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A couple of days ago I posted about Lesley Stahl’s ridiculous softball interview of conspiratorial nutcase fascist manque Marjorie Taylor Greene.
For a nice contrast, check out this total demolition of nepo baby/Elon Musk errand boy Matt Taibb by Mehdi Hasan:
While Taibbi suggested on Thursday that he was invited out of the blue by Hasan and he begrudgingly appeared on the show, Hasan challenged his guest on the actual impetus for their chat.
“No, I don’t particularly want to,” Taibbi exclaimed when Hasan asked him if he’d like to criticize Musk now. Taibbi added that he’s never had a problem with the Tesla CEO and thinks Musk “is good for Twitter” now, prompting Hasan to flag a recent Twitter exchange between the two.
“You’re saying he’s good for Twitter and good for speech,” Hasan proclaimed. “I’m saying he’s using Twitter to help one of the most right-wing governments censor speech. I will criticize that. Will you?”
When Taibbi insisted he needed to “look at the story first,” Hasan flashed Taibbi’s own March 24 tweet in which he wrote “invite me on your show to talk about it” since “you’re so absolutely sure of what I’ll say.” Taibbi’s tweet was in response to Hasan wondering if the Twitter Files reporter would have a reaction to the Musk-owned social site blocking access to accounts at the request of India’s government.
A floundering Taibbi, confronted with his own tweet, said he’d “have to ask about the particulars on it” before attempting to pivot the discussion back to his Twitter reporting.
The whole thing is like that, and is an example of what happens when a journalist does his homework and decides not to be a stenographer for a “media star.”