Lost amid a controversial inauguration week was good news: the launching of a slew of fascinating investigations. Is a golden age of revelatory journalism coming?
I especially liked Matt's take on legacy media's underestimate of audience interest and comprehension. He could have easily pointed to the comment sections of his and other's substacks as a perfect example. I often gather way more information, from just the commenters, as I could have ever hoped to expect from legacy media.
Yes the comments on Substack are top notch. Depending on the channel, you could predict the outcome of the election from YouTube comments as well. As pollsters told us "it's oh so close," the outpouring of support and hope for something different, a lot of it from around the world, I was far more optimistic.
Hey Matt, can you please let us know: Does your non-aggression pact with Elon also extend to Tucker? I ask because when you were deplatformed by Elon you Tweeted that you have ‘continuously declined to criticize’ the richest man in the world. It seems like you’ve continued with the policy in the hopes of getting back on X. Fox was forced to fire Tucker because of his blatant and libelous claims against Dominion as he tried to peddle election lies. We deserve to know if you are trading access to his base for your silence. Please be transparent. Thanks
So if a journalist is mostly accurate, you criticize them for few things they get wrong - or more to the point, for their temerity even to question the party line? Or did Epstein really kill himself and the Russkies blow up their own pipeline????
Matt is compromised. If you openly don’t criticize the most richest man in the world in a blatant attempt to be allowed on his platform, you’ve lost my respect.
Maybe the penny hasn’t dropped for Matt, as it apparently has not for you either, that Elon is no friend of free speech and neither is Tucker. Elon bought Twitter to use as his own personal megaphone and political cudgel, and he is behaving that way every day. Including personally removing accounts of people who criticize him (I dared to mention his hair plugs). Tucker who has been peddling election lies for years is a fan of neo Monarchist Curtis Yarvin, which should tell you all you need to know about his feelings regarding speech.
Oh, me too. But my Hannity hate goes back 30 years to when he had the afternoon drive talk show in Atlanta. Talk, talk, talk, and not funny. I instead listened to the great libertarian Neal Boortz, who was everything Hannity was, and still is, not.
I don't necessarily "hate" Hannity, but I wouldn't trust his opinions. He is the RINO equivalent of the progressives' Rachel Maddow. He's just an out of touch Republican that bends toward whichever way the ratings benefit him.
Hannity has a monotone voice, little cadence, no lyricism to it. Boring and dull to the point I don’t hear what he’s saying. He needs voice training. Many of them do.
Rarely watch Hannity now for that reason- honestly don’t why guests bother going on his show because they rarely get to put in a word with Hannity hogging 85% of available time!
It’s amazing to me how many people respond to the box marked “Tucker”, rather than the human being named Tucker. The former is a package, a brand, and like all brands it represents a fake and unreliable entity. The person named Tucker is original, intelligent and interesting. Sometimes I need but a single point of contact to accept someone. With Tucker it was his change of mind regarding Assange, courtesy of Jimmy Dore, and his change of heart about Iraq. The rest I take on a case by case basis.
Watching it now. I saved for later. My take on Tucker is that he is endeavoring to be open minded for lack of a better phrase. To not be dismissive of things because they do not fit his world view perfectly. Just because one doesn't like XYZ doesn't mean XYZ is necessarily completely wrong or bad or doesn't have debatable points. As far as Russia goes, I think the baseline view he has is that we should not be so involved in this war with Ukraine and since WWII ended 80 years ago and the Cold War 45 years ago, that maybe this is Europe's problem and not our problem. I agree with this. We were dragged along like it was 1979 all over again and the Soviets will be sending thousands of tanks through the Fulda gap and take over Europe and turn it Commie if we don't give weapons to Ukraine and fund its war. The Soviet Union is gone. Most of Western Europe turned Socialist on its own. Russia can barely gain ground in Ukraine let alone invade Europe. There is so much Biden political stink all over this with all that money Hunter took from Ukraine and the Vindman effort to take out Trump last time. Plus the Hillary Clinton Russia scam as well. The Russia is 100% horrible narrative emanates from that domestic politics. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is 100% great or 100% horrible (and neither are we, the US that is, obviously).
ktrip — I used to faithfully record and watch Tucker’s Fox show; which had a lot of good material. But then he started to cover UFOs, and every guest was a UFO believer. I waited and waited for him to put on a UFO skeptic, or even ask a skeptical question or two, but he played it 100% credulous and 100% one-sided. I eventually got disgusted with this, and stopped watching his show. Some time after that he got fired, for reasons I’m not clear on.
