Matt Taibbi to MSNBC: "F*ck You"

Matt Taibbi got a single request to appear on a Regime "news" outlet. Because, he says, he would be a hypocrite if he didn't agree to appear on a Regime show after he complained that the Regime refused to cover the Twitter files, he agreed to appear on former Al Jazeera "journalist" Medhi Hassan's show on MSNBC. He said he hoped for a "good-faith interview."

As these clips from Jimmy Dore demonstrate, Taibbi -- get this -- did not get a "good-faith interview.

Matt Taibbi unloads on the Fake News Network.

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I last appeared on MSNBC six years ago, on January 13, 2017, to talk with Chris Hayes and of all people Malcolm Nance, about the then-burgeoning Trump-Russia scandal.
The Trump-Russia story was white-hot and still in its infancy. That same day, news leaked from Israel that Americans warned the Mossad not to share information with the incoming administration, because Russia had "leverages of pressure" on Trump. Asked by Chris about the scandal generally, I made what I thought was a boring-but-true observation, that we in the media didn't "have any hard evidence" of a conspiracy, just not a lot to go on. This was the TV equivalent of a shrug.
Nance jumped on this in a way I remember feeling was unexpected and oddly personal. "Matt's a journalist. I'm an intelligence officer," he snapped. "There is no such thing as coincidence in my world." Chris jumped in to note reporters have different standards, and I agreed, saying, "We haven't seen anything that allows us to say unequivocally that x and y happened last year."
"Unequivocally" seemed to trigger Nance. With regard to the DNC hack, he said, "That evidence is unequivocal. It's on the Internet." As for "these links possibly with the Trump team," he proclaimed, "You're probably never going to see the CIA's report." Nance went on to answer "no" to a question from Chris about whether leaks "were coming from the intelligence community," Chris wrapped up with a sensible suggestion that we all not rely on a parade of "leaks and counter-leaks," and the segment was done.
To this day I get hit probably a hundred times a day with the question, "What happened to you, man?" What happened? That segment happened, but to MSNBC, not me.
That exchange between Nance and me was symbolic of a choice the network faced. They could either keep doing what reporters had done since the beginning of time, confining themselves to saying things they could prove. Or, they could adopt a new approach, in which you can say anything is true or confirmed, so long as a politician or intelligence official told you it was.
We know how that worked out. I was never invited back, nor for a long time was any other traditionally skeptical reporter, while Nance -- one of the most careless spewers of provable errors ever to appear on a major American news network -- became one of the Peacock's most familiar faces.
I don't know Malcolm and don't mean to get nasty about this, but: even before that January 2017 broadcast, he had an extraordinary record, one that should have scared away any retraction-averse producer. On August 20th, he went on with Joy Reid and said the Green Party's Jill Stein "has a show on Russia Today." This wasn't true, as Stein quickly pointed out, but MSNBC refused to acknowledge the error. Media watchdog FAIR repeatedly asked for a correction, as did friend Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept, but they refused to budge.
This may not seem a big deal, but at the time it was still weird and something of a pioneering move for a major news organization to just refuse to fix a clear error.
Nance went on to make a lot more, some I would classify as important. A tweet of his in late 2016 was a major source for the pre-election misconception that the Wikileaks-leaked emails of Clinton campaign chief John Podesta were "riddled with forgeries" and "#blackpropaganda." He would regularly make all sorts of claims without evidence, like that the K.G.B. had "been surveilling Donald Trump since 1977," and that "little" comes from Trump's mouth that isn't "carefully planned to benefit the Russian Republic," and all sorts of other nonsense.
I was quiet until he said Glenn "shows his true colors as an agent of Trump and Moscow," "reports in to his masters in Russia," and is "deep in the Kremlin pocket." This was outrageous. I was shocked MSNBC didn't fire him on the spot. Still, I voiced objections in a measured way I hoped might get through, either to Nance or to someone at the network. "I've been on the air with Malcolm Nance and he seemed like a nice guy," I tweeted, "but this awful practice of calling people traitors and foreign agents based on no evidence has really gotten out of hand."
Nance's response was "Ok, you've convinced me. You need to be blocked. #Bye." He remained a regular guest on the network, which didn't cool on booking him until the Russia story fell apart with the release of the Mueller report the next year.
The Nance situation was symbolic of what happened at the network from the beginning of Trump's term, really beginning in early 2017. It went from being a place where you had to be at least in the ballpark of demonstrably true to being a place where the factual standard was, "Whatever dogshit drops out of the mouth of any hack or spook."
Moreover the network didn't just re-report this stuff, it became the favored launching pad for all the most blatant blue-Anon disinformation, like California congressman Adam Schiff saying he had "more than circumstantial" evidence of collusion, or former Obama defense official Evelyn Farkas suggesting the Trump administration would try to destroy evidence if they "found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff's dealing with Russians." Farkas later testified under oath that she "didn't know anything" about collusion.

He writes about Rachel Maddow's breathless conspiracy peddling -- and then interrupting her "trout-fishing trip" to come back on the air and literally cry about the Mueller Report dashing all her fever dreams.

Importantly for the next section: He points out Rachel Maddow's method of "confirming" a rumor. If one of her FBI leakers didn't actively knock a rumor down, she took that as confirmation.

Taibbi wonders why you would possibly take this as confirmatory: The people leaking you anti-Trump bullshit are obviously anti-Trump, so why would they repudiate any of the bullshit rumors they were feeding you?

After this the network doubled down, seemingly hiring as contributors every unemployed prosecutor or natsec official they could find, especially from failed Russiagate probes. They'd already spent on names like ex-CIA head John O'Brennan, former assistant FBI counterintelligence chief Frank Figliuzzi, House Intel Director of Investigations and future congressman Dan Goldman (who met Adam Schiff in an MSNBC green room), and federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner. Now, they added cadaverous Mueller sidekick Andrew Weissmann and, astonishingly, Weissmann's deputy, the fired FBI lawyer Lisa Page. They also began bringing in Page's lover, fellow FBI firee Peter Strzok, as a commentator.
America became familiar with Page and Strzok after their texts -- referring to the Trump-Russia investigation as an "insurance policy," and ripping "sandernistas," among other things -- became public. These were living monuments to press excesses of the Trump era. As Gerth wrote, Strzok quietly reported to bosses after the Times's "repeated contacts" story came out, saying, "We are unaware of ANY Trump advisers engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials." Strzok in other words was exactly the kind of person to whom Rachel might have been referring when she rhapsodized about FBI "not saying anything" to dissuade us from believing errors.
Page on April 10, 2017 got a text from Strzok, saying he wanted to talk to her "about [a] media leak strategy with DOJ." This was a day before a Washington Post story that cited "law enforcement and other U.S. officials" in saying the secret FISA court found probable cause to believe former Trump aide Carter Page (no relation) was an "agent of a foreign power." Whoever leaked this was sabotaging not just the Post, but every downstream media org picking up the story, because the story at its roots was wrong: Carter Page was not an "agent of a foreign power," as the FISA court had been misled, by Steele and the FBI. MSNBC was one of the first outlets to regurgitate this thing.
When sources lie to you, you should be mad. At minimum, you should be ripping their names out of your Rolodex (or modern equivalent). MSNBC did the opposite, hiring seemingly everyone who'd helped them down this reputation-tarnishing path.

