A small thing we could all do is refrain from engaging with ANY business that supports corporate media. If they advertise on the TV they are not worthy of our commerce.
Mussolini would be proud of the DNC, eGOP, Big Tech, Pharma, MSM, Big Banks, and most of the Fortune 500. They are Corporatist. Congress serves the Corporatists. The Capitol is the Corporatists. The West is merging into one Corporatist Government.
I used to really not like Taibbi who still holds mostly leftist views but I always respected that he was more of a truth seeker than the rest. People like that usually don't stay left very long.
He’s like Glenn Greenwald, they believe that a principled leftist can still exist. They just might be wrong, since even being “principled” makes them right wingers in the left’s book.
Whenever Taibbi comes out on the side of honesty/common-sense/whatever I am always surprised, as he is generally a condescending Leftist/DNC shill. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Taibbi was very emotionally offended at Trump and the success of his 2016 Campaign in a Canadian "documentary" I saw back then.
If I remember correctly, Taibbi is more often harshly critical of Conservatives and Republicans but I do see him being more-sensible on occasion (rather than the typical Leftist-propaganda shills who will never oppose the Leftist Agenda no matter how embarrassing or indefensible their "behavior" may be.) He seems to play it in the manner Bill Maher does, both of them are at heart highly-partisan but they will break the "party line" if an issue goes too far over the line to ignore.
Honest leftists are not our actual enemies. Taibbi, Greenwald, Dore, etc. They honestly believe in leftist ideology and are open to discussions and reason. George Orwell was one like this in his day. The swamp is far worse. They are using leftist ideology cynically as a means to power. They don't care if their ideas are correct and will change them when convenient to advance their power. Most of the demonrats and RINOs are in this category.
citizen journalism has been killing network journalism since the advent of the internet and with the first smart phone. Network journalism is scared shitless, which is why they are trying to sidle up to big tech and have become the mouthpiece of the progressive leftist governments.
Which is why Julian Assange was so vital and had to be destroyed by the intelligence community. Julian exposed the same collusion between the DNC and the media before the 2016 election.
Matt Drudge had the “Drudge Report”, and IIRC he broke the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story - it was a fugly looking website with lots of links bc he just aggregated news. Sadly, he sold out.
He purposefully takes a small dig at Trump in each piece, then immediately goes for full disembowelment of the other side.
It is a decent tactic to appear moderate and impartial. This guy has a career to maintain and is playing the game to avoid being cancelled.
That’s all out the window now but even within the Twitter Files he is sure to point out that the Trump administration also made requests. He then points out the left took it way farther, but that’s the impartiality tactic on display.
He plays that angle to appease the cancel mob but when you read in between the lines, it is fundamentally clear that Taibbi is based.
It is the same with Tim Pool and others that have to keep their careers afloat. They mouth the words to appear mainstream, but when you examine their collective works, they specifically cover the exact topics that appeal to conservatives.
Many of us do the same thing, at the bar, or among family at holidays. We couch the truth of our opinions to appease a mixed audience. Hedge towards impartiality to gain acceptance and then drop those subtle red pills.
Works better than a frontal assault, since that usually backfires as the other side either turtles up or doubles down on their NPC programming. Either way, you’re the one causing the problem, and they discard you without further consideration.
It is called the art of persuasion for good reason. It requires a certain skill and technique.
Thanks for writing this, I had a failure with the frontal assault today. It's hard for me when others are adverse to even the idea of having their preconceived notions put up for basic discussion to the point of emotional tantrums. It's worth remembering like you say that there is an art to conversation and persuasion, especially among the ideologically captured and demoralized.
To be fair: Matt Taibbi is a corporate journalist, with a long history of articles for Rolling Stone and other MSM outlets. I've also seen him on Bill Maher's show as a typically Left-leaning guest. I was surprised to see Taibbi treat Trump with slightly less hostility on occasion than the usual anti-Trump fare MSM tends to coordinate.
It is rare to see a high-profile "journalist" get out of line and do real reporting on an issue so potentially damaging to the Leftist Agenda, much less say anything critical of DNC/RINO Career Politicians and their grift. I saw Taibbi in a Canadian "documentary" on Trump's 2016 Campaign, where he was in tears of pearl-clutching despair at the success of GEOTUS' Campaign Rallies. Others like Dan Rather and other long-time "journalists" were in a similar state of tears of impotent outrage, it was a very odd tone to see so many "grown men" crying or near-crying over a Presidential Candidate months before the 2016 Election was decided.
