I 100% believe that Biden is out of it but I read the Nuzzi thing and it’s awfully breathless for a story that doesn’t have a whole lot of direct quotes in it.
I mean her whole “journalist” origin story was deeply unethical imagine finding yourself as the slimiest person on the … (checks notes) … Anthony Weiner campaign
the cool thing about reading this is i have heard very little about most of the people in there the past few years.
less ann coulter in the scroll is Good.
My impression of people like Nuzzi and others circa 2015-16 is that they thought they had a hook to boost "alt-right" freaks like Yianouplolois by contrasting them to Trump, and when Trump won, all these creeps got bigger platforms, got sloppy, and we got a good look at how truly awful they were.
To be clear, the people inside media like Nuzzi who wanted to boost right wing shitheels like Yiananpopolopoulis were right shitheels themselves on the sly, and saw the "alt right" framing as a way to get their ugly, shitty politics into the news.
I'm late to this but she's a world class hack who got lucky that she worked on a campaign of one of the biggest public assholes in politics (Weiner) and wrote about it. I did enjoy her 2016 coverage but, like many, she traded scruples for access during the Trump era and hasn't really looked back.