Watching fellow journalists claim the Taibbi piece is mostly or entirely false -- setting aside quibbles about tone or specific examples, etc. -- is absolutely, absolutely wild. It is what happens when you completely cut yourself off from those outside your sub-bubble. Cultlike.
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My 'favorite' part is bringing up the thoroughly debunked case against Taibbi himself from the Exile books written by Ames and Dolan.
Not a single one of these people can imagine someone caring about others without some kind of angle.
