Independent journalist and investigator of the now infamous “Twitter Files,” Matt Taibbi, made an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” Thursday where he took part in a debate with the host of the program. It quickly became evident from the post-debate discussion online that neither the journalist, nor the professional script-reader were able to get past their very different views. And that’s not surprising, as Hasan and the other MSNBC ilk are only interested in pushing lies and false narratives that serve to push forward the progressive agenda.
According to TheBlaze, just before going on the show, Taibbi said, “I’m looking forward to it as one would a root canal or rectal. I accepted the invitation because it would have been wrong to refuse, on the off chance [Hasan] was planning a good-faith discussion.”
“Taibbi originally raised the possibility of a public debate with Hasan in late March, after the MSNBC script-reader made a dig at the journalist’s expense,” the report said.
So just how angry is Taibbi with MSNBC and Hasan? Well, he wrote an article called, “Eat Me, MSNBC” on his Substack, so I’d say a good 8 out of 10.
The article was actually written ahead of time in case things had “gone another way.”
“Hasan opened the debate with an acrimonious four-minute introduction, in which he admitted to mocking Taibbi ‘for doing PR work for the world’s richest man’ and noted that Taibbi had, in turn, accused him of ‘being an ardent establishment moralist,'” the news outlet reported.
In the verbal scrapping, Taibbi and Hasan went over the facts and the implications that are raised by the material contained in the Twitter Files. But, true to liberal form, Hasan soon made things personal by implying the journalist lacked competence and integrity, accusing Taibbi of “omitting crucial context” and by posing the question of whether or not he had crossed the line by working to expose collusion between big tech and the government with the help of Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
“The hilarity of this coming from MSNBC, which did nothing but vomit up fake Russia hit stories that came straight from the FBI for six consecutive years, that you guys still haven’t apologized for, is unbelievable,” the investigative journalist said.
In response to @mehdirhasan's attempted scolding, @mtaibbi says:
"The hilarity of this coming from MSNBC which did nothing but vomit up fake Russiagate stories… that you guys still haven't apologized for."
Mehdi's defense: "I wasn't there in that period." pic.twitter.com/49R56TUCfK
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 7, 2023
“Hasan displaced blame, noting he had not been around when his network advanced unsubstantiated claims later proven to be falsehoods,” TheBlaze said.
Taibbi then emphasized that the Twitter Files “are self-contained stories” that are “going to hold up over the test of time unlike your Russian story,” before launching into his own offense, going on to put pressure on Hasan concerning his work in downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“I don’t think I’ve ever written about the Hunter Biden story, so maybe you should apologize for putting words in my mouth. You said at the beginning I put words, I never said a word about the Hunter Biden story,” Hasan replied.
“Aaron Maté of the Gray Zone later noted on Twitter that Hasan had indeed discussed Hunter Biden and downplayed the story, ‘all intended at minimizing it, and the censorship that came with it,'” the report continued.
Here's an example of @mehdirhasan, contrary to his new excuse-making, saying a word about the Hunter Biden story: all intended at minimizing it, and the censorship that came with it. pic.twitter.com/4vu6opItyW
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 7, 2023
“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,” wrote Taibbi in the piece he published about MSNBC.
“Rather than correct course after sources provided the network with faulty or outright false information, Taibbi said, ‘MSNBC did the opposite, hiring seemingly everyone who’d helped them down this reputation-tarnishing path,'” TheBlaze stated.
After royally ripping MSNBC for getting so much wrong for so many years, Taibbi then pointed out,
“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 mea 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,” the journalist said.
Taibbi then stated that is “beef with MSNBC is personal,“ before going on to explain that folks who used to be his friends over at the network have been involved in “one of the biggest train wrecks in the history of our business … 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: F*** you.”
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