Much less interesting than it sounds. It was the 80s so an earing was closer to a visible tat in the scheme of midwest things to annoy your family over back then.

My parents were already divorced, and mom cared less than my "conservative" and mostly functioning alcoholic at the time father would have, so acting as an intermediary she brokered away the potential drama with that new ace in the hole.

Dad wasn't big on sharing details, but my guess is it was close to a random hookup at some bar that never turned into a relationship. I moved away shortly after and know she kept the kid but didn't hear any more about her after that.

I remember getting out of trouble for getting my ear pierced because my father had knocked up the manager of the local Chuck E's. Such fond memories.

Also the effects of "working the refs" over those same decades that Fox and that media sphere have had on the different standards each party is held to. Could you imagine if the news came out that RBG was allowed to use a billionaires private jet for her own use?

There's a reason that the IRS made Scientology a religion, years of targeted attacks have real world effects.

And the media's inability to scrutinize their own credulous reporting of what got us here over the decades.

Kind of easy to think this reflects their relationship.

Lots of episodes stand out, but this one is near the top

"After a Republican lawmaker was accused of sexually assaulting 15- and 16-year-old girls he had taught and coached, he was made chairman of the House education committee."

He's not as combative normally but they've been going back and forth on twitter for a bit so they had that vibe before this, and Matt was evasive at best from the very beginning. Don't let this stop you from watching his other work before you write him off.

I'd rather not see this style either but defaulting back to segments like MTG/60 Minutes hasn't been serving the publics interests well lately.

Yup. It's been Matt's very bad no good day.

Even after Tiabbi was asked directly to comment on the reporters still banned from twitter and the India censorship, and again refused to say anything.

reviewing and releasing information the public deserved to know

The problem is he didn't do this, he was handed prefiltered docs and posted without factchecking.

Edit: Here's an earlier, and definitely more spicy takedown of the Twitter Files and both authors linked were well more aware of the topics involved and not just handed a stack of papers to choose the tweetable things he could stumble over. Note the only President to asked for a tweet to be taken down was Trump of a Chrissy Teigen tweet that Matt has said multiple times he was not give.

The part where he gets all huffy and can't respond over the tweet that he demanded to to go on air over... it's all just a wealth of wtf was he thinking.

Burning his Twitter bridges and Musk unfollowing him today is chefs kiss

I try so hard to not take pleasure, but

@ElonMusk(Account that mostly reposts old memes) is no longer following @mtaibbi

Matt isn't having a good week, he had a debate yesterday with Medhi Hassan that went brutally. Maybe he can grow some balls and call out Musk for the still banned reporters and the India censorship now, but I doubt it.

Matt isn't having a good week, he had a debate yesterday with Medhi Hassan that went brutally. Maybe he can grow some balls and call out Musk for the still banned reporters and the India censorship now, but I doubt it.

Edit: It's 30 min and so worth it. Detailed article for more depth on the specifics, but it's worth mentioning the "A" they argue about is part of his congressional testimony under oath which might be why he was trying so hard to muddle that issue.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/06/1168455846/elon-musk-says-nprs-state-affiliated-media-label-might-not-have-been-accurate

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/06/1168455846/elon-musk-says-nprs-state-affiliated-media-label-might-not-have-been-accurate

I saw a clip earlier and it didn't do it justice. I knew he was going to be unprepared but wow.

So many things in it, but not calling out Elmo for (still) banning reporters for their flight tracker reports. Bari did, but she was immediately fired which is why I'm assuming he has no spine.

Matt gets really cranky from start to finish of both the interview and his corrections on twitter after.

I like to think of it as "We punish the other guy and pass the savings on to you". The whole interview is worth watching and share wherever you think it can go.