Matt Taibbi

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Anyway here’s the guy’s twitter so we can follow along as he hopefully survives to get his day in court

https://twitter.com/bilalkareem

El Tomboto, Sunday, 22 July 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link

five months pass...

Taibbi doing some good reporting here: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/secret-government-spending-779959/

DJI, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:39 (five years ago) link

This new rule is not confined to a few spy agencies. It appears to allow a stunningly long list of federal agencies to make use of new authority to “modify” public financial statements.

that is truly sickening

Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link

it is sickening - a lot of the details are in this, from the Nation in November:
https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-audit-budget

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

For those anxious to keep the dream alive, the Times published its usual graphic of Trump-Russia “contacts,” inviting readers to keep making connections. But in a separate piece by Peter Baker, the paper noted the Mueller news had dire consequences for the press:

It will be a reckoning for President Trump, to be sure, but also for Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, for Congress, for Democrats, for Republicans, for the news media and, yes, for the system as a whole…

This is a damning page one admission by the Times. Despite the connect-the-dots graphic in its other story, and despite the astonishing, emotion-laden editorial the paper also ran suggesting “We don’t need to read the Mueller report” because we know Trump is guilty, Baker at least began the work of preparing Times readers for a hard question: “Have journalists connected too many dots that do not really add up?”

The paper was signaling it understood there would now be questions about whether or not news outlets like itself made galactic errors by betting heavily on a new, politicized approach, trying to be true to “history’s judgment” on top of the hard-enough job of just being true. Worse, in a brutal irony everyone should have seen coming, the press has now handed Trump the mother of campaign issues heading into 2020.

Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this story) is now larger than his original base. As Baker notes, a full 50.3% of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a “witch hunt.”

https://taibbi.substack.com/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link

You buried the lede:

“WMD was a pimple compared to Russiagate. “

I look forward to Maddow being brought before The Hague.

JFC

by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link

He’s saying only in terms of media credulity, not in terms of consequences

Trϵϵship, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link

It pains me but i think i agree with taibbi

Trϵϵship, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link

Setting aside that this screed pivots off a 3 1/2 page partisan brief, I’m still going to hard disagree.

And “consequences aside” is an absurd position.

by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link

screed came out prior to Barr's letter. Taibbi just added a line about it.

We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link

i feel like at the very least, the moscow tower stuff plus trump's obvious obstruction was *something*

the espionage stuff was a stretch, always

Trϵϵship, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link

Dear god, it seems as if he blames the media for losing the faith of the FOX NEWS audience, and blames NYT instead of FOX.

Frederik B, Monday, 25 March 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link

Taibbi is so pathetic: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/31/18286902/trump-mueller-report-russia-matt-taibbi

Frederik B, Monday, 1 April 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link

Seems pretty straightforward to me. Taibbi's been warning about over-playing the Russia stuff for a while, now. Not sure how this gets twisted up into "pathetic" in your mind.

DJI, Monday, 1 April 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link

In which @mtaibbi, they guy telling everyone who'll listen that journalists fucked up in reporting the Russian story, admits he still doesn't know whether Russia did the hack. https://t.co/W7RSZGzYDv pic.twitter.com/ixENHr8isK

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 1, 2019

Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link

Those two concepts are not contradictory at all. Journalists fucked up by reporting shit which they didn't know to be true. Is Marcy trying to say that if it turns out the collusion allegations WERE true that the journalists would have all been vindicated? This is where Taibbi has been continuously consistent, imo.

DJI, Monday, 1 April 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link

The areas where Mueller said the allegations were true, Taibbi still isn't acknowledging it at all. Meaning it basically doesn't matter what Mueller says.

Frederik B, Monday, 1 April 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link

It is bad when people blatantly disregard fact in favour of their own stubborn views.

gyac, Monday, 1 April 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link

But also, this is just nonsense:
During the Iraq War period, what we really saw was virtually the entire press jump on board together to get behind this war effort. What we saw this time around, however, was a total cleaving of the media landscape, where half the media completely denied the Russia story, and the other half completely jumped into it with both feet. And on that half, in the blue state, northeast corridor, no dissent was allowed.

So now, because so much of this story turned out to be false, after thousands and thousands of stories both on TV and in the print media, it’s convinced everybody that the press is basically political. And look, that was already true of Fox News and The Daily Caller, and all those right-wing outlets, but now it’s happened 100 percent on the left. And we’ve completely lost the trust of a huge chunk of the nation.

Is the cost of that higher than the Iraq War? Certainly not in terms of the loss of life — that’s obvious. But in purely journalistic terms, this is an epic disaster.

It's also a fine example of what that lawyergun guy always talks about, that it can always only be liberals who are at fault. The problem is the press was divided, but Taibbi isn't yelling at guys like Hannity who said Seth Rich was behind it?

Frederik B, Monday, 1 April 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link

Everyone knows Hannity is scum.

Simon H., Monday, 1 April 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link

Those two concepts are not contradictory at all. Journalists fucked up by reporting shit which they didn't know to be true. Is Marcy trying to say that if it turns out the collusion allegations WERE true that the journalists would have all been vindicated? This is where Taibbi has been continuously consistent, imo.

