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Chomsky, Milo, and the Bread Basket Feud with Jane Mayer
from Underground Economy · #34
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2 minContinuing the media-savvy debate, Tim and Ray discuss a friend's failed pitch to Noam Chomsky about modernizing activism, then Tim tells the story of angering journalist Jane Mayer by reaching into her bread basket at a bar.
- 40:37Nobody's telling you to be Milo Yiannopoulos, but plenty of guests have gone into dark areas and written things that don't help their credibility.
- 41:00These guys complain the mainstream media won't listen to them, but they don't even know how to send an email.
- 41:15Jane Mayer got mad because Tim stole bread from her at a bar on the Upper West Side years ago.
- 41:29Tim reached into a bread basket he thought was communal and Mayer told him it was hers.
- 41:48Mayer is an acclaimed investigative journalist who wrote Dark Side about Abu Ghraib and Dark Money about the Kochs.
- 42:07Tim shoved his dirty hand into her bread basket, and his response was to tell her to call the CIA.
Jane MayerAbu GhraibMilo YiannopoulosThe New YorkerRuss Baker