Originally published at: American influencers deep in Russian pockets - Boing Boing
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Ben Swann: “I’m not like those idiots. I’m a Useful one!”
In an interview with the AP, Swann said he has kept his work for Russian interests separate from what he produces for U.S. audiences.
Coming soon from this “investigative journalist”: “Putin, the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived”.
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Proud to say I don’t recognize any of the names of the “influencers”.
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Sadly, I am familiar with most of them. Not Ben Swann, though. He’s a new one to me. It looks like he was employed by RT America from 2014-2015, though, so none of this should be a surprise to anyone.
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Man, as a child of the 80s who grew up during the Cold War, and anything Russian was seen as threat to America - I am SHOCKED the number of people openly taking money and shilling for them and they aren’t being drug through the streets as “commie traitors”. Well, at least “traitors”. (Not that I think we should do that literally, just that I can’t imagine someone doing this in says 1985).
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Mainly because the Russians aren’t Commies anymore, but a champion of white, Christian civilization… anyone who disagrees with them is now the communist “enemy inside” at least according to the Republicans…
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Where’s McCarthyism when we finally need it? lol
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There’s a kind of modern McCarthyism which consists of Republican senators using their position to interrogate “woke” university administrators, public health experts, and so on, about their “anti-American” “woke” “indoctrination” programmes.
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For the flip side, this Boy Boy roundup of the US Army funding YouTubers. One of the better things I’ve watched in a while.
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