I don’t normally do the “take” thing in my columns, but I’m making an exception this one time, because I just watched the Mehdi Hasan Show interview with Matt Taibbi, and … well, damn. OK, this isn’t really my “take” on the interview. It more a free lesson on how to deal with character-assassination theater, which is what the “interview” in question was.
I am also biased toward Matt (as I am toward you, actually), and I think we are living through history as it happens in real life. It fills me with awe. There is so much crap, and so much dirt, and so much nonsense, and yet here we are, using our hearts anyway. There is stunning beauty in acting honest and brave in the face of all the ridiculous crap. The ridiculous crap is not particularly shocking but the beauty is what's it's about, I think.
Thank you. I'm not part of the Matt Taibi fan club (or hater group) but I view him as a true journalist, which are rare these days.
It was fun reading tweets from Viva Frei responding to Mehdi's post re hit piece on Matt - he was attempting to shame Mehdi -but that's impossible because Mehdi has no shame, he's a mouthpiece for a very corrupt and totalitarian government. Welcome to Communism where the state controls the media!
I noticed politicians never answered the question posed during debates. They answered the question they wanted to have been asked. I tried that tactic on things like Twitter and it seemed to work so well I was thrown off it (and still am). I also notice that the messenger always gets shot so the credibility of the source is always brought up.
'The Lightpaper' is useful for countering the narrative as you can leave physical versions of the newspaper it in shops etc. https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Im a US doc practicing in the NE near NYC. Im in private practice. I never got any of those covid shots. I was smeared by many colleagues. I was kicked off the staff of a major NNJ hospital. Ive been persecuted. When this started happening i was so angry I decided to not be afraid and I definitely went on the offensive. i shamed my colleagues into silence. You cant imagine the fear and hysteria that existed in the medical community in The NE US. Im 55 yrs old, from a jewish family. I grew up w many genocide survivors around me, and veterans. In my youth i attended a jewish education program were we vowed “ never again”. The last 3 years has been like living in an insane asylum. I found your writing mr H in late 2021. When I read your essays I said to myself it was like someone had read my mind
Much like Bill Maher (who is a partial reason I canceled HBO over a decade ago along with its increasingly Woke programming) Matt Taiibi a lifelong Leftist (although now partially reformed) is also responsible for laying a lot of the groundwork for the Lunatics, Marxists & Obamunistas who now control the Democrat party
I find the best way to deal with this is to answer every challenge with a correction.
"You are flat earther!"
No, I believe that the climate predictions are very exaggerated and unsubstantiated, not that the earth is flat. You are substituting a pejorative for a debate.
or to put the burden of proof back on them
is that what you think, or is that what you have been told?
“Instead, you point out what they’re doing. You do this, live, on television. You expose their motives and their tactics.”
Exactemundo, CJ! This is why the media was/is so terrified of Kari Lake—she used to be one of them, knows their filthy playbook by heart, and exposes it every chance she gets.
In addition to the brilliant primer you’ve provided, CJ, I urge Matt to take a lesson from this piece so he can strengthen his resilience to name-calling:
People of integrity who fail to develop a bulletproof stoicism to the relentless lies risk an infuriatingly preventable tragic end like Clemens Arvay’s:
matt is so committed to integrity that he took at least 2 shots of the lethal covid injection and refuses to use his platform to warn the world about it.
afraid he'll lose his normie following, maybe. shameful.
I can't give Matt Taibbi credibility on any subject since he has never admitted that he participated enthusiastically in the 9/11 coverup . Look up his debate with David Ray Griffin on the subject.
It’s what Tranströmer wrote: “The language marches in step with the executioners/ Therefore, we must find a new language.”
Also, is there a more beautiful visual of the left/right “divide” than entire nations of people marching in lockstep? Left…right….left right left. You’re being shepherded exactly where they want you to go.
spot on analysis CJ as always - Matt is hopelessly committed to integrity, to everyone's benefit ultimately - indeed:
"Instead, you point out what they’re doing. You do this, live, on television. You expose their motives and their tactics. You take apart their questions, one by one, demonstrating to the television audience how character-assassination theater works."........
.....at which point the director intervenes, either on his own or as instructed from higher up, cuts the "interview" short and they move on to other programm....uh.....brainwash - is what always happens.....
Character Assassination Theater 101
So true. This is a public service announcement.
