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Interview: Glenn Greenwald. "I think that it really revealed this new “lawfare” where instead of doing overt coups, you give the cover of concocting corruption scandals against democratically elected leaders you dislike, like what the CIA did in manufacturing the Russiagate scandal against Trump."
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Left is Now the Right: We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing
3 years ago by quipu to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck? The resignation of Jack Dorsey is the latest plot point in the story of the Internet's transformation, from democratizing tool to instrument of elite control.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Silicon Valley has gone from banning Trump for past concrete violations to future potential violations. Facebook just last week banned an interview of Trump declaring that “the voice of Donald Trump” will henceforth be removed, as the risk of allowing it to be heard at all is “too great.”
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Take the Biden Quiz. In the following sets of quotes, guess which is Biden, and which is Putin? Answers at bottom.
Don't Steal This Book - On "In Defense of Looting”
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: The U.S. Right to Know Foundation. They inhabit a corner of the media universe focusing on who pays for what kind of research and why. They began publishing the results of FOIA requests about COVID, then suddenly disappeared from Google.
In 1972, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sent a letter to the office of Attorney General John Mitchell, suggesting John Lennon be deported. Thurmond believed Lennon’s antiwar and anti-Nixon views would spread in rock concerts and festivals... -- Matt Taibbi
1 year ago by EndlessSunflowers to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com
Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low. With last night's loony response to the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the MSNBC anchor takes a bold leap off the credibility cliff.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Financial institutions must not be allowed to take crippling losses, even if those losses were the fault of the companies in question. The thinking of these experts changes, however, the instant the question shifts to aid to the common people. Suddenly we learn that resources are scarce.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/finance from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Olivia Katbi-Smith. An activist for the Democratic Socialists of America talks about how arguments in favor of “banning hate speech” will end up being used against grassroots activists.
Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost
2 years ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"
2 years ago by BravoVictor to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
The Folly of Pandemic Censorship - Matt Taibbi
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
It seems that Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter has been continually rebuffed. The American security state can’t afford for Twitter to fall into the hands of a heterodox thinker. A candid admission that Twitter is an arm of the security state and controlling the narrative around the Ukraine War.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
The Justice Department Was Dangerous Before Trump. It's Out of Control Now. The current Trump investigation is just the latest chapter of a long-brewing civil liberties nightmare.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
Alex Moyer has now made two movies in a row, TFW No GF and Alex’s War, that sound too much like journalism for today’s media. Moyer was criticized for not planting enough signs telling them — and audiences — what to think about disaffected loner men. It's a about alienation, just like Taxi Driver.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/Movies from taibbi.substack.com
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment
"Omicron Death!" - Pandemic Pandemonia Reaches New Heights.
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/propaganda from taibbi.substack.com
The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level. Is it really possible that these people don’t get they’re being trolled? Part of the joke of “Let’s Go Brandon,” of course, is that you couldn’t go five minutes during the last administration without hearing someone screaming “Fuck Trump!”
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia
Meet Josiah Zayner, America's Most Censored Person
Why Has "Ivermectin" Become a Dirty Word? With the world desperate for news about an unprecedented disaster, Silicon Valley had essentially decided to disallow discussion of a potential solution — disallow calls for more research and more study — because not enough research and study had been done.
In Defense Of Substack - TK News by Matt Taibbi. The upper-class media is outraged that "Substack is a dangerous direct threat to traditional news media." In other words, they don't get to control what journalism is and they're super pissed off about it.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
Even By Democratic Party Standards, Censoring Fox News Is An Insanely Stupid Idea - TK News by Matt Taibbi. All of these stories share the same theme: small, unelected groups of private executives making sweeping decisions about speech, cheered on by Democratic Party politicians.
Meet the Censored: Mark Crispin Miller. "By encouraging the school to sack him over a complaint, Crispin Miller’s colleagues are telling students that it’s faster to eliminate or suppress unpleasant ideas than find successful arguments against them. This feels like the opposite of teaching."
