3/1/23: 2024 primary quickly blowing up, fascism expert sounds alarm
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Very often when on this program we look at clips from congressional hearings, particularly |
| 0:21.9 | clips of Republican members of Congress who have an inflated sense of self-importance |
| 0:28.2 | and ego trying to make themselves look like they are smart and well prepared. It's merely |
| 0:35.8 | disaster porn. And what I mean by that is it's not particularly instructive. It's sort |
| 0:41.0 | of like, wow, they looked really dumb, but there's not that much to learn from it. Today |
| 0:46.6 | I have a very different example for you that is extraordinarily instructive and we're |
| 0:51.6 | going to link it actually to this recent report on the origins or oranges of COVID from |
| 0:58.5 | the Department of Energy. But before I even do that, let's talk about what we're talking |
| 1:02.1 | about. A radical and repugnant Republican Congressman Matt Gates was called out yesterday |
| 1:09.3 | in real time for citing Chinese propaganda. Now what happens here is extraordinarily instructive |
| 1:18.7 | with regard to confirmation bias and not only the willingness, but the eagerness of these |
| 1:25.2 | right wingers to accept any source uncritically if it confirms what they already believe. So |
| 1:34.2 | let's take a look at this clip. This was a moment during the House Armed Services Committee |
| 1:40.0 | where Matt Gates tried to sort of gotcha, Colin call, who's the US Defense Undersecretary |
| 1:48.6 | for Policy and talk about the azov battalion getting access to American weapons. Colin |
| 1:55.9 | call says, I don't have any evidence of that. And Matt Gates says, well, what about this? |
| 2:00.5 | And it turns out that it is over Chinese propaganda. You will also notice if you're watching |
| 2:05.5 | this clip that some of the folks sitting in the audience really seem to be enjoying this. |
| 2:11.2 | Okay. So let's take a look and then we'll talk about it. Is the azov battalion getting |
| 2:15.2 | access to US weapons? Not that I'm aware of, but if you have information, I see |
| 2:23.9 | that sense entering the record, the Global Times Investigative Report that talks about |
| 2:29.2 | training. It's from the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab citing the |
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