Matt literally screaming into the void here, I love it. God knows they deserve it. But they're lying on purpose and aren't going to be swayed by silly things like logic and facts.
Americans are not as dumb and incurious as HRC and the rest of the crooks are counting on. Once the indictments drop the NYT is going to have some explaining to do.
The NYT timeline of events has been destroyed with HRC's plot to tie Russia to Trump - this was Obama's AG Lynch, Obama's FBI Director Comey, Obama's CIA Director Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Powers, Biden and their willing allies in the MSM working together to get HRC over the finish line on a fiction - and doubling down on the fiction to avoid getting busted. Pretty simple story to tell, can't wait for the NYT to get roasted.
Walter's right about the parallel spaceship the NYT readers find themselves on.
The NYT's problem isn't just Russiagate. Explain Biden's melt-down live while the NYT et al were telling the world Joe was as sharp as a tack. Columbia should investigate the fact pattern of errors at the NYT all running in the same direction - in other words a willful, years-long, effort to intentionally mislead NYT readers and the world. The cat's out of the bag - NYT now equals full of shit - why, how, for what reason? Twould make for a good story, no?
The last thing the board should be worrying about is “woke” or any radical ideologues. They had a chance with Jeff Gerth. They buried it and now they will be on the right side of treason and sedition which if memory serves is not the right side history.
Matt is such a talented writer and balanced thinker, but man he is wasting his time thinking he will get them to see the light.
All these institutions exist to prop each other up and try to create a veneer of legitimacy .
Unfortunately for them Covid came along and fully exposed them as propagandists and now they are really battling it out for a few midwits that still buy into their dogma.
To be fair, I don't think Matt really thinks that he's going to change any minds at either of those places. As always, you write to convince the readersalong who haven't solidified their views.
This was just a great way to get back at them using their own methods and standards.
Yeah, I doubt Matt has any delusions about getting them to admit to shoddy, biased reporting. But he has to call out the incompetence and inconsistency just to get it on record. History may look upon this moment as a lesson, and journalists like Matt need to document this.
With respect, strongly disagree - this is the drip-drip-drip that Americans are clearly paying attention to. Why? COZ sharp as a tack MELTED DOWN before the entire world the same year the NYT and the MSM were claiming the opposite.
As the saying goes, even a single drop of water endlessly dripping on a rock will eventually wear it away. It will be an epic battle between the truth and the frantic janitorial efforts of the NYT.
Well, it’s in the public record, which I think is Matt’s point. Perhaps in 50 years the people that refuse to listen will look back on this and say ‘some people, like Matt, knew
I applaud Matt for putting this all together so well. I knew most of it, but learned some new things here. It is important to document specifics on the disgrace that these, once lauded, publications, NY Times and others, have become. Sadly, the entrenched far left elites are still not interested in fully and plainly telling the truth. It does not align with the narratives they will not yet abandon. Oh, they do occasionally throw a small bone of truth out, but they quickly revert back to the narratives. Only constant public rebukes of their lies and omissions may someday force them to completely change course. I encourage everybody to keep this alive until they capitulate and change course.
They will be made to experience shame, or at least its consequences. They may never admit it but the long dark nights of their souls are coming for every one.
Exactly. There is no Russiagate without the amplification of the media.
But even on Dec 9th, the NYT should have been suspicious of this story. They ran a piece at 1:30 saying "Obama asks for new assessment," and roughly 12 hours later they ran "New CIA assessment says Russia helping Trump."
The CIA spun up an entire new report in 12 hours? REALLY?
But this was the narrative, so that's what they went with, even knowing it was almost certainly a lie.
These people (Obama, NYT) are such morale purist, I think they thought b/c Trump said he wanted a good relationship with Trump there MUST be some connection, they just needed time and money to find it!
Can they really gaslight all the way to hell? Sure seems like it. These people make "Baghdad Bob" look like an objective truth teller. Sweet Jesus these people are contemptible.
Matt should send a copy to the senior year journalism students at Columbia to review. Post the articles on the virtual message board for the school and around the campus. And the leader at the top, in huge font? JOURNALISM IS DEAD.
Yea, but at least Matt pulls back the curtain for the rest of us to see how hypocritical & pompous these ppl are. And perhaps some day, conscience & shame will re-enter society as a virtue to be upheld.