So my opinion of Tucker is not that high any more. I think he’s intellectually insecure so he fears bringing on people who will argue with him. He’s a contrarian, which lets him be a big frog in a small pond. I gather that his “coverage” of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is similarly credulous and one-sided. For example, it seems he simply didn’t understand that one of the Orthodox churches in Ukraine was controlled by Putin.
Part of this is that Tucker is a classic example of the “naïve American”, like those suckers who visited Russia in the 1930s, and pronounced that they had “seen the future”. After all, it is Russia that invented the “Potemkin Village”, so they’ve been making fools of visitors for centuries.
I financially support about a dozen reporters on Substack and other independent venues — Matt and Tucker are my gold standard favorites. What a treat to hear their back and forth!! 🤩
On Russia-gate. One avenue that I've never seen anyone fully flesh out is the Admiral Mike Rogers angle. Obama's NSA chief. To me it seems like one of the keys to everything. He went around Obama...didn't clear it with the West Wing... visited Trump Tower and met with Trump. The next morning Trump moved his entire transition team out of that building down to New Jersey and famously sent out the tweet....
"Obama is tapping my wires".
To the best of my knowledge, no one... NO ONE...has asked Rogers straight out... "Did you tip off Trump to what the Obama Administration was doing?" This seems like a glaring hole in the reporting around Crossfire Hurricane and Russia-gate.
No? Let's get this guy on record.
He's been very quiet. He's also Obama's only Security State Chief who was an actual Military Man. Not a pencil pushing bureaucrat.
OH so many stories to cover and only a few true seekers of Truth. Plus not enough hours in the day to listen to all of them. Seems that there is about to be a massive flood of True information to be had. I hope a massive revamp of the FBI , DOJ etc will bring a real change in the way the Fed. Gov is honest with the Citizens of the USA.
Remember there was pressure on Biden to prove he could handle the campeign. What is mind boggling wa the election was SUPPOSED to be Harris v Haley. What NO ONE wanted...
Oh! A golden age of investigative journalism sounds great after today's WSJ's hit piece on RFK as too "Dangerous" to be HHS Director because he'll hold drug makers to the same accountability as every other product maker, and the sea of Medieval Peasants waving rags painted with illiterate slogans against the President voted in by the majority of actual people the slogans supposedly represent. Thank you, Racket News/News2Share for this coverage. It's five hours later in Portugal (where I fled such entitled imbeciles 6 years ago), so I'll watch with breakfast. Thanks, guys!
I always appreciate any opportunity to hear you speak. Tucker seems to have taken a page out of Rogan's book and just lets the guest just answer the questions. Great job as always, Matt.
In an age where personal “feelings” are vastly more important than rational thought, it’s hardly surprising to witness the instinctual dismissal of Matt, Tucker or both simply by talking to each other.
Watched it. You were great. Tucker’s accolades are well-deserved. Thank you for what you have done for us.
I especially liked Matt's take on legacy media's underestimate of audience interest and comprehension. He could have easily pointed to the comment sections of his and other's substacks as a perfect example. I often gather way more information, from just the commenters, as I could have ever hoped to expect from legacy media.
Yes the comments on Substack are top notch. Depending on the channel, you could predict the outcome of the election from YouTube comments as well. As pollsters told us "it's oh so close," the outpouring of support and hope for something different, a lot of it from around the world, I was far more optimistic.
