![]() ![]() Not that Taibbi is apologizing for his combative posture. The public self is not a lie or a performance - it’s just, in private, Taibbi is not going to punch you in the face, like his prose might suggest he would. ![]() That could be, if you’ve read Taibbi over the last quarter-century, loaded with possibility: the acidic brilliance or the antic humor or, more recently, the savage scorn he has shown for “cancel culture.” There is a public Taibbi and a private Taibbi, and the more you speak with him and others who know him, the more you begin to understand the difference. “One thing that’s a little irksome, again, in my actual personal life, I could not be more the opposite of that …” The day before, they went on a whale watch. Obviously, I’m anxious about why I’m being profiled,” Matt Taibbi said at the end of our phone call this summer, which had already lasted an hour and a half. ![]()
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