"Today's News" Livestream at 6:30 PM ET
We'll followup on a UK scandal that involves spying on Racket and other journalists
Matt Taibbi and Michael Tracey will discuss the APCO/Labour Together scandal in the UK, in which a Keir Starmer-aligned group commissioned an investigation into Matt and other journalists. Matt reported on this scandal last month. The man who ordered that oppo research, Josh Simons, has since resigned as a government minister. Over the weekend, Simons gave the BBC his version of events. Matt and Michael will break that down and more, coming up at 6:30 p.m. ET.
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I had not watched the Racket News podcast since — you know.
And I actually was curious about the new.
Anyway, I did watch the whole thing today. Is it alright if I long for the former format?
So disappointing, let me count the ways.
But carry on. You don’t need to accommodate old geezers like me. But if I may suggest, if you are serious about 1A, don’t yuck up serious topics when neither of you are funny. Just a suggestion.
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The show today was really a disappointment. I don’t think anything was gained by ridiculing Whitney Webb. What’s more the presentation was dishonest. The clip they used was totally unrepresentative of the substantive portion of Jimmy Dore’s interview. The clip was used to suggest that she looked crazed in some way. It was a personal attack of the silliest kind. It was sophomoric. If they had aired a segment from the first 20 minutes of the interview, their audience would have had a completely different impression of her.
Whitney has done a lot of good work on the encroachment of the techno-surveillance state and the role that oligarchs play in that project. She talks about the data centers with their huge energy consumption that are invading the countryside. She talks about the criminal violence that has been used to silence people who where scheduled to appear in court in Ohio.
We should worry about the undemocratic methods that are being used to bind us to a way of living that will make our existence harsher, less free, and significantly more desperate.