What does Matt Taibbi do for a living?
Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He writes and publishes the TK News newsletter on Substack and co-hosts the podcast "Useful idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper."
What is useful idiots with Matt Taibbi?
Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper - YouTube Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Matt Taibbi and podcaster/writer Katie Halper Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Matt Taibbi and podcaster/writer Katie Halper
When did Matt Taibbi start writing for Rolling Stone?
In 2004, Taibbi began covering politics for Rolling Stone. In 2008, Taibbi won a National Magazine Award for three columns he wrote for Rolling Stone. In 2019, he launched the podcast Useful Idiots, co-hosted by Katie Halper.
What shows has Matt Taibbi been on?
Taibbi covered the 2008 presidential campaign for Real Time with Bill Maher. He was invited as a guest on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and other MSNBC programs. He has also appeared on Democracy Now! and Chapo Trap House, and served as a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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Who is Matt Taibbi's father?
Matt Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Taibbi's father, Mike Taibbi ( né Loren Ames Denny), is an NBC television reporter of mixed Filipino and Native Hawaiian descent who was adopted by an Italian-American couple.
Where did Taibbi work?
Taibbi later worked as a sports journalist for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. He also played professional baseball in Uzbekistan and Russia as well as professional basketball in Mongolia. Taibbi also worked for a short time as an investigator at a Boston-based private detective agency.
What award did Taibbi win?
In 2008, Taibbi was awarded the National Magazine Award in the category "Columns and Commentary" for his Rolling Stone columns. He won a Sidney Award in 2009 for his article "The Great American Bubble Machine".
What did Taibbi say in his obituary?
Many conservatives were angered by the obituary, in which Taibbi wrote, "Good! Fuck him. I couldn't be happier that he's dead.", although Taibbi claimed that it was "at least half an homage ", claiming respect for aspects of Breitbart's style, but also alluding to Breitbart's own derisive obituary of Ted Kennedy .
Why was Taibbi deported?
He was deported in 1992 for writing an article for the Associated Press that was critical of President Islam Karimov. At the time of his deportation, Taibbi was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball team.
Where did Taibbi play basketball?
Taibbi moved to Ulan Bator, Mongolia for a time in the mid-1990s, where he played professional basketball in the Mongolian Basketball Association (MBA), which, he says, is the only basketball league outside the United States that uses the same rules as the NBA.
Who is on the useful idiots podcast?
In March 2021, Taibbi announced that Useful Idiots would no longer be released by Rolling Stone and would be moving to Substack.
