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In reply to the discussion: WaPo hit piece on Taibbi: Should it end Matt's career? [View all]emulatorloo
(44,280 posts)56. How many "hit pieces" has Taibbi written about Democrats? Maybe it is Karma. Btw I first read
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these stories in The Chicago Reader, which is in no way shape or form "right wing". Nor are these "hit pieces."
Beast in the East
In Moscow's Exile, hard news jumps in bed with misogyny and mayhem.
By Martha Bayne @marthabayne
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beast-in-the-east/Content?oid=902762
Most notably, the Exile nurtures a peculiarly vicious and schizoid attitude toward women. While Russian women are rhapsodically celebrated as long-legged gazelles with loose morals"the most physically attractive women on earth, and...usually available to the highest bidder," expat women are ridiculed at length as "fat-ankled" and defensively sexless. Self-hating geeky American men are encouraged to take advantage of the perception that all Americans are rich and have oodles of condomless sex (sometimes in the ass!) with drunk, nubile dyevushkas. Ex-girlfriends are held up to public ridiculeAmes at one point chronicles his threats to kill a pregnant ex if she won't have an abortion. The club listings are rated by three factors: how cheap the beer is, how thuggish the crowd is, and how likely an expat male is to score: "Babes with nose-bleeds and their pot-bellied, cell-phone-totin' sugar dyadyas. One of the highest concentrations of beautiful chicksand heavily armed menin the world. (If you have an 8-ball of whiff you'll get laid.)"
It's not ironicAmes and Taibbi explicitly scorn the bourgeois safety net of ironyand it's not just a rhetorical stance. "You're always trying to force Masha and Sveta under the table to give you blow jobs," complains their first business manager, an American woman, in chapter six, "The White God Factor." "It's not funny. They don't think it's funny." "But...it is funny," replies Taibbi. They take particular glee in trashing several former female staff members in print, taking multiple potshots at the aforementioned business manager's "gorilla ass." They're equally nasty to her replacement, who quit in disgust after they went on a four-month "brain-sucking speed binge."
It's not ironicAmes and Taibbi explicitly scorn the bourgeois safety net of ironyand it's not just a rhetorical stance. "You're always trying to force Masha and Sveta under the table to give you blow jobs," complains their first business manager, an American woman, in chapter six, "The White God Factor." "It's not funny. They don't think it's funny." "But...it is funny," replies Taibbi. They take particular glee in trashing several former female staff members in print, taking multiple potshots at the aforementioned business manager's "gorilla ass." They're equally nasty to her replacement, who quit in disgust after they went on a four-month "brain-sucking speed binge."
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Twenty years ago, in Moscow, Matt Taibbi was a misogynist assholeand possibly worse
Posted By Aimee Levitt on 10.27.17 at 04:40 PM
https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2017/10/27/twenty-years-ago-in-moscow-matt-taibbi-was-a-misogynist-asshole-and-possibly-worse
We have been pretty rough on our girls. Wed ask our Russian staff to flash their asses or breasts for us. Wed tell them that if they wanted to keep their jobs, theyd have to perform unprotected anal sex with us. Nearly every day, we asked our female staff if they approved of anal sex. That was a fixation of ours. Can I fuck you in the ass? Huh? I mean, without a rubber? Is that okay? It was all part of the fun. Fun that Kara was no part of.
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The allegation against Chis Matthews is from the Daily Caller...told everyone this was the
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#12
The point is that it is open season on those who are considered by the other side to be progressive.
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#24
Oh hell no. Abusive assholes dont get a pass because of their politics. Nope.
bettyellen
Dec 2017
#75
Hes always been a pig who trashed Dems-many cheap shots toward Obama and HRC
bettyellen
Dec 2017
#80
It is a witch hunt at this point... but hey, as every pointed out to me...if he is guilty of
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#8
Crude and rude...how is that different than what Franke supposedly did...nope Matt has to go.
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#11
The important thing is to point your finger at women as a better way to excuse
LanternWaste
Dec 2017
#61
I supported franken...but I was told these women had to be believe by many who are now
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#23
hahaha....My kids were shocked that such old people still wanted to 'fool around'...the horror!
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#36
"Nearly every day, we asked our female staff if they approved of anal sex. "
emulatorloo
Dec 2017
#57
Tabbi trashes Dems on the regular. And you support him so what does that say about you and this
bettyellen
Dec 2017
#81
Taibbi for me has always been a second-rate Hunter Thompson impersonator.
bathroommonkey76
Dec 2017
#49
How many "hit pieces" has Taibbi written about Democrats? Maybe it is Karma. Btw I first read
emulatorloo
Dec 2017
#56