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I simply can’t do better than this, so I won’t even try. Discussing Goldman Sachs’ inexplicable decision to send PR flacks into churches suggesting that Jesus Christ was actually promoting a Gospel of Greed, Gonzo Superstar Matt Taibbi uncorks the single best political rant I have ever seen on the intertubes.

Among the rhetorical molotov cocktails was this soon-to-be-classic riff:

Nothing else explains people like Alan Greenspan and Megan McArdle and all those other idiotic Ayn Rand devotees, big and small, who continually go out there in public and flog pseudo-religious beliefs about the self-correcting free-market as a cure-all for anything and everything, even as evidence to the contrary rains down from the sky like volcanic ash. These people actually believe this shit and they believe it with the imbecilic ferocity of teenagers, even the ones who are 190 years old like Greenspan (who incidentally finally conceded a “flaw” in his thinking, but only after the entire world exploded and even all the reality-proof friendly data sources he had relied upon for his whole life told him his ideas were fucked), and it’s nearly impossible to get them to let so much as a sliver of their belief systems go.

God bless you, Taibbi. My hat is OFF.