Matt Taibbi

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Yeah, bullshit

Karl Malone, Friday, 14 July 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link

my esteem for alex pareene has diminished quite a bit tbh

global tetrahedron, Friday, 14 July 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link

most ppl have been, are, or will be creepy

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link

now you can put a Rolling Stones album on

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link

i don't think most people have been creepy with such malice and glee and been arrogant and stupid enough to write about it in a public fashion and not regard or address it in any way

global tetrahedron, Friday, 14 July 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link

a piker next to Klaus Kinski

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 July 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link

even if they doth protest too much it's interesting to consider the 'nothing to see here re russia murdoch / limbaugh / bannon' POV about putin's best fiend

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:04 (seven years ago) link

This has a lot of interesting details and info, along with a nice summary of the Magnitsky affair: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-russia-russiagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290

DJI, Friday, 14 July 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link

most ppl have been, are, or will be creepy

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 14, 2017 2:39 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks i can now listen to pieces of shit without guilt or regret

ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link

It's also not true. Most people do not coerce people into sex by threatening to fire them.

Treeship, Friday, 14 July 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link

I like some of Taibbi's writing and don't want to be an agent of "moral panic" or whatever, but come on. This kind of behavior cannot be considered acceptable.

Treeship, Friday, 14 July 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-russia-russiagate-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-w492290

This is very good. I'd somehow managed to neglect the fact that Akhmetshin works for the same company that organised the Steele dossier.

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 14 July 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link

a piker next to Klaus Kinski

Good thing Kinski wasn't a pretty major political commentator for the left, then?

El Tuomasbot (milo z), Friday, 14 July 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link

i made a vow last week not to get into dumb arguments on the internetz

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 July 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link

It's also not true. Most people do not coerce people into sex by threatening to fire them.

― Treeship, Friday, July 14, 2017 4:19 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

source?

sleepingbag, Saturday, 15 July 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link

From the podcast's descr on Patreon:

The TARFU Report runs weekly and includes celebrity guests from the world of politics, journalism, comedy, and more. One show a week is completely free, and patrons have access to a complete, 30-60 minute additional show each week. Subscribers will also have access to all archive content--all for just $5 a month, which is less than it costs to take your working-class friend to lunch at a fine Italian delicatessen.

Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:18 (seven years ago) link

Everyone who posted to ILX in the Bush era is now one degree of separation from Matt Taibbi's weird mouth/jawline.

El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link

Hey I thought we agreed to no more chinshaming on this board

Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Saturday, 15 July 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link

It's more that his mouth never seems to open completely. TBH, Matt Taibbi looks like what I thought Bill Simmons looked like before I ever saw Simmons.

El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 15 July 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link

there is already a post-pilot episode up, on RussiaRussiaRussia

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 July 2017 14:09 (seven years ago) link

and a new one now w/ Charles Pierce

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link

whoa

reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link

Last week's was terrible. Pareene (whose voice I've never heard) and Taibbi sounded like college kids.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link

this is a little better, less stammery, and charlie pierce is on point, but at the moment you have to sign up for patreon to hear it

reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link

There's gotta be someone with interesting opinions who wasn't a chronic sexual assaulter

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link

me, but i have a job already

nice cage (m bison), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link

Alfred, they could have you on if they wanted someone who sounds like George Sanders

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link

only if I get to wave a cigarette holder while talking

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-what-does-russiagate-look-like-to-russians-w493462

After Boris Yeltsin won re-election in 1996, Time magazine ran a gloating cover story – YANKS TO THE RESCUE! – about three American advisers sent to help the pickling autocrat Yeltsin devise campaign strategy. Picture Putin sending envoys to work out of the White House to help coordinate Trump's re-election campaign, and you can imagine how this played in Russia.

DJI, Friday, 21 July 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link

about half of russian voters were okay with it?

he tasted like mouth (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 July 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link

heh

Οὖτις, Friday, 21 July 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link

the thing that drives me nuts about the "russia interfered in the election" or "Trump has russia ties" or "Trump is in debt to russians" is the conflation of all russian interest

I mean, my image of it is that there's an oligarchy of billionaires who benefited from the post-Soviet kleptocracy in Russia who do hold some political power.

It's completely possible state-sponsored actors interfered in the US election (they were working for someone). It's true that Trump has a lot of loans and investment from Russian banks and billionaires. It's true that his son and advisers met with several Russians who were marketed (by a weird agent for celebs) as having Russian government ties and possible dirt that could be used in the campaign.

But there's no grand unified Russian theory here.

mh, Friday, 21 July 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link

that Taibbi Yeltsin bit is some lazy tu quoque shit. yep, pretty much the same thing as happened in the 2016 election.

by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 21 July 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link

I'm starting to wonder if I should cultivate some russian investor friends to buy some property! Sounds lucrative.

mh, Friday, 21 July 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

TARFU Report is a bit insufferable, although the addition of David Rees (sadly, a guest, not a new host) made it a million times better. That guy is the best.

DJI, Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link

more sufferable than mssg boards

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 August 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, as a podcast it's a bit of a tough slough

President Keyes, Friday, 11 August 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link

I enjoyed them having David Rees on there

Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link

Yeah Rees was great especially during the Brooks segment.

The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 21 August 2017 10:25 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

TARFU pod now on WFMU radio. Live beginning in 3 weeks, w/ phone calls.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TV

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link

a little surprised alex didn't know about GGL eating rat haunches tbqh

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

His latest: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-madness-of-donald-trump-removal-25th-amendment-w504149

All of the remove-Trump options seem pretty far-fetched. I guess if Mueller uncovers something truly explosive, maybe impeachment could be possible. 25th amendment stuff seems like a total pipe dream.

DJI, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link

bad diet could do the trick

then we get Mike & Mother

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link

coronary heart disease

-_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 September 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link

Does kim jong un have a missile that can reach Alabama?

A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link

As delicious as it was to watch the mainstream Republican Party crushed under the weight of its own internal contradictions during the 2016 campaign season, a new horror show could be even better

http://i64.tinypic.com/nl4kyr.jpg

sleepingbag, Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link

there it is

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 September 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link


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