Favoriting The TARFU Report with Alex Pareene and Matt Taibbi: Playlist from September 14, 2017 Favoriting

A news and commentary program and podcast featuring renowned political writers and journalists Matt Taibbi and Alex Pareene. TARFU is a long-lost cousin to SNAFU and FUBAR, invented in the U.S. Army during World War II, standing for Totally And Royally F'ed Up. Pareene and Taibbi spend each episode tackling the TARFU news of the week.

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Favoriting September 14, 2017: Gallagher, Porno Cruz, Hillary & Political Books, Guess the Pundit and Political Cartoons

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Matt Taibbi and Alex Pareene  Intro to The TARFU Report   Favoriting 0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Matt and Alex  An e-mail from Gallagher!   Favoriting 0:01:39 (Pop-up)
Matt and Alex  Ted Cruz, Twitter Porno Favorista   Favoriting 0:05:51 (Pop-up)
Matt and Alex  ESPN's Jemele Hill Controversy   Favoriting 0:19:58 (Pop-up)
Matt and Alex  Hillary's Book and Political Books   Favoriting 0:33:50 (Pop-up)
Matt and Alex  Audio Political Cartoons   Favoriting 0:45:46 (Pop-up)
Matt and Alex  Guess the Pundit   Favoriting 0:49:17 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:01pm
BronwynB:

This is new and exciting and I for one am excited
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Cheri Pi:

Welcome
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Michael 98145:

Taibbi: the only reason we kept a Rolling Stone sub
  6:02pm
dan from Albany:

welcome to the WFMU family, Matt. Love your writing. Can we expect you next year singing at the Hoof N Mouth?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
dale:

pretty sure they prerecorded this hence the comment about the dying deejays.
  6:02pm
sugarwolf:

Hello and welcome!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
Michael 98145:

probably, @dale
Avatar 6:02pm
BronwynB:

@dan: Don't get my hopes up...I would literally die
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TehBadDr:

I do appreciate a change from the cult inspired musics. Unfortunately it's a talk show, I like zee muzics!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
melinda:

Greetings! I'm excited too.
Avatar 6:04pm
TehBadDr:

Chip Snuff was a former porn name I used.
  6:04pm
cat:

meowschlampen
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geezerette:

This is great! I used to read EXILE. Welcome,Matt and Alex!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
-Ken:

Hi all! Matt and Alex will start doing the show live in three weeks, with call-ins.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
melinda:

Until then, we have each other.
Avatar 6:06pm
steve:

i love Matt's work... sounds like a great addition to the station here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
ultradamno:

That is one long, circuitous blow-off letter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

What about Vital Social Issues N' Stuff with Kelly Bundy?
Avatar 6:09pm
TehBadDr:

Is that Taibbi that has the uhs, and Umms? I thought from his writing he would be more didactic.
  6:10pm
Gregory:

Hahahhaahhahahahah
  6:11pm
BriJet:

This is so cool! I'm really excited about this show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
ultradamno:

I think they have to be step-related in these things by law.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
dale:

gotta give it a chance. i liked the green room with dorian and daniel rushkoffs show, so this get's an open-minded whirl
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Fox (Rā-chul):

So.... maybe Cruz was watching porn with his wife?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
ultradamno:

...not to mention pursuit of happiness?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
dale:

excuse me for ten minutes - doctor's orders.
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geezerette:

!!! Why would Cruz even address that? Always a bad idea for public figures.
  6:16pm
totallybiased`husker2:

"Cruz fingers staff"
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geezerette:

HAHA!
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TehBadDr:

So what sort of pr0n does Ted like?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
ultradamno:

Crush fetish, would be my guess
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TehBadDr:

Maybe fem dom mommy stuff?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
-Ken:

Cruz is a furry. It's well known.
Avatar 6:22pm
TehBadDr:

@Ken, so what's his fursona?
  6:22pm
JakeGould:

I really hate punditryish shows—and podcasts—but compared to others of the ilk, this is decent.

Also, Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Rich in Washington:

Leave poor Ted Cruz alone!
So some people process their grief over 9/11 differently than you or I.
Who are we to judge?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
-Ken:

Cruz's fursona is Gizmo from that Gizmo movie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
ultradamno:

So the problem here is he got wet after midnight?
  6:24pm
JakeGould:

@-Ken: So he’s a splasher as well?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Fuzzy:

"White Supremacist" is a bit harsh. "Nazi" might be better. Or "Dickhead," maybe.
  6:25pm
Gregory:

Oh fmu . R I P William .
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geezerette:

Scarier crew than even Junior's.....or, maybe not...
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geezerette:

WHITE House.
  6:27pm
Walt:

Possibilities here. Don't turn into another failed AirAmerica product. You really need to open up the phone lines. It will turn into callers arguing both sides, and the ratings will soar.
  6:27pm
BriJet:

I can't stand Huckabee Sanders BLEH
  6:27pm
tina:

