Posted: Jun 23, 2019 10:51 am
Mike_L wrote:Spinozasgalt wrote:Mike_L wrote:Last year, Carlson contradicted the Trump line that Syria's Assad gassed his own people.
And now that an OPCW whistleblower has revealed how the organisation suppressed evidence suggesting that the 'rebels' were actually responsible for the attack, Carlson was one of the few high-profile commentators to highlight the issue. In a video that basically says "the Trump administration was wrong", he interviews anti-war Democrat Tulsi Gabbard on the topic.
It's entirely correct to criticise Trump, but it shouldn't be at the expense of recognising that "the establishment" is part of the problem.
Carlson is being pushed as anti-war by the same leftists I mentioned on the other page. Many of them are also some of Gabbard's biggest supporters/cheerleaders. I guess some of them think there's a possiblity of a red-brown alliance to end wars and they just become useful idiots, and others...well, Greenwald's got history of defending racists to show his fine liberal principles.
They're useful to Fox because they'll bash other leftists and go along with what Carlson is saying, effectively rehabilitating him to their own audiences - they're mostly uneducated about how Carlson's white nationalism is non-interventionist by design or they don't care. They're useful to RT because they'll repeat the Russian government's line as part of a selective anti-imperialist narrative. Case in point, they frame the OPCW document in precisely the way RT does.
Thank god for RT.com. The recent OPCW document reveals that the Russians were telling the truth all along... and that, astonishingly, the US establishment media that lied about Iraq and Libya lied about Syria as well.
