{"id":1528740,"date":"2022-06-26T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528740"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T13:34:37","slug":"i-lost-friends-former-rolling-stone-journalist-talks-reaction-to-him-reviewing-what-is-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-lost-friends-former-rolling-stone-journalist-talks-reaction-to-him-reviewing-what-is-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Lost Friends\u2019: Former Rolling Stone Journalist Talks Reaction To Him Reviewing \u2018What Is A Woman\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-lost-friends-former-rolling-stone-journalist-talks-reaction-to-him-reviewing-what-is-a-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528740&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Old-school liberal investigative journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/what-is-a-woman-a-movie-that-should?s=r\">Matt Taibbi<\/a> told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-ben-shapiro-show\">Ben Shapiro<\/a> on this week\u2019s episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/sunday-special\">Sunday Special<\/a>\u201d that he \u201clost friends\u201d for merely reviewing Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire\u2019s groundbreaking documentary, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/what-is-a-woman\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi was a star writer at \u201cRolling Stone\u201d magazine and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/10\/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html\">beloved<\/a> by the elite liberal media, but as the Left radicalized, and Taibbi stayed the same, the journalist found himself in a new space. Like, for example, sitting down for a lengthy conversation with one of the most prominent conservative figures in American politics \u2014 and seeing a lot of agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe response was unbelievable, just for reviewing the movie \u2014 forget about what I said about it,\u201d Taibbi told Shapiro about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/matt-on-matt-old-school-liberal-taibbi-reviews-what-is-a-woman-and-pans-the-radical-left\">review<\/a>. \u201cI lost friends over that.\u00a0There were people who I\u2019ve known for decades who basically said I\u2019m a transphobe and I\u2019m \u2026 out of their loop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi explained that he first noticed an unwillingness from the Left even to discuss the transgender issue before he chose to review The Daily Wire documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the trans issue, there would be some people who would talk to me, and then there would be some people who were furious that you even called, would refuse to have any kind of discussion, would call you a transphobe for even asking certain kinds of questions \u2014 and this is before you even have a point of view on the subject,\u201d he said, recalling a time he tried to gather quotes for a story. \u201cI thought that was odd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi noted that this was a rehash of what he witnessed as a journalist in 2016 when reporting on former President Donald Trump. He recalled including a quote from a pro-union lifelong Democrat who said he voted Republican for the first time, for Trump, because he felt lied to about the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.<\/p>\n<p>The pushback from the leftist media community told Taibbi he wasn\u2019t allowed to report or say true things if they went against the greater narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi didn\u2019t abide by the leftist media rules with Trump and didn\u2019t with the trans issue, either.<\/p>\n<p>Though, he admitted, the trans issue pushback did give Taibbi a momentary pause. \u201cI had kinda tried to stay away from the issue. It\u2019s complicated, and I try to stay away from issues I don\u2019t know a whole lot about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, Taibbi even briefly shelved an interview he did with a prominent feminist who\u2019s critical of radical gender theory. Eventually, Taibbi said his conscience got to him, and he knew he had to release the interview. And he did just that, coupling it with the release of his \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d review, where he called out the Left, specifically academia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he movie shows academic after academic and activist after activist seething at the mere implication that they should have to explain themselves,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/matt-on-matt-old-school-liberal-taibbi-reviews-what-is-a-woman-and-pans-the-radical-left\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cTheir attitude is positively medieval: \u2018We keep the Bible in Latin for a reason!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the same review, Taibbi applauded the humor in \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d, something the journalist told Shapiro had been completely lost on the Left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s done with a sense of humor and satirical bend that\u2019s taboo on our side of the aisle now, which I find really strange, because that shift happened almost overnight and imperceptibly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the latest Sunday Special episodes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/sunday-special\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/matt-on-matt-old-school-liberal-taibbi-reviews-what-is-a-woman-and-pans-the-radical-left\">Matt On Matt: Old-School Liberal Taibbi Reviews \u2018What Is A Woman?\u2019 And Pans The Radical\u00a0Left<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old-school liberal investigative journalist Matt Taibbi told Ben Shapiro on this week\u2019s episode of \u201cSunday Special\u201d that he \u201clost friends\u201d for merely reviewing Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire\u2019s groundbreaking documentary, \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d Taibbi was a star writer at \u201cRolling Stone\u201d magazine and beloved by the elite liberal media, but as the Left &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1528752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}