Was on another well known liberal message board (not going to mention the name) and Taibbi was getting trashed by posters there.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 14, 2023 3:15 AM |
Oh, fuck you, asshole OP.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 2, 2023 7:06 PM |
Because he worked with and was paid by Elon Musk to push a false and unfounded narrative about Twitter bias against conservatives? When actually the opposite was found to be true?
He didn't report those findings - only what Elon wanted him to.
He completely ruined his entire career and reputation by sucking up to that monster. Just like everyone else who has sold their soul for conservatives' money.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 2, 2023 7:08 PM |
This OP troll:
Should DL start using AI moderators? The Yahoo Finance message boards were recently revamped. Now when you type a post an algo parses the post and auto-rejects if it feels offensive. For example I was typing a post that referenced the tooth fairy and a generic warning came up presumably because fairy is offensive to LGBTQ+ and the word is blocked by the algo. It refused to allow me to complete the post. And if you keep trying to make a post that has been blocked already you get put on a time out for a couple days.
Should Muriel implement an AI system like this?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 2, 2023 7:08 PM |
He was one of the investigative reporters who had material from the Twitter files hand over to him.
DL had a massive thread on it:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 2, 2023 7:10 PM |
OP in the *Why so many conservative right wing gays now ?* thread:
[quote]Gay males became suspect to many on the Left because they have jobs and money and don't demand all kinds of free things from the government. Also they became perceived as boring compared to the Trans. This drove some gays away from the D party.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 2, 2023 7:11 PM |
Taibbi has deep ties to Russia and is clearly on Putin's payroll. Musk has deep ties to Russia and clearly took $billions of Putin's money to buy Twitter. The link is demonstrable and it is not hard to understand why liberals dismissed Taibbi (and Musk in the same vein).
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 2, 2023 7:13 PM |
He opted to become a mildly less obnoxious version of Glenn Greenwald and/or Tulsi Gabbard.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 2, 2023 7:25 PM |
He’s been an amoral asshole for a loooong time.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 2, 2023 7:39 PM |
R6 Posting from the 1950s.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 2, 2023 7:50 PM |
OP gurl, you could have just not mentioned the name of the other "liberal message board" instead of telling us you weren't going to mention the name.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 2, 2023 8:06 PM |
It would be exceptional if there were a "liberal message board" that wasn't trashing Taibbi. The audience for these people is all on the right now. That's what happens when playing footsie with Russia/Putin is more important to you than anything else.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 2, 2023 8:15 PM |
I'm all for exposing biases, but when you're shown that it was the Trump admin alone who actually attempted to censor people and you ignore that in your "twitter files," then no person with a modicum of decency buys that you're actually about exposing the truth. Musk and Taibbi are hypocritical trash with a garbage agenda
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 2, 2023 8:20 PM |
Matt Taibbi is to journalism what J. Turley is to constitutional law. And it's not good.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 2, 2023 8:22 PM |
Is someone out there NOT trashing Taibbi?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 2, 2023 8:40 PM |
R14 Most people. He very widely admired in the general public. He has pretty high name recognition for an independent journalist.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 2, 2023 8:42 PM |
No, R16. R15 is just a run of the mill magat.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 2, 2023 9:08 PM |
r15 in the *The FBI: The sad last days?* thread:
[quote]The agency has had scandal after scandal for the past couple of years, almost to the point of absurdity. I'm starting to wonder if they're going to make it out of the Biden administration intact.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 2, 2023 11:20 PM |
It’s really too bad about Taibbi because he wrote one of the best exposes on Goldman Sachs.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 3, 2023 1:13 AM |
He's very hot. Part Asian isn't he?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 3, 2023 6:24 AM |
This was posted on another thread. Taibbi gets skewered and it’s fucking great.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 8, 2023 11:03 PM |
Gosh. Taibbi comes across like a moron in the vid at R21.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 8, 2023 11:51 PM |
Because he turned on “liberals.”
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 8, 2023 11:58 PM |
He comes across like an old opioid addict whose relapsed and thinks he's hiding it.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 8, 2023 11:59 PM |
There are severe penalties for the slightest deviation from the 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑡ℎ of the hive mind
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 9, 2023 12:08 AM |
[r21] That was fantastic, thanks.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 9, 2023 12:15 AM |
Taibbi said last week that the IRS came to his home. Right wing media went crazy about Biden "weaponizing" the IRS.
has anyone verified if indeed a visit was made? Or it it more Taibbi bullshit?
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 9, 2023 12:28 AM |
[quote] has anyone verified if indeed a visit was made?
WASHINGTON — The White House declined to comment Wednesday on an IRS agent’s visit to journalist Matt Taibbi’s home on the same day that he testified to a House subcommittee investigating the “weaponization” of government.
The surprise March 9 door-knock came as the “Twitter Files” collaborator described his reporting on how the government pressured social media platforms to censor online speech.
The Post asked at the first White House press briefing since the news of the visit broke Monday about whether the visit was “part of a campaign to harass or intimidate [Taibbi] related to his journalism.”
White House spokesman John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, declined to provide a substantive reply.
“I’m afraid I’m going to have to refer you to the IRS,” he said succinctly.
𝑰𝑹𝑺 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 questions on the roust. If Tabbi made it up they would have very loudly and publicly denied it already making Tabbi look bad.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 9, 2023 12:40 AM |
R27, it seems incredibly bogus, as do so many things about Taibbi.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 9, 2023 12:59 AM |
[quote]Taibbi said last week that the IRS came to his home. Right wing media went crazy about Biden "weaponizing" the IRS. has anyone verified if indeed a visit was made? Or it it more Taibbi bullshit?
