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Matt Taibbi Takes Aim At John Kerry, USAID In Direct Warning Of Threats To Free Speech
Forbes ^ | 12/2/25 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 02/18/2025 4:12:31 PM PST by Eleutheria5

Matt Taibbi gives his opening statement at today's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the "censorship-industrial complex."

Transcript linked below video.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: censorship; dissent; freespeech; hearings; johnkerry; kerry; taibbi; usaid; weaponization
Out of the park.
1 posted on 02/18/2025 4:12:31 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

He’s usually very good and thoughtful


2 posted on 02/18/2025 4:15:33 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Eleutheria5

Matt Taibbi really deserves some kind of award for his prior journalism and research that really opened peoples eyes to the deep corruption of the deep state


3 posted on 02/18/2025 4:16:18 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Eleutheria5

One of the few true investigative journalists left. He does opinion and commentary too. AFAIK he’s freelance. I suppose nobody would hire someone like him, to whom they cannot dictate what to write or say.


4 posted on 02/18/2025 4:17:40 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Mount Athos

If the journalist world weren’t so corrupt, he’d have a Pullitzer Prize.


5 posted on 02/18/2025 4:18:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Does kerry have his own NGO or foundation?

Does he or any of his associations receive grants or funding from USAID?


6 posted on 02/18/2025 4:35:36 PM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: Eleutheria5

Well said statement of what’s going on. He should have also mentioned the case of Adam Smith-Connor, a British Army veteran arrested for silently praying near an abortion clinic. In November 2022, Smith-Connor stood across the road from an abortion facility in Bournemouth, England, silently praying for a few minutes. He was confronted by officers enforcing a local Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), which prohibits certain activities, including prayer, within a designated buffer zone around abortion clinics. In October 2024, Smith-Connor was convicted for breaching the PSPO and fined £9,000.

Britain now has Thought Police.


7 posted on 02/18/2025 4:48:12 PM PST by econjack
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To: Eleutheria5

Taibbi is a lefty, of course, but unlike many of them is intellectually honest about freedom of speech/censorship issues. Whether he comes around on other issues remains to be seen.


8 posted on 02/18/2025 4:48:49 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Eleutheria5; monkeyshine; Mount Athos; econjack; SharpRightTurn





9 posted on 02/18/2025 7:54:19 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: thinden

I’m sure Kerry is in deep with the corruption of tax payer funds


10 posted on 02/19/2025 2:41:38 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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I’m sure Kerry is in deep with the corruption of tax payer funds

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how can he travel around the world in his wife’s private jet to preach about climate change with no income?

everybody knows he’s a kept man, but his gummit pensions can support his jet setting lifestyle.


11 posted on 02/19/2025 4:45:03 AM PST by thinden (Buckle up …..)
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To: Eleutheria5
Some things simply don't change

John Kerry testifies against U.S. involvement in Vietnam, April 22nd, 1971.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4351577/user-clip-john-kerry-vietnam-hearing-1971

John Kerry was a traitor and liar in 1971 before Congress, He is still one today.

12 posted on 02/19/2025 8:07:18 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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