Matt Taibbi
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319 appearances
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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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And by the way, that mistake by itself should be discrediting for a senior academic.
I mean, if you put teachers with an apostrophe on it and you, I guess, think that that means that it's plural or something like that, you wouldn't get it.
past the high school.
And this is the point that's really the central thing.
I mean, think about what's happened in journalism in the last 15 to 20 years, really more the last 10.
We've seen this phenomenon of really terrible
serious mistakes that are overlooked and the newspapers don't go back and either admit it or change the mistakes because, you know, as it turns out, once upon a time, the most important thing was getting it right.
Now, the most important thing is
Is the content directionally, politically in the place that we want it to be?
So all the wrong Russiagate stories, they're still out there because people want that to be true.
Even the publications do.
The same thing is happening in academia.
As long as the person is preaching the right gospel, they're willing to overlook a complete lack of scholarship, a lack of literacy, an inability to communicate.
This is a person who's supposed to be teaching other people how to write and think and can't do it in- At Cambridge.
At Cambridge, one of the great universities of the world.
What message are you sending to people with this?
You're telling them that it's okay to not be able to write, think, spell, use grammar.
What's the point?
So look, if you want to be progressive and I certainly think of myself as wanting to be racially progressive, you're hurting the cause by defending
a person like this and standing on wrong facts and saying a person is not guilty of plagiarism when they are anybody is going to be able to go and check for themselves and they're going to find it out and they're going to conclude that you're lying not just about this but about everything they're going to question every person that you support um so this does tremendous damage to their own movement
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