Democracy Chow
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geezerette:

BriJet, same.
  6:29pm
Elle Tor's Husband:

I hate to say it but Cruz's dad looks just like the guy with Oswald at the Trade Mart handing out fliers for FPFC. His dad was in the Cuban exile com and was in Dallas and moved to Canada after the assassination...just sayin.
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TehBadDr:

Punditry, some good punditry but still.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm
dale:

don't feed him after midnight - the LAST thing you should do.
  6:31pm
JakeGould:

Dennis Miller was kinda funny during his SNL years… Then other things happened…
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
ultradamno:

But Trump is an authoritarian and not traditionally republican, conservative and certainly not libertarian in any way.
  6:33pm
JakeGould:

@ultradamno: But he is propped up by the traditional Republican party. I mean if Trump were somehow a Democrat the Republicans would have swarmed to impeach him already.
  6:35pm
JakeGould:

Is Hillary’s book really worse than any of Trump’s books?
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geezerette:

@ultradamno: Yeah, Libertarion's think everyone should do what they want to, prez wants us all to do what HE wants us to do. There are names for that.
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geezerette:

t has more than one book?
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ultradamno:

@JakeGould Absoutely on all points. But they sort of ended up with him in a shotgun wedding...
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-Ken:

Get ready to play Guess The Pundit, all ye smartypanz
  6:36pm
Bill W:

I don't think anyone's making that comparison, Jake. (Not that I'm reading any of them.)
  6:37pm
JakeGould:

@BillW: There are tons of “Bernie Bros” who are criticizing Hillary having a book tour let alone a book.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
melinda:

That argument is a load of crap. It shows out how out touch she is, and yeah, partly generational.
  6:39pm
JakeGould:

And again, I don’t think any of Hillary’s disconnects from the populace are any worse than any other candidates. The fact that someone like Obama and Bill Clinton were in touch with the populace seems to be a aberration to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
melinda:

@Jake I agree, out-of-touchness seems to be the norm
  6:44pm
JakeGould:

I think you could win voters in many urban areas if you do something about dog shit on the streets. Have some plan that can effectively deal with dog shit on the streets and Mussolini could be elected.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:44pm
Fuzzy:

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: Norman Mailer
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Switchblade Batman:

Jesus Christ, fucking nutcase
  6:46pm
Elle Tor's Husband:

Mad Rat Disease...
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geezerette:

Sounds like Renfield.
(Dracula)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
melinda:

@Jake if I'm not mistaken that was one of Harvey Milk's campaign issues.
  6:46pm
JakeGould:

‘When G. Gordon Liddy was a puny lad in Hoboken, N.J., he roasted and ate a rat -- "to demonstrate to myself my lack of fear," the convicted Watergate burglar explained in his 1980 autobiography, "Will."’

pqasb.pqarchiver.com...
  6:47pm
JakeGould:

@-Ken: Next WFMU Marathon, you must eat a roasted rat to demonstrate your lack of fear.
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-Ken:

Seriously?! The Rat thing happened in Blowhoken??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
Rich in Washington:

@JakeGould: Yes! RAT! RAT! RAT!
(sorry Ken).
Avatar 6:49pm
steve:

there was a great quote from the old cartoon The Critic where main character Jay Sherman is running for office in NYC and says "we're gonna have better schools, safer streets, and significant decrease in that urine smell."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
ultradamno:

I'm wondering what the Ms. Pac Man variant would be.
  6:50pm
JakeGould:

“The section of Hoboken in which we lived had a large ethnic German and German national population. Families from all over Germany had been recruited by Nord Deutscher Lloyd and Hamburg Amerika to come to Hoboken to serve the swift German ocean liners Bremen and Europa that, together with numerous German freighters, docked on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, unlike the ships of Great Britain and France.”

hudsoncountyfacts.com...
  6:51pm
P-90:

The Nazis sided with Jersey. Figures.
  6:51pm
JakeGould:

Google book scan of the section. It sounds INSANE!! books.google.com...
  6:53pm
JakeGould:

“I smiled as a thought occurred to me: from now on rats could fear me as they feared cats; after all, I ate them too.”
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
-Ken:

The Germans in Hoboken owned all the mansions up on the hill, the mansions that are all now Steven Tech fraternity houses.
  6:56pm
JakeGould:

Honestly, this rat talk really makes me wish William Berger were still around… I would love to share this with him… R.I.P.
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steve:

great political talk here
  6:58pm
P-90:

Stevens Tech has frat houses in mansions in Hoboken? I have that odd mixture of fascination and horror at the thought. I want to turn away from what I'm imagining, but I can't.
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geezerette:

Phillip Roth's "The Plot Against America" deals with the German American Bund also.
  7:00pm
P-90:

Well, TARFU report is intriguing, Im looking forward to hearing where this goes.
  9:16pm
Bill W:

@JakeGould
Oh yeah, I'm all for shooting the entire Clinton clan into space...
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