"Ryan Lizza's Part Five landed this week, and his Substack now reads like a middle school cafeteria turned true-crime podcast. Everyone knows everyone, everyone has receipts, and no one can step outside. The new installment brings allegations involving coordinated smears, an FBI report, CAA maneuvering, political operatives, and Tucker Carlson offering shotgun advice. It's chaotic, tawdry, and disturbingly familiar to anyone who has watched the Beltway cool kids'' table operate up close."
"Lizza frames this as a story about Olivia Nuzzi, RFK Jr., and Trumpworld. What he actually exposes is how a certain class of political journalists really lives: a tiny group bound by shared secrets, overlapping careers, mutual leverage, and a constant performance of insider status. They write about power while acting inside a miniature version of it. The timing says everything. Nuzzi's memoir, American Canto, arrives amid a narcissistic and distasteful comeback that offers zero ownership or contrition for her massive ethical lapse."
"Lizza beat her to the punch with a serialized counter-narrative, tightly paced and loaded with screenshots. Two political journalists competing to own the same storytheir storyusing the same tools they once used to shape national political narratives. The performance comes straight from the ecosystem that produced them. Part Five rewinds to September. Nuzzi is on leave from New York magazine shortly after Kara Swisher learned of the RFK Jr. affair and insists Nuzzi disclose it to her editor, David Haskell."
Allegations center on coordinated smears, an FBI report, CAA maneuvering, political operatives, and Tucker Carlson offering shotgun advice. A tiny class of political journalists appears bound by shared secrets, overlapping careers, mutual leverage, and a constant performance of insider status. Olivia Nuzzi's memoir, American Canto, coincides with a comeback that shows no ownership or contrition for an ethical lapse. A rival serialized counter-narrative, tightly paced and loaded with screenshots, surfaced before the memoir's release. The timeline rewinds to September when Kara Swisher learned of the RFK Jr. affair, urged disclosure to editor David Haskell, and the secret broke. Allies mobilized a war room including CAA's Rachel Adler and Matt Dornic.
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