I don't know how it's actually staying afloat. Tho' I must admit, I don't give it a picosecond (I just learned that's a trillionth of a second) of thought.
I would disagree. The very fact they felt compelled to defend themselves shows they are on their back heels. Their reputations were already in the gutter for a large portion of Americans, and forcing them to defend the indefensible will only further this -- increasing the costs of their partisanship until they either clean up their act, or fade away into the fringes of discourse.
I thought the head coach of the Detroit Lions had giant balls. But forget about a wheelbarrow, with these people. You need a pit mine dump truck to handle em
I just think reality has a nasty way of inserting itself into the conversation and am eagerly awaiting the show. I will be mad as hell if there are no consequences for this, because it means there will be no consequences for any of it.
I am cautiously optimistic. But what consequences will be enough to compensate for the harm done to General Flynn, Carter Page, Peter Navarro, etc., etc., ad infinitum? That's the source of my anger. After all, Trump is the victor. Or is he?
Columbia, Pulitzer, and NYT are the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public. The Pulitzer Prize committee is full of demoralized commissars who relish the circle jerks of mainstream media: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/pulitzer-prize-committee-propaganda-commissars
At some point, is Matt just dignifying this human centipede by rebutting it at length with the logic and evidence to which it is allergic? If I were him, I would shift gears into mockery and scorn and satirization. That’s where Matt shines most anyway.
Hasn’t he talked in ATW and elsewhere about how his favorite Russian short story is a Gogol or something about two incompetent bureaucrats trying and failing to live independently on an island? He just needs to take up this theme and just laugh at these emperors with no clothes in the legacy media, rather than keep taking them seriously.
"the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public"
If I had not seen what the reference was, I would have guessed that you were referring to our universities, school officials, teachers' unions, academic associations & journals, and professional regulating bodies. Pupils and students are all grist for the corruption that their 'guides' impose on them.
You will never know how grateful I am for this and for every other story that truly makes journalism as it was always meant to be, a work of art mixed with American sweat and dirt. The actual work seems extremely tedious and difficult. All who care to know will have a record to dispute the narrative and if it takes 50 years, it won't matter what they write now. The truth will out. I have been printing all of these stories out, putting them in plastic, and adding them to the collection of important things to know to pass down to my sons and my nieces and nephews. I refuse to let these spineless snakes write the only version because that version is a lie.
I’ve said for years I’d pay for a nicely edited print copy of Matt’s best Substack pieces. Emphasis on the hard reporting on Russiagate of course, but don’t forget pieces like his epic and hilarious takedown of Robin DiAngelo that kept his readers sane in 2020.
Make no mistake I love Matt's writing. However, this piece shows why I think Matt is a treasure. It's old school beat reporting. As time passes a good beat reporter gets better for a simple reason - experience with the topic. Ins, outs, systems, orgs, players, context, where the saints reside, where the bodies are buried, whatever you want to call it. That doggedness along with a gift for writing (IMO) and a devotion to objectivity and truth, is what created this piece. Matt has a few beats. When he reports on one I listen. And yeah, sometimes his writing is funny as hell.
It’s exhausting, annoying and frustrating as hell but a constant and insistent drum beat of “no, you lied and were wrong and no amount journalistic gymnastics can distract from that fact” is required as many times as necessary until the Grey Lady drains their swamp.
These people circle the wagons and lie, lie, lie. The only hope for truth is that the traditional media sources get obliterated because people see through their lies, and we have new media sources who actually are interested in and willing to tell the truth. Like yourself.
They are not only circling the wagons, but digging 6’ x 3’ ditches behind those wheels to duck and cover, while picking off as many attackers as possible. The Old West is alive and kicking today. Giddy up!
Thank you, Matt, for staying on this story and correcting their lies with the truth. Please don’t let up. One thing I especially appreciate here is the measured and factual response to the ”it’s Epstein distraction!” attempts to distract. It seems progressives *always* do what they accuse others of doing!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, "Go Matt Go!" As mind numbing as this stupidity is, I mean consider the source(s), keep it coming until we all have it by memory.
It is horrific this could have happened in America; but it did and we gotta face it and deal with it.
Do you really think the Columbia Journalism Review cares about the facts of this story? Ahem. They're all in it together, surely you know this. Taibbi, you're banging your head against the wrong wall, expecting these deep state sycophants to care about the truth. I look forward to your future investigative work, less so these rants that accomplish nothing. I guess putting it out there for the record may someday be of use, but these brainless gorms still in the throes of TDS are immune to your facts.
