Posted on 05/29/2023 9:38:18 AM PDT by Kazan
[FROM LARRY JOHNSON — I am posting this for a friend, David L. He prefers to keep his identity a secret. However, he has something important and useful to share about Matt Taibbi.]
I first became acquainted with Matt Taibbi when he came to Moscow in the late 1990s and was co-editor of a newspaper called The eXile, along with another American, Mark Ames.
The eXile’s motto was “We $#it on everybody equally.”
Ames and Taibbi wrote all manner of expose articles on the corruption of the Boris Eltzin administration, the World Bank, the IMF, and USAID. One of their favorite targets was that pompous moron, Michael McFaul, then a World Bank “consultant” who later became U.S. Ambassador under O’Bongo. Arguably our worst-ever ambassador, the Russian Foreign Ministry basically ignored him, and then threw USAID and many US backed NGO’s out of the country for good. But Ames and Taibbi also investigated many, many Russian Government officials and exposed their corrupt dealings. They also regularly published columns by Eduard Limonov, a Russian dissident and head of the banned “National Bolshevik Party.”
As Matt’s co-editor Ames once wrote, “we’d be sued out of existence within a few weeks of appearing in any Western democracy, but here in Russia, in the so-called kleptocracy, the power elite has been too busy stealing and killing to give a f**k about us, allowing us to fly around the capital beneath their radar, like a cruise missile. A real democracy would never let us get off the ground.”
Flash forward 20+ years, and after a stint at The Rolling Stone, suddenly over the past few months, Taibbi became a household name here in the USA, culminating with his being the front guy for the release of all that material proving how various U.S. “intel” agencies conspired with Twitter and other social media platforms to censor the news, manipulate public opinion and possibly to influence the outcome of elections, Oh My!
Here is Matt Taibbi’s Congressional testimony'
And look what has happened to “poor” Matt over the last 6 months or so, a real dyed-in-the-wool Liberal Democrat.
In March, the Democrats in Congress skinned him alive at the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponizationof the Federal Government hearings, and now the IRS is on his case. His life and reputation is being utterly ruined.
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So the irony is – none of anything like this happened to Matt Taibbi in Moscow. Taibbi was never arrested, detained, poisoned, run off the road by a truck into a bridge abutment, etc. by those “despots in Russia.” It all happened/is happening right here in the good ole USA, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, etc. and is being orchestrated – ironically enough – by Libtard left-wing Democrats!
Meanwhile, what about Gonazalo Lira? He was arrested by goons from the the Ukro-Nazi SBU (Service for “Security” of Ukraine) three weeks ago in the country to which billions and billions of your tax dollars are being sent “to support Democracy.”
It’s Memorial Day weekend. Do you think this is what so many fought and died for to be happening in the USA or funded with your tax dollars and mine?
Yes, indeed. Think about it.
Taibbi has gone the same route as Glen Greenwald and Jimmy Dore. They are progressives who eventually realized the Dems are a bunch of liars and have come out against them.
People who are seen as real threats to the Russian government get arrested and thrown in jail, fall off balconies, get poisoned, or otherwise meet terrible fates.
Yep they are both old school liberals and they tend to clash with the authoritarian freaks and liars the current Dems have become. They could become potential allies on certain issues. And both have quite a few supporters and fans. Just them challenging the Dem narrative is causing problems for the Dems.
Also David Horowitz.
Taibbi’s blatherings in Rolling Stone a few years back were vitriolic hit-pieces, devoid of facts or logic, directed against Trump & MAGA Republicans.
I found his writings amusing due to his obvious, yet amateurish, attempts to write like the reincarnation of Hunter S. Thompson.
Taibbi is considered a truth teller like Greenwald and Dore. Taibbi and Greenwald are ‘intellectuals’ who realized that they would lose all credibility among other intellectuals if they went along with all the lies the Dems were spinning about Russiagate ect and were forced to rebel.
Obviously I disagree with some of their political positions but I do respect them for at least trying to stay on the side of truth. I mean I could actually hold a reasonable conversation and debate with these sorts of people unlike the rest of the Dems who seem to have totally lost their minds.
Jimmy Dore would have never guessed years back, that a large part of his growing audience are conservatives, but here we are.
Maybe he was no fan of Trump, but for all his flaws Taibbi was very public about his outrage over the “Russiagate” bullsh!t from the start.
It’s a question of where you decide to get off of the bus?
Even that “conservative” icon, Charlton Heston, was an active support of Martin Luther King in the 60s. But at some point, you have to recognize when to get off of the bus.
Russell Brand is another one. Maybe being married to Katy Perry opened his eyes.
Yeah it’s a strange state of affairs regarding politics these days. You’re right these guys are old school liberals who are a different breed than the psychos who currently make up much of the Dems. I’ve watched Jimmy Dore for some time and like the way he breaks through a lot of the bs the Dems attempt to spin.
Interesting little factoid, his dad, Mike Taibbi exposed the Tawana Brawley fraud.
Remember too that Reagan himself was once a Dem until he finally saw the light lol.
And I might add, these old school libs like Dore (and Brand, etc) have a sense of humor, which is absent from leftists nowadays.
Dems were different back then. Southern Democrats were more conservative than Northeastern Republicans.
The United States has not existed since Novemner 2020.
What replaced is worse than Russia or the PRC.
The die was cast in November 2008.
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