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Matt Taibbi Just Wants To Talk
During his recent interview with Ben Shapiro, journalist and Substack blogger Matt Taibbi talks about how nobody on the side of transgender allies is willing to talk to him. Ironically, during this same interview, Matt talks about how many of his liberal friends have turned on him for reviewing the new Daily Wire film What is a Woman?. In that film, multiple transgender allies had very long discussions with the infamous transphobic troll Matt Walsh. Of the two people who requested anonymity before talking to Matt, both of them were on Matt’s side — one was someone who claimed to be on the same swim team as Lia Thomas, and the other was someone who claimed to be a father in Canada that had his child taken away from him because he did not support them undergoing a medical transition.
The interview also sees Matt talk about just how different the left now compared to when he started. According to him, now all the funny people are on the left, something that Matt also says in his What is a Woman review:
Walsh is a ham and a satirist, a creature we never used to see on the political right decades ago.
Wait a minute, the late Rush Limbaugh used to bill himself as both a comedian and a satirist. In fact, Limbaugh did this so much that back when Keith Olbermann still hosted the MSNBC show Countdown, he would sarcastically call Rush “comedian” as if…