{"id":184856,"date":"2012-01-03T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/03\/damn-this-makes-matt-taibbi-look-like-thomas-kinkade\/"},"modified":"2012-01-03T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T00:48:00","slug":"damn-this-makes-matt-taibbi-look-like-thomas-kinkade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/03\/damn-this-makes-matt-taibbi-look-like-thomas-kinkade\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn!  This Makes Matt Taibbi Look Like Thomas Kinkade!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ames has just posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/exiledonline.com\/failing-up-with-joshua-foust-meet-the-evil-genius-massacre-denier-who-shills-for-war-profiteers\/\">epic take-down of bought and paid for pimp for mass murderers Joshua Foust<\/a>, and by extension, his employer, <i>Atlantic Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Last week, some troll named Joshua Foust attacked <a href=\"http:\/\/exiledonline.com\/the-massacre-everyone-ignored-70-striking-oil-workers-killed-in-kazakhstan-by-us-supported-dictator\/\">my article<\/a>  about the massacre in Kazakhstan on December 16. I really had no idea  who Foust was until I started getting emails from readers telling me  \u201csome guy with a goatee is having a meltdown on Twitter.\u201d What upset  Foust so much about my article was that I dared to report a death toll  number, \u201cup to 70,\u201d that differed from the official figure of 15 that  the regime in Kazakhstan wanted the outside world to believe. Why did  Foust take on the role of massacre-denier for Kazakhstan\u2019s notoriously  brutal, corrupt regime?<\/p>\n<p>Foust, it turns out, has spent much of the past decade getting paid  by defense contractors to front for them as one of their paid PR  monkeys. One example: Last year, Foust published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/campaign_desk\/whats_secret_in_top_secret_ame.php?page=all\">hit piece<\/a> in the <i>Columbia Journalism Review<\/i> attacking an award-winning&nbsp;<i>Washington Post<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/top-secret-america\/\">investigative series<\/a>  about the vast hidden defense contractor industry, without disclosing  the fact that Foust was an employee of Northrop Grumman\u2013one of the  largest defense contractors in America.<\/p>\n<p>Foust\u2019s job is the opposite of journalism\u2014he gets paid by war-profiteers to lie to the public, to cover for them while they soak the public for government contracts. That\u2019s what Joshua Foust does for a living; and besides carrying the water for defense contractors as a \u201cstrategic communications\u201d flak, Foust has spent the past few years talking up Kazakhstan\u2019s despot-for-life, Nursultan Nazarbayev\u2014and talking down the appalling human rights records both in Kazakhstan and in Uzbekistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is <b>truly<\/b> epic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s harsh, but perfectly justified, and it&#8217;s really a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>I love savage writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ames has just posted an epic take-down of bought and paid for pimp for mass murderers Joshua Foust, and by extension, his employer, Atlantic Magazine. Here is a sample: Last week, some troll named Joshua Foust attacked my article about the massacre in Kazakhstan on December 16. I really had no idea who Foust &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184856"}],"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=184856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}