The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here
3 years ago by CompleteDoubterII to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Democrats Have Abandoned Civil Liberties, by Matt Taibbi. "Cases like this have turned erstwhile liberals – people who just a decade ago were marching in the streets over the civil liberties implications of Cheney’s War on Terror apparatus – into defenders of the spy state."
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/conspiracy from taibbi.substack.com
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1. YouTube censored a factually accurate video about “rigged election” comments from the media and Democrats. YouTube leaves videos promoting the conspiracy theory that the Hunter Biden laptop story is both bunk and an intelligence op.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/youtube from taibbi.substack.com
Remarks about Jews caused JP Morgan Chase to close Kanye West's account. They were criminally charged and fined $1.7 billion by the Justice Department and $461 million by FinCEN for not getting rid of the Jew Bernie Madoff when they knew he was a problem. They just withdrew their own investments.
From Google and Twitter to the Departments of Justice and State, we’ve become a blacklisting society, and it’s beginning to look like the excesses of the Bush years were just a warmup.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Katie Halper. Katie was fired from a part-time hosting arrangement at The Hill’s Rising, whose editor told her an editorial critical of Israeli policies in Palestine was “not in our sweet spot of coverage.” They have a new policy where op-eds on Israel were a no-no.
Activism, Uncensored: A Weekend of Californians Screaming and Flailing at Each Other. “Fuck you!” “Shut the fuck up!” “Whore! Whore! Whore!” The two 'ladies' arguing about whether one is a communist were the best part.
The Press is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again. Negative media attention and the martyring effect of Internet censorship are the best friends Donald Trump ever had, but press antagonists are doubling down for 2024.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from taibbi.substack.com
The World's Most Taboo Legal Case. The Women’s Liberation Front filed a civil rights lawsuit in California that drew almost no coverage. A press corps gearing up to be outraged by the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation case had zero interest in a lawsuit filed by far poorer female abuse victims.
"What is a Woman?" A Movie That Should Be Reviewed More, For One Thing. Matt Walsh pranks the pants off America's silliest intellectuals, and the sad thing is, it wasn't hard at all.
Savor the Great Musk Panic. This is the elite argument against free speech in a nutshell: “If you favor ‘all legal speech,’ you really just want to slander, threaten, and harass. Now please let me tell millions of New York Times readers I ‘assume’ you’re a racist itching to use the N-word.”
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
Savor the Great Musk Panic
1 year ago by BravoVictor to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
The Media Campaign to Protect Joe Biden Passes the Point of Absurdity
World's Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
The Great International Convoy Fiasco
2 years ago by jet199 to /s/SocialMedia from taibbi.substack.com
Let’s Not Have a War
Activism, Uncensored: Impact of Gun Control Laws Visible in Virginia Protests
Loudoun County, Virginia: A Culture War in Four Acts
Biden's Troubles Aren't Bernie's Fault, or a Media Mirage. "From there, I scrolled in search of the inevitable, “Freedom of the press is good, but” passage. It was three paragraphs down."
Colleagues in national media spent over a year telling the country Kyle Rittenhouse was not just guilty, but a moral monster whose acquittal would be an in-your-face affirmation of systemic white supremacy. It was reckless beyond belief for analysts to tell audiences Rittenhouse was a murderer.
The Rittenhouse Verdict is Only Shocking if You Followed the Last Year of Terrible Reporting
The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins
Taibbi: Another Humorous Substack Panic
2 years ago by penelopepnortney to /s/WayOfTheBern from taibbi.substack.com
The Red-Pilling of Loudoun County, Virginia. I met people who were offended by the existence of a closed Facebook group — the “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” — that contains six school board members and compiled a list of parents deemed insufficiently supportive of “racial equity efforts.”
