Take-down artist Matt Taibbi's new obsession with naked short-
selling hasn't gone over as well with business bloggers as his
earlier Goldman Sachs hatchet job. When Taibbi posted a supposed
video of a naked shorting transaction on his blog Monday
morning, The Business Insider's John Carney jumped Taibbi,
saying he'd been hoodwinked.    • Taibbi, Oct. 5, 11:02 a.m.:
Check Out This Swindle  Taibbi posts a video of an actual naked
short-selling transaction taking place through a clearing firm
called Penson Financial Services. "This video is an example of a
cut corner," he writes, offering "[a] second-by-second
explanation" of what he calls "one of the tools" in Wall
Street's "great big toolbox of manipulative techniques."   •
Carney, Oct. 5, 4:30 p.m.: Taibbi's a Nut  "Matt Taibbi's
journey down the rabbit hole of naked short selling," begins
John Carney," is getting weirder and weirder." Saying "there's
no way this trade is real," he proceeds to offer five reasons
why the video can't be legit, and a sixth point