Matt Taibbi

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: ‘Next Step Down’ From Fox News Is ‘The Third Reich’
By Tom Johnson | October 16, 2015 | 12:25 PM EDT

Rupert Murdoch is in a pickle, and the famously abrasive lefty writer Taibbi is loving every minute of it. In a Tuesday article for Rolling Stone, Taibbi portrays Murdoch as “desperate… because he senses his beloved audience of idiots” abandoning Fox News in favor of Donald Trump, “a onetime Fox favorite who is fast becoming the network's archenemy.”

Taibbi argues that Fox News must routinely dumb itself down in order to stay popular; Murdoch and Roger Ailes, he writes, “know they've spent a generation building an audience of morons. Their business model depends on morons; morons are the raw materials of their industry, the way Budweiser is in the hops business…[But] you have to keep upping the ante to make it work. Trump is…going to places now that make even Rupert Murdoch nervous.”

Rolling Stone's Taibbi: 'American Sniper' 'Ludicrous and Idiotic'; Chris Kyle 'Kind of A D**k'
By Kyle Drennen | January 22, 2015 | 5:23 PM EST

In a nasty screed against American Sniper on Wednesday, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi claimed the Oscar-nominated film was "almost too dumb to criticize" but proceeded to do so anyway, declaring: "Even by the low low standards of this business, it still manages to sink to a new depth or two."

Ana Marie Cox Can't Hide Her Disdain for White Guys
By Jack Coleman | April 13, 2014 | 6:53 PM EDT

Did you know that white men are good for little more than making crystal meth? And that Americans are proudly belligerent and ignorant? At least according to Wonkette founder Ana Marie Cox, as expressed Friday night on "Real Time with Bill Maher" with her formulaic snark.

Cox was a guest on the show, along with GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, actor Rob Lowe and left-wing journalist Matt Taibbi, and talking with them about drug decriminalization when she made the first of two gratuitous swipes, first at American men of pale skin hue, then at Americans in general. (Video, audio after the jump)

NPR, Supposed Oasis of Civility, Promotes Hard-Left 'Enfant Terrible' Matt Taibbi
By Tim Graham | April 9, 2014 | 4:18 PM EDT

On their NPR Books Facebook page, the taxpayer-funded liberal sandbox carries this promotional copy for the latest socialist Occu-porn from Matt Taibbi: "Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail."

It doesn’t have to be technically true (Bernie Madoff, etc., etc.), but you get the point. All this led to NPR’s six-minute interview with Taibbi on Sunday's All Things Considered promoting his book The Divide. No critics of Taibbi were considered. No one at NPR was even willing to address the question of branding confusion: why is this so-called Oasis of Civility bowing toward one of the rudest left-wing bomb-throwers in the world of journalism? (The same can be said for Jon "Rally for Sanity" Stewart, who fawned over Taibbi on Monday night's Daily Show.)

NY Times Hails New Job for Matt Taibbi: No Leftist Label or Mention of Mockery of Dying Pope John Paul
By Tim Graham | February 21, 2014 | 7:00 AM EST

The New York Times defined it as newsworthy that Rolling Stone's hard-left fancifier-fulminator Matt Taibbi is taking a new job with Pierre Omidyar's First Look Media. The headline was bland: "Start-Up Site Hires Critic of Wall St." The Times had no ideological label except "fierce critic of Wall Street." That's probably about the label Karl Marx would get if he wrote today.

The account was short enough to somehow exclude Taibbi's infamous 2005 article on "52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope." The Times account waited until the end to quote typically rabid or possibly drug-fueled Taibbi passages, puffing it as "vivid writing and colorful language" in a "now-famous metaphor" (which a quick Nexis search demonstrates The New York Times has now quoted 24 times):

Supporting a Traitor: Hollywood Releases ‘I Am Bradley Manning’ Video
By Noel Sheppard | June 4, 2013 | 11:42 PM EDT

With the start of the Bradley Manning court martial, a number of famous and not-so famous Hollywood liberals have released a video in support of their hero.

It includes the likes of Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Moby, Tom Morello, Wallace Shawn, and the perilously liberal so-called journalists Matt Taibbi, Phil Donahue, and Chris Hedges (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

Rolling Stone's Taibbi: 'It Should Be Illegal To Publish Poll Numbers'
By Noel Sheppard | October 10, 2012 | 12:55 AM EDT

Just how frantic are the Obama-loving media getting in the wake of their hero's horrible performance in last week's presidential debate?

Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi on Tuesday actually wrote, "[I]t should be illegal to publish poll numbers" (serious vulgarity warning).

Liberal Fox Contributor Takes on Left: 'Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist'
By Noel Sheppard | March 4, 2012 | 11:31 AM EST

NewsBusters readers likely know Kirsten Powers as one of the many intelligent, reasonable, liberal contributors to Fox News.

On Sunday, Powers published a piece at the Daily Beast entitled "Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist" that is guaranteed to be applauded by the Right and heavily ridiculed by her colleagues on the left:

Rolling Stone on Breitbart: He's Dead. Good!
By Rusty Weiss | March 1, 2012 | 8:09 PM EST

And it gets much worse from there...

I almost hate to draw attention to this incredibly sad example of the intolerant left over at Rolling Stone, but quite frankly, Andrew Breitbart probably would have eaten this up, and tweeted it back out.  

In Rolling Stone, Taibbi Trashes Perry as 'Whore,' 'Hitler' and 'Serial Killer'
By Tim Graham | October 27, 2011 | 3:15 PM EDT

In the last election cycle, Rolling Stone was one of the magazines to feature Obama covers repeatedly (one with a God-like aura). This might be the only reason why anyone would suggest to the magazine that Matt Taibbi's unhinged rants (badly disguised as political journalism) that they re-read Obama's speech in Tucson on civility.

The Houston Chronicle offers a handy summary of all of Taibbi's textual tantrums. The article is titled “Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas” and the subhead is “The Texas governor has one driving passion: selling off government to the highest bidder”. Amanda Russo noted "Taibbi compares the Republican presidential candidate to an undertaker, a prostitute, a male underwear model, a serial killer AND Adolf Hitler. Bet you’ve never seen all those things in one article before."

A New Wave of Bigotry?
By Cal Thomas | August 18, 2011 | 12:59 PM EDT

As defined by Collins English Dictionary, a bigot is "a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, especially on religion, politics, or race."

In contemporary culture, those who claim to tolerate everything are intolerant of ideas that come from perspectives other than their own, especially when those ideas are rooted in conservative politics or evangelical faith.

Bachmann Is Latest Target in Media's War on Conservative Women
By Erin R. Brown | August 10, 2011 | 12:35 PM EDT

Liberal bias is rampant among the media, but there is no more tangible example of it than in how the media treat Conservative women. The most recent cover of Newsweek features a very wide-eyed Michele Bachmann, looking surprised and unattractive. Perhaps more disturbing is the caption Newsweek placed below the presidential candidate's photo: "Queen of Rage."

Bachmann, an attractive 55 year-old mother of five, is a three term member of the House of Representatives, constitutional conservative and prominent voice of the Tea Party movement. But if you get your information from liberals or the mainstream media, you might know her as 'crazy,' a "zombie" a"phony-ass broad" and a "skank."