NP - Matt Tabbi

Fri Oct 18 17:30:04 UTC 2019

I suggest that anyone who thinks impeachment of Trump is a Deep State
"coup" is a useless idiot. If any president ever deserved impeachment, it's
Trump.

David Morris

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 10:02 AM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Taibbi has a new podcast now through Rolling Stone  it’s called USEFUL
> IDIOTS which should tell you all you need to know about the show, unless,
> of course, you are one
>
> Yesterday’s episode talks at length about his “coup” remarks   A good
> listen for anyone who thinks the Intelligence community is on our side
>
> https://www.rollingstone.com/t/useful-idiots/
>
> That link should take you there
>
> ALLAN in WV where we think we can beat the government
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:45 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I can't tell you how disappointing Taibbi's recent turn towards
> > "America Always in the Wrong" style opinioneering has been to me,
> > personally. First on Russia (which you'd think he would be well
> > positioned to help readers understand, but he's done nothing on that
> > front AT ALL), and now on Ukraine and Turkey? Shit, man. VERY
> > disappointed.
> >
> > I've been following Matt's work since the eXile and the Buffalo Beast
> > for Pete's sake. In retrospect, maybe it was always his sense of humor
> > that I found more appealing and impressive than his analytic acumen,
> > which has been worse than lacking of late... it's been positively
> > AWOL.
> >
> > Jerky
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 4:47 AM peterthooper at juno.com
> > <peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Interesting life that Matt Taibbi’s led. Parlayed a year abroad beyond
> > anybody’s wildest dreams:
> > >
> > > He attended New York University but transferred after his freshman year
> > to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and graduated in
> > 1992.[13][14] He spent a year abroad studying at Saint Petersburg
> > Polytechnical University in Russia.
> > >
> > > Career
> > > Uzbekistan
> > > In the early 1990s, Taibbi moved from Saint Petersburg to Tashkent,
> > Uzbekistan, where he began selling news articles more regularly. He was
> > deported in 1992 for writing an article for the Associated Press that was
> > critical of President Islam Karimov. At the time of his deportation,
> Taibbi
> > was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball
> > team.[15][4][3]
> > >
> > > Mongolia
> > > Taibbi moved to Ulan Bator, Mongolia for a time in the mid-1990s, where
> > he played professional basketball in the Mongolian Basketball Association
> > (MBA), which, he says, is the only basketball league outside the US that
> > uses the same rules as the NBA. Taibbi became known as "The Mongolian
> > Rodman", was paid $100/month to play, and says he also hosted a radio
> show
> > while there.[16][17][18] He later contracted pneumonia and returned to
> > Boston for surgery.[19]
> > >
> > > The eXile
> > > Taibbi moved to Russia in 1992.[20] He lived and worked in Russia and
> > the former USSR for more than six years.
> > >
> > > Starting left-fielder *and* pro basketball!
> > > Well done, Mr T!
> > >
> > > Anyhoo -
> > >
> > > I won’t say he’s right about this, he lost me when he poo-pooed
> > Russiagate.
> > >
> > > But voter suppression is a much bigger cause of Republican victory - eg
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/311099-skeptical-70000-black-voters-abstained-from%3Famp
> > >
> > > Why would Jill Stein have to carry the recount banner alone?
> > >
> > > For that matter, Rahm Emmanuel abandoning the 50 state strategy did
> > lastingly more to lose elections than a bunch of Facebook detritus and
> > Guccifer bozology.
> > >
> > > imho! And leaving Reality Winner’s disclosures out of the field of
> > disdain.
> > >
> > > But as to Taibbi’s current article, at least while swallowing this
> > article, Breitbart et al are also ingesting his description of
> “infamously
> > corrupt individual, Donald Trump, a pussy-grabbing scammer who bragged
> > about using bankruptcy to escape debt and publicly praised Vladimir
> Putin”
> > >
> > > Even if that’s what they like about him, they don’t usually say so.
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Original Message ----------
> > > From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> > > To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > > Subject: NP - Matt Tabbi
> > > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:23:03 -0500
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2019/10/matt-taibbi-finds-his-audience.html
> > >
> > >
> > >  A few days ago, as part of his newsletter, Matt Taibbi published
> "We're
> > in
> > > a Permanent Coup,"  a
> > > denunciation of oversight and impeachment efforts aimed at Donald
> Trump.
> > > This post has found a wide and enthusiastic readership:
> > >
> > > Here,
> > >
> > > for
> > > instance:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > And here:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Here,
> > >
> > >  too:
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Congratulations, Matt, on all your new readers!
> > >
> > >
> > > Virus-free.
> > > www.avg.com
> > >
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