{"id":43542,"date":"2019-02-05T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43542"},"modified":"2019-02-05T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:43:11","slug":"these-mccarthyite-accusations-benefit-no-one-and-harm-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43542","title":{"rendered":"These McCarthyite Accusations Benefit No One And Harm Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These McCarthyite Accusations Benefit No One And Harm\u00a0Everyone<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In response to the reprehensible NBC hit piece we discussed the other day<\/a> in which Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was smeared as a darling of the Russian government, journalist Glenn Greenwald published an article<\/a> documenting the astonishing amount of journalistic malpractice which went into the piece\u2019s formation. In the article, Greenwald wrote the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s because the playbook used by the axis of the Democratic Party, NBC,MSNBC, neocons, and the intelligence community has been, is, and will continue to be a very simple one: to smear any adversary of the establishment wing of the Democratic Party \u2014 whether on the left or the right \u2014 as a stooge or asset of the Kremlin.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Displaying a remarkable lack of self-awareness, Democratic establishment pundit and professional Russiagater Caroline Orr responded<\/a> to Gabbard\u2019s share of this article on Twitter as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd here, Tulsi Gabbard\u00a0cites a Kremlin propagandist to deny claims that Kremlin propagandists support her campaign.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here, @TulsiGabbard<\/a> cites a Kremlin propagandist to deny claims that Kremlin propagandists support her campaign.\u2714<\/strong>https:\/\/tus\/1092060704226664448\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This demented McCarthyite mind virus was exemplified even more egregiously in a recent attack on comedian and progressive commentator Jimmy Dore, in which fellow comedian and former\u00a0Daily Show<\/em>\u00a0producer Jena Friedman publicly accused him of being a Kremlin agent just for disagreeing with her. After Dore\u2019s fan base reacted to this deranged smear as any sane person would expect them to, Friedman claimed that this was evidence of a coordinated campaign against her by Russian trolls and bots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t doubt it if Jimmy Dore was a Russian asset,\u201d Friedman tweeted<\/a> in response to Dore\u2019s having criticized her crazed Louise Mensch-esque rantings. \u201cWhy else would he drag my name in the mud and misquote me when I said that Russian trolls are fueling the fire and radicalizing people online, which has been in Washington Post. It\u2019s all so insidious. Be careful, friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These McCarthyite Accusations Benefit No One And Harm\u00a0Everyone In response to the reprehensible NBC hit piece we discussed the other day in which Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was smeared as a darling of the Russian government, journalist Glenn Greenwald published an article documenting the astonishing amount of journalistic malpractice which went into the piece\u2019s formation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,5080,5437,3209,655,694,10392,827],"class_list":["post-43542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-democratic-party","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-nbc","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-tulsi-gabbard","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43543,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43542\/revisions\/43543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}