{"id":178240,"date":"2019-01-30T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/30\/taibbi-reads-the-coffee-mans-book-so-i-dont-have-to\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T01:11:00","slug":"taibbi-reads-the-coffee-mans-book-so-i-dont-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/30\/taibbi-reads-the-coffee-mans-book-so-i-dont-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Taibbi Reads the Coffee Man’s Book, So I Don’t Have To"},"content":{"rendered":"
Matt Taibbi’s review of Howard Schultz’s autobiography From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America<\/i>, and it’s up there with his epic take-downs of Tom Friedman’s drivel<\/a>: <\/div>\n

Scientists may someday find the edge of the universe<\/a>, but there is no end to the delusional self-regard of America\u2019s one-percenters, as former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz proved this week. <\/p>\n

Sunday night on 60 Minutes, Schultz announced he was considering a run for president as an independent. The Twitter reaction was like something out of 28 Days Later: mobs of Trump-exhausted Americans sprinting<\/a> to bite<\/a> his<\/a> face<\/a> off<\/a>. At a bookstore appearance for his new memoir, a heckler shouted<\/a> \u201cGo back to Davos!\u201d <\/p>\n

Why the severe reaction? Schultz openly declared his decision to run as an Independent was based on the idea that he\u2019d have to \u201clean left\u201d to win the Democratic nomination. This is rich-speak for \u201cI obviously couldn\u2019t win the nomination if I had to compete honestly.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Schultz timed his announcement to coincide with his ghostwriter Joanne Gordon\u2019s new work, the aforementioned memoir entitled, From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America<\/i>, released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

From the Ground Up belongs to the F%$# You: How I Became a Billionaire and You Didn\u2019t<\/i> genre that has an oddly persistent market in America.<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s also designed to double as an extended stump speech, it\u2019s a particularly difficult read \u2014 the boring and insincere autobiography of a pretentious oligarch who probably hasn\u2019t been told to his face he\u2019s full of shit since the first Bush administration.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He finishes by asking, “Is anything in the world more dangerous than a bored billionaire?<\/i>“<\/p>\n

This is Taibbi at the top of his form, and you should read the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Taibbi’s review of Howard Schultz’s autobiography From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America, and it’s up there with his epic take-downs of Tom Friedman’s drivel: Scientists may someday find the edge of the universe, but there is no end to the delusional self-regard of America\u2019s one-percenters, as former Starbucks …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,374,405,496],"class_list":["post-178240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}