― DJI, Monday, April 1, 2019 3:12 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what marcy is saying is that taibbi doesn't have as complete a command of the facts regarding the various russia investigations that he thinks he does. there are several examples in that thread of generalizations and assertions that taibbi makes that are either misleading or flat-out wrong.

Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link

another two concepts that are not contradictory: 1) taibbi is right that cable news/etc. were wrong to focus so much attention on trump/russia conspiracies, 2) it was nowhere near as total and consequential a failure as taibbi makes it out to be, as there was plenty worth reporting on in the russia investigations

Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link

that interview was pretty embarrassing to read, particularly taibbi's "well, speaking as someone WHO LIVED IN RUSSIA" routine.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 April 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link

also enjoyed "if you’re putting a gun to my head and asking me two years later to offer an opinion on something I’ve gone out of my way to not talk about."

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 1 April 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link

It's also a fine example of what that lawyergun guy always talks about, that it can always only be liberals who are at fault. The problem is the press was divided, but Taibbi isn't yelling at guys like Hannity who said Seth Rich was behind it?

What Simon said, but said another way (which I think is what Taibbi is trying to say) is just shouldn't we hold ourselves to a higher standard?

I mean, maybe not? I don't know that holding ourselves to a higher standard gets (or has gotten) us anything other than a higher level of self-regard, but I don't really want the entire press turning into a series of reddit threads where the only commonality between the different teams is that they are both sloppy and partisan.

DJI, Monday, 1 April 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link

I see you guys fed the Danish Troll after all

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 April 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link

what marcy is saying is that taibbi doesn't have as complete a command of the facts regarding the various russia investigations that he thinks he does.

i get the strong sense taibbi is just kind of indifferent to the facts. dunking on those he deems to be "russiagate obsessives" is his priority, and actually understanding the facts of the situation is simply not.

it's an incredible dereliction of his duty to his readers tbh (i can hear certain posters scoffing as i write that, but oh well).

i've spoken to people like this IRL, who are in a ultra-left-wing milieu and parrot the whole "nothingburger" line, but when pressed i realize they have no sense of the scope or import of the "russia stuff" and how it points to a whole network of kleptomaniac, authoritarian forces that seek to do violence of democracy. i forgive your average union organizer this sort of laziness, b/c they've got other stuff to do, but taibbi is a political journalist -- that's his trade.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 05:19 (five years ago) link

you got the Mueller Report, GG?

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 05:55 (five years ago) link

Taibbi’s position is not substantially different from that of Leonid Ragozin, Masha Gessen, Alex Kovalev, Oleg Kashin, etc, etc - and idk if anyone is in a position to accuse them of being indifferent to kleptocracy, authoritarianism or propaganda. His line is that bad reporting emboldens authoritarians.

ShariVari, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:06 (five years ago) link

gummy and nerdy p
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1b54868e647890074122d58ebb82fbcd

velko, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:17 (five years ago) link

you got the Mueller Report, GG?

i will be polite and ask why you are asking this question of me.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:52 (five years ago) link

(that is, since you know the answer, i wonder what you are driving at in asking the question)

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:55 (five years ago) link

kleptomaniac, authoritarian forces that seek to do violence of democracy.

Yes, they're called the Republican Party.

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 07:59 (five years ago) link

they're called capitalism

mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link

They’re called your mom

A funny tinge happened on the way to the forum (wins), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 09:29 (five years ago) link

sorry everyone for the violence my mom has inflicted on democracy

mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 09:35 (five years ago) link

as I know who you are now, GG, we shan't be interacting again

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link

damn what did gleen greenwald do now

mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link

Went on Maddow.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link

sorry everyone for the violence my mom has inflicted on democracy

― mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:35 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

long overdue.

affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link

sorry everyone for the violence my mom has inflicted on democracy

― mr greta t. gremlin (bizarro gazzara)

you're not responsible for the sins of your parents, it's ok

Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link

three months pass...

The top Democrats’ best arguments for office are that they are not each other. Harris is rising in part because she’s not Biden; Warren, because she isn’t Bernie. Bernie’s best argument is the disfavor of the hated Democratic establishment. The Democratic establishment chose Biden because he was the Plan B last time and the party apparently hasn’t come up with anything better since. Nothing says ‘we’re out of ideas’ quite like pulling a pushing-eighty ex-vice president off the bench to lead the most important race in the party’s history.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iowa-2020-election-democrats-taibbi-858522/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link

That article is literally unreadable. I cannot read it on my iPhone because the site crashes after a few seconds.

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link

That article is literally unreadable. I cannot read it on my iPhone because the site crashes after a few seconds.


Reader view worked fine for me.

beard papa, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link

That did the trick. Thanks.

Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link

four weeks pass...

New podcast: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-useful-idiots-podcast-873547/

DJI, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link

Too bad he has a voice made for print.

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link

They paired him with a comedian, apparently. I will report back!

DJI, Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:06 (five years ago) link

should've revived the one with Alex P

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link

That shit was straight Morbs catnip!

DJI, Thursday, 29 August 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link


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