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Jill Stein and Michael Flynn having dinner with Putin, celebrating RT (can't write this script) (Original Post) joshcryer Feb 2017 OP
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country! WTF! bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #1
Oh, we pointed it out when it happened. joshcryer Feb 2017 #2
I've never see these photos. bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #4
RT manipulated the left for around a decade, sullying their brain and thought processes. joshcryer Feb 2017 #5
Her emails, doncha know? simguy225 Feb 2017 #32
And, too many Americans Cha Feb 2017 #3
Clearly too many of you ignored this because it was out there arthritisR_US Feb 2017 #6
Clearly I and my fellow Hillary Supporters did NOT. Cha Feb 2017 #7
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2017 #8
.. Cha Feb 2017 #11
Actual Democrats were never fans of Stein. joshcryer Feb 2017 #14
Cha and many of us here knew and talked about this months ago. yardwork Feb 2017 #20
Questions need to be asked about the likes of Thom Hartmann's involvement with RT America, and other OnDoutside Feb 2017 #9
Don't You Mean Ed Schulz And Not Thom Hartmann?.....nt global1 Feb 2017 #10
Actually both, but more Hartmann as he is projecting himself as the voice of the Left. OnDoutside Feb 2017 #16
Hartmann is RT. Susan Calvin Feb 2017 #23
Who Backs Him?..... global1 Feb 2017 #26
Assholes who think the West is "evil" snooper2 Feb 2017 #30
I just meant RT. Susan Calvin Feb 2017 #34
And this is the second election within 2 decades where the vote for the Green pnwmom Feb 2017 #13
Putin definitely had a wide strategy to get at HRC, Stein was a more than willing particpant. OnDoutside Feb 2017 #17
Stein is a useful idiot. nt Susan Calvin Feb 2017 #24
Yep we can do it Feb 2017 #33
Larry King doesn't claim to be political or on either side . and he is more entertainment JI7 Feb 2017 #15
Yes but he gives a quasi-legitimacy to RT, to many gullible viewers OnDoutside Feb 2017 #18
That's the trouble, all right. nt Susan Calvin Feb 2017 #25
where did you think Stein got funds from??... beachbum bob Feb 2017 #12
Which should be investigated too. OnDoutside Feb 2017 #19
She scammed Democrats out of millions of dollars oberliner Feb 2017 #21
Wow. I bet that was a fun table. I can see the SNL skit now. Stein makes me FailureToCommunicate Feb 2017 #22
Post removed Post removed Feb 2017 #27
Sec. of state meeting a foreign president... joshcryer Feb 2017 #28
Did you miss the part about Hillary being Secretary of State? You should look into that. nt stevenleser Feb 2017 #29
false equivalency doesn't work here- This isn't Sean Hannity's shit show snooper2 Feb 2017 #31

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
2. Oh, we pointed it out when it happened.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:18 AM
Feb 2017

But because we were just in the end of primary season and we were all having to play nice to the "alt-left" we couldn't really point out the gross hypocrisy.

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
5. RT manipulated the left for around a decade, sullying their brain and thought processes.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:23 AM
Feb 2017

It's been the nexus for where all this fake news and sensationalized clickbait comes from. You can actually see how powerful the propaganda is when you compare Russia Today's English and Russian feeds and how they carefully manipulated the news.

arthritisR_US

(7,288 posts)
6. Clearly too many of you ignored this because it was out there
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:40 AM
Feb 2017

before the election and it didn't garner any attention and it should have.

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)
9. Questions need to be asked about the likes of Thom Hartmann's involvement with RT America, and other
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:52 AM
Feb 2017

like Larry King etc.

Susan Calvin

(1,646 posts)
23. Hartmann is RT.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:51 AM
Feb 2017

I still like him, but I do know who backs him and it does bother me.

Shame is we don't have the kind of media empire the right does.

Susan Calvin

(1,646 posts)
34. I just meant RT.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:00 PM
Feb 2017

He's also distributed via other outlets, but the radio program I listen to at drive time comes via RT. I don't like that, but I generally like him.

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)
13. And this is the second election within 2 decades where the vote for the Green
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:57 AM
Feb 2017

candidate -- if it gone to the major party progressive, HRC -- would have been enough to flip the election.

No wonder Putin was courting her.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)
22. Wow. I bet that was a fun table. I can see the SNL skit now. Stein makes me
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:48 AM
Feb 2017

wanna . She gives great depth to the label "loser"

Response to joshcryer (Original post)

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
28. Sec. of state meeting a foreign president...
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:44 AM
Feb 2017

...vs a RT shill sitting down at the same table, to celebrate a propaganda outfit, sharing a seat with the now disgraced treasonous Flynn.

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