If Taibbi is doing honest work on this (and he seems to be,) something drastic has happened to bring him to the side of truth and honesty. Either Elon Musk has offered him a massive payday for his work (which I don't see as unethical, as he is a well-known and well-respected writer who does his best work on topics of corruption and corporate malfeasance etc.) If so, Musk is smart to hire a guy like Taibbi rather than put together the report himself- and obviously a writer of his qualifications should be paid well for his work. Or maybe the various financial challenges the Sleepy Biden administration's handlers have presented Our Nation have cut into his bottom line, even rich guys are feeling the crunch and Taibbi knows where the blame lies.
> If anyone would question the ethics of Taibbi doing this work for pay, then what of all his articles in Rolling Stone covering "Occupy Wall Street" and the Trump 2016 Campaign? Taibbi didn't write those articles for free!
The Tolerant Left is hammering Taibbi for his honest coverage on this, he is presenting facts with clear evidence in a fairly straightforward manner with little of the sort of savage commentary he's known for. (This is the guy who called Goldman Sachs "...a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.") If/when Taibbi gets all the facts out there, he may wrap it up with some of the well-deserved snarktacular weaponized insults that brought him such attention in his earlier career.
A small thing we could all do is refrain from engaging with ANY business that supports corporate media. If they advertise on the TV they are not worthy of our commerce.
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Mussolini would be proud of the DNC, eGOP, Big Tech, Pharma, MSM, Big Banks, and most of the Fortune 500. They are Corporatist. Congress serves the Corporatists. The Capitol is the Corporatists. The West is merging into one Corporatist Government.
I used to really not like Taibbi who still holds mostly leftist views but I always respected that he was more of a truth seeker than the rest. People like that usually don't stay left very long.
He’s like Glenn Greenwald, they believe that a principled leftist can still exist. They just might be wrong, since even being “principled” makes them right wingers in the left’s book.
But you gotta applaud them for trying.
so he's a fag?
Yes
Whenever Taibbi comes out on the side of honesty/common-sense/whatever I am always surprised, as he is generally a condescending Leftist/DNC shill. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Taibbi was very emotionally offended at Trump and the success of his 2016 Campaign in a Canadian "documentary" I saw back then.
If I remember correctly, Taibbi is more often harshly critical of Conservatives and Republicans but I do see him being more-sensible on occasion (rather than the typical Leftist-propaganda shills who will never oppose the Leftist Agenda no matter how embarrassing or indefensible their "behavior" may be.) He seems to play it in the manner Bill Maher does, both of them are at heart highly-partisan but they will break the "party line" if an issue goes too far over the line to ignore.
Honest leftists are not our actual enemies. Taibbi, Greenwald, Dore, etc. They honestly believe in leftist ideology and are open to discussions and reason. George Orwell was one like this in his day. The swamp is far worse. They are using leftist ideology cynically as a means to power. They don't care if their ideas are correct and will change them when convenient to advance their power. Most of the demonrats and RINOs are in this category.
The arrogance of these globalist shills bashing Matt is proof that this was not only allowed but also cheer-led in their news rooms.
They repeat the same exact script:
https://www.mediaite.com/online/the-twenty-seven-most-embarrassing-reactions-to-taibbi-thread-about-twitter-censoring-hunter-biden-tweets/
A chorus of lies becomes the truth, according to mockingbird media.
citizen journalism has been killing network journalism since the advent of the internet and with the first smart phone. Network journalism is scared shitless, which is why they are trying to sidle up to big tech and have become the mouthpiece of the progressive leftist governments.
Which is why Julian Assange was so vital and had to be destroyed by the intelligence community. Julian exposed the same collusion between the DNC and the media before the 2016 election.
Time was Drudge would have been all over this, but no more.
Who?
Matt Drudge had the “Drudge Report”, and IIRC he broke the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story - it was a fugly looking website with lots of links bc he just aggregated news. Sadly, he sold out.
I know.. I was trolling cuz who the fuck reads Drudge anymore?
Oh lulz… there are some youngsters here so I thought it was a real question
Corporate media knows their plot. It just isn't one that's good for you.
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I find Tiabbi insufferable.
But he's waaaaaaaaay better than anyone in the MSM.
He purposefully takes a small dig at Trump in each piece, then immediately goes for full disembowelment of the other side.
It is a decent tactic to appear moderate and impartial. This guy has a career to maintain and is playing the game to avoid being cancelled.
That’s all out the window now but even within the Twitter Files he is sure to point out that the Trump administration also made requests. He then points out the left took it way farther, but that’s the impartiality tactic on display.