Taibbi gives it back to them:

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After all this, after throwing away all their standards, clowning themselves with years of wrong stories, doling out rice bowls to the procession of spooks who now clog their airwaves, and watching as their ratings predictably collapsed, now they want to give me a hard time. Not because I got anything wrong, but because they don't like my opinions, or where things like the Twitter Files reports came from.
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If it sounds like my beef with MSNBC is personal, by now it is. Take the Twitter Files. When first presented with the opportunity to do that story, my first reaction was to be extremely excited, as any reporter would be, including anyone at MSNBC. In the next second however I was terrified, because I care about my job, and knew there would be a million eyes on this thing and a long way down if I got anything wrong. If you've ever wondered why I look 100 years old at 53 it's because I embrace this part of the process. Audiences have a right to demand reporters lie awake nights in panic, and every good one I've ever met does.
But people who used to be my friends at MSNBC embraced a different model, leading to one of the biggest train wrecks in the history of our business. Now they have the stones to point at me with this "What happened to you?" routine. It's rare that the following words are justified on every level, but really, MSNBC: Fuck you.

More clips from the "interview" below. Mehdi Hassan attacks Taibbi for not responding to a story he did two weeks ago. Taibbi says he didn't respond because "I don't watch the Mehdi Hassan show."

Hasan then drops the Big Gotcha that Taibbi said to him "invite me on your show and I'll tell you my views," which Hasan claims proves that Taibbi watches his show as opposed to, you know, seeing someone noting Hasan's attacks on Taibbi on Twitter.

The "errors" the Al Jazeera propagandist claimed to be errors weren't even errors.

Posted by: Ace at 03:40 PM

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1 Taibbi gets props from me… I have been reading himmfor a while now.

Posted by: tubal at April 10, 2023 03:41 PM (PCK5/)

2 Attention actual conservatives in public life: read this and take notes. The American press complex is in the enemy camp, and you should treat it as such.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

3 MSNBC to Taibbi: you wish!

Posted by: blaster at April 10, 2023 03:42 PM (pwExq)

4 As for "these links possibly with the Trump team," he proclaimed, "You're probably never going to see the CIA's report." Nance went on to answer "no" to a question from Chris about whether leaks "were coming from the intelligence community," Chris wrapped up with a sensible suggestion that we all not rely on a parade of "leaks and counter-leaks," and the segment was done.
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I know nothing about Nance, but he sounds like a little bitch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

5 Who's bitch is this?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 10, 2023 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

6 The only thing to do to MSLSD is mock it, ignore it, and destroy it.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (Lzpvj)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

8 I know nothing about Nance, but he sounds like a little bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

Well, it's in the name.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (zZu0s)

9 Expecting a fair interview from a leftwing media shithole is a bad idea. Stupid, even.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

10 It's fun watching some people wake up, just a little.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (N1tpc)

11 Or, they could adopt a new approach, in which you can say anything is true or confirmed, so long as a politician or intelligence official told you it was.
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Call it what it is, Matt. If this is the case - and it is - then it means we do not have a free press. This is not an old approach, it's a very old approach, one used by virtually every government for all of human history.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

12 This may not seem a big deal, but at the time it was still weird and something of a pioneering move for a major news organization to just refuse to fix a clear error.
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Is he shitting me?

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:45 PM (pIwnI)

13 Its a good essay and pops Rachel Maddow right in the kisser.

Eeeyew.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2023 03:45 PM (EZebt)

14 I think Taibi's like his old man; he has a slant, but not a hardcore ideologue.

Posted by: pahound at April 10, 2023 03:45 PM (yVT/s)

15 I was quiet until he said Glenn "shows his true colors as an agent of Trump and Moscow," "reports in to his masters in Russia," and is "deep in the Kremlin pocket." This was outrageous. I was shocked MSNBC didn't fire him on the spot. Still, I voiced objections in a measured way I hoped might get through, either to Nance or to someone at the network. "I've been on the air with Malcolm Nance and he seemed like a nice guy," I tweeted, "but this awful practice of calling people traitors and foreign agents based on no evidence has really gotten out of hand."
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Yeah, but that won't ever work. If you won't risk actually punching his lights out on the air - and I don't blame you if you don't want to do that, and I wouldn't either - then forget being "measured." Laugh in his face, call him a hack and a tool, flatly declare that he is operating in bad faith because he's a liar, laugh at him, call his mother a whore, call his wife ugly, and saunter away with the threat that you're going to go fuck his daughter because she's only thing he's *ever* produced that looks good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:46 PM (t0OGg)

16 I've got to believe Taibbi knew going in that this would happen.

If, after all these years, he did not think the MSNBCunts would pull this crap, well, that was pretty stupid of him.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 10, 2023 03:46 PM (wtvvX)

17 The Nance situation was symbolic of what happened at the network from the beginning of Trump's term, really beginning in early 2017. It went from being a place where you had to be at least in the ballpark of demonstrably true to being a place where the factual standard was, "Whatever dogshit drops out of the mouth of any hack or spook."
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See Also: Every element of the American press complex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:46 PM (t0OGg)

18 Wow! This based thread has red-pilled me against MSNBC extremism LARPing as journalism!

Posted by: Chad Looksmaxxing IV at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (VsUo2)

19 They could either keep doing what reporters had done since the beginning of time, confining themselves to saying things they could prove. Or, they could adopt a new approach, in which you can say anything is true or confirmed, so long as a politician or intelligence official told you it was.
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MSNBC is State Media

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (fs1hN)

20 2 Attention actual conservatives in public life: read this and take notes. The American press complex is in the enemy camp, and you should treat it as such.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

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"I don't get it."
-Lindsey Graham

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (UVZX7)

21 I think Taibbi misses a point about how wrong the media is. It's not just that they are bad at their job. All the mistakes go one way. He does not recognize that from his filter.

He also misses that the other big power of the media is not to lie, but also to ignore.

So props for being honest I guess.

Posted by: blaster at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (pwExq)

22 and then interrupting her "trout-fishing trip" to come back on the air

This, is disgusting......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Al Jazeera and "good faith" something ain't adding up to 2 + 2

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:48 PM (wcDfX)

24 Evelyn Farkas, one of the very first deep staters I ever saw out themselves on national tv. Morning Joe, IIRC. The look on Mika's face that day.

Posted by: Prime Sister at April 10, 2023 03:48 PM (tQL7r)

25 >>I think Taibi's like his old man; he has a slant, but not a hardcore ideologue.

I watched his dad report on local Boston news for a number of years. Like most media he was left of center but he also seemed to be honest.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 03:48 PM (ZLI7S)

26 Strzok quietly reported to bosses after the Times's "repeated contacts" story came out, saying, "We are unaware of ANY Trump advisers engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials." Strzok in other words was exactly the kind of person to whom Rachel might have been referring when she rhapsodized about FBI "not saying anything" to dissuade us from believing errors.
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Taibbi is too kind.

Strozk suppressed the truth, refused to correct any innocent errors that might have been made in the public coverage, then went on TV and testified to Congress that all those lies - lies that he knew were lies - were truth.

