Matt Taibbi, Elon Musk, Twitter and Media Creeps

<b>What a CreepSeason 18, Episode 4</b><br /><b>Matt Taibbi<br /><br />Matt Taibbi is a journalist who has been described as a “firebrand” and whose writing is reminiscent of gonzo-style writing like the late Hunter S. Thompson (worshipped by white boys since the 1960s.) In the 1990s, he helped uncover corruption in 1990s Moscow with the paper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eXile" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The eXile</a> (along with a former friend and fellow Creep <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ames" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mark Ames</a>.)</b><br /><b><br />As a New York-based freelancer, he went from a mouthy opinion writer for the alternative weekly, the <a href="https://www.nypress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">New York Press</a> to one of the most celebrated investigative journalists for <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/taibbi-trump-gone-whats-next-democrats-1101319/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rolling Stone</a> winning several awards for excelling in reporting. Featured on everything from <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rachel Maddow’s </a>show on MSNBC to <a href="https://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bill Maher on HBO</a> and even on<a href="https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Late Night with Seth Meyer</a>. </b><br /><b><br />Many people on the left claimed him as one of “theirs” who speaks truth to power with bravado, and some of his best-selling books tackled the financial shenanigans of Goldman Sachs, the idiocy of Congress, the march to the war in Iraq built on shabby evidence, and how the media is dividing Americans. </b><br /><b><br />Nowadays, he is a popular substack creator who rakes in millions writing about anything he damn well pleases. This is any writer's dream, but he has seemed to switch from fightin