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@ZaidJilani
Apr 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
An MSNBC host claimed that independent journalist Matt Taibbi lied to Congress, a federal crime. What's more likely is the MSNBC host has no idea what he's talking about.
leefang.substack.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi… Image
Having worked with Mehdi, this is a pattern. He learns very little about a topic and then goes 100% full throttle with no nuance. He plays to a partisan crowd but frequently makes elementary errors. Like claiming black people can't vote in Georgia:
Which by the way had higher voter turnout in 2022 than New York did. Where's the MSNBC segment on New York's oppressive voter laws?
Going 100% into a partisan or tribal ideology with no nuance, always seeking to demonize the other side is why Mehdi fell for this Islamist stuff as a 20-something. True change would be listening to the other side not preaching at them.
An avowed Afghan foe of the Taliban decrying Medhi describing Americans as analogous to them. Of course to Mehdi this is just partisan banter to get the MSNBC job he was seeking.
Mehdi Hasan has perfectly adapted to the pathologies in partisan cable news: seek out conflict, not facts. Play to your base, never challenge them. And polarize the country because it's good for you, even if it's bad for the country.
By the way I was working with both lee and mehdi at that time, and this *never happened.* What happened was they were just arguing about politics on twitter and the managers wanted them to chill so they both did. Why is Mehdi lying about this during *Ramadan*? Image

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Feb 20
Trump picked a VP from the Rust Belt who lived the American Dream of going rags to riches in a path that led through state school, the Marines, Yale, and marrying the daughter of immigrants.

And instead he’s doing interviews branded around a guy who can’t not do a Nazi salute.
Even the obsessive Elon fans have to admit he is extremely awkward and unlikable in interviews, at the very least as a comms strategy it sucks.
I completely get Bannons frustrations because Vance is almost 100 percent aligned with his worldview and instead an anti humanist techno billionaire with global financial interests has sidelined him.
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Feb 17
JD Vance drops manifestos in tweets and to this day I still have no idea what Kamala Harris actually thinks about 80 percent of issues.
Progressives are uneasy saying this but I’m not: we need smart leaders who are interested in policy. Figurehead type leaders are easily taken advantage of.
He navigates politics like anyone else but I don’t think so. Trump is not booksmart and Vance has his own positions independent of him. He’s more like VP Cheney than VP Harris he’s trying to have an impact.
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Feb 8
A lot of Democrats don't wanna admit this but Obama came in with a massive coalition and potential Reagan-style realignment but squandered it on hiring Wall Street guys who protected the banks at all cost while millions lost their homes.
I was pushing back on this in realtime in DC when it happened and everyone treated me like an idiot. A few years later, no more Obama coalition.
Yeah @ddayen who runs the great American Prospect was a dissenter. Ezra, Matt Y, etc. all thought Obama was doing everything swimmingly.
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Jan 30
The fact so many libs really thought Tim Walz appealed to men is all you gotta know about how deep in the hole they are with male voters.
The second he did the oh shucks I can’t handle spicy food loser sitcom dad routine…
Well male and female is a biological fact it’s not a social construct like race. Male brains are different. The Democrats don’t like them at the moment.
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Jan 29
In the Quinnipiac poll, only 22% of men in America say they have a positive impression of the Democratic Party.

22%!

Maybe Democrats need to start treating men like full humans and not just sexist bumbling oafs who are responsible for all the world's ills.
Their strategy was to throw Tim Walz out there to joke about how he can’t handle spicy food, so appealing to men I know.
Literally if the VP can’t do Hot Ones they are disqualified
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Jan 29
Since the election, Democratic pundits have a new boogeyman: the Groups. Activist groups have forced their party to take unelectable positions, which is part of why Kamala Harris lost. It's a theory backed by @AJentleson, @ezraklein and others. But it's too simple. 🧵 Image
Jentleson, a Fetterman staffer, wrote an oped in the NYT shortly after the election telling us that the @ACLU "pushed" Harris to support a position on surgeries for transgender prisoners, and that this helped contribute to the GOP's attack ads.

But that's not what happened. Image
When did Kamala Harris embrace the idea of government-backed transgender surgeries for prisoners?

Jan. 20, 2019. That was the very first day of her campaign.
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