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In reply to the discussion: The Inside Story of Matt Taibbi's Departure From First Look Media [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)is just another term for "assholes."
I personally witnessed MT being an asshole, and that was in his guise of a journalist, on assignment. He infiltrated (which is okay, I guess) an early meetup for a potential presidential candidate in 2003, organized by some college students in a bar. (I was there.) He introduced himself as a producer of porn movies; and then, on the basis of their looking a bit bewildered or flummoxed at that pronouncement, proceeded to write a hit piece in the Nation about how naive supporters of this candidate were (not okay). Note: these were not campaign staff, just some earnest young people who had advertised a meetup of interested parties (during the days of "Meetup" . Now that's an asshole. Not Gonzo, just asshole.