“Mehdi Hasan Is A Sewer Rat” – Norm Finkelstein!

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The recent dust-up between MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi has mushroomed to the point where elected officials are now calling for Taibbi’s arrest for allegedly lying under oath during his recent Congressional testimony. Author and academic Norman Finkelstein labels Hasan a “sewer rat” for misrepresenting the extent of Taibbi’s ostensible “errors” in the Twitter Files and challenges him to correct the record.

Guest host Aaron Maté speaks with Finkelstein about Hasan’s reporting on the Twitter Files as well as his contribution to labeling the Labour Party’s Jeremy Corbyn an antisemite.

Plus a segment dedicated to the demise of hipster empire apologist media outlet Vice News.

Also featuring Mischa Paullin, Kurt Metzger and Mike MacRae! And a phone call from President Joe Biden!

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0:00.0	We're telling jokes in Los Angeles, North Hampton, Massachusetts, Syracuse, co-host, New
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0:17.0	COVID lies are funny.
0:18.0	Hey, this is Aaron Matte sitting in for Jimmy Dora.
0:27.0	Who is this?
0:29.0	Oh, hey, sport is President Joe Biden of the United States.
0:33.0	Oh, hello, Mr. President.
0:34.0	Thanks for calling.
0:35.0	As the United States of America, in case you were wondering.
0:39.0	Yeah, no, I figured.
0:41.0	I don't know about you, Aaron.
0:43.0	When I hear the United States of America, I picture three things.
0:48.0	The flag.
0:49.0	A bold eagle that looks like it's about to start a bar fight.
0:53.0	And the geographical shape of our nation.
0:56.0	I see.
0:57.0	That's shaping this because we have borders, Aaron.
1:02.0	Set to find borders that we must recognize and occasionally defend.
1:07.0	Okay, I see where you're going with this.
1:10.0	Is this about you ordering 1500 military troops to our border with Mexico?
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