting lines of speed. I declined their offer, and instead popped a tranquilizer I sometimes take called Read More