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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Norman Finkelstein on Canada’s Applause for Nazis

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Click here for the full interview with Norm Finkelstein: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/norman-finkelstein-on-canadas-applause?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and chat live with Katie and Aaron in the Absurd Arena at www.usefulidiotspodcast.com Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: US Govt shutdown threatens workers' salaries – but not Ukraine's https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/us-govt-shutdown-threatens-workers?r=je5va&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Join the Absurd Arena live chat with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est at https://usefulidiots.substack.com/chat Norman Finkelstein, whose latest book is I’ll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It, returns to Useful Idiots with as much heretical bravado as ever: he’s coming out swinging. First, he’s dissecting the embarrassing Nazi celebration in Canada: the Orwellian push to have it erased from history, Trudeau’s fake apology, and the despicable claims that Zelensky, who speaks English and understands Ukrainian history, didn’t know that he was saluting a Nazi soldier. “When he [Zelensky] raised his hand,” Norman explains, “this Jew as we’re constantly told, he was lending himself to the Nazi cause.” Next, Norman’s talking about presidential candidate and celebrated leftist Cornel West. Norm explains he hadn’t read any of West’s books until this month when he prepped for an interview with the candidate. “I was dazzled,” Norm says. “He’s better than me!” The interview, which drops soon on Norman Finkelstein’s Podcast, will be a three-hour wide-ranging intellectual conversation. Norm gives us a preview. Subscribe (before prices rise on Oct 1!) to hear our full 90-minute interview where Norm shares his take on Cornel West’s candidacy, and we get into a long debate about Norm’s favorite pseudo-intellectual millionaire Ibram X Kendi. You’re not going to want to miss it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Youthful Idiots, I'm Katie Halper.

0:08.0

And I'm Aaron Matek.

0:09.0

How's it going Aaron?

0:10.0

It's going great.

0:11.0

And this week we have a wonderful guest Norman Picklestein.

0:13.6

Oh yeah.

0:14.6

The one that was possibly the most popular guest we have in Youthful Idiots.

0:17.8

It's hard to think.

0:18.8

Yeah.

0:19.8

Very controversial guy though.

0:20.8

Very controversial.

0:21.8

Very controversial.

0:22.8

But not on our show.

0:23.8

I love it on our show.

0:24.8

Yeah.

0:25.8

And of course people love it when the founder of the show, co-founder of the show, my

0:26.8

tale becomes back.

0:27.8

And the absence of Matt, Norman is up there and we have a lot to talk to him about this

0:33.3

week.

0:34.3

Including this controversy in Canada that's now causing a global scandal, the Canadian

0:38.8

Department of Applauding are Nazi veterans.

0:41.0

Yeah.

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