Yes, the people with TDS are braindead idiots. But this is the most important 'law and order' case of our lifetimes. And the truth needs to come out. Please don't stop pissing off all the right people.
I have never really understood why the average NYT reader/Democratic voter feels they shouldn’t care about this. If it can be done to Trump, it can be done to them. We all have a stake in controlling the power of the Intelligence Community
Respectfully disagree. “To (two) arms, the British are coming . . .” Our country has 1A. I don’t care about the prigs of CJR. Words getting out. Rut roh.
Matt literally screaming into the void here, I love it. God knows they deserve it. But they're lying on purpose and aren't going to be swayed by silly things like logic and facts.
No, not at all. You, me and everyone reading this are not the void. Even we specks of dust can reflect the truth.
69 percent of Americans want to know more about the origins of Russiagate.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/69_agree_russiagate_requires_accountability
Americans are not as dumb and incurious as HRC and the rest of the crooks are counting on. Once the indictments drop the NYT is going to have some explaining to do.
The NYT timeline of events has been destroyed with HRC's plot to tie Russia to Trump - this was Obama's AG Lynch, Obama's FBI Director Comey, Obama's CIA Director Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Powers, Biden and their willing allies in the MSM working together to get HRC over the finish line on a fiction - and doubling down on the fiction to avoid getting busted. Pretty simple story to tell, can't wait for the NYT to get roasted.
Walter's right about the parallel spaceship the NYT readers find themselves on.
The NYT's problem isn't just Russiagate. Explain Biden's melt-down live while the NYT et al were telling the world Joe was as sharp as a tack. Columbia should investigate the fact pattern of errors at the NYT all running in the same direction - in other words a willful, years-long, effort to intentionally mislead NYT readers and the world. The cat's out of the bag - NYT now equals full of shit - why, how, for what reason? Twould make for a good story, no?
That 69% is close to the mirror image of the 35% that say they still support the Dems.
Take a look at at their board. Woke City. Desperate attempt to remain relevant with woke subscribers.
The last thing the board should be worrying about is “woke” or any radical ideologues. They had a chance with Jeff Gerth. They buried it and now they will be on the right side of treason and sedition which if memory serves is not the right side history.
Matt is such a talented writer and balanced thinker, but man he is wasting his time thinking he will get them to see the light.
All these institutions exist to prop each other up and try to create a veneer of legitimacy .
Unfortunately for them Covid came along and fully exposed them as propagandists and now they are really battling it out for a few midwits that still buy into their dogma.
To be fair, I don't think Matt really thinks that he's going to change any minds at either of those places. As always, you write to convince the readersalong who haven't solidified their views.
This was just a great way to get back at them using their own methods and standards.
Yeah, I doubt Matt has any delusions about getting them to admit to shoddy, biased reporting. But he has to call out the incompetence and inconsistency just to get it on record. History may look upon this moment as a lesson, and journalists like Matt need to document this.
If only Matt were the dean of journalism at Columbia. Is there such a thing?
There's probably a whole "office of the dean" or some shit with at least 15 layers of management within it including its own DEI dept.
With respect, strongly disagree - this is the drip-drip-drip that Americans are clearly paying attention to. Why? COZ sharp as a tack MELTED DOWN before the entire world the same year the NYT and the MSM were claiming the opposite.
The only folks not willing to believe Matt at this point are those invested in the crime, which isn't most of America. https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/69_agree_russiagate_requires_accountability
As the saying goes, even a single drop of water endlessly dripping on a rock will eventually wear it away. It will be an epic battle between the truth and the frantic janitorial efforts of the NYT.
Well, it’s in the public record, which I think is Matt’s point. Perhaps in 50 years the people that refuse to listen will look back on this and say ‘some people, like Matt, knew
Matt is memorializing this, not trying to change minds. I thank him for the effort.
Exactly!
I applaud Matt for putting this all together so well. I knew most of it, but learned some new things here. It is important to document specifics on the disgrace that these, once lauded, publications, NY Times and others, have become. Sadly, the entrenched far left elites are still not interested in fully and plainly telling the truth. It does not align with the narratives they will not yet abandon. Oh, they do occasionally throw a small bone of truth out, but they quickly revert back to the narratives. Only constant public rebukes of their lies and omissions may someday force them to completely change course. I encourage everybody to keep this alive until they capitulate and change course.