Strozk is everyone in government.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:48 PM (t0OGg)

27 MSNBC - "4Q2".

That'll show 'im.

Posted by: MSLSD at April 10, 2023 03:49 PM (WmGrA)

28 mildly amused as Tabii spends all day on twitter arguing with fellow libs about how he's not a "trumptard " who "sucks trump's dick".

which is pretty much 99% of online leftist thought.

however, the npc's changed tack last week to two things:

1. new reporting requirements for SCOTUS show that Clarence T gets a lot of field trips with rich friends. OMG!

and 2, Taibbi made a mistake and that eliminates all his work.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:49 PM (MLrvz)

29 In the next second however I was terrified, because I care about my job, and knew there would be a million eyes on this thing and a long way down if I got anything wrong. If you've ever wondered why I look 100 years old at 53 it's because I embrace this part of the process. Audiences have a right to demand reporters lie awake nights in panic, and every good one I've ever met does.
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I'll take your word for it, Taibbi.

Actually, I won't. I'd have to meet a decent press man for myself. I never have.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:49 PM (t0OGg)

30 16 I've got to believe Taibbi knew going in that this would happen. If, after all these years, he did not think the MSNBCunts would pull this crap, well, that was pretty stupid of him. Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 10, 2023 03:46 PM (wtvvX)

I agree. Not sure what his end game is/was here beyond a decently written poke to the eye of MSNBC.

Posted by: scampydog at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (2bFN5)

31 Good grief, if you aren't prepared to go into the liar's den swinging a battleaxe like Andrew Breitbart, then don't go in at all.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (wtvvX)

32 "I don't get it."
-Lindsey Graham
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (UVZX7)

Also in the enemy camp.

Posted by: CN at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (Zzbjj)

33 so, yeah, Taiibii is pugnacious. I loved his gen-x mogging of clueless blue senators with sneering and "yah, duh" wayne's world schtick.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (MLrvz)

34 Taibbi is the legendary liberal who just got mugged and left in the gutter by his fellow liberals.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (jTmQV)

35 Wow! This based thread has red-pilled me against MSNBC extremism LARPing as journalism!
Posted by: Chad Looksmaxxing IV
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After Latin Mass for Easter Monday, I'm gonna hit the gym because there's this cute girl I'm trying to impress into a date, Chad. She hates MSNBC too!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (Vwz3I)

36 so yeah, Taibii made a mistake at some point so you can't trust anything he says. say the leftists who can't tell you what a girl is.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:51 PM (MLrvz)

37 Hasan then drops the Big Gotcha that Taibbi said to him "invite me on your show and I'll tell you my views," which Hasan claims proves that Taibbi watches his show as opposed to, you know, seeing someone noting Hasan's attacks on Taibbi on Twitter.
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That strikes me as being at least as much due to vanity as anything else. He probably can't fathom that *anyone* who's a Real Name doesn't watch his show.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:51 PM (t0OGg)

38 MSNBC is State Media
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 03:47 PM (fs1hN)

Like NPR, the BBC has the state sponsored indicator on their Twitter account. The BBC, which the UK people have to pay taxes to the government for, says their not state sponsored.

Pull the other finger

Posted by: Beartooth at April 10, 2023 03:51 PM (SJLjq)

39 OT- Was it reported that Conor Sturgeon, who shot employees at the bank was a fired bank employee. He also hated Trump and was a mask enthusiast..

Posted by: Intrepid Fibbie in khakis at April 10, 2023 03:51 PM (Wen+q)

40 This interaction was obv charged with significance for shitlibs. I don't know why or how etc. My brain can't compute it. But I have at least learned to recognjze when it happens. HS was completely nonsensical most of the time for this reason. I suppose one of them lost big or one won big or one is finished... Idk. Like watching some indigenous tribesmen yak and flex at each other.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 03:51 PM (1ais2)

41 34 Taibbi is the legendary liberal who just got mugged and left in the gutter by his fellow liberals.

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it must be odd for committed lefties to bravely report on the truth and find themselves only being interviewed by Tucker.

see e.g., Glenn Gleenwaldo

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:52 PM (MLrvz)

42 If anyone except a hard core leftist democrat goes on msnbc and expects a "good faith" interview they are delusional.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (ncXxy)

43 Read an article about Nance a few years ago. He was a naval intelligence officer but his superiors got so sick of his idiocy that for the last four or five years of his career the stuck him in a room and had him do the most basic stuff. Then they ignored everything he produced. Perfect for MSNBC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (386ly)

44 Like NPR, the BBC has the state sponsored indicator on their Twitter account. The BBC, which the UK people have to pay taxes to the government for, says their not state sponsored.

Pull the other finger
Posted by: Beartooth at April 10, 2023 03:51 PM (SJLjq)
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Yeah. NPR and PBS bitch about it, too, because the government assistance is relatively small. (and it is, in cash terms, but this is why the never mention the real value they get from their government sponsorship: spectrum. They get a carve-out and pay little for spectrum licenses, unlike the other players who have to pay through the nose)

Doesn't matter. State-owned media is state-owned media.

And in this country, there's no difference. All media that are not state-owned are fully state-controlled.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (t0OGg)

45 This may not seem a big deal, but at the time it was still weird and something of a pioneering move for a major news organization to just refuse to fix a clear error.
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Is he shitting me?

Posted by: ...

No, I used to work in the news industry, many years ago. If a reporter had a factual error, it was fixed and apologized for. If a writer put editorial comment into a news story, they would be out of a job. Now, all news is editorial.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (lTGtQ)

46 Watching everyone try to spell this guy's name is a riot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (EZebt)

47 34 Taibbi is the legendary liberal who just got mugged and left in the gutter by his fellow liberals.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, sore and more at April 10, 2023 03:50 PM (jTmQV)

More like a sinner come to The Lord. Matt did some horrible things in RUS as a young man. I think he is atoning.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (1ais2)

48 The Nance situation was symbolic of what happened at the network from the beginning of Trump's term, really beginning in early 2017. It went from being a place where you had to be at least in the ballpark of demonstrably true to being a place where the factual standard was, "Whatever dogshit drops out of the mouth of any hack or spook."
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Oh yeah MSNBC was "in the ballpark of true" under BOOSH and Obama and everything changed when Trump came along.

The only thing that changed was they became slightly more outwardly breathless and unhinged about their lies. That's it. I mean did anyone not notice Olbermann flipping out about how BOOSH was a literal Nazi every night for five years?

We do not have to revise history. It is nice that Taibbi has caught on, good for him, I applaud it, but I'm not gonna sail on whatever calm seas make him feel comfortable.

The Leftard media has been a deliberate lying sack of phony shit since the 60's. If they ever had a veneer of credibility it was only because they had to, and it was irrelevant. They Left have always been lying sacks of shit. Nothing changed in 2017 except the target.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:54 PM (rH9O0)

49 No, I used to work in the news industry, many years ago. If a reporter had a factual error, it was fixed and apologized for. If a writer put editorial comment into a news story, they would be out of a job. Now, all news is editorial.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 10, 2023 03:53 PM (lTGtQ)
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Emphasis on "many," methinks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:54 PM (t0OGg)

50 >>I've got to believe Taibbi knew going in that this would happen. If, after all these years, he did not think the MSNBCunts would pull this crap, well, that was pretty stupid of him.