They had called before hand, by a couple weeks - perhaps to schedule the visit.
Ends up it was about some concern about Identity Theft. The IRS had concerns about some of Taibbi's previous tax paperwork which looked like he MIGHT be a VICTIM of ID theft. Taiibbi confirms this.
The coincidence/timing of their visit did look sketchy, tho.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 9, 2023 1:06 AM |
Once again, the MAGAts project. You know who actually weaponized the IRS to go along with abuse of power of every other agency? Ask Comey and McCabe .
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 9, 2023 1:08 AM |
He made trips to Russia. No doubt Vlad has some Kompromat on him--I'm thinking underage girls.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 9, 2023 1:10 AM |
R31, but if they had called ahead to schedule the visit, Taibbi knew weeks ahead of time when they were coming. He had agreed to that date. He could have asked them to come another day. It’s all manufactured drama on his part.
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 9, 2023 1:24 AM |
[quote]He made trips to Russia. No doubt Vlad has some Kompromat on him--I'm thinking underage girls.
More than "made trips," R33. He LIVED and WORKED in RUSSIA for more than 6 years. And the sex Kompromat might just be a valid concern based on what he and his friends wrote about in Russia.
[quote]Taibbi first moved to Russia in 1992. He lived and worked in Russia and the former USSR for more than six years. In 1997, he left the tabloid Living Here and joined Mark Ames to co-edit the English-language Moscow-based, bi-weekly free newspaper, The eXile, which was written primarily for the city's expatriate community. The eXile's tone and content were highly controversial. For example, [bold]a regular column reported on a member of staff at The eXile hiring a Russian prostitute and then writing a long "review" of the woman and the details of the sexual encounter.[/bold] Its content was considered either brutally honest and gleefully tasteless or juvenile, misogynistic, and even cruel. In the US media during this time, Playboy magazine published pieces on Russia by Taibbi or by Taibbi and Ames. Taibbi's first book, The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, co-authored with Ames, was published in 2000.
[quote]Taibbi wrote in English and Russian, Apart from The eXile, Taibbi was also employed by the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times, where he worked as a sports editor for five months. He also contributed to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Trud, Stringer, and Kommersant
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 9, 2023 2:09 AM |
Taibbi is one of those strange cases where a one hit wonder hack writer gets a plum story, and suddenly leagues of people fancy him a genius, or a superior intellect. Many progressives knew he was never all that, and had questioned some of his leanings over the years. He's another Glengarry Glen Greenwald is what he is. Simply put, anyone Musk were to "hand pick" is suspect in my mind, not unlike Trump.Taibbi's in good stead alongside Bari Weiss, and Greenwald.
I've always found his smug entitled demeanour to be typical of so many frat bro types; he seems to lack an overall sense of professionalism, and he never was any good at debate. He's a sad stereotype of an ageing, yet still raging pothead. Medhi Hasan sure handed him his arse on a silver platter! I don't think Taibbi had any real clue who Hasan actually is.
Begging an invite to appear on Hasan's show to discuss Musk's censorship, and collusion with PM Modi, as regards Indian journalists and politicians on Twitter, then pretending to be completely ignorant of the controversy boggles the mind! I believe he was stoned.
I've posted here a few years back about what a creep he is on a personal level. A professor I was friendly with ages ago dated Taibbi long before he met his wife. She said he was insanely jealous, controlling, and narcissistic. Before they permanently parted ways, and were on a break, he placed a GPS tracking device on her car! He was stalking and gaslighting her for months after she split.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 9, 2023 3:02 AM |
I don't believe that his story is real.
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 9, 2023 3:42 AM |
Looks like OP isn't the only one asking this:
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 9, 2023 8:28 PM |
[quote] Taibbi is one of those strange cases where a one hit wonder hack writer gets a plum story
Taibbi’s father was reporter for CBS and NBC news. He was with NBC for decades. That’s why it’s funny that he’s slagging MSNBC, whose parent company basically paid for everything Taibbi had since birth. Taibbi didn’t work his way up. He was born at the top of the NY news media heap. Kind of like a certain real estate developer who denies he had it easy from the get go. Nepo baby.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 10, 2023 1:06 AM |
R39, it's almost as laughable as Tucker telling his white trash audience about the "elites," to go along with what he really thinks of Trump when speaking in private.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 10, 2023 1:58 AM |
The whole "IRS agents knocked on my door!" bullshit is so easily dismissed: Taibbi knew he was scheduled to testify to Congress on that day, and purposefully scheduled the friendly visit to make it look like the IRS was targeting him for his "exposé" and testimony. Thankfully, the only people falling for it are the mental midgets now running the House.
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 10, 2023 5:12 PM |
Wow, OP/R38 must have been a very lazy troll. He didn't even bother to reply to himself using a sock and now both posts have the same troll number. Shoddy!
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 10, 2023 5:28 PM |
Matt Taibbi has now moved to Trump's Truth Social platform.
I've been laughing at people who still consider him to have journalistic standards and integrity. His downright embarrassment of an interview with Mehdi Hasan solidified the fact that he is a tool. This move aligning himself with Trump's propaganda social network only reconfirms that fact.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 14, 2023 2:45 AM |
Looks like Matt-fatso’s ip at OP got red tagged. Now she’s got to get her vpn to generate another one. Boo hoo, poor pullet face!
| by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 14, 2023 2:50 AM |
The whole Twitter files things turned out to be such an embarrassment—close to Geraldo Rivera’s Al Capone safe debacle.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 14, 2023 2:56 AM |
At least Geraldo found an empty wine bottle in the safe. But then he also lost whatever shred of cred he had left by joining Fox News.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 14, 2023 3:15 AM |
