When people go after someone for being a “grifter”, or having substacks/patreons it’s because they can’t make substantive critiques. It’s a sign of how desperate they are to attack someone they know they can’t disagree w/ in any intelligent, principled or coherent way...
The term "grifter" has lost all meaning because nobody ever bothers to define it or provide any evidence of anything. It's also ridiculous to suggest that someone like Matt Taibbi or Glenn Greenwald are motivated by money. If they wanted to make money, they would have jumped...
on the Russiagate bandwagon. Do you know how much money Taibbi could make as someone who lived in Russia if he wrote books or articles analyzing Putin? And by the way, he was very critical of Putin and engaged in pranks against him & his government when he lived in Russia. He...
is critical of putin. Jimmy Dore doesn’t believe what he believes because it gets clicks. He gets clicks bc people like what he has to say. I disagree with jimmy on some things but I’ve never doubted his sincerity. I’ve disagreed with matt on air. I disagree with some of...
Glenn’s takes.
Sorry. Got a phone call... anyway. There are very few people with whom I agree on everything. But I don’t particularly care what you think about Glenn’s personality, though I find him hilarious. Just engage in the principle. Again, I really think this would be a more...
Productive but obviously uncomfortable conversation about the merits of publishing something that will help Trump even if it’s true. I also think there’s not this obvious line between what’s newsworthy or not. I feel bad for Hunter Biden. And the nepotism is hardly surprising...
But of course if someone from the Biden team gave a story like that about Trump and his kids to The NY Times, it would be published and the people slamming Glenn would cry foul if the times had nots
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