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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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Sep 12
This is going to expose me as a gamer but both the arrows and the fascist reference they mention for the shooters ammo are direct references to the video game Helldivers 2 and are common memes.
Meaning extremely online gamer type, less so political manifesto.
I assume some FBI boomer saw these and doesn’t play video games and thought to himself oh that must be a transgender, antifa thing and that’s how we got the WSJ story.
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Sep 10
NEW: Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) was one of the writers who inspired me to go into journalism in the first place. But increasingly, his rage against the machine has transformed into pandering to it. And we're all the worse of for it.

theamericansaga.com/p/matt-taibbi-…
I first encountered Taibbi's writing when I was a kid myself. He was part of a crop of what are called Gonzo journalists.

Not only did they report about politics, they had a novelists' flair for giving you a first-person perspective of the story. Image
Taibbi was the son of a journalist, but he didn't do the easy thing and follow a nepotistic path that you see all over the media (not naming names).

Instead, he ended up in Russia, working with a group of expats at a gadfly publication called The Exile. Image
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Aug 29
Brian Kemp privately tells donors that the GOP legislative record right now is so toxic that a Congressman can’t win statewide in Georgia Image
This is one of the most blatant admissions that the Republican ideology is unpopular, thats why Kemp wants a football coach with no record.
So far though Dooley does not have the juice, GOP might be stuck with Collins
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Aug 22
NEW: The Israeli governments campaign of denial about the starvation in Gaza echoes some of the worst deceptions used to deny the Holocaust.

I reviewed the history, and there are eery similarities between the tactics of deception in both cases.

theamericansaga.com/p/israeli-deni…
Today, famine was officially declared in Gaza by the IPC, the international body that monitors food crises everywhere in the world.
But if you were watching the news or paying any attention to social media, you've probably been seeing a string of harrowing images coming out of the Strip for months now.

One image that stuck in my mind was of a Gazan bodybuilder.
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Aug 1
The DOJ says it will investigate an American citizen for saying “fuck Israel” to a guy wearing an IDF tshirt.

Meanwhile JD Vance will deliver another lecture to Europe about how they don’t respect free speech like we do.
This is the most anti-speech administration of my lifetime, they make John Ashcroft look like Abbie Hoffman.
I guess the DOJ got bored of Epstein if they have time to spend on this. Pam Bondi is disinterested in who was complicit with the man all those years, now she’s taking on salty mouthed teenagers.
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Jul 28
Taibbi gonna spend four years of Trump ignoring the people who control the White House, Congress, state legislatures, Supreme Court, half of cable news, and most of the Fortune 500 to write the same post owning the libs over and over, eh?
I’m not against owning the libs as they are easy to own. But if that becomes your sole beat while Republicans have so much power, what are you doing? You’re just a court jester.
One there is almost no media outlet in America who does that. And two ignoring the…President of the United States is pretty ignorant for a political reporter. He’s written more about Obama than Trump lately. It’s 2025.
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