Matt Taibbi

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Matthew C. Taibbi (born March 2, 1970) is an American author and journalist.

He has written about politics, media, finance, and sports.

He is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. Taibbi started as a freelance journalist in the former Soviet Union, with a stint in Uzbekistan, where he was barred from criticizing President Islam Karimov.

Taibbi worked as a sports reporter for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times.

He also played professional baseball in Uzbekistan and Russia, as well as Mongolian professional basketball.

Taibbi served as an investigator at a Boston-based private detective firm for a brief time.

In 1997, he returned to Russia to edit the tabloid Life Here, but later moved to co-edit rival tabloid The eXile.

In 2002, Taibbi returned to the United States and founded The Beast, a Buffalo-based newspaper.

He left the New York Press in 2003 to serve as a columnist.

Taibbi began reporting politics for Rolling Stone in 2004.

Taibbi was honored with a National Magazine Award in 2008 for three columns he wrote for Rolling Stone.

He co-hosts Useful Idiots on Monday, which he co-hosts with Katie Halper. Taibbi has written several books, including The Great Derangement (2008); Griftopia (2010); The Divide (2014); Insane Clown President (2017); and Hate Inc.

(2019) The year has been (2019). Taibbi is known for his brazen style, having dubbed Goldman Sachs a "vampire squid" in a 2009 story.

His writing has often compared writer Hunter S. Thompson, who also covered politics for Rolling Stone, to his gonzo style.

Early life and education

Matt Taibbi was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mike Taibbi, Taibbi's father, is a NBC television reporter of mixed Filipino and Native Hawaiian descent who was adopted by an Italian-American couple. Taibbi's surname is a Sicilian name of Lebanese origin; however, Taibbi is neither of Sicilian nor Lebanese descent because his father was adopted. Taibbi is also descended from Ireland via his mother.

He grew up in the Boston suburbs and attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. He attended New York University but graduated in 1992 after moving to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He also spent a year abroad at Leningrad State Polytechnic Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia, learning about the Soviet Union.

Personal life

Taibbi is married to Jeanne, a family physician. They have three children. Taibbi lived in Jersey City, New Jersey, as of 2014.

Taibbi referred to himself as a "theist/agnostic" in a 2008 interview with Patheos.

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Career

Taibbi went from Saint Petersburg, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he started selling news articles more often. In 1992, he was suspended for writing an article for the Associated Press that was critical of President Islam Karimov. Taibbi was the starting left fielder for the Uzbek national baseball team at the time of his removal.

Taibbi played professional basketball in Mongolia's Ulan Bator, which, he claims, is the only basketball league outside of the United States that uses the same rules as the NBA. Taibbi, also known as "The Mongolian Rodman," was charged $100/month to play, and he also hosted a radio show while there. He had pneumonia and returned to Boston for surgery.

Taibbi immigrated to Russia in 1992. For more than six years, he lived and worked in Russia and the former Soviet Union. In 1997, he co-edit the English-language, bi-weekly free newspaper The eXile, which was written mostly for the city's expatriate population. The eXile's tone and content were highly contested. For example, a regular column in The eXile featured a Russian prostitute and then a long "review" of the woman and the sexual encounter. Its content was regarded as either brutally honest and gleefully tasteless, juvenile, misogynistic, and even cruel. During this period, Playboy magazine featured articles on Russia by Taibbi or Taibbi and Ames. The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel, Taibbi's first book, was co-authored with Ames in the New Russia in 2000. Producer Ted Hope and James Schamus of Good Machine are working on a film based on the book. He later admitted that he was addicted to heroin when he started writing this early.

In 2017, Taibbi was chastised for excerpts from a chapter in Ames' book that described sexual assault of employees at The eXile. Taibbi apologised for the "cruel and misogynistic words" in the book, but said the book was intended as a satire of American expatriates' behavior in Russia and that the chapter's description was "fictional and not true." Although the book includes a note claiming that it is non-fiction, emails obtained by Paste magazine in 2017 include a Grove Press representative who claims that the "statement on the copyright page is incorrect." This book includes exaggerated, invented satire, and nonfiction reporting and was categorized as nonfiction because there is no such thing as a book that is both" or nonfiction.

In 2017, two women depicted in the book told Walker Bragman of Paste that no of the sexual assault depicted in the book "ever happened."

In 2002, he returned to the United States to begin The Beast, a satirical bi-weekly in Buffalo, New York. "Running a company and writing is much too much," He wrote. Taibbi continued as a freelancer for The Nation, Playboy, New York Press (where he wrote a regular political column for more than two years), Rolling Stone, and New York Sports Express (as editor-at-large).

Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, Abe Foxman, and Anthony Weiner's satirical essay "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope," published in the New York Press in March 2005, was lauded by Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Matt Drudge, Abe Foxman, and Anthony Weiner. He left the paper in August 2005, only after his editor Jeff Koyen was barred from publishing it. Taibbi defended the piece as "off-the-cuff burlesque of truly tasteless farewell jokes," written to give his readers a break from his long line of his "fulminating political essays." Taibbi was also surprised by the vehement reactions to what he described as "in the waning hours of a Vicodin haze."

Taibbi joined Rolling Stone as a contributing editor, focusing on domestic and international affairs. He also wrote "The Low Post," a weekly political online column for the magazine's website.

He has also appeared on Democracy Now!

When interviewing Taibbi in a Manhattan restaurant for Vanity Fair, Journalist James Verini said that Taibbi cursed and threw his coffee mug at him and led him outside and half-way around the block, saying, "I still haven't decided what I'm going to do with you." "All in reaction to Verini's comment that Taibbi's book, The Exile: Sex, Drug, and Libel in New Russia, was "redundant and discursive." The interview took place in 2010, and Taibbi later described the incident as "an anomaly from how I've been behaving in the last six or seven years."

Taibbi wrote an obituary in Rolling Stone titled "Andrew Breitbart: The Death of a Douche," after conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart died in March 2012. Many conservatives were outraged by Taibbi's obituary, in which Taibbi wrote: "Good!" He's Fuckered. I couldn't be happier that he's dead." He said it was "at least half an homage" for elements of Breitbart's style, but also alluding to Ted Kennedy's own derisive obituary in Breitbart.

In 2018, Taibbi began publishing The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing: Adventures of the Unidentified Black Male, a serialized subscription via email and a website with an anonymous partner. The book is based on true-crime elements.

Taibbi wrote a chapter in 2019 for his book "Why Russiagate Is This Generation's WMD," comparing alleged links between Trump associates and Russian officials to allegations that Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction that had been used by George W. Bush's administration as the basis for the Iraqi war.

Taibbi argued in October 2019 that the whistleblower in the Trump-Ukraine affair was not a "real whistleblower" because the whistleblower's life was not affected by investigation or being sent to jail. Robert Baer, a former CIA analyst, was also quoted by Taibbi, who claimed that the whistleblower was part of a "palace coup against Trump."

Taibbi, a journalist who specializes in the aftermath of the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis and subsequent Great Recession, calls Goldman Sachs "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, squeezing its blood funnel into something that smells like money." "Vampire Squids" has come to define the financial and investment industry as entities that "sabotage output" and "sink the economy" as they "suck the life out of it in the form of rent," has emerged in financial and political media.

Taibbi went to Jacksonville, Florida, to witness the "rocket docket" despite being offered in foreclosure courts. He was brought into court to speak with attorney April Charney. He concluded that it processed foreclosures without regard to the financial instruments being ruled upon, and that the procedure was expedited to allow for prompt resale of the assets while concealing the fraudulent and predatory nature of the loans.

Taibbi joined First Look Media in February 2014 to lead a financial and political corruption-focused publication called Racket. Taibbi returned to Rolling Stone the following October after manager disputes with First Look's leadership delayed its launch and resulted in its cancellation.

For the free weekly newspaper, The Boston Phoenix, Taibbi wrote "The Sports Blotter." He referred to legal problems involving both professional and amateur athletes.

Useful Idiots, a political podcast co-hosted with Katie Halper in August 2019, was released by Rolling Stone. Since being featured on various podcasts, Liz Franczak, Andre Damon, David Dayen, Cornel West, Glenn Greenwald, and Aaron Maté have all appeared on the show.

Useful Idiots would no longer be released by Rolling Stone in March 2021 and will be moving to Substack. Substack has released it as both audio and video with both audio and video that includes both a free subscription and a paid subscription, with a few changes in program support staff.

He declared a sabbatical leave to write a book in January 2022. Aaron Maté will cover in for him in his absence, as a friend of show.

Taibbi said in April 2020 that he would no longer publish his online writing through Rolling Stone and, in the future, will publish his online writing anonymously through Substack's e-mail newsletter service Substack. He said he would continue to write print articles for Rolling Stone and maintain the Useful Idote podcast with Katie Halper. (Ustack's Useful Idiots, under the same name, in April 2021, but with some support staff changes, it will also be published by Substack). Taibbi said that his decision to move his writing to the newsletter service was made in accordance with the author's request. After a word used in manuscript preparations for publication and journalism, Taibbi branded his Substack newsletter TK news, it stands for "to come," implying that more will follow. Taibbi unveiled a new, paid subscription with content that would not be included in the free subscriptions after a period of free subscriptions only.

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