<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_7887536842585011887m_1390649420923419454gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">John V. Whitbeck</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jvwhitbeck@gmail.com" target="_blank">jvwhitbeck@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 4:29 PM<br>Subject: "Tulsi Gabbard has done the unpardonable: criticized US global hegemony" (MONDOWEISS)<br>To: <<a href="mailto:whitbeck-blog@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">whitbeck-blog@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<font size="+1">TO: Distinguished Recipients<br>
FM: John Whitbeck<br>
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Transmitted below is a brief MONDOWEISS posting regarding a
"full spread hit piece" against Tulsi Gabbard published by the
<i>New York Time</i><i>s</i>.<br>
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That the <i>Times</i> would go to the trouble of trying to
discredit a "minor" candidate flirting with a meager 2%
support in the polls is an effective if back-handed compliment
to Tulsi and her message and campaign consciously focused on
opposition to the mad pursuit of full-spectrum global
domination and the hugely expensive, destructive and seemingly
never-ending wars of choice which it has produced.<br>
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It suggests that perpetual war advocates are seriously worried
that even 2% support might be enough to qualify Tulsi for the
next round of Democratic Party presidential debates and permit
her eloquent voice for sanity, while highly unlikely to win
her the nomination, to receive greater exposure and traction.<br>
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Words matter -- and have always been used and abused to shape
public opinion. The word "isolationist" has had a profoundly
negative resonance in the United States since World War II.
Accordingly, those who are financially and/or professionally
invested in perpetual war and are petrified at the slim threat
of a world at peace, who might be appropriately labeled the
"Industrial Fear and Hate Promoting and Profiting Complex",
tend to label any American opposed to the pursuit of
full-spectrum global dominance by military means an
"isolationist", as if there were no non-violent and
non-kinetic way to interact with the world and as the <i>Times</i>
has chosen to characterize Tulsi and her message.<br>
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NOTE: While, disappointingly, Tulsi voted in favor of the
recent House of Representatives resolution condemning the BDS
movement for justice in Palestine, she has now become the 15th
House member to co-sponsor H. Res. 496, the resolution
introduced by Ilhan Omar affirming that Americans have the
right to boycott foreign countries to advance the cause of
human rights (<a class="m_7887536842585011887m_1390649420923419454m_1586373483484836666moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/gabbard-condemn-cosponsor/" target="_blank">https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/gabbard-condemn-cosponsor/</a>).<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:none;color:inherit;padding:inherit;margin:inherit"> <font size="+1"><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/unpardonable-criticized-hegemony/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unpardonable-criticized-hegemony&utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=dbc46176a6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-dbc46176a6-" target="_blank">https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/unpardonable-criticized-hegemony/</a></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:none;color:inherit;padding:inherit;margin:inherit"> <font size="+2"><b>Tulsi Gabbard has done
the unpardonable: criticized US global hegemony</b></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:none;color:inherit;padding:inherit;margin:inherit"> <font size="+1">David Bromwich</font></blockquote>
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<font size="+1">The Times full spread hit piece on Tulsi
Gabbard is a new low, even for the Times. It is yellow
journalism half disguised as human interest, with a
few random points of political information.<br>
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Headline: “Unorthodox Campaign Shows Isolationism May
Have a Hold.”<br>
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Opening sentence: “Tulsi Gabbard is running for
president of a country that she believes has wrought
horror on the world.”<br>
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Their initial strategy was simply to starve her out –
no coverage, no candidacy. Now, because she’s still in
and lately told a truth that weakened the Times'
choice Kamala Harris, they are giving her the Bernie
2016 treatment: i.e. this candidate is outlandish,
absurd, unaccountably heartless (her sister fell off a
horse while the story was being written and her
reaction was lacking in warmth), mystical (she spoke
at a solar panel dedication event), a tool of the
wicked (she points out that Syria never went to war
against the US) – and possibly a Russian agent.<br>
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Among Times readers, fewer than one in 50 is likely to
be a supporter of Gabbard, but turning off voters is
the secondary purpose of such an article. The primary
purpose is to shape attitudes at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC,
ABC, NPR, the Washington Post, and the Times sister
publication The New Yorker. Legitimize flat-out
condescension and contempt in the influential outlets
and you keep her numbers down, since people won’t hear
her voice at all.<br>
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A war veteran, an experienced and respected lawmaker,
and a woman of color, but she commits the unpardonable
error of criticizing worldwide US hegemony and so they
follow the corporate reflex: make her a laughingstock.<br>
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Postscript. Gabbard stands up to an MSNBC hack who
tries to overwhelm her with pro-war talking points.
MSNBC is part of the perpetual war machine, as is the
Times; they backed the Iraq war, and they’ll do the
same for the next war, whether it’s in North Africa,
east Asia, or Ukraine.</font></blockquote>
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