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EXCLUSIVE: The American Left’s Love Affair With Putin’s TV Network
Eight days after the 2016 presidential election, Douglas Schoen — President Bill Clinton’s past pollster and advisor — charged that former defense intelligence chief Michael Flynn was “dangerously pro-Russian” because he participated in the 10th anniversary celebration of RT, the Russian state-owned Television network formerly known as Russia Today.
Only a few weeks after Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces resignation demands from congressional Democrats making similar charges based on two meetings he held in 2016 with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
But the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned that a host of liberal American political activists and journalists have much more than occasional meetings with RT. Many of them in fact draw regular paychecks from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s flagship TV network.
It’s rarely reported in the U.S. news media, but many of the liberal activists and journalists who participate in RT programming openly bash the United States and defend Russia.
The American “star” at the Dec. 10, 2015, RT celebration was Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Speaking on a panel titled “Frenemies,” which challenged the view that Russia was an “enemy state,” Stein condemned “this very simplistic defense of who is our friend and who is our enemy is counterproductive.”
RT also was the sole television sponsor of the Green Party event that chose Stein as the party’s 2016 standard-bearer.
Besides Stein, other American participants included Max Blumenthal — son of Sid Blumenthal, who worked with 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Legendary TV host and celebrity interviewer Larry King’s shows also broadcast on RT.'
Max Blumenthal
Two disaffected CIA analysts
Former mayor of Salt Lake City
Former mayor of Salt Lake City
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz
Tyrel Ventura, daughter of former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
Sean Stone, son of left-wing filmmaker Oliver Stone
Chris Hedges, a 15-year New York Times veteran reporter
Thom Hartmann, a self-described “progressive” syndicate talk show host
Mike Papantonio served on the board of directors of Minnesota Democrat Sen. Al Franken’s radio network
Huffington Post writer Matt Keiser
etc....
Yeah, the Left love their own Russian connections....
Eight days after the 2016 presidential election, Douglas Schoen — President Bill Clinton’s past pollster and advisor — charged that former defense intelligence chief Michael Flynn was “dangerously pro-Russian” because he participated in the 10th anniversary celebration of RT, the Russian state-owned Television network formerly known as Russia Today.
Only a few weeks after Flynn resigned as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces resignation demands from congressional Democrats making similar charges based on two meetings he held in 2016 with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
But the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned that a host of liberal American political activists and journalists have much more than occasional meetings with RT. Many of them in fact draw regular paychecks from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s flagship TV network.
It’s rarely reported in the U.S. news media, but many of the liberal activists and journalists who participate in RT programming openly bash the United States and defend Russia.
The American “star” at the Dec. 10, 2015, RT celebration was Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Speaking on a panel titled “Frenemies,” which challenged the view that Russia was an “enemy state,” Stein condemned “this very simplistic defense of who is our friend and who is our enemy is counterproductive.”
RT also was the sole television sponsor of the Green Party event that chose Stein as the party’s 2016 standard-bearer.
Besides Stein, other American participants included Max Blumenthal — son of Sid Blumenthal, who worked with 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Legendary TV host and celebrity interviewer Larry King’s shows also broadcast on RT.'
Max Blumenthal
Two disaffected CIA analysts
Former mayor of Salt Lake City
Former mayor of Salt Lake City
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz
Tyrel Ventura, daughter of former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
Sean Stone, son of left-wing filmmaker Oliver Stone
Chris Hedges, a 15-year New York Times veteran reporter
Thom Hartmann, a self-described “progressive” syndicate talk show host
Mike Papantonio served on the board of directors of Minnesota Democrat Sen. Al Franken’s radio network
Huffington Post writer Matt Keiser
etc....
Yeah, the Left love their own Russian connections....
