Matt Taibbi: fact equals fiction when writing, he writes

Matt Taibbi: sexual predator or just a liar?

You can't believe liberals when their lips are moving or when they're writing a hit piece.

Rolling Stone magazine "journalist" Matt Taibbi, 47, author of "Insane Clown President" was a big hit with his choir of anti-Trump leftists, but it turns out he's the one with the bike horn and seltzer bottle.

He wrote a memoir in 2000 detailing his time in Russia and his behavior toward Russian women there, but now he claims his memoir was a work of fictional "satire."

Busted.

The book talks about Taibbi's galavanting around Russia when he and colleague Mark Ames, worked for an English-language newspaper there. 

The book includes anecdotes in which he and Ames apparently mistreated and maybe even assaulted some of the women they encountered in Russia, according to Reuters.

The book, co-authored with Ames is titled: "The Exile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia." 

It refers to Russian women as being "usually available to the highest bidder" and willing to engage in "condomless sex," an excerpt published in the Chicago Reader published.

In a Facebook "Hail Mary" last week, Taibbi wrote that the memoir was really fictional and that his intent was to poke fun at the idea of Americans living in Russia. 

He just forgot to mention that at the time.

Taibbi suddenly canceled a scheduled appearance at a Chicago humanities festival after an interview gone bad with an NPR reporter was poorly received by liberals who still listen to NPR. The reporter asked Taibbi about the memoir.

"I regret many editorial decisions that I made back then [like printing the truth], and misogynistic language to describe many people and women in particular," the liar said. "I hope readers can forgive my poor judgment at that time."

Ames, the book's co-author, quickly followed up with a post saying the book was fictional [even though they lied to their readers in 2000 by passing it off as nonfiction].

"I never raped, harassed, assaulted anyone, and it sickens me that I'm dragged into having to make this sort of denial," Ames wrote, according to Reuters. [But mostly, it sickens him and Taibbi that they got caught.]

Aimee Levitt of the Chicago Reader, notes that Twitter users pointed out that the book contains a note at the beginning saying it was nonfictional.

The question is, which time did they lie?

Levitt writes: "To fail to acknowledge Taibbi's earlier work is to say that what he and Ames wrote about doing didn't matter, how those women felt didn't matter, and, by extension, to say we don't matter, and you, our female readers, don't matter. But we do. And you do."



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