'Real Journalist' Matt Taibbi joins Trump's Truth Social and defends 'lonely' Jack Teixeira.

[emulatorloo]

Link to tweet

The Washington Post article railing against a lonely, gun-obsessed leaker of real Pentagon documents shows how the national security state backlash will be framed: going after a broad political demographic
for revealing too much wapo.st/3UvaNTQ

[Bev54]

1. LOL, I knew he had fallen but didn't realize how far.

[RockRaven]

2. If someone tells TFG about Substack, will Truth Social block linking to it like Twitter did?

And where will Taibbi go then?

[LuvLoogie]

3. I read one article of his several years ago

I think it was in Rolling Stone. I couldn't finish it. I just got the sense that he was full of shit and full of himself.

I read the article because I wanted to see what the buzz was all about him. I had never heard of him and, ever since, he has lived up to my first impression.

[betsuni]

7. I tried to read one of his old books but the snark and smugness ruined it, couldn't get far.

Full of himself is right.

[gratuitous]

5. "Revealing too much"

Yes, like revealing intelligence sources and penetration, harming our national security posture and exposing the identity of operatives to hostile governments. I'm confident that some information is over-classified, but there is a good reason for keeping our intelligence doings secret even from our allies, and it's not the purview of a "lonely, gun-obsessed leaker" to publish that information.

So, is Taibbi just playing the imbecile or has he decided the price of his soul and taken the offer?

[gulliver]

6. What, they couldn't get Glenn Greenwald?

[emulatorloo]

9. Here you go! Glenn draws false equivalency between Jack Teixeira and Daniel Ellsberg.

Link to tweet

[gulliver]

11. Lol!

[Hortensis]

13. Well on their way. While the Greenwald sorts kick off the pro-Russia,

anti- U.S. government-oppression themes, Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky (et swarms) can blame both his racism and his doomed, inevitable birth-to-prison trajectory on capitalism. Ellsberg and his crowd of course for the nobility of his endangering himself to expose anything government.

What else? Whatever, it's all in the works. Foundations for future lucrative career as a freedom fighter personality being laid as we watch.

Oh, demonstrators! He'll need crowds on the sidewalks loudly demanding his release.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. With friends like Greenwald, Teixeira doesn't need prosecutors

Teixeira's defense is going to consist of "I never thought this was serious stuff, it was just cool shit I wanted to impress friends with". By Greenwald, Greene and others are trying to call him a journalist or whistleblower (although he leaked it all in a place where it had very limited visibility). They are claiming he had anti-state reasons to do it, which will, if accepted, increase his sentence.

[kimbutgar]

8. My husband has two Matt Taibbi books in his library that I want to throw out

Maybe when I show him this he will put them in the recycle bin.

My sisters late husband had art of the deal book. When I was helped her downside after he passed we had great fun destroying the book and putting it in the recycle bin. It was so carthartic!

[Hortensis]

10. :) I'm waiting for the "Greenwald Chomsky et al left" to adopt Teixeira into their

pantheon of government-persecuted leaker heroes. Some delay while personalities torque before they get their narratives pulled together, but I'm guessing that's sure as...sure.

[moniss]

12. It is telling that

you only ever see these "journalists" rag on about the US and never a few certain other countries.