You can figure out all you need to know by looking at the “heroes” of the so-called American resistance to empire, if there be any such.
Taibbi, a vulgar drug-addicted, rape-fantasizing plagiarist and shill [his father was a fairly well-known prize-winning establishment journalist and he is almost certainly intelligence-linked] is the hero of this so-called resistance….a guy no better than Hunter Biden, in many ways, except for his well-paid, self-promoting gig as the voice of American “resistance” to such crime families, as Hunter Biden’s.
This is the moral compass of that resistance. Yes, even of the Christian libertarians. That is all you need to know.
Some quotes from Taibbi:
“We wrote a whole bunch of editorials about the size of Putin’s penis”
“…every Russian is a total fuckup..”
[this kind of comment is just fine as long as it’s directed against a relatively powerless group. Try putting in the words New York Jew , instead of Russian, and see what happens. And mind you, I have never criticized Jewish figures as a people or a religious community, only their public leaders and their actions as supremacists.]
he believes numerous western journalists in Moscow are on secret payrolls
[Lila: in other words, he claims they are CIA. Which is a nice bit of cover for the obvious fact that that is what he is.]
“It [Lila: heroin] can ruin your life in so many different ways and so fast before you even know it, but it has the one redeeming feature: being a whole lot of fun.”
obscene sexually harassing reference to Michelle Malkin
Now, there’s some WashPo reporter claiming she was a sexual victim of Taibbi, which I am not sure I believe given that WashPo runs as much disinfo as any outlet and its journalists are half-assets [!] themselves, any more than I believe all the exploits in Taibbi’s book actually took place. Not without serious embellishment in both directions – to make him out to be more edgy than he really is, on one hand – and on the other to shade out all the actual wrong things he did. The idea is to plead guilty to all the bad stuff you think is sexy and will actually up your literary value, so no one will look at the grungy, depressingly pedestrian vile things you really did.
Besides, there is Taibbi’s extensive and documented plagiarism, in my case, of the Goldman Sachs story and the notion of the Koch brothers’ influence, but also from others, I’m told.
Taibbi isn’t really what bothers me, though. He is what he is. I’ve had a couple of people I’ve known like this and I always got on with them….at a distance. What bothers me is the nature of the “resistance” which needs him as a mouth-piece.
It’s not anything I want to be a part of. And it’s probably led and financed from above.