Matt Taibbi is an A**clown

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As someone who has enjoyed Taibbi's writing over the years, I have to say that  he (and other anti-establishment journalists generally perceived as "left", such as Glen Greenwald) have been discrediting themselves throughout Mr. Trump's time on the national political spotlight. Most recently it's been the utter hypocrisy of people who approved and (in Greenwald's case) played an essential role in Edward Snowden's whistleblowing (which I approved, because good faith whistleblowing is a good thing) and who are now outraged and critical of recent whistleblowing (which I also approve, because good faith whistleblowing is a good thing) that exposes the Trump administrations crimes and incompetence.

And its not just these guys, it's a whole spectrum of "far left" reporting that is just utterly unwilling to even consider the idea that our established political institutions and power structures (even though they are very problematic) could possibly be preferable to a raving madman conducting an open assault on representative government and America's more positive ideals. I'm talking the type of reporting that has spent the last four years eager to repeated any attack on the Democratic establishment, no matter how poorly sourced, but is clearly extremely reluctant to report on even Mr. Trump's most heinous violations of the law.

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https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1182486898406842370

Awful takes seem to be his general MO these days.

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Taibbi has posted a new defense of Trump/attack on his investigators. Maggie Wheeler critiques it as the morally and intellectually bankrupt piece of junk it is:
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1182792966416621568

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https://mobile.twitter.com/LemieuxLGM/status/1183785869573947392
Welp he’s done it. Matt has dropped the facade and admitted he likes Trump

F Taibbi and the keyboard he wrote on.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1192852769973116928
https://mobile.twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1191770339065434119
He’s back and worse then ever

I see he has fully embraced the Republican "Twitter is a magical wishing well that makes my private alternate reality true" philosophy. (Or should that be the Russian philosophy, since he's weighing in on apparent Kremlin skulduggery in Great Britain?)

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Bumping this old thread up thanks to Matt once again being an a**clown
https://mobile.twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1260646963126493185
https://mobile.twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1259116572838371328

Reminder (not that you necessarily need it, but I think it's important to remind everyone reading that there is a lot of evidence linking the Russians to election interference, at least as much as their is showing that the coward Donald Trump is a crook who has constantly violated his Oath of Office): Dutch spies 'caught Russian election hackers on camera'

Dutch spies reportedly broke into computers used by a Russian hacking group that interfered in the US election, even watching the Kremlin-backed outfit on their own office surveillance cameras.

In an extraordinary counter-espionage operation agents in the Netherlands penetrated the systems of the Russian cyber unit known as Cozy Bear in mid-2014 and monitored them for at least a year.

The Dutch also monitored the Russian hackers as they tried to undermine unclassified computer systems in Congress and the White House.

Are we supposed to believe that the Dutch were onboard with Obama's conspiracy because he used his time machine to show them what a clown the coward Donald Trump would send them as an ambassador?

I find it sad how Taibbi (and other ostensibly "left-wing" journalists) have let their (very understandable) dislike for the US establishment turn them into nonsense-spouting socks for people who are everything they claim to oppose.