Matt Taibbi: WTF Happened To This Guy?

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[whydoineedahandle]

There’s so much money on the right, they buy these grifters off whenever possible

[ianm]

His early screeds about Trumpism would always circle back around to ‘they’re too dumb to know better, it’s really the Democrats and wider Left at fault - look what you made them do’.

[kathleencarney]

Naomi Wolfe screwed up a fact in a book she wrote, she was called on it publicly. Now she's on The War Room all the time where no one fact checks anything.

[NothingIsKnown]

There is a gravity hole of some kind on the right wing. It’s money, ego, anger, hate. Take a guess.

[scrivener]

This is the flip side of the "Don't kill the messenger" coin. We need to stop making heroes of people because we agree with them. Either their factual claims are correct, or they aren't. Either their arguments make sense, or they don't. Give credit (in the sense of accurately noting who said or did what) where it's due, but the messengers themselves DO NOT MATTER when it comes to the actual substance.

And when we disagree with them, well... either OUR factual claims and arguments are solid, or they aren't. We need to hold ourselves to the highest standards.

[forcefuihands]

One of my favorite quotes actually comes from Matt Taibbi when he was talking about the Tea Party and he said something like “like dogs, they only understand tone of voice and emotional attitude.” So much for that I guess.

[rudebuddha]

Matt was so on the money (no pun intended) during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. He had the scoops during that crazy and confusing period. I don't get it.

[tyrantla]

I get hating the DNC and dems but any kind of advocation for Trump is nuts. Clear sign of griftification.

[Idontknowwhatswaitingforme]

It’s actually heartbreaking because, as a young man, reading his writing on Goldman Sachs was formative

[jpatrickc]

“Grow up, it’s not about you. Not when you do this type of stuff”. Well said.

[joemagarac]

He was always sus. It’s there in his early books if you’re paying attention.

[tatata]

His spat with Musk when he was screwed by that nutcase was hilarious. At one point you could almost hear him crying.

[alviverdeus]

Kompromat. Taibbi lived in Moscow and admitted previously that he was a sexual predator at the time. Then Me Too happened and he tried to play it off as a joke, but nobody was laughing.

[harvster]

Same thing that happened to TYT:getting obsessed with being canceled/being anti-woke can easily lead to being reactionary

[humanbeing]

I ran into Matt Taibbi at the 50th St subway station in NYC just before he did his heel turn. I got a selfie with him and sent it to friends. Now I'm embarrassed to have done that.

[MJH-krzg]

Glenn Greenwald always had right wing libertarian inclinations and his criticisms of foreign intervention and mass surveillance are in line with those views. During the W Bush administration you couldn’t get on right wing platforms with that message so he embraced the left.

Now that there are right wing platforms that allow him to do that he doesn’t have to embrace the left or liberals. I don’t think Greenwald changed, he just went ‘home’ so to speak.

[greggibbs]

There's a bunch of libertarian, post-leftist types among podcasters - Greenwald, Taibbi, Dore, etc.

[nancyp.]

I used to follow Taibbi on Twitter years ago. He was reasonable at that time. However, he slowly changed his positions as trolls on the site made specific points to which he started to agree. I always wondered if the trolls were an influence operation.

[kamalasheiress]

You mean the Insane Clown Posse guy without any makeup on? That guy?

[oneki]

the left made me racist or the left made me misogynist excuse is such a weird thing.