May MT "Live long and prosper"!
They will be made to experience shame, or at least its consequences. They may never admit it but the long dark nights of their souls are coming for every one.
You can’t shame the shameless.
Sorry, I can't like this one thousand times
"Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. "
And I'll love every minute of it.
I don't care if they ever admit it, as long as they're still staring at their stainless steel sink/commode in 2050.
They can only continue to lie. There's no other way for them.
But we know.
They know we know.
We know they know we know.
You don't hate the media enough - you think you do, but you don't. https://x.com/Evans_Wroten
Exactly. There is no Russiagate without the amplification of the media.
But even on Dec 9th, the NYT should have been suspicious of this story. They ran a piece at 1:30 saying "Obama asks for new assessment," and roughly 12 hours later they ran "New CIA assessment says Russia helping Trump."
The CIA spun up an entire new report in 12 hours? REALLY?
But this was the narrative, so that's what they went with, even knowing it was almost certainly a lie.
Word
These people (Obama, NYT) are such morale purist, I think they thought b/c Trump said he wanted a good relationship with Trump there MUST be some connection, they just needed time and money to find it!
Can they really gaslight all the way to hell? Sure seems like it. These people make "Baghdad Bob" look like an objective truth teller. Sweet Jesus these people are contemptible.
A re-read of Dante's "Inferno" is entirely appropriate here.
They can try, but every day they lose more and more viewers.
Matt should send a copy to the senior year journalism students at Columbia to review. Post the articles on the virtual message board for the school and around the campus. And the leader at the top, in huge font? JOURNALISM IS DEAD.
Yea, but at least Matt pulls back the curtain for the rest of us to see how hypocritical & pompous these ppl are. And perhaps some day, conscience & shame will re-enter society as a virtue to be upheld.
Oh for sure, it's a vital service he's doing for the rest of us. But the NYT sort of has to go down -- and it should.
I don't know how it's actually staying afloat. Tho' I must admit, I don't give it a picosecond (I just learned that's a trillionth of a second) of thought.
I would disagree. The very fact they felt compelled to defend themselves shows they are on their back heels. Their reputations were already in the gutter for a large portion of Americans, and forcing them to defend the indefensible will only further this -- increasing the costs of their partisanship until they either clean up their act, or fade away into the fringes of discourse.
I thought the head coach of the Detroit Lions had giant balls. But forget about a wheelbarrow, with these people. You need a pit mine dump truck to handle em
Agree. There is no incentive for them to acknowledge their misdeeds. They will ride this out with lies. This is armwrestling. Don't flinch!
You're polite. I'm mad as hell. I call Matt's brilliant letter "p*ssing into the wind". Your third sentence says it all.
I just think reality has a nasty way of inserting itself into the conversation and am eagerly awaiting the show. I will be mad as hell if there are no consequences for this, because it means there will be no consequences for any of it.
I am cautiously optimistic. But what consequences will be enough to compensate for the harm done to General Flynn, Carter Page, Peter Navarro, etc., etc., ad infinitum? That's the source of my anger. After all, Trump is the victor. Or is he?
My immediate reaction to this remarkable piece, in brief was: “Screams Without Words” “
Columbia, Pulitzer, and NYT are the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public. The Pulitzer Prize committee is full of demoralized commissars who relish the circle jerks of mainstream media: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/pulitzer-prize-committee-propaganda-commissars
At some point, is Matt just dignifying this human centipede by rebutting it at length with the logic and evidence to which it is allergic? If I were him, I would shift gears into mockery and scorn and satirization. That’s where Matt shines most anyway.
Hasn’t he talked in ATW and elsewhere about how his favorite Russian short story is a Gogol or something about two incompetent bureaucrats trying and failing to live independently on an island? He just needs to take up this theme and just laugh at these emperors with no clothes in the legacy media, rather than keep taking them seriously.
It's what we call "casting our pearls before swine."
Not a delightful image, but an apt description.
Yep, human centipede circle jerks. Whole lotta Somethin goin on -- and it sure ain't pretty...
Using cuttlefish, not vanilla paste.
"the human centipede of agitprop slop. They feed lies into each other’s mouths, then defecate them onto the public"
If I had not seen what the reference was, I would have guessed that you were referring to our universities, school officials, teachers' unions, academic associations & journals, and professional regulating bodies. Pupils and students are all grist for the corruption that their 'guides' impose on them.