I think he knew or at least strongly suspected which is why he had the above article ready to go.

I also don't think Taibi is getting enough credit. He spent his entire career, his life really, on the left and it has only been since the Twitter files that he is really finding out what his side is all about. He is now trashed on a continual basis by people he thought for decades were his friends. He might have started having doubts with the Russia insanity but the Twitter files pushed him over the top.

Not that easy coming to grips with the truth when you have to admit everything you thought was true is a lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 10, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

51 Most all media is State Media. I'm sort of surprised the junta hasn't shuttered the various outlets, including OTA, cable and print and stood up a FedGov Office of Official Information staffed with another 25K bureaucrats.

Party line indeed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 10, 2023 03:55 PM (Q4IgG)

52 "There is no such thing as coincidence in my world."

That's deep, man. Time is quantized, and every point in every field in space is constrained such that no two points may change state in the same simultaneous quantum. There can't be coincidence, because there's no incidence to begin with. I'll check travelocity to see if I can book a weekend in his world.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 03:55 PM (MvF+J)

53 That's deep, man. Time is quantized, and every point in every field in space is constrained such that no two points may change state in the same simultaneous quantum. There can't be coincidence, because there's no incidence to begin with. I'll check travelocity to see if I can book a weekend in his world.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 03:55 PM (MvF+J)
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Why bother? Just turn on the TV and you'll be neck-deep in his world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:56 PM (t0OGg)

54 53 I don't have a TV, but I bet I can find real Incidence on the internet.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 03:56 PM (MvF+J)

55 //OT

Turns out the Mosque attack was *not* a MAGA gone wild event Paul....

https://tinyurl.com/Serif-Zorba-Mosque-Stabber

Serif Zorba of the MAGA Zorbas.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2023 03:57 PM (Lzpvj)

56 46 Watching everyone try to spell this guy's name is a riot.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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their is know trie

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:57 PM (MLrvz)

57 Now Clarence Thomas is crooked *and* an antisemite.

Clarence Thomas.

But Trump invites it, the next guy won't.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:58 PM (fOPkK)

58 I don't have a TV, but I bet I can find real Incidence on the internet.
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at April 10, 2023 03:56 PM (MvF+J)/i]

I find real incontinence in my pants.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

59 ||KENTUCKY – The suspect responsible for the shooting in Louisville Monday morning was a 25-year-old man identified as Connor Sturgeon. It has been reported that Sturgeon was employed at the Old National Bank, the location of the massacre.

Prior to the incident, Sturgeon allegedly sent a text message to a friend expressing suicidal thoughts and a desire to “shoot up the bank.”

According to the Louisville Metro Police Department, five people are dead, including the shooter. Eight more people, including two police officers, were taken to the University Hospital for medical treatment, with one officer being in critical condition.

The reason behind the attack is currently unknown.||

Different link in my sock about Bernie Bro.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (Vwz3I)

60 Anyone who utters - seriously - that "there is no such thing as coincidence" is either a mental midget or a conman.

There is unlikely to be such a thing as too much coincidence, but coincidences happen all the damn time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (t0OGg)

61 MSNBC is pure shit.

Pure. Shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (XUYt+)

62 MSNBC is pure shit.

Pure. Shit.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (XUYt+)

It really can't be expressed enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

63 "and then interrupting her "trout-fishing trip" to come back on the air "

So that's what the lezbo's are calling it now?

Posted by: Bosk at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (VMFAF)

64 Now Clarence Thomas is crooked *and* an antisemit

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yeah, just remember, the NPC's got their marching orders because it turns out, under new reporting rules, some hospitality is now reportable as a gift.

so, get this, Thomas spends time with rich friends.

I wonder if liberal judges getting their dicks sucked by every law school counts.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (MLrvz)

65 "gee, thank you columbia law, for this $100K honoaraia for me speaking here,"

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:00 PM (MLrvz)

66 57 Now Clarence Thomas is crooked *and* an antisemite.

Clarence Thomas.

But Trump invites it, the next guy won't.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:58 PM (fOPkK)

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"I'm so tired of the DeSantis drama. I can't wait to vote for Kamala Harris to make it go away."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 04:00 PM (UVZX7)

67 The reason behind the attack is currently unknown
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So we know, like ever previous attacker so far, he's definitely not MAGA

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:00 PM (fOPkK)

68 64 I wonder if liberal judges getting their dicks sucked by every law school counts.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (MLrvz)

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*breaks out into sweats*
-Kagan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 04:00 PM (UVZX7)

69 35 Wow! This based thread has red-pilled me against MSNBC extremism LARPing as journalism!
Posted by: Chad Looksmaxxing IV
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After Latin Mass for Easter Monday, I'm gonna hit the gym because there's this cute girl I'm trying to impress into a date, Chad. She hates MSNBC too!
Posted by: andycanuck

Doood! You're my AMazing hERo and a Supreme Gentleman! Just Be First hitting that sweet Stacy, and don't forget to bring her to the Cathedral on Ascension Sunday!

It's Over [and out]! --Chad

Posted by: Chad Looksmaxxing IV in chains at April 10, 2023 04:01 PM (VsUo2)

70 "and then interrupting her "trout-fishing trip" to come back on the air "

So that's what the lezbo's are calling it now?
Posted by: Bosk at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (VMFAF)

I guess snizz guzzling is right out, then......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

71 I've never heard of that MSNBC reporter. Should I have? I've already forgotten his name since reading it up above.

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:01 PM (eGTCV)

72 What? You didn't have Clarence Thomas is a Crooked Judge Who Secretly Hates Jews on your 2023 Fake News Bingo Card?

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (fOPkK)

73 yeah, apparently there's some loser white guy, and anti-trumper loon, who shot some people.

although, I think he got popped right after he started.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (MLrvz)

74 66 57 Now Clarence Thomas is crooked *and* an antisemite.

Clarence Thomas.

But Trump invites it, the next guy won't.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:58 PM (fOPkK)

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"I'm so tired of the DeSantis drama. I can't wait to vote for Kamala Harris to make it go away."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 04:00 PM (UVZX7)

They call him DeSatan for a reason amirite?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (eYoxG)

75 I know nothing about Nance, but he sounds like a little bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

He didn't measure up to 'little bitch' when he was *reporting from the Ukraine front lines*.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (gSOJh)

76 yeah, apparently there's some loser white guy, and anti-trumper loon, who shot some people.

although, I think he got popped right after he started.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (MLrvz)

He had a 'weapon of war' so he was able to destroy the entire city.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

77 "...If you've ever wondered why I look 100 years old at 53 it's because I embrace this part of the process. Audiences have a right to demand reporters lie awake nights in panic, and every good one I've ever met does."

James O'Keefe doesn't look like he's aged too much, but he surely identifies with Matt's sentiment here.

Most reporters, of course, sleep like newborn babies.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (/iWhV)

78 What makes intelligent people like Taibbi go fascist? I dont care anymore what the answer is, what is happening in TN should be the END of any more discussion with fascists

I'll take a stab at it. Because he got more attention from them than us. A caller to the Randi Rhodes show asked why Jon Voight became such a right-wing mouthpiece. Her answer was that it's easy to get attention from them. Just spew some hate.

