Reporter Matt Taibbi got Trump some revenge on MSNBC for spreading so many BS stories about him during a recent interview on the network. Taibbi was a frequent guest on MSNBC until he refused to push the fake Trump Russia story.
Taibbi was not invited back on until last week when he sat for a heated interview with MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. He won’t be invited back because Taibbi called out MSNBC on live television for six years of screwups on the Russian story.
Matt said: “The hilarity of this coming from MSNBC, which did nothing but vomit up fake Russian hit stories that came straight from the FBI for six consecutive years, you guys still haven’t apologized for it.”
“Well, that was predictable,” Hasan said “I wasn’t there in that period, so I have nothing to apologize for.”
Taibbi said at one point: “Incompetent? Are you kidding me? You’re MSNBC.
“My God, you guys had six consecutive years of just screwups on the Russia story.
“Apparently I’ve gotten, like, one thing wrong, or a few things wrong, but mostly I think these stories are going to hold up over the test of time.
“Unlike your Russiagate story.”
“I think he did a tremendous public service,” Taibbi said of Elon Musk.
Hasan tried to trash Taibbi for telling House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, it was an “honor” to speak in front of him at a hearing.
Taibbi said: “It is an honor to talk to Congress, it was an honor.
“I’m proud that I did that.”
Taibbi next turned the tables and brought up MSNBC claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was falsely Russian disinformation.
Mehdi said: “I never said a word about the Hunter Biden story.”.
Taibbi called the Democrats a “threat” to free speech while Hasan said Republicans are the “biggest” threat to the First Amendment.
Taibbi later wrote a letter to his Substack subscribers that ended with:
“Audiences have a right to demand reporters lie awake nights in panic, and every good one I’ve ever met does.
“But people who used to be my friends at MSNBC embraced a different model, leading to one of the biggest train wrecks in the history of our business.
“Now they have the stones to point at me with this ‘What happened to you?’ routine.
“It’s rare that the following words are justified on every level, but really, MSNBC: F*ck you.”
In response to @mehdirhasan‘s attempted scolding, @mtaibbi says:
“The hilarity of this coming from MSNBC which did nothing but vomit up fake Russiagate stories… that you guys still haven’t apologized for.”
Mehdi’s defense: “I wasn’t there in that period.” pic.twitter.com/49R56TUCfK
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 7, 2023
.@mtaibbi reminds @mehdirhasan that MSNBC spread the lie that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.
Mehdi says: “I never said a word about the Hunter Biden story.” That’s not true, but say it were: he’s admitting to staying quiet on a scam that enabled censorship. pic.twitter.com/8K9O1U08GH
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 7, 2023