Hey Matt, can you please let us know: Does your non-aggression pact with Elon also extend to Tucker? I ask because when you were deplatformed by Elon you Tweeted that you have ‘continuously declined to criticize’ the richest man in the world. It seems like you’ve continued with the policy in the hopes of getting back on X. Fox was forced to fire Tucker because of his blatant and libelous claims against Dominion as he tried to peddle election lies. We deserve to know if you are trading access to his base for your silence. Please be transparent. Thanks
So if a journalist is mostly accurate, you criticize them for few things they get wrong - or more to the point, for their temerity even to question the party line? Or did Epstein really kill himself and the Russkies blow up their own pipeline????
Matt is compromised. If you openly don’t criticize the most richest man in the world in a blatant attempt to be allowed on his platform, you’ve lost my respect.
Maybe Matt realizes, whereas you don't, that without Musk, the censorship of the Biden cabal would still be hidden from us.
Maybe the penny hasn’t dropped for Matt, as it apparently has not for you either, that Elon is no friend of free speech and neither is Tucker. Elon bought Twitter to use as his own personal megaphone and political cudgel, and he is behaving that way every day. Including personally removing accounts of people who criticize him (I dared to mention his hair plugs). Tucker who has been peddling election lies for years is a fan of neo Monarchist Curtis Yarvin, which should tell you all you need to know about his feelings regarding speech.
I'm sure Matt is clutching his pearls at the mere suggestion that he's lost your respect, Alex.
agree
Just finished listening. It was actually upbeat. I like Tucker's interviews because he lets the interviewee talk.
Hate Hannity for the opposite.
Oh, me too. But my Hannity hate goes back 30 years to when he had the afternoon drive talk show in Atlanta. Talk, talk, talk, and not funny. I instead listened to the great libertarian Neal Boortz, who was everything Hannity was, and still is, not.
I don't necessarily "hate" Hannity, but I wouldn't trust his opinions. He is the RINO equivalent of the progressives' Rachel Maddow. He's just an out of touch Republican that bends toward whichever way the ratings benefit him.
Hannity has a monotone voice, little cadence, no lyricism to it. Boring and dull to the point I don’t hear what he’s saying. He needs voice training. Many of them do.
Great interviewers have a unique ability to tease out the story and not make it about them. Wallace, Susskind, Cavett, Rose.
The Dick Cavett Show was really good. He had great guests and great political confrontations.
Very true !
Rarely watch Hannity now for that reason- honestly don’t why guests bother going on his show because they rarely get to put in a word with Hannity hogging 85% of available time!
When he's not talking over the guests the guests are talking over each other.
Jerry Springer
It’s amazing to me how many people respond to the box marked “Tucker”, rather than the human being named Tucker. The former is a package, a brand, and like all brands it represents a fake and unreliable entity. The person named Tucker is original, intelligent and interesting. Sometimes I need but a single point of contact to accept someone. With Tucker it was his change of mind regarding Assange, courtesy of Jimmy Dore, and his change of heart about Iraq. The rest I take on a case by case basis.
You have described him perfectly. I ignore some of his flights of fancy, but I find him "not miss" for the most part.
Watching it now. I saved for later. My take on Tucker is that he is endeavoring to be open minded for lack of a better phrase. To not be dismissive of things because they do not fit his world view perfectly. Just because one doesn't like XYZ doesn't mean XYZ is necessarily completely wrong or bad or doesn't have debatable points. As far as Russia goes, I think the baseline view he has is that we should not be so involved in this war with Ukraine and since WWII ended 80 years ago and the Cold War 45 years ago, that maybe this is Europe's problem and not our problem. I agree with this. We were dragged along like it was 1979 all over again and the Soviets will be sending thousands of tanks through the Fulda gap and take over Europe and turn it Commie if we don't give weapons to Ukraine and fund its war. The Soviet Union is gone. Most of Western Europe turned Socialist on its own. Russia can barely gain ground in Ukraine let alone invade Europe. There is so much Biden political stink all over this with all that money Hunter took from Ukraine and the Vindman effort to take out Trump last time. Plus the Hillary Clinton Russia scam as well. The Russia is 100% horrible narrative emanates from that domestic politics. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is 100% great or 100% horrible (and neither are we, the US that is, obviously).
