Matt Taibbi isn't a traditional liberal, and his current flavor of accelerationist contrarianism is very compatible with Kelly. Not for nothing, but this Taibbi trait was amplified by him being pretty persuasively MeToo'd a couple years back; he tried to fend off criticism of his work in The eXile, but again, Rule of Goats.

Honestly I think this says more surprising about Kelly than it does about Taibbi.