The excerpts linked from reddit are stuff that was published in the Exile. Are you saying they’re fake?
Can I get a link to the debunking?
Thanks.
Can I get a link to the debunking?
Thanks.
The Nation: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/963869669076688899
Newsweek: https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/977984283024424961
Guardian:
Keep in mind they literally have 0 accusers, and when the women they worked with were interviewed they all had 0 complaints, and even at the time of publishing the book was categorized as satire. The name "The Exile", IIRC, refers to the fact they were a satire of the piece of shit Americans that Ames and Taibbi witnessed coming to Russia as the USSR was falling in order to ravage the country in its moment of weakness.
Next let's confront Steven Colbert on his past as a right wing nutjob.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi
[2] https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destructi...
Thanks for the links, everybody.
The smear seems to me to have been completely refuted on the facts, and there's a second issue: if it hadn't been, there's no way those mainstream publications would have retracted it en masse (especially not given the social climate around that topic). When was the last time they all did that? It's practically a magic trick to get them to do that.