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from taibbi.substack.com
The subtext is that people with the right degrees deserve to be rich, and have health insurance, and good schooling for their kids, and dignified work, while those who don't deserve failure, in the same way smokers deserve lung disease — especially if they make unsanctioned political choices.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
In other words, audiences correctly grasped that the stupidity of political debates on TV did not mean America’s actual politics were stupid.
2 years ago by [deleted] to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
Democrats Swoon Over George W. Bush, In Match Made in Hell. The man they unironically called Chimpy McBu$hitler. WORST! PRESIDENT! EVER!!
Sometimes in America we’re just not told the whole story, and when the press can’t or won’t do it, it’s left to individual people to fill in the blanks. In a few rare cases, they find out something they weren’t supposed to, and in rarer cases still, they learn enough to beat the system.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/finance from taibbi.substack.com
Meet the Censored: Matt Orfalea. The next morning, at at 5:42 AM, he received an official strike from the channel, which resulted in a one-week ban and left him two strikes away from removal under YouTube’s three-strikes system. The catch? The strike was for one of the cuts he’d already deleted.
Hopkins has been critical of the emotional tenor of propaganda around Covid-19, which treats the crisis not as a logistical problem to be solved but as a signal that people should fundamentally alter their expectations for life, lowering demands for political freedoms.
Reporters Once Challenged the Spy State. Now, They're Agents of It. The new campaign is aimed at stamping out areas for surveillance-proof communication. Reporters pledged assistance, snooping for evidence of wrongness in digital rather than geographical “hidey holes.”
On April Fool’s Day, CNN ran an “analysis” of Joe Biden’s presidency: "Will JRB take his place alongside FDR and LBJ?" Media began copying each other, with Washington Post and Yahoo echoing the same line.
Dear Joe Scarborough: Nice Smear. Now Invite Me To Debate Your Network's Russiagate Coverage - Matt Taibbi
3 years ago by EndlessSunflowers to /s/whatever from taibbi.substack.com
Ellsberg described a vicious cycle, in which leaders lie pervasively, then learn to have so much contempt for the public that swallows those lies, that they feel justified in lying more. Ellsberg is adamant that our military and intelligence services don’t learn from even the bloodiest failures.
It’s astonishing that after so many years of decline in trust in media — this phenomenon has been going on for over a decade now, media people still think the issue is a mathematical question of “sides,” with widespread audience revulsion a kind of reward for their unflinching correctitude.
Twitter and Facebook suppressed a real story of legitimate public interest just before a presidential election. The fact that Big Tech blocked it, and professional journalists gleefully lied about it, has a direct bearing on YouTube’s decision now to bar Trumpist freakouts over the election results.
The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.
"Kansas should go F itself." The People, No documents the furious elite propaganda response to bottom-up political movements that has recurred in uncannily similar fashion at key moments across nearly a century and a half of American history, and is firing with particular venom today.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/books from taibbi.substack.com
The Left is Now the Right (NOTE: this does not speak of gender ideology at all actually, but a lot of the rhetoric the "left" uses regardless of topic is eerily similar)
3 years ago by vitunrotta to /s/GenderCritical from taibbi.substack.com
America Needs Truth and Reconciliation on Russiagate. You’ll be tempted to shout, “But Trump, Stop the Steal, QAnon — Derp!” Don’t do it. Don’t be the Japanese soldier still clutching a bayonet to defend the forgotten atoll in 1960. Forget Trump: you need to clean your own house first.
Mainstream Media Slain in Canada. In a wild and oddly nasty standoff, author Douglas Murray and I steamrolled Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg in the most decisive win in the history of Canada's Munk debates. (click on link inside for full story)
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/canada from taibbi.substack.com
“Be it resolved: don’t trust mainstream media.” My name is Matt Taibbi, I’ve been a reporter for 30 years, and I argue for the resolution. You should not trust mainstream media. I love the news business. It’s in my bones. But I mourn for it. It’s destroyed itself.
