The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024 -- Chauncey DeVega - Salon

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9. This is one take on Taibbi's views

(which are somewhat oversimplified and cherry-picked in the article – I'll put that down to a need for brevity), but it says absolutely nothing about Taibbi having "been got to," which to me implies that he's been at least indirectlly bought out or pressured to say things he doesn't genuinely believe, rather than that he merely holds opinions that aren't to the liking of DNC leadership.

I see Taibbi as a hard-core Bernie-type liberal who also happens to prize free speech and privacy rights as well as being extremely concerned with issues such as the wealth and income gaps and the kinds of corruption and social decay that such concentrations of economic power tend to produce.

To the extent that establishment Democrats have abandoned their traditional positions on those issues, I have to say my own views are close to Taibbi's.