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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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May 10
The last week has been the most nativist I’ve ever felt. Because when I saw Indians or Pakistanis in America or Britain cheer on a stupid war — and to be clear many didn’t — I did think those people aren’t integrating well and are fixated on old world ethnic hatreds.
Me and Stephen Miller finally found something to agree on.
I do understand it and if I felt most Pakistanis and Indians were in this category I’d be more sympathetic. Most my age though are not fanatics. The fobs I am not a fan of.
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May 9
Pakistan should stop. What will killing some poor Indian soldiers do for Pakistan? Just save face? Both countries should work on basic literacy and development for their countries. Their problems are not their neighbors.
Pakistan shot down their prized fighters they spent hundreds of millions on. Thats deterrence enough.
India funds proxy militant groups in Pakistan and we all know it. Those Balochistan militants got their guns from somewhere. I’m trying to *help* you guys and you won’t take it. What can I say?
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May 1
Contrast Louis Theroux with Douglas Murray. Both have beeeeeen to Israel. Murray "reports" from government-funded and guided junkets where his words are indistinguishable from Benjamin Netanyahu's. Theroux goes into the occupied territories and has soldiers train guns on him.
There's a reason Theroux is seen as one of the greatest documentary filmmakers in the world and Murray is seen as a lapdog who had to self-deport to America to accrue an audience again.
You don't have to sell me on him, I already think Louis is a better journalist. (For one, he actually is one.)
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Apr 27
Wow so there are a fair number of mosques in Dallas, Texas. What’s the problem? What have they done to you? Blaming your problems on some minority group is the sign of a weak man.
Not a factoid I keep in my back pocket but if you don’t like the First Amendment and the vision of Thomas Jefferson and the Founders why don’t you move there?
Thomas Jefferson writing about religious freedom in 1821: It was meant "within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination."

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Apr 19
1) Immigration officials tell Japanese college student they’re deporting him. He has a fishing violation.

2) Media covers story

3) Immigration officials say never mind

kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcasts…
Notice he never gets any explanation why they changed their minds. Does Stephen Miller just wake up every morning and throw darts at the photos of students here on visas?
Notice even the authorities didn’t offer any explanation for why they revoked it because saying “the media made us look like jerks” is an admission of error and first rule of MAGA is never apologize for anything.
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Apr 17
The problem for MAGA is that Americans don't like immigration chaos as it occurred under Biden, but they actually like immigration in general and are fine with legal immigration. They overinterpreted their mandate. They have to realize it's not a white nationalist country.
If I was Trump I couldn't imagine losing my political edge on immigration just months into my administration but at this rate he will. Mostly because he won't contain the more extreme elements of his administration.
White nationalist Twitter lives on their own planet just like the lefties on here in 2020 who thought Americans would go for defund the police. This isnt' the 1950's. Vast majority of Americans know legal immigrants personally and like them.
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