Great analysis, thank you.
ktrip — I used to faithfully record and watch Tucker’s Fox show; which had a lot of good material. But then he started to cover UFOs, and every guest was a UFO believer. I waited and waited for him to put on a UFO skeptic, or even ask a skeptical question or two, but he played it 100% credulous and 100% one-sided. I eventually got disgusted with this, and stopped watching his show. Some time after that he got fired, for reasons I’m not clear on.
So my opinion of Tucker is not that high any more. I think he’s intellectually insecure so he fears bringing on people who will argue with him. He’s a contrarian, which lets him be a big frog in a small pond. I gather that his “coverage” of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is similarly credulous and one-sided. For example, it seems he simply didn’t understand that one of the Orthodox churches in Ukraine was controlled by Putin.
Part of this is that Tucker is a classic example of the “naïve American”, like those suckers who visited Russia in the 1930s, and pronounced that they had “seen the future”. After all, it is Russia that invented the “Potemkin Village”, so they’ve been making fools of visitors for centuries.
Or worse - the incessant WWII analogies.......
It could be said that one is 6/10 evil and the other 7/10 and its not clear which is which.
I financially support about a dozen reporters on Substack and other independent venues — Matt and Tucker are my gold standard favorites. What a treat to hear their back and forth!! 🤩
@taibbi
Matt.
I'm halfway through the Tucker chat.
It's fantastic and I love the optimism.
On Russia-gate. One avenue that I've never seen anyone fully flesh out is the Admiral Mike Rogers angle. Obama's NSA chief. To me it seems like one of the keys to everything. He went around Obama...didn't clear it with the West Wing... visited Trump Tower and met with Trump. The next morning Trump moved his entire transition team out of that building down to New Jersey and famously sent out the tweet....
"Obama is tapping my wires".
To the best of my knowledge, no one... NO ONE...has asked Rogers straight out... "Did you tip off Trump to what the Obama Administration was doing?" This seems like a glaring hole in the reporting around Crossfire Hurricane and Russia-gate.
No? Let's get this guy on record.
He's been very quiet. He's also Obama's only Security State Chief who was an actual Military Man. Not a pencil pushing bureaucrat.
He may be a National Hero.
Thanks.
Stephen.
OH so many stories to cover and only a few true seekers of Truth. Plus not enough hours in the day to listen to all of them. Seems that there is about to be a massive flood of True information to be had. I hope a massive revamp of the FBI , DOJ etc will bring a real change in the way the Fed. Gov is honest with the Citizens of the USA.
Hell yes! Can't wait to watch this one! Thanks for the heads-up!!
"To fill the gap left by the collapse of the corporate press!" Thanks for your help with that, Matt, and thanks to Tucker Carlson as well.
Just watching right now. You’re awesome as usual.
Matt, find out who decided to schedule the first-ever pre-convention debate -- that's where the 'replace Biden' plan started.
Remember there was pressure on Biden to prove he could handle the campeign. What is mind boggling wa the election was SUPPOSED to be Harris v Haley. What NO ONE wanted...
Has to be then…….. racking my feeble brain on that topic
Tucker's great guests keep encouraging him to get better and better. Matt foremost among them.
Oh! A golden age of investigative journalism sounds great after today's WSJ's hit piece on RFK as too "Dangerous" to be HHS Director because he'll hold drug makers to the same accountability as every other product maker, and the sea of Medieval Peasants waving rags painted with illiterate slogans against the President voted in by the majority of actual people the slogans supposedly represent. Thank you, Racket News/News2Share for this coverage. It's five hours later in Portugal (where I fled such entitled imbeciles 6 years ago), so I'll watch with breakfast. Thanks, guys!
The WSJ is irrelevant. Self-inflicted wound.
Matt, you look very cool....a beautifully shaped head, very Yul Brynnerish.
Just watched.
Tucker + Matt = stop daily chores, pour coffee, sit down & watch.
I always appreciate any opportunity to hear you speak. Tucker seems to have taken a page out of Rogan's book and just lets the guest just answer the questions. Great job as always, Matt.
In an age where personal “feelings” are vastly more important than rational thought, it’s hardly surprising to witness the instinctual dismissal of Matt, Tucker or both simply by talking to each other.
The comments as Rorschach Test.