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In reply to the discussion: The RT network is the only network that has propaganda [View all]Squinch
(58,151 posts)information than to listen, so radio shows don't do it for me. There are many DUers vouching for the guy's liberal credentials, and I have no doubt that they are sincere and well informed.
AND, if I remember correctly, we had no reason to fear RT when Hartmann joined them. BUT now we obviously do. I suspect Hartmann is a sincere guy who got caught in a bad place without knowing how bad it was. But now we are many months past an attempted coup by the Russians, and RT has been named by our intelligence agencies as one of the propaganda arms that was used in that coup attempt.
Hartmann has known at least since the election tampering was described by US intelligence who he is dealing with. I hear that he is severing his ties with them, and good for him for finally owning up to the error of his association with them. But there is just no way, in my mind, to deny that his association with RT gave legitimacy to them and brought progressive ears to a Russian propaganda source.