He's smart enough to spot a good grift when he sees one. Now he's got himself a wealthy sugar daddy.

His career has really tanked in the last few years, no wonder he hangs around with the right wing. They never check anything, just as long as it feels right.

Matt Taibbi is leaving Twitter. You can’t make this shit up. Textbook “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party” moment.

Because he got owned by Mehdi Hasan. Mehdi tweeted: Watch me confront Matt Taibbi with multiple, unacknowledged, and glaring mistakes in his Twitter Files reporting.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (c7Kvc)

79 72 What? You didn't have Clarence Thomas is a Crooked Judge Who Secretly Hates Jews on your 2023 Fake News Bingo Card?
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (fOPkK)

Damn. Someone is rigging this Bingo game.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

80 It's nice that Matt Taibbi has managed to dislodge his head from his ass, at least partially, after many long years of huffing his own colon. But I don't care one bit if his former pals treat him poorly.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (ppBhU)

81 Ever since Taibbi went from Russia supporter to red-pilled, he's been on our radar as a potential Danger To Democracy.

Posted by: Lavrenti Garland at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (3QEmR)

82 I prefer to say "I don't believe in coincidences", and in the main I don't. But of course they happen.

The way this guy said it sounded scripted, stupid and focus grouped like everything else out of the lying mealy mouths of leftards.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:04 PM (fOPkK)

83 It's nice that Matt Taibbi has managed to dislodge his head from his ass, at least partially, after many long years of huffing his own colon. But I don't care one bit if his former pals treat him poorly.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (ppBhU)

Sleep with the dogs, get fed to the fishes.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

84 They never check anything, just as long as it feels right.
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I love the smell of irony on the morning. It smells like this guy's mom's unwashed taint.

Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:05 PM (fOPkK)

85 Speaking of dim-witted leftwing reporters has Tater found a new job yet?

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:05 PM (eGTCV)

86 81 Ever since Taibbi went from Russia supporter to red-pilled, he's been on our radar as a potential Danger To Democracy.
Posted by: Lavrenti Garland

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there's like two dozen leftist artists out there trying to figure out who tiabbia should be portrayed as kissing first, putin or trump..but what about desnatis?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:05 PM (MLrvz)

87 "There is no such thing as coincidence in my world."

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(looks at JFK, Nixon, Bush, Waco, Ruby Ridge, September 2021, 2016-2020, 2020, 2021 until now)

Well said.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 10, 2023 04:06 PM (rGOL6)

88 I know nothing about Nance, but he sounds like a little bitch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nance and Ponce are pretty damn similar. Coincidence?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 04:06 PM (eOEVl)

89 84 They never check anything, just as long as it feels right.
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I love the smell of irony on the morning. It smells like this guy's mom's unwashed taint.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:05 PM (fOPkK)

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They still believe in Russian collusion and that W stole Florida in 2000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 04:06 PM (UVZX7)

90 So, this Mehdi Hassan acted like a pretty girl dissing some other girl in the hallway and outgrouping her?

That's a serious question. Was that the dynamic and the forces Hassan thought he was using?

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 04:06 PM (1ais2)

91 Oh, I left out Iraq and Libya wanting to end trading oil in U.S. dollars.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (rGOL6)

92 Speaking of dim-witted leftwing reporters has Tater found a new job yet?

Last I heard, he accepted a professor job at some university, because he's, you know, a galactic brain.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (eOEVl)

93 What makes intelligent people like Taibbi go fascist? I dont care anymore what the answer is, what is happening in TN should be the END of any more discussion with fascists
...
His career has really tanked in the last few years, no wonder he hangs around with the right wing. They never check anything, just as long as it feels right. ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (c7Kvc)
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The first one here did the meme. "I don't like it, so it's fascist." Zero self-awareness.

And the last one is even better. Taibbi - and the others doing Twitter Files releases - brought the receipts. He and the rest of them fully-documented their work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (t0OGg)

94 I love watching liberal journalists come over to the dark side after discovering the left's true colors.

Didn't Matt Walsh identify as a lib a short time ago?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (h1jJh)

95 It's Over [and out]! --Chad
Posted by: Chad Looksmaxxing IV in chains
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👌

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (Vwz3I)

96 73 Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (MLrvz)

They are not very good at Mout, that said the average seems to be 4 wounded and two killed at each of the democrat mass murder events.

Do note we are never treated to an analytic of who is doing the shooting these days.

Posted by: sven at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (Lzpvj)

97 Last I heard, he accepted a professor job at some university, because he's, you know, a galactic brain.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (eOEVl)
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Maybe he can go on a three-hour tour.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:08 PM (t0OGg)

98 Last I heard, he accepted a professor job at some university, because he's, you know, a galactic brain.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (eOEVl)
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God-cursed chimptato hybrid.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 10, 2023 04:08 PM (2hlEI)

99 But.....but......it's MSLSD's truth!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 10, 2023 04:09 PM (BdMk6)

100 Taibbi didn't realize that in trying to conserve the definition of journalism from the people who warp 100 words a day had secretly made him a conservative.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:09 PM (krQz2)

101 Speaking of U.S. dollars and war:

Hey ace, have you reported on BRICS overtaking the G7? War is coming soon.

"April 9, 2023
How BRICS countries have overtaken the G7 in GDP based on PPPs"

https://tinyurl.com/2ywkp22w

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 10, 2023 04:10 PM (rGOL6)

102 100 Taibbi didn't realize that in trying to conserve the definition of journalism from the people who warp 100 words a day had secretly made him a conservative.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:09 PM (krQz2)

Lol they got inside his OODA loop

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 04:10 PM (1ais2)

103 90 So, this Mehdi Hassan acted like a pretty girl dissing some other girl in the hallway and outgrouping her?

That's a serious question. Was that the dynamic and the forces Hassan thought he was using?
Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 04:06 PM

Basically. Mehdi is a mean girl lefty on MSNBC who's butthurt that Taibbi gets better ratings. Especially embarrassing when you consider Taibbi doesn't have a show on television.

Taibbi is also a heretic, like Jimmy Dore. A true lefty who realizes the Dem party apparatus are corporate sell outs, and he's happy to call them out on it.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 10, 2023 04:10 PM (c7Kvc)

104 Trump derangement is a credential.

Like being a trans.

Its a brave new whirled.

Posted by: Feelings, Whoa whoa whoa FEELINGS at April 10, 2023 04:10 PM (vAe1Y)

105 No, I used to work in the news industry, many years ago. If a reporter had a factual error, it was fixed and apologized for. If a writer put editorial comment into a news story, they would be out of a job. Now, all news is editorial.
____

My eyes started to open when I was a wee lad in the '80s. The local fishwrap had a front page "news" article about a Reagan speech that described him as angry and lashing out. I saw the speech, he was good natured and funny. But regardless, a real news story would just have the facts and no commentary on how the writer perceived Reagan's demeanor. Following the news should be what a good citizen does, but if the news is from the biased State Media, it is better to not follow the news.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:10 PM (fs1hN)

106 What makes intelligent people like Taibbi go fascist?

I dont care anymore what the answer is, what is happening in TN should be the END of any more discussion with fascists
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They sooooo don't like fascists.

