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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

11/24/21 Aaron Maté on the Award-Winning Lies Still Propping up Russiagate

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On Antiwar Radio this Sunday, Scott was joined by Aaron Maté to discuss an article he wrote for Real Clear Investigations. Amidst the collapse of the Steele dossier, Maté wrote about five articles that either won the Pulitzer prize or were written by journalists who had won a Pulitzer, all of which were about disproven aspects of Russiagate unrelated to Christopher Steele. They discuss the framing of Michael Flynn, the fictional calls between Trump officials and Russian intelligence, the conflation of bots posting memes with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and more.  Discussed on the show: “Five Trump-Russia 'Collusion' Corrections We Need From the Media Now -- Just for Starters” (Real Clear Investigations) Aaron Maté is an NYC-based journalist and producer. He hosts the news show Pushback for The Grayzone, and writes regularly for The Nation. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter @AaronJMate. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For Pacifica Radio, November 28, 2021, your host Scott Horton. I'm editorial director at

0:25.2

anti-war.com and author of enough already. Time to end the war on terrorism.

0:30.6

You find my full interview archive more than,600 of them now going back to 2003 at

0:36.3

Scott Horton.org and at YouTube.com slash Scott Horton's show. And you know what? I'm happy to be celebrating 11 years here on

0:45.6

KPFK 90.7 F. M. in LA and introducing today's guest it's the the great Aaron Monte. He's at the gray zone.

0:55.5

He has a show called Pushback and he's an investigative reporter

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specializing in the Duma Chemical Weapons Attack hoax of April 2018,

1:07.4

as well as Russia Gate, especially,

1:10.0

and I'm happy to welcome you back to the show,

1:11.5

how you're doing, Aaron? I'm good, Scott you back to the show how you doing air.

1:13.2

I'm good Scott good to be here.

1:14.8

I appreciate you joining me today.

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So I really want to spend time on your great piece

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about the Pulitzer Prize winners in the

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Russia Gate scandal and your review of their work.

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And these days, things are so partisan and so black and white.

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But at the end of the day, the FBI and the CIA

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are always the bad guys, aren't they?

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Well, look, I think that's a pretty safe rule, but listen, even from a partisan point of view, not that my journalism is motivated by partisan politics, but from a partisan point of view view what I've always argued from the

1:53.4

start of Russia gate was that this was a gift to Trump because what bigger gift

1:57.8

to Trump and the Republicans than turning their opposition into you know

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Trump Russia conspiracy theory maniacs where you know the

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