Blaze TV host and syndicated radio personality Glenn Beck believes the mainstream media is trying to discredit Matt Taibbi for his work in exposing the “Twitter Files” that purportedly show a collusive effort between the U.S. Government and Big Tech to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story in the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election.
Beck said Monday that every cable news channel has mischaracterized Taibbi’s experience offering the public a skewed view of his professional background.
“He (Taibbi) was a contributing editor to the Rolling Stone magazine and took down some things, but does that make you a journalist,” Beck quipped.
Taibbi is a seasoned journalism professional. He’s worked as a freelance writer in Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Russia, and the United States, writing about everything from finance to sports.
“I think journalists are actually less credible than bloggers,” added Beck. I mean, especially a Substack blogger like Glenn Greenwald and Bari Weiss and Taibbi, I think I’m going to run in that pack and not the others.”
On Friday, Taibbi published a 37-tweet thread regarding information that Twitter allegedly suppressed regarding the Biden laptop story.
“The story was something that was called a conspiracy for a long time,” said Beck. “They (Big Tech) were taking the Hunter Biden story and they were taking advice from the FBI and the people inside of Twitter were the ones who were torpedoing it with advice from the Biden campaign.”
