Not particularly fair, or accurate IMO. Too many of his sources (apart from the book) go to msm hit pieces, and the author relies on guilt by association (Cruz, Peterson, Jones, Carlson etc) and petty tribalism rather than engagement with what Taibbi or Greenwald have actually said. So what if they share spaces and have friendly discussions with these people? Isn't there a value to introducing people on the right to their work? As long as they don't play along with opinions that run counter to their core principles, I don't see the problem. He claims Taibbi and Greenwald have gone soft on free speech since Trump, but that doesn't appear to be the case at least with Greenwald, who has come out strongly on the recent arrest of the pro-Palestine protester at Columbia. Due Dissidence covered this recently, acknowledging how their own material has attracted the MAGA crowd, but noting that sticking to their principles will entail either alienating & driving away, or - *shock* - successfully persuading that audience over to their point of view. They also say that Greenwald lost 10-15% of paid subscribers to his rumble show over stances he's taken since Oct 7th:





I don't know enough about Taibbi to comment, but I expect Dore will be losing a lot of his audience over his anti-Israel stance too.

Back in the article you get the off-hand aside to smear M.Blumenthal as an 'Assadist' and 'covid denialist', another typical liberal tactic of discrediting someone without going to the trouble of actually responding to their work... Not surprising to read that the author has been published in 'the Nation, the Guardian, the Forward, the Brooklyn Rail, Vice News, In These Times, Jacobin' and others. Isn't it a bit of a ... grift to be angling for publication in these corporate rags?

Anyway, Greenwald, Taibbi and others could be pivoting to the populist right, anything's possible. The left is so completely out to lunch at this point you could hardly blame them for trying to increase their impact in this way, especially when they get nothing but abuse on the other side. If they stay true to their principles though, I expect they will reach a point where they're excommunicated from the right wing crowd too. If not, then the article may have a point. In the meantime, forgive the bible quote but: By their fruits you will know them.

cheers,
I