I am also biased toward Matt (as I am toward you, actually), and I think we are living through history as it happens in real life. It fills me with awe. There is so much crap, and so much dirt, and so much nonsense, and yet here we are, using our hearts anyway. There is stunning beauty in acting honest and brave in the face of all the ridiculous crap. The ridiculous crap is not particularly shocking but the beauty is what's it's about, I think.
It is always a mistake to expect good faith from the MSM.
Thank you. I'm not part of the Matt Taibi fan club (or hater group) but I view him as a true journalist, which are rare these days.
It was fun reading tweets from Viva Frei responding to Mehdi's post re hit piece on Matt - he was attempting to shame Mehdi -but that's impossible because Mehdi has no shame, he's a mouthpiece for a very corrupt and totalitarian government. Welcome to Communism where the state controls the media!
I noticed politicians never answered the question posed during debates. They answered the question they wanted to have been asked. I tried that tactic on things like Twitter and it seemed to work so well I was thrown off it (and still am). I also notice that the messenger always gets shot so the credibility of the source is always brought up.
'The Lightpaper' is useful for countering the narrative as you can leave physical versions of the newspaper it in shops etc. https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Great advice on how to counter this tactic. Any freedom fighters out there likely to be interviewed should consider this.
Great advice.
Plan A for me is to avoid the hassle, plan B, should I be so unlucky, will be to follow the CJ plan.
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between civilian and military participation”
Marshal McLuhan, 1964.
He must have seemed a nut back then, 60 years ago he called it: hum!
Im a US doc practicing in the NE near NYC. Im in private practice. I never got any of those covid shots. I was smeared by many colleagues. I was kicked off the staff of a major NNJ hospital. Ive been persecuted. When this started happening i was so angry I decided to not be afraid and I definitely went on the offensive. i shamed my colleagues into silence. You cant imagine the fear and hysteria that existed in the medical community in The NE US. Im 55 yrs old, from a jewish family. I grew up w many genocide survivors around me, and veterans. In my youth i attended a jewish education program were we vowed “ never again”. The last 3 years has been like living in an insane asylum. I found your writing mr H in late 2021. When I read your essays I said to myself it was like someone had read my mind
Much like Bill Maher (who is a partial reason I canceled HBO over a decade ago along with its increasingly Woke programming) Matt Taiibi a lifelong Leftist (although now partially reformed) is also responsible for laying a lot of the groundwork for the Lunatics, Marxists & Obamunistas who now control the Democrat party
I find the best way to deal with this is to answer every challenge with a correction.
"You are flat earther!"
No, I believe that the climate predictions are very exaggerated and unsubstantiated, not that the earth is flat. You are substituting a pejorative for a debate.
or to put the burden of proof back on them
is that what you think, or is that what you have been told?
“Instead, you point out what they’re doing. You do this, live, on television. You expose their motives and their tactics.”
Exactemundo, CJ! This is why the media was/is so terrified of Kari Lake—she used to be one of them, knows their filthy playbook by heart, and exposes it every chance she gets.
In addition to the brilliant primer you’ve provided, CJ, I urge Matt to take a lesson from this piece so he can strengthen his resilience to name-calling:
• “Letter to a Mainstream Straddler: Live Not by Half-Lies” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-mainstream-straddler)
People of integrity who fail to develop a bulletproof stoicism to the relentless lies risk an infuriatingly preventable tragic end like Clemens Arvay’s:
• “Requiem for a Smear Victim: Clemens Arvay” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/requiem-for-a-smear-victim-clemens)
matt is so committed to integrity that he took at least 2 shots of the lethal covid injection and refuses to use his platform to warn the world about it.
afraid he'll lose his normie following, maybe. shameful.
I can't give Matt Taibbi credibility on any subject since he has never admitted that he participated enthusiastically in the 9/11 coverup . Look up his debate with David Ray Griffin on the subject.
It’s what Tranströmer wrote: “The language marches in step with the executioners/ Therefore, we must find a new language.”
Also, is there a more beautiful visual of the left/right “divide” than entire nations of people marching in lockstep? Left…right….left right left. You’re being shepherded exactly where they want you to go.
spot on analysis CJ as always - Matt is hopelessly committed to integrity, to everyone's benefit ultimately - indeed:
"Instead, you point out what they’re doing. You do this, live, on television. You expose their motives and their tactics. You take apart their questions, one by one, demonstrating to the television audience how character-assassination theater works."........
.....at which point the director intervenes, either on his own or as instructed from higher up, cuts the "interview" short and they move on to other programm....uh.....brainwash - is what always happens.....
DO NOT COMPLY
The irony of Matt claiming character assignation after assassinating those who question 911 narrative.