Max Blumenthal On Why Hillary Clinton Smeared Tulsi Gabbard And Jill Stein

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🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Hillary Clinton has smeared Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein as Russian assets, and almost no Democratic politicians are pushing back. Max Blumenthal says that Clinton's comments reflect a continued effort by Democratic neo-liberals to deflect responsibility for their loss to Trump in 2016; marginalize voices like Gabbard and Stein's who challenge their pro-war, corporatist agenda; and preview their potential future attacks on Bernie Sanders. Guest: Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone and author of “The Management of Savagery.” Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate Pushback on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pushbackshow Aaron Maté on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaronjmate Pushback on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lu7MGQ Pushback on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow Pushback on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2mpwIQm Pushback on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=465855 Find transcripts and more at https://thegrayzone.com/pushback ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate, here with Max Blumenthal, the senior editor of the Grey Zone,
0:09.3	author of several books, including his latest, The Management of Savagery.
0:13.5	Max, we're talking today about Hillary Clinton's comments about Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein,
0:19.5	Clinton calling Stein a Russian asset and
0:23.5	suggesting that the Russians are quote grooming Tulsi Gabbard to run as a
0:29.6	third-party candidate. This seemingly came out of nowhere but then you had a
0:33.8	parade of Clinton flunkies people who worked for her or who are associated
0:39.7	with her coming out to also slam Tulsi Gabbard in this way.
0:43.8	So it seemed kind of coordinated.
0:46.5	Whatever it was, it was shocking to see and the reaction has been quite striking.
0:50.3	Tulsi Gabbard hit back pretty hard.
0:52.3	What do you make of what Hillary Clinton said today and why she said it?
0:56.6	Well, I think people won't be surprised with my reaction to it. And, you know, I agree with
1:02.0	everything that you've said on Twitter and elsewhere. I think it's important to look a little deeper
1:07.7	at what's going on here. First of all, one of the reasons that you and I
1:12.5	were really so disgusted with the narrative of Russia Gate was that we saw what was coming down
1:20.8	the pike. And I said so in early 2017 that this whole narrative would blow back on the left and would be used to enforce conformity
1:31.8	on issues of war and peace in support of the former against the latter.
1:37.3	And we're seeing that play out in real time with Hillary Clinton's attacks on Tulsi Gabbard.
1:44.8	It was clear to me as soon as Tulsi Gabbard got into the race that even though she has
1:48.9	absolutely no connection to Russia at all, she was going to be smeared this way because
1:54.5	this is the McCarthyite venomous poison that Hillary Clinton has brought into the Democratic Party, along with the national
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