YouTube Censors Reality, Boosts Disinformation: Part 1 - Matt Taibbi
1 year ago by Drewski to /s/censorship from taibbi.substack.com
Alex Moyer has now made two movies in a row, TFW No GF and Alex’s War, that sound too much like journalism for today’s media. Journalists considered it illegitimate to even look at things like the root causes of the behavior of such people, or try to understand what was going on there.
The New Kremlinology: Reading the New York Times. With censorship soaring and real reporting all but taboo, the major dailies have just one important function left: being a political signaling system.
What Has Trump's Endless Prosecution Accomplished? As more and more effort is spent trying to put Donald Trump behind bars, he keeps growing politically. Is it time to wonder if there's a connection?
Activism, Uncensored: Are Black 2nd Amendment Advocates the Ultimate Taboo?
1 year ago by hfxB0oyA to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
The Democrats between 2016 and 2020 not only lost my vote, but reveled in the idea that they didn’t need or want it, denouncing critics in all directions as traitors, white supremacists, and terrorists, no different from the “deplorables” who voted for Donald Trump.
The World's Most Taboo Legal Case
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/politics from taibbi.substack.com
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout — Matt Taibbi's Substack on PayPal
1 year ago by chottohen to /s/corruption from taibbi.substack.com
Activism, Uncensored: Abortion Protests Spark "Coast to Coast" Conflict
PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout
The "Gentlemen's Agreement": When TV News Won't Identify Defense Lobbyists. As war rages, there will be officials on TV with sincere opinions about how the U.S. can help Ukraine. Very often, however, what you’re watching is a paid lobbyist plugging for a weapons maker.
The "Gentlemen's Agreement": When TV News Won't Identify Defense Lobbyists
The Washington Post's "Libs of TikTok" Nothingburger
Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost. A few of the more prominent Musk critics are claiming merely to be upset at the prospect of wealthy individuals controlling speech. This is a bizarre thing to be worrying about since it’s been the absolute reality in America for a while.
Editor's Note: On "Russian Dissent"
Give War A Chance. More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems.
Orwell Was Right
Putin the Apostate
When Boring People Turn Dangerous: Canada's Insane Power Grab
Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea: The Lab Leak "Conspiracy Theory"
2 years ago by AXXA to /s/news from taibbi.substack.com
Justin Trudeau's Ceauşescu Moment. Denouncing truckers for "unacceptable views," Canada's Prime Minister skipped town rather than face evidence of his own unpopularity. Is neoliberalism finally cracking?
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/canada from taibbi.substack.com
The Lab Leak "Conspiracy Theory". there was a time not long ago when no responsible press outlet would have declared any hypothesis off-limits before the mystery had been solved. Orfalea does a great job here using everything from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to Fahrenheit 451.
Conversation With Russell Brand, Who Isn't "Right Wing". His willingness to court all audiences is an affront to the basic formula of current commercial media, which relies upon a strategy of identifying out-groups and rallying audiences to escalating hatreds.
The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking". They deployed a rhetorical device that such “checking” sites now use with regularity, repeatedly correcting assertions Thacker and the British Medical Journal never made.
Let’s Not Have a War. The “core interest” of the Washington consensus is war. The bulk of the people elected to congress and a lion’s share of the lobbyists, lawyers, and journalists who snuggle in a giant fornicating mass in the capital are dedicated to the upkeep of the war bureaucracy.
Joe Biden's Awesome First Year
If the left could solve the problem of two Americas, it’s now decided that the America that is left behind, that it used to profess great care for and ambitions for, should just be annihilated with ridicule and a sort of mockery that dehumanizes them and renders them irrelevant.
What Happened to the "Question Authority" Era? Discussion with Author Walter Kirn. Waiting to get better from the thing that wasn’t prevented, so that you can try to prevent it again — if that’s not Joseph Heller, what is?
Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a bit “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s impressively on-message. Mocking the hayseeds is always fun, but what a bonus, when you can jack off some of TV’s biggest advertisers at the same time!
Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again
A Tale of Two Authoritarians