Matt Taibbi
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319 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Matt Taibbi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I remember the first time that it came up in a fact-checking meeting that we had to use the term undocumented instead of illegal.
And once activists figured out that they could have that kind of leverage over media organizations, they started doing it increasingly often.
And once
What ended up happening is that a lot of media people just unthinkingly embraced terms without considering what they really mean.
Gender-affirming care carries a very, very specific meaning, and it essentially means that you can't embrace the idea
that some dysphoric young people like you know say an 11 year old boy or a girl who feels troubled about their gender identity that maybe that person might end up being happy about being a boy or a girl gender affirming essentially care essentially means that you're going to give them the kind of care that's going to make them transition
And so using that terminology is very, it's political in itself, in addition to being factually questionable.
And it's amazing to watch networks apologizing for using the right words.
That, that, that is truly incredible.
And, uh, the fact that they, they put that on the, on the air and didn't see that that's even more embarrassing than the mistake.
Um, yes, is, is incredible.
Uh,
how is that helping no exactly i mean being and as you as you pointed out this is uh you know this is the mother of all stories for somebody on that beat and the last thing you want to do is have to go up on uh all things considered and say boy i really you know f that one up um
You know, that's a career kind of killing mistake.
So it has to be a situation where somebody concretely tells you that it's happening and you get to ask, wait, just to be sure, you're saying that Alito is retiring, right?
Like, you want to double check at least.
You want to try to check it with another person.
Yeah, that that story is either not true.
Like it's it's, you know, somebody else made the mistake and she's falling on a sore or something like that.
Or or it's just beyond embarrassing.
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