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Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

Getting Adversarial with Journalist Jeremy Scahill

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu

WarnerMedia Podcast Network

News

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Folks on both the left and the right have a love-hate relationship with reporter and Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill. His brand of “adversarial” investigative journalism makes no exceptions – not for the nation’s most powerful, and especially not for those advocating for wars abroad. In this episode of #politicallyreactive, we talk with Jeremy about his refusal to sit on a panel with Milo Yiannopoulos on Real Time with Bill Maher, what it was like to interview Julian Assange for the Intercepted podcast, his thoughts on Russian involvement in U.S. politics, and the people who give him hope for the future (hint: it’s probably you!). Click “play” to find out why Jeremy has earned the title, “one-man truth squad”.

Keep tabs on Jeremy on Twitter (@jeremyscahill) and subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on your preferred podcast platform! Or stream the show online at: https://theintercept.com/podcasts/

Book tours, TV shows, standup – oh my! Catch Kamau in-person for his The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell book tour or on TV for CNN’s United Shades of America! More info at http://www.wkamaubell.com/. And Hari really, REALLY wants you to come see him on tour – find dates at: http://www.harikondabolu.com/.

Got a comment or suggestion? Email us at [email protected] or follow us on Twitter at @politicreactive.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so how can you be a serious journalist when Vanity Fair says you're the love child of a what's his name?

0:07.1

Oh, I've never read that Ryan Gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal. I've never read it. I mean that's just...

0:11.4

Oh! I don't have a random pay attention.

0:16.0

From Topic and Airwolf, this is politically reactive. I'm W. from Alba.

0:21.3

And I'm Harry Kinnabalu. No joke this week.

0:24.8

The show were one comedian and a guy with no jokes this week tried to make sense of politics in America.

0:30.2

I mean, we are gonna keep trying. We are contractually obligated to keep trying.

0:36.8

On today's show, we're excited to have journalist Jeremy Scayhill.

0:40.8

Jeremy is not like a lot of journalists who play a false equivalency game.

0:44.3

Nope, when you read his writing or listen to his podcast, you know who side he's on.

0:49.8

He's one of the co-founders of the online news publication The Intercept, which launched in 2014.

0:55.3

He's also the author of many best selling books including Dirty Wars, Blackwater and the Assassination Complex.

1:02.8

Jeremy has been a war correspondent and has twice won the prestigious George Polk Award for his work,

1:08.3

not to mention he hosts the new podcast Interceptive.

1:11.3

Jeremy calls out everybody. Here's him at an anti-inalgaration event at the Lincoln Theater in DC.

1:17.3

We are in an emergency where immigrants are in the crosshairs, where women are in the crosshairs,

1:22.3

of an administration that intends to pull the trigger.

1:26.3

And anyone who doesn't make it their business every day of their lives to stand on the front lines, holding that line,

1:34.3

defending the most vulnerable in our society, should just hold their head in shame, because it's all of our responsibility.

1:43.3

Take that Trump and here's him in 2013 on Democracy Now.

1:47.3

The fact that the Obama administration adopted what was effectively the US policy in Iraq when Bush left office,

1:55.3

says a tremendous amount about how little the Obama administration understood the disaster in Iraq.

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