They sooooo are fascists.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:11 PM (krQz2)

107 57 Now Clarence Thomas is crooked *and* an antisemite.

Clarence Thomas.

But Trump invites it, the next guy won't.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:58 PM (fOPkK)

I just received an email from ProPublica. They want to spike the football, and invite us to see how they broke the 'story'. Their EiC Steve Engleberg and 'reporter' Joshua Kaplan will give the details on a livecast tomorrow afternoon.

This excerpt from the email invite is telling, however:

"For over 20 years, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow without disclosing them. The extent and frequency of Crow's apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court."

Known precedent. Modern history. This is the tell that stuff like this has gone on at SCOTUS for a long time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 10, 2023 04:11 PM (/iWhV)

108 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 10, 2023 04:10 PM (c7Kvc)

So the purpose was Hassan socially ostracizing Taibbi?

Did it work? Is Hassan a pretty enough mean girl to get it done?

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 04:12 PM (1ais2)

109 106 They sooooo don't like fascists.

They sooooo are fascists.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:11 PM (krQz2)

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The only true religion in international socialism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 04:12 PM (UVZX7)

110 Crap. Now I'm doomed to know and remember Mehdi Hassan's name.

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:13 PM (eGTCV)

111 OT, but Juicy Irony of the Day: Don LeMon thought his mic was dead, and so he took a shot at John Stewart. The beautiful irony is that this may be enough to get Don the Amateur Proctologist fired WHEN IT MAY BE THE ONE TIME HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING (Stewart's clown nose on/clown nose off allows him to be simultaneously celebrated as a "journalist" while also not being held to the same standards as other journalists)

Posted by: Wally at April 10, 2023 04:13 PM (FJYfm)

112 More power to Matt!

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2023 04:13 PM (xhxe8)

113 A true journalist, Matt, would remember that I rolled back the ban on network propaganda. I'm hurt that you forgot about my gift to you.

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 10, 2023 04:14 PM (Sv58p)

114 Yes. . . . . F them. . . . .right in their Christ Hayes dirt chutes. . . . all the way, with a blowtorch. . . . again and again. . . . . forever. . . .to their ignominious last breaths. . . . . . .and then do it again. And then let the dogs and the rains take away what's left.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & InfoWhore Leftists at April 10, 2023 04:14 PM (5DfsO)

115 Clarence Thomas.

But Trump invites it, the next guy won't.
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 03:58 PM (fOPkK)
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Exactly.

I'm not exactly the most conservative guy around, but I learned a long time ago, there's no negotiating with these people.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:14 PM (krQz2)

116 Matt Taibbi is still a lefty cuck.

He just said "F*ck you" to the three dudes banging his girlfriend and stormed out of the apartment.

But he still thinks the bad guys are the ones at the bar drinking beer when he comes in needing a drink to deal with the trauma of seeing his girl getting the train run on her on her in front of him.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 10, 2023 04:14 PM (fPob1)

117 while also not being held to the same standards as other journalists

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Imagine genuinely believing you really were being held to different standards than John Stewart.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 10, 2023 04:15 PM (rGOL6)

118 I'm not exactly the most conservative guy around, but I learned a long time ago, there's no negotiating with these people.
Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:14 PM (krQz2)

Who is the most conservative guy around? Is this a competition?

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:15 PM (eGTCV)

119 Military recruiting is abysmal. They can't get enough qualified recruits to risk life and limb to raise the gay/tranny flag over some mud huts and make the politicians filthy rich? I guess the schools are letting too many slip through their indoctrination attempts. More money funneled to the teacher's union should help fix that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)

120 Imagine genuinely believing you really were being held to different standards than John Stewart.
Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 10, 2023 04:15 PM (rGOL6)
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It's easy if you try.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (2hlEI)

121 OT, but Juicy Irony of the Day: Don LeMon thought his mic was dead, and so he took a shot at John Stewart. The beautiful irony is that this may be enough to get Don the Amateur Proctologist fired WHEN IT MAY BE THE ONE TIME HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT SOMETHING (Stewart's clown nose on/clown nose off allows him to be simultaneously celebrated as a "journalist" while also not being held to the same standards as other journalists)
Posted by: Wally at April 10, 2023 04:13 PM (FJYfm)

TFG he just can't help his self. I hope I see him doing catheter ads late at night

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (NtVYv)

122 Who is the most conservative guy around? Is this a competition?
Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:15 PM (eGTCV)

It's Tom Nichols. He always assures us he is. And an expert. On everything.

Posted by: Wally at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (FJYfm)

123 I'll just leave this here. On Easter at the WH Easter Egg hunt:

Q: Are you running in ‘24?

BIDEN: “Well, I’ll either, I’ll eith—I’ll either be rolling egg or, uh, being the, the gu—you know, the guy who’s pushing them out”

My 13 year old Labrador could bark a more coherent answer.

Posted by: Cheri at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (oiNtH)

124 TFG he just can't help his self. I hope I see him doing catheter ads late at night
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (NtVYv)
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Singing The Catheter Song.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (2hlEI)

125 name field test

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (rGOL6)

126 "For over 20 years, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow without disclosing them. The extent and frequency of Crow's apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court."

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yes, he didn't disclose it because it wasn't the rules.

there's a new rule that was probably put in place to zap calrence

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (MLrvz)

127 MSNBC > Monkey Pox

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (DMyTF)

128 Presstitution should be illegal in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.

Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (14URa)

129 They are all gone. Wonder how that happened.

The Louisville Shooter's Inconvenient Social Media Being Conveniently Scrubbed

It is reported that the Louisville gunman was 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon (he/him), who reportedly texted a friend before the shooting saying he was feeling suicidal and “would shoot up the bank”
Shooter was ex-employee. Biden promised Connor that he was going to pay off his student loans if he voted for him?

grad from University of Alabama, Manderson Graduate School of Business

reported: The shooter supposedly streamed the entire event on Instagram Live, and the stream was still active when police searched his body.

They may have to blame this one on global warming.

Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (RHGPo)

130 BIDEN: “Well, I’ll either, I’ll eith—I’ll either be rolling egg or, uh, being the, the gu—you know, the guy who’s pushing them out”

The thought of Joe pushing them out is disturbing.

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (eGTCV)

131 It's Tom Nichols. He always assures us he is. And an expert. On everything.
Posted by: Wally at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (FJYfm)

Isn't he just an expert on expertise?

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 04:18 PM (1ais2)

132 I like how the anti-clarence npc's also assume that "rightwing big business billionaire" is some sort of person with business before scotus.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:18 PM (MLrvz)

133 Matt Taibbi never learns.

Matt Taibbi goes to see the critter and gets stabbed in the back.

Matt Taibbi doesn't get what "Pull my finger" means.

Posted by: Archer at April 10, 2023 04:18 PM (gmo/4)

134 If somehow they manage to run Clarence Thomas out can you imagine what Biden would put in ? {{{shudders}}}

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 04:18 PM (bs+z0)

135 yes, he didn't disclose it because it wasn't the rules.

