Taibbi Says Ex-FBI Lawyer Impeded Twitter Release of Hunter Biden Docs

December 6th, 2022 6:36 PM

As a top lawyer for Twitter, Jim Baker had a duty to his client to put Twitter’s ethics above his own.

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CBS Uses Trump Calling to End Constitution to Dismiss Twitter Files

December 5th, 2022 1:53 PM

Three days after Twitter head Elon Musk and journalist Matt Taibbi released the first report on the Twitter Files showing liberal censorship of New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop stole the 2020 election, ABC and NBC have yet to acknowledge these bombshell claims on their flagship morning and evening newscasts, remaining in a world of censorship denialism. CBS arrived…

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MSNBC Absurdly Claims Twitter Files Makes Twitter Look Good

December 3rd, 2022 10:07 AM

Brandy Zadrozny’s appearance on Friday’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC with host Stephanie Ruhle raised the question of whether or not the duo read the same Twitter thread as everybody else, because Zadrozny claimed Matt Taibbi’s thread detailing how Twitter suppressed the New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop actually makes Twitter look good.

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Even Liberal Guest Schools Maher on Russiagate's Fake Steele Dossier

October 6th, 2021 2:25 PM

On Friday's Real Time show, liberal HBO host Bill Maher demonstrated that, even though he has been recently showing a moderate streak on his show, often being critical of his fellow liberals, he still has a ways to go in accepting just how much the Russia probe of the Donald Trump campaign was a political hit job pushed by very biased, untrustworthy figures.

Lorenz and the False, Censorious ‘Hall Monitors’ of The New York Times

February 10th, 2021 10:57 PM

A recent “Here to Help” New York Times feature on smart-phone apps recommended the encrypted messaging app Signal, given its “excellent privacy safeguards.” Yet most of the paper’s tech reporters seem determined to play politically correct hall-monitor to the rest of the world, finding and squelching any avenue for thoughts that may offend their woke sensibilities, even if they have…

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Maher & Taibbi Lament Media's Trump Obsessions Distort Virus Coverage

May 2nd, 2020 10:33 PM
On Friday's Real Time show on HBO, as host Bill Maher and Rolling Stone magazine's Matt Taibbi discussed the pandemic, the two liberals actually lamented that the dominant media are so anti-Donald Trump that they cannot be trusted to give unbiased information about the crisis and what might be effective against the coronavirus.

Rolling Stone's Taibbi: Mueller Report a Fiasco for Press Credibility

April 25th, 2019 5:09 PM
It looks like Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, one of the few liberal journalists who has been skeptical about the now-discredited Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory over the years, is about to lose even more friends over his harsh critique of the press in light of the Mueller Report findings. Basically he stated on Tuesday that "The Press Will Learn Nothing From the Russiagate Fiasco."
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Scarborough Puzzled Why Even Anti-Trump Writers Are Critical of Media

March 26th, 2019 11:45 AM
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi are not supporters of Donald Trump, but they both have been fierce critics of the media's coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller clearing the President of Russian collusion. That criticism earned both earned the ire of MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday.
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FIZZLE: Nets Gave Whopping 2,284 Minutes to Russia Probe

March 25th, 2019 7:50 AM
From January 20, 2017 (Inauguration Day) through March 21, 2019 (the last night before special counsel Robert Mueller sent his report to the Attorney General), the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts produced a combined 2,284 minutes of “collusion” coverage. Now that the investigation they relentlessly touted has ended with an outcome favorable to the President they despise, those networks seem…

Radical Matt Taibbi on Russiagate: 'Death Blow' for Media's Reputation

March 24th, 2019 3:55 PM
The establishment media is being roasted from the Right AND from the Left as the Russiagate conspiracy -- as a criminal conspiracy/impeachment vehicle -- has collapsed. Leftist author and former Rolling Stone political writer Matt Taibbi is well known for roasting right-wingers with overwrought personal attacks. But he's drawing notice -- even from Brian Stelter today on Reliable Sources -- for…

Thomas Friedman’s Halloween Horrors: Trump, GOP, and Fox News

October 31st, 2018 9:59 PM
Just in time for Halloween, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman tried to scare people into voting Democrat in his column Wednesday. It contained a deathless paragraph that began: "In the midterm elections, vote for a Democrat, canvass for a Democrat, raise money for a Democrat, drive someone to a voting station to vote for a Democrat. I repeat: In the midterm elections...."

Rolling Stone Defends Bernie’s Anti-Bezos Crusade, Blasts Press Too

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September 19th, 2018 5:22 PM
Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders has at least one media champion for his Stop BEZOS Act. The bill, which is obviously targeting CEO Jeff Bezos of Amazon, would levy a 100 percent tax on companies in the amount their employees receive in federal benefits.
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Media Loved McCain EXCEPT When He Got in Their Way

August 27th, 2018 12:50 PM
While there have been many respectful tributes to John McCain in the media in the past few days, there was a time when the liberal press weren’t always supportive of the war hero and independent-minded Senator from Arizona —  particularly when he was getting in the way of their progressive agenda. A look back at McCain’s relationship with the press, over the decades, shows it was complicated at…
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NewsBusters Year-in-Review: The Most Outrageous Quotes of 2017 Part II

December 26th, 2017 8:30 AM
All this week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2017. Yesterday, we presented the most outrageous examples of journalists fawning over liberal or left-wing icons; today’s installment showcases some of this year’s most rancid quotes attacking Republicans or conservatives, NOT named Donald Trump. (The media’s attacks on the president in 2017 will be featured on Wednesday…