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NBC "reporter" Ben Collins dismisses award-winning real reporter Matt Taibbi as "Substack Man" (twitter.com)
posted 3 years ago by YesMovement 3 years ago by YesMovement +69 / -0
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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 23 points 3 years ago +23 / -0

Taibbi is a legend. He was writing edgy takedowns of Republicans during the Bush era, but somehow his principles didn't go away when Democrats are calling the shots. It's funny how that works, him and Greenwald are two of the sharpest journalists the left has produced in the 21st century. Whereas their mediocre coworkers forgot about the antiwar, anticorp movements by 2010.

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– fauxgnaws 32 points 3 years ago +32 / -0

Taibbi isn't even that sharp, he's just doing his job as a journalist and these days that makes him look like a shining star.

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– WeedleTLiar 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Jordan Peterson syndrome.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

I can't really think of anyone who's that much more nimble than Taibbi as a writer. On some level journalists are all overrated but this is a relative comparison.

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– TomSeeSaw 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

Again, that's because there is no one else left, currently, to compare with him.

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– AntonioOfVenice 14 points 3 years ago +14 / -0

Ben Collins is one of the most despicable creatures in media.

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– MLGS 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

He's such a grimy little worm it's hard to describe him without using racial slurs.

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0
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– jvardrake 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Seriously - what a piece of shit. "Banning our political opponents from doing anything that could hurt The Party coNTenT MoDERaTioN is a messy business!"

Fuck you. These fucks know goddamn well what they were/are doing, and they know what effect it has had on the past two elections. It's exactly what they told everyone they were going to do after the Trump election.

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– WeedleTLiar 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Nitpick: He's not a "liberal", he's a progressive, and thus authoritarian.

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– troon_menace 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Yeah, people that are actual liberals need to take the term back from these shitstains. It's been drug through the mud for decades now, so it's probably non-recoverable.

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– when_we_win_remember 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

I just don't say liberal any more because it's a useless term.

You are a leftist or a progressive or a libertarian or something. What are ya liberal about?

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– troon_menace 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

markets

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– MattTheBlack 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Stfu, this is the same shit liberals always do with changing what they're called and blaming others for their actions.

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– MargarineMongoose 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Is there actually a meaningful distinction to be made between the two? Because I don't really see one.

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– BetterNameUnfound 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Attack the man, not the points.

Typical.

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– troon_menace 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Never thought I'd see Jesse Singal on the side of reason, but here we are

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– Benevolentdictator 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

I only recognize the name for being involved in some whistleblowing that a university in Washington's PR department put out a release about transgender surgery improving youth mental health outcomes that blatantly misinterpreted a researcher's actual findings and still chose not to issue any corrections after this fact was brought to light internally.

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– troon_menace 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

https://archive.ph/YEbtD

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– Benevolentdictator 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Thanks.

What a smarmy little bitch.

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– Steampunk_Moustache 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

believes legitimacy requires you work for a big corporation

Because displays of power are the only thing leftists respect.

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– when_we_win_remember 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Anyways Ben sounds jelly

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– deleted 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

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