--

It's modern government at work. See also: ATF

Yes, that's a pistol. Wait, nevermind. All of those 40M pistols that we approved and allowed to be sold as pistols and approved as pistols are no longer pistols, and any pistols bought prior to today are now short barrel rifles and require a tax stamp. Because we said so and shut up.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 10, 2023 04:19 PM (rGOL6)

136 134 If somehow they manage to run Clarence Thomas out can you imagine what Biden would put in ? {{{shudders}}}

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 04:18 PM (bs+z0)

Probably that Bud Light twink.

Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:19 PM (14URa)

137 They are all gone. Wonder how that happened.

The Louisville Shooter's Inconvenient Social Media Being Conveniently Scrubbed ...
Posted by: SMOD at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM (RHGPo)
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The social media sites always scrub mass shooter profiles in nearly real time. The reason I have seen given for it (oddly, never from the social media outfits themselves (who are always mum on the topic), but from official apologists) is to prevent copycats and avoid fame for engaging in terrorism, and to contain political bickering over tragedies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:20 PM (t0OGg)

138 The grunting while Biden pushes out those eggs will be epic.

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:20 PM (eGTCV)

139 Military recruiting is abysmal. They can't get enough qualified recruits to risk life and limb to raise the gay/tranny flag over some mud huts and make the politicians filthy rich? I guess the schools are letting too many slip through their indoctrination attempts. More money funneled to the teacher's union should help fix that.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)

So offending your base to appease those who will never support you is NOT a winning strategy? This can't be right.

Posted by: Big Business and Professional Sports Leagues at April 10, 2023 04:20 PM (FJYfm)

140 72 What? You didn't have Clarence Thomas is a Crooked Judge Who Secretly Hates Jews on your 2023 Fake News Bingo Card?
Posted by: ... at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (fOPkK)

Damn. Someone is rigging this Bingo game.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 10, 2023 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

Its still an improvement of what they tried to frame him with on his entry into the Supreme court.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (eoQWY)

141 Good news, everyone!

Biden White House says the banking system is safe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (FVME7)

142 The reason I have seen given for it (oddly, never from the social media outfits themselves (who are always mum on the topic), but from official apologists) is to prevent copycats and avoid fame for engaging in terrorism, and to contain political bickering over tragedies.

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Ah yes, the copycats that are almost entirely a Hollywood creation.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (rGOL6)

143 So offending your base to appease those who will never support you is NOT a winning strategy? This can't be right.
Posted by: Big Business and Professional Sports Leagues at April 10, 2023 04:20 PM (FJYfm)
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They'll get the army they want - one that will turn inward on the country. Or they can draft.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)

144 Good news, everyone!

Biden White House says the banking system is safe
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (FVME7)
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Well, shit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (2hlEI)

145 Biden White House says the banking system is safe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (FVME7)

And especially in Louisville.

Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (14URa)

146 Good news, everyone!

Biden White House says the banking system is safe
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (FVME7)
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Shit.

Maybe I should get some more money out, just in case.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:22 PM (t0OGg)

147 Yeah, the rules did not require it. But "no controlling legal authority" ain't really an inspiring defense. Our government officials are so on the take across the board that I cannot muster a whole lotta fucks to give here. But it doesn't seem like a controversial rule that government officials ought not to be accepting gifts from anyone.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 10, 2023 04:22 PM (ppBhU)

148 Biden White House says the banking system is safe

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This means that everyone should immediately go and withdraw at least $5000 to have cash on hand.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 10, 2023 04:22 PM (rGOL6)

149
And especially in Louisville.
Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (14URa)

I wonder if they are gonna send Kamala there to scream about gun control again ? It went over so well last time

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 04:23 PM (bs+z0)

150 Wasn't Nance the idiot that went to fight in Ukraine?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 10, 2023 04:23 PM (XMwZJ)

151 They want a military subservient to them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 10, 2023 04:23 PM (Kd/GP)

152 I wonder if they are gonna send Kamala there to scream about gun control again ? It went over so well last time

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 04:23 PM (bs+z0)

Venn diagram this kamalala.

Posted by: Archer at April 10, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)

153 Supposedly Conor Sturgeon texted a friend saying he was depressed, and he felt like shooting up people at the bank, and the friend didn't contact police.? How convenient.....until it wasn't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 10, 2023 04:24 PM (FUVRY)

154 Speaking of dim-witted leftwing reporters has Tater found a new job yet?

Last I heard, he accepted a professor job at some university, because he's, you know, a galactic brain.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (eOEVl)

His forehead is the SIZE of some galaxies....

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

155 I wonder if they are gonna send Kamala there to scream about gun control again ? It went over so well last time

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 04:23 PM (bs+z0)

That bitch Mitch lives there, he can probably handle it for their side.

Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:24 PM (14URa)

156 They want a military subservient to them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 10, 2023 04:23 PM (Kd/GP)

Remember they gots f-15 and shit. We just gots 400 million guns.

Posted by: Archer at April 10, 2023 04:25 PM (gmo/4)

157 128 Presstitution should be illegal in all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.
Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:17 PM

So, uh....at least, uh....it's still legal in, uh...7 states.

Posted by: Former President Obama at April 10, 2023 04:25 PM (c7Kvc)

158 They'll get the army they want - one that will turn inward on the country. Or they can draft.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (t0OGg)
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It's theorized that's why the SS recruited homosexuals.

Their pathology toward the normal.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:25 PM (krQz2)

159 If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
--Chesterton

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:25 PM (fs1hN)

160 Last I heard, he accepted a professor job at some university, because he's, you know, a galactic brain.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 10, 2023 04:07 PM (eOEVl)

His forehead is the SIZE of some galaxies....
Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

Does he have one of those sci-fi super intelligent alien heads that appear to be all brain?

Posted by: N. Lurker at April 10, 2023 04:26 PM (eGTCV)

161 Wasn't Nance the idiot that went to fight in Ukraine?
Posted by: Angzarr

Almost: He went to LARP being a war-reporter on the front lines, from his hotel room way back from the front lines.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 10, 2023 04:26 PM (gSOJh)

162 159 If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
--Chesterton
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:25 PM (fs1hN)

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That just sounds like a fence that needs to be torn down.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 10, 2023 04:26 PM (UVZX7)

163 His forehead is the SIZE of some galaxies....

Posted by: Oldcat at April 10, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Exeter at April 10, 2023 04:27 PM (gmo/4)

164 Biden White House says the banking system is safe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 10, 2023 04:21 PM (FVME7)

This is just like the owner of a sports team saying he has 'complete trust and confidence' in the coach. About a day before that owner fires that coach.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 10, 2023 04:27 PM (/nCD+)

165 Can't say know all Mart KS doing but he seems to be good at digging into the Marxists work.

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2023 04:27 PM (xhxe8)

166 This braless brunette in a mirror has never received evidence that her default "all pressmen are filthy, lying whores" position is incorrect:
https://is.gd/tEwjoH

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:27 PM (t0OGg)

167 Biden White House says the banking system is safe

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fuck!

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:27 PM (MLrvz)

168
I'm not exactly the most conservative guy around, but I learned a long time ago, there's no negotiating with these people.
Posted by: Axeman

They're perfectly willing to negotiate. Mostly they'll negotiate with you about which ear they put the slug into while you're kneeling at the edge of the ditch.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 10, 2023 04:28 PM (n+4am)

169 It's theorized that's why the SS recruited homosexuals.

Their pathology toward the normal.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:25 PM (krQz2)

The uniforms were fabulous!