Yeah, I'm glad he's out there putting in work
Also the fact that Rolling Stone went overdrive denying it and Matt Taibbi used to work for them is rich.
And they're having the world's biggest tantrum right now as a result
Operation Mockingbird
Excellent point. Things are going to get funner, just not for the coup media.
I just ran the numbers and it turns out M.S.M. are F.A.G.S
Taibbi was/is a VILE anti Trumper
He plays that angle to appease the cancel mob but when you read in between the lines, it is fundamentally clear that Taibbi is based.
It is the same with Tim Pool and others that have to keep their careers afloat. They mouth the words to appear mainstream, but when you examine their collective works, they specifically cover the exact topics that appeal to conservatives.
Many of us do the same thing, at the bar, or among family at holidays. We couch the truth of our opinions to appease a mixed audience. Hedge towards impartiality to gain acceptance and then drop those subtle red pills.
Works better than a frontal assault, since that usually backfires as the other side either turtles up or doubles down on their NPC programming. Either way, you’re the one causing the problem, and they discard you without further consideration.
It is called the art of persuasion for good reason. It requires a certain skill and technique.
Thanks for writing this, I had a failure with the frontal assault today. It's hard for me when others are adverse to even the idea of having their preconceived notions put up for basic discussion to the point of emotional tantrums. It's worth remembering like you say that there is an art to conversation and persuasion, especially among the ideologically captured and demoralized.
That's fine. If they dig deep to report truth, I don't care who they vote for
I would have given it go Greenwald, but Taibbi is ok I guess.
It seems like dissemination of the Twitter Files is now in the hands of a couple libs. I'm sure they'll release everything. 🙃
The media would have ignored it anyway
Was Maliace wearing his Zog arm band when tweeting this? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Corporate Media is DEAD and have been dead for the past 30 years!
And all Dead Media, across the world will never ever be redeemed.
Corporate propagandists (not journalists, do not insult journalism) should be boycotted by everyone, and banned from covering all media events.
Start with the small stuff. Trump rallies. Turn away the CNN, MSNBC, even Fox cameras and crew. Fuck them all.
As it should be
CIA about to lose control of the prisoners. Good thing they have the GOP to make us think we have representation
Independent media is better than corporate shills anyway, their paycheck depends on their accuracy.
To be fair: Matt Taibbi is a corporate journalist, with a long history of articles for Rolling Stone and other MSM outlets. I've also seen him on Bill Maher's show as a typically Left-leaning guest. I was surprised to see Taibbi treat Trump with slightly less hostility on occasion than the usual anti-Trump fare MSM tends to coordinate.
It is rare to see a high-profile "journalist" get out of line and do real reporting on an issue so potentially damaging to the Leftist Agenda, much less say anything critical of DNC/RINO Career Politicians and their grift. I saw Taibbi in a Canadian "documentary" on Trump's 2016 Campaign, where he was in tears of pearl-clutching despair at the success of GEOTUS' Campaign Rallies. Others like Dan Rather and other long-time "journalists" were in a similar state of tears of impotent outrage, it was a very odd tone to see so many "grown men" crying or near-crying over a Presidential Candidate months before the 2016 Election was decided.
If Taibbi is doing honest work on this (and he seems to be,) something drastic has happened to bring him to the side of truth and honesty. Either Elon Musk has offered him a massive payday for his work (which I don't see as unethical, as he is a well-known and well-respected writer who does his best work on topics of corruption and corporate malfeasance etc.) If so, Musk is smart to hire a guy like Taibbi rather than put together the report himself- and obviously a writer of his qualifications should be paid well for his work. Or maybe the various financial challenges the Sleepy Biden administration's handlers have presented Our Nation have cut into his bottom line, even rich guys are feeling the crunch and Taibbi knows where the blame lies.
> If anyone would question the ethics of Taibbi doing this work for pay, then what of all his articles in Rolling Stone covering "Occupy Wall Street" and the Trump 2016 Campaign? Taibbi didn't write those articles for free!
The Tolerant Left is hammering Taibbi for his honest coverage on this, he is presenting facts with clear evidence in a fairly straightforward manner with little of the sort of savage commentary he's known for. (This is the guy who called Goldman Sachs "...a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.") If/when Taibbi gets all the facts out there, he may wrap it up with some of the well-deserved snarktacular weaponized insults that brought him such attention in his earlier career.
Once upon a time, the msm was the independent media.
Well they're all SAG so ... fuck anyone who ever believed them. Maybe we should discuss dumbfuckery & find a cure