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Matt Taibbi Calls Out The Shitshow: "'CORROBORATION ZERO': Steele Dossier Was Always a Joke"

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Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Taibbi's a punk but he's dead right on this, the central ring in The Shitshow, and has been right from day one.

Not surprising though when you consider that he knows a bit about Russia from living there for years.

It was immediately obvious to EVERYONE who knows even basic facts about contemporary Russia that the Steele pastiche was laughably, embarrassingly, painfully stupidly bogus.

No one in Russia had ever heard of Trump-- let alone cared about him enough to risk his neck to bend the rules stipulating that foreigners don't get prize assets such as primo real estate concessions in the heart of Moscow.

The above was obvious to every Russia hand and every journalist who knows anything about Russia, be he or she left right or center on the spectrum, ranging from Matt Bivens former Moscow Times editor to lefties Taibbi, Masha Gessen of The NY Review of Books and Soviet Historian Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton, and the entire Russian press corps, including the anti-Putin Russian liberals.

All of these people knew and said from the beginning that this narrative, especially the Steele garbage, was nonsense on stilts.

The Russians think Americans have lost their minds. They're right.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 01:23|| 2019-12-12 01:23|| Front Page Top

#2 If you don't like Taibbi then read this lengthy and detailed takedown from March, immediately post-Mueller, by Matt Bivens, who has no axe to grind. Before switching careers to become a doctor, Bivens was editor of the outstanding independent English-language publication, The Moscow Times.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 01:28|| 2019-12-12 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Taibbi's a punk

And considering his colleagues that's saying something...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-12 13:50|| 2019-12-12 13:50|| Front Page Top

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