Matt Taibbi
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Sep 25, 2026
Christian ParentiGUEST
And then the abrasive censorship, and then also the level of Trump derangement syndrome at them.
Christian ParentiGUEST
completely into overdrive i remember people who i you know i was on i was on the email list of a rather prominent marxist and i was like i remember i i like got kicked off and slash left was i kicked off the list for questioning this guy's portrayal of Matt Taibbi as a Nazi.
Christian ParentiGUEST
I mean, this is the kind of stuff I cannot believe.
Christian ParentiGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Christian ParentiGUEST
Insanity that is gripping even parts of the left that I once had respect for.
Christian ParentiGUEST
So I blame the left
TonyHOST
for kind of kicking people like Matt Taibbi out.
TonyHOST
Yeah.
Leonard GoodmanHOST
And then we saw that same pattern repeat in the mid 2000s.
Leonard GoodmanHOST
And in an article, In the Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi described these bad mortgage loans.
Leonard GoodmanHOST
He compared them to fireflies.
Leonard GoodmanHOST
Basically, they were designed to burn bright for a short amount of time, making people, bank executives, a lot of money, and then to die, basically.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
Oh, shit, they're coming after me.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
The Matt Taibbi.
Douglas RushkoffHOST
Oh, this stuff happened in Russia.
Kurt AndersenGUEST
And there's some thrill of that persecution possibility.
David CornGUEST
And we can name them.
David CornGUEST
Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, a guy named Aaron Maté who was writing for The Nation once upon a time.
David CornGUEST
And I think there are several...
Andrea ChalupaHOST
The Aaron Maté one really breaks my heart because his dad, Gabor Maté, is a big-time... child psychology, family psychologist, author who writes a lot of books for parents about empathy.
David CornGUEST
And Putin standing up against them or the enemy of the enemy is my friend.
David CornGUEST
And, you know, I used to have some debates or discussions with these people and I could just, you know, never get them to look at the facts.
David CornGUEST
And, you know, I would even a couple of times, you know, when Russia, Russia, a couple of times when Russian roulette came out, you know, and I was being attacked by Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, I said, listen, If you guys want to read my book, the book I wrote with Michael Isikoff, which focused just on the 2016 attack, unlike my current book, which takes a wider view of things, if you want to read that book, I'm happy to have a conversation with you.
David CornGUEST
You can point out to me all the things that you think are false.
Eric HarleyHOST
You know, by the liberals, that's their concern.
Eric HarleyHOST
It's like, all right, um, if, if, if she chooses those five journalists, [laughs] Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger-
Gary McNamaraHOST
[laughs]
Eric HarleyHOST
... her.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
And it's part of a greater problem of First Amendment.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
Matt Taibbi is writing about this.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
I agree with him.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
Censorship.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
I think it's gonna be, I think it's gonna be stuff that they'll do that's...
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
Remember, the, the best part is all the shit's out there on what Biden emails with Twitter files that came up, and Taibbi and Barry Weiss and all these people-
Tom EllsworthHOST
Sean Berger
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
... that were working on the...
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Tom EllsworthHOST
... you are the moderator.
Tom EllsworthHOST
That destroys it, and that's when everybody backed off.
Tom EllsworthHOST
And that w- a lot of that came from the pressure from Matt Taibbi and the Twitter Files.
Tom EllsworthHOST
So what they'll do is they'll threaten Section 230, unless you shut down or you kinda move back or you shadowban or you do all these little things with your conservative podcasts.
IlanaHOST
Journalism used to be this really scrappy industry.
IlanaHOST
profession um that was very much more working class right and and it has become again similarly something with like who can afford to go to j school who can afford to do the unpaid internships or the like minimum wage internships right that you need um and of course like fighting over scraps at this point because the whole industry's gutted um but yeah matt taibbi talks about this Because I think his father was a journalist and was much more of that like ilk, right? Of like the scrappy, you know, I think his dad was an immigrant from the Philippines or something.
IlanaHOST
But, you know, and then his experience was totally different because he already had a leg up.
IlanaHOST
um which is you know now the case so many journalists working today and you see it this is the problem you see it reflected in what's in what gets covered and the sensibility and and you know it's the same in literature and then it's it's like well and guess who's gonna read it right and it's just this one you know particular milieu or class of people or whatever just talking to themselves um i don't know how you break out of it at this point without like yeah a massive change in the way that we structure things and support the arts in this country which you know in no time soon is that happening so um well
John PapolaHOST
The Stanford Cyber Policy Center has been a hub of thought leadership and active leadership.
John PapolaHOST
intervention in speech technologies and social media and platforms, as has been covered in the Twitter files with Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberg.
John PapolaHOST
I'm working on a movie about this actually right now with Matt and Michael.
John PapolaHOST
And Barack Obama was on the wrong side of that.
Matt TaibbiHOST
All right, welcome back to Get Lit.
Matt TaibbiHOST
I'm Matt Taibbi.
Matt TaibbiHOST
He is Brad Pierce.
Matt TaibbiHOST
And we are finishing up William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.
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