You have an amazing way with words. Bravo!
You will never know how grateful I am for this and for every other story that truly makes journalism as it was always meant to be, a work of art mixed with American sweat and dirt. The actual work seems extremely tedious and difficult. All who care to know will have a record to dispute the narrative and if it takes 50 years, it won't matter what they write now. The truth will out. I have been printing all of these stories out, putting them in plastic, and adding them to the collection of important things to know to pass down to my sons and my nieces and nephews. I refuse to let these spineless snakes write the only version because that version is a lie.
I’ve said for years I’d pay for a nicely edited print copy of Matt’s best Substack pieces. Emphasis on the hard reporting on Russiagate of course, but don’t forget pieces like his epic and hilarious takedown of Robin DiAngelo that kept his readers sane in 2020.
Make no mistake I love Matt's writing. However, this piece shows why I think Matt is a treasure. It's old school beat reporting. As time passes a good beat reporter gets better for a simple reason - experience with the topic. Ins, outs, systems, orgs, players, context, where the saints reside, where the bodies are buried, whatever you want to call it. That doggedness along with a gift for writing (IMO) and a devotion to objectivity and truth, is what created this piece. Matt has a few beats. When he reports on one I listen. And yeah, sometimes his writing is funny as hell.
I liked when he chronicled Kathryn Maher’s joyless holidays
Brava, Brandy, well said!
Thank you 😊
Bravo!
I’ve noticed more TV journalists and podcasters are quoting you on this huge story
We need you
It’s exhausting, annoying and frustrating as hell but a constant and insistent drum beat of “no, you lied and were wrong and no amount journalistic gymnastics can distract from that fact” is required as many times as necessary until the Grey Lady drains their swamp.
agree
YES MATT!
Fabulous article, Matt. You lay it all out in meticulous fashion. You are a real journalist.
Matt so overmatches the NYT
Just the use of the word “messy” in an alleged news story? What editor would let that happen? It is all POV now, and their POV is being exposed.
This country’s salvation is new media.
Forget it, Matt. It’s Chinatown.
My favorite movie of all time, but NO!
We will NOT allow this.
She's my sister... She's my daughter!
John Huston on the Cuban cigars. " Rolled on the plump white thighs of virgins". Everyone has a line they remember from Chinatown.
Exactly why I like the movie.
These people circle the wagons and lie, lie, lie. The only hope for truth is that the traditional media sources get obliterated because people see through their lies, and we have new media sources who actually are interested in and willing to tell the truth. Like yourself.
They are not only circling the wagons, but digging 6’ x 3’ ditches behind those wheels to duck and cover, while picking off as many attackers as possible. The Old West is alive and kicking today. Giddy up!
Thank you, Matt, for staying on this story and correcting their lies with the truth. Please don’t let up. One thing I especially appreciate here is the measured and factual response to the ”it’s Epstein distraction!” attempts to distract. It seems progressives *always* do what they accuse others of doing!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, "Go Matt Go!" As mind numbing as this stupidity is, I mean consider the source(s), keep it coming until we all have it by memory.
It is horrific this could have happened in America; but it did and we gotta face it and deal with it.
Cathartic. I needed that.
Matt is on the right side of history. This must be said.
Do you really think the Columbia Journalism Review cares about the facts of this story? Ahem. They're all in it together, surely you know this. Taibbi, you're banging your head against the wrong wall, expecting these deep state sycophants to care about the truth. I look forward to your future investigative work, less so these rants that accomplish nothing. I guess putting it out there for the record may someday be of use, but these brainless gorms still in the throes of TDS are immune to your facts.
1000% disagree.
Yes, the people with TDS are braindead idiots. But this is the most important 'law and order' case of our lifetimes. And the truth needs to come out. Please don't stop pissing off all the right people.
The truth does need to come out, hopefully in a court of law. But neither the Columbia Journalism Review nor the New York Times are going to listen.
I have never really understood why the average NYT reader/Democratic voter feels they shouldn’t care about this. If it can be done to Trump, it can be done to them. We all have a stake in controlling the power of the Intelligence Community
Respectfully disagree. “To (two) arms, the British are coming . . .” Our country has 1A. I don’t care about the prigs of CJR. Words getting out. Rut roh.