Posted by: Archer at April 10, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

170 It is interesting to see that Taibbi didn't just follow along with the toady Demedia and then suddenly snap back on some sort of "red pill".

He never really went along with the Trump hoax it seems, not even because it gored an ox he might have wanted to see gored.

He started out not trusting the IC, and the more he heard anti-Trump noise coming out of the spigot the more he figured it was just an anti-Trump channel.

Good for him.

Posted by: Axeman at April 10, 2023 04:28 PM (krQz2)

171 The thought of Joe pushing them out is disturbing.

*red-faced grunting*

*splattering sounds*

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 04:29 PM (Vu7A1)

172 The uniforms were fabulous!

Posted by: Archer at April 10, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

Tailoring uber alles!

Posted by: Peaches at April 10, 2023 04:29 PM (14URa)

173 131 It's Tom Nichols. He always assures us he is. And an expert. On everything.
Posted by: Wally at April 10, 2023 04:16 PM (FJYfm)

Isn't he just an expert on expertise?
Posted by: Thesokorus at April 10, 2023 04:18 PM (1ais2)

He's an expert at eating footlong hotgdogs!

Posted by: Jonah the Wale at April 10, 2023 04:29 PM (53oGX)

174 there goes my $23.11

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:29 PM (MLrvz)

175 nood movies

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 10, 2023 04:30 PM (Vwz3I)

176 Almost: He went to LARP being a war-reporter on the front lines, from his hotel room way back from the front lines.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

All while drinking a Bud light and watching Russian porn.

Posted by: Cheri at April 10, 2023 04:30 PM (oiNtH)

177 I wonder if they are gonna send Kamala there to scream about gun control again ? It went over so well last time

Posted by: It's me donna

"Gun control is, without a doubt, about controlling the guns that need controlled. I love gun control. It's really three circles of gun control. Did you know that? Raise your hand if you knew that!"

*Raises hand*

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2023 04:30 PM (qoGsy)

178 He's an expert at eating footlong ~~hotgdogs~~ sandwiches!
Posted by: Jonah the Wale at April 10, 2023 04:29 PM (53oGX)
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FIFY, you ponce

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

179 Well Joe has spoken . He said most of America wants more gun "safety" laws.... Clever the use of "safety" instead of control

Posted by: It's me donna at April 10, 2023 04:30 PM (bs+z0)

180 Hiya!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 10, 2023 04:32 PM (IbmGO)

181 "Gun control is, without a doubt, about controlling the guns that need controlled. I love gun control. It's really three circles of gun control. Did you know that? Raise your hand if you knew that!"

*Raises hand*

Posted by: Tonypete at April 10, 2023 04:30 PM

I think we've found Kumala's speech writer.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 10, 2023 04:33 PM (IbmGO)

182 I’ll take this left wing cuck over 99% of the clueless divorced from reality “righ-wing” media everyday of the week and twice on Sunday. Pretty obvious most of the people commenting have not read or watched any interviews of Taibbi.

Posted by: JROD at April 10, 2023 04:37 PM (wYgcE)

183 Taibbi left the reservation. He was always suspect since used to stray once in a while and was readable because he wouldn't unquestioningly spew all the left's lies. But now he has a target on his back for this heresy. He may end up in a cell next to Trump.

Posted by: Ripley at April 10, 2023 04:38 PM (cUYo/)

184 it must be odd for committed lefties to bravely report on the truth and find themselves only being interviewed by Tucker.

see e.g., Glenn Gleenwaldo
Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 03:52 PM (MLrvz)

This has been the case for Tabbi and Greenwald for a few (several?) years already. They basically went to Substack or created their own platforms and audiences because literally no leftist news company would hire them, despite their popularity. Greenwald got, what, a few moments of "you go, brother!" for interviewing Snowden and then *poof*, found out that interviewing Snowden wasn't the anti-establishment news greatness that anyone wanted.

I don't believe either man is suddenly "conservative" any more than, oh, Russell Brand is anything but the commie weirdo he always was. And yeah, going on Tucker is about it.

It's impossible for the establishment to be anti-establishment, and the idea that morality and thought MUST be legislated is an idea that has won. At least for now.

Posted by: Synova at April 10, 2023 04:39 PM (BD/yx)

185 63 "and then interrupting her "trout-fishing trip" to come back on the air "

So that's what the lezbo's are calling it now?

Posted by: Bosk at April 10, 2023 03:59 PM (VMFAF)
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It smells fishy.

Posted by: Ciampino - is that my plaice? at April 10, 2023 04:40 PM (qfLjt)

186 Well it's nice to see Mat Tiabi Mattt tyaiiibbi Mut Taibbibi Matt Tiabii Tiiaaibi
That guy think that thing

Posted by: LenNeal at April 10, 2023 04:42 PM (UKCk3)

187 76 yeah, apparently there's some loser white guy, and anti-trumper loon, who shot some people.

although, I think he got popped right after he started.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (MLrvz)

He had a 'weapon of war' so he was able to destroy the entire city.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 10, 2023 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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There must be lungs everywhere.

Posted by: Ciampino -- is that my plaice? at April 10, 2023 04:43 PM (qfLjt)

188 That just sounds like a fence that needs to be torn down.
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I found a website with 1000 quotes from Chesterton. Surprisingly, most of them don't involve a fence.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:43 PM (fs1hN)

189 They're perfectly willing to negotiate. Mostly they'll negotiate with you about which ear they put the slug into while you're kneeling at the edge of the ditch.
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As the last seconds of his life ticked away, Fabrizio Quattrocchi defiantly removed the hood placed over his head by his killers and shouted: 'Now you'll see how an Italian dies.'

They were his last words. The militiamen then shot the 36-year-old ex-soldier in the neck at point-blank range.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 10, 2023 04:48 PM (fs1hN)

190 Here is a Tip
Collecting leaves is nicer in Aprthan December

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2023 04:58 PM (xhxe8)

191 April, my fkng phone is just playing with me now

Posted by: Skip at April 10, 2023 05:04 PM (xhxe8)

192 "Rachel Maddow's breathless conspiracy peddling -- and then interrupting her "trout-fishing trip" to come back on the air".

LOL, the rug muncher jokes write themselves.

Posted by: HR Dept Dibersity Hire at April 10, 2023 05:07 PM (GXA41)

193 a major news organization to just refuse to fix a clear error.
There's your problem, Matt. It wasn't an error. It was a lie.

Posted by: GWB at April 10, 2023 05:27 PM (NJ9MR)

194 then it means we do not have a free press.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 10, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

Understand, though, a lot of these people are not really political hacks. They are doing this because they are Progressives. They - many of them, though not all - believe in the worldview of Progressivism. They believe in its tenets and are perfectly ok with using politics to advance the religion.

So many of them actually believe they are advancing "truth" because it agrees with their Progressive doctrine.

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at April 10, 2023 09:43 PM (vHukO)

196 "Importantly for the next section: He points out Rachel Maddow's method of "confirming" a rumor. If one of her FBI leakers didn't actively knock a rumor down, she took that as confirmation."

What kind of pompous ass thinks like this?

Posted by: The Guy at April 10, 2023 11:22 PM (4cEdi)

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