On Venezuela, Tucker Airs Anti-Trump Ideas While Maddow Wants John Bolton To Be More Hawkish By Caitlin Johnstone!!!!
(2019-05-05 at 12:39:49 )

On Venezuela, Tucker Airs Anti-Trump Ideas While Maddow Wants John Bolton To Be More Hawkish by Caitlin Johnstone

Rachel Maddow does not think John Bolton is being hawkish enough.

John. Fucking. Bolton.

On a recent segment about President Donald Trumps controversial phone call with Vladimir Putin, Ms Maddow expressed concern for the way the White Houses mustachioed Thanos wannabe has been unable to push back against Russian interests in Venezuela with sufficient aggression.

She discussed President Trumps nonsensical claim that Russia is not active in the affairs of its ally Venezuela (which propaganda mouthpieces like Ms Maddow are calling "interfering" now), then went on a rambling tirade about how this impedes Mr. Boltons bloodthirsty instincts as though that is a bad thing.

"Hey, John Bolton, hey, Mike Pompeo, are you guys enjoying your jobs right now?" Maddow asked. "You each thought your job this week was to name and shame and threaten and counter Russian government involvement in Venezuela while sabre-rattling about how everyone better get out of the way because the United States is really mad about it.

Guys, turns out your actual job is figuring out why you work for a president who says whatever Vladimir Putin tells him. I mean, just to be clear here, how do you come to work anymore if you are John Bolton?"

"Regardless of what you thought of John Bolton before this, and his whole career and his track record," Ms Maddow continued, waving her hand dismissively as if to suggest that John Boltons murderous track record is somehow irrelevant or unimportant. "Just think of John Bolton as a human being. This is what John Bolton, human being, thought his job was this week."

(I should interrupt my transcribing here to note that under no circumstances should anyone ever think of Mr. John "We know where your kids live" Bolton as a human being. No good can come of it.)

"I mean John Bolton, God bless you," Ms Maddow continued after running a clip of Mr. Boltons previous hawkish rhetoric toward Russia and Venezuela.

"Good luck delicately and carefully shaving around that impressive mustache when you have to look at yourself in the mirror in coming days, Mister National Security Advisor.

I mean, this is who you are working for. You thought your job was to push Russia back because of what they are doing in Venezuela.

The president spent an hour on the phone with Vladimir Putin today: Mr. Putin told him he is not in Venezuela, so now the new position of the United States government is that Mr. Putin is not in Venezuela. What is your job?"

That is right, the host of MSNBCs top show dedicated a segment to hang-wringing over the notion that Mr. John Bolton wants to escalate tensions with Russia and Venezuela worse than they already are, but President Trump will not let him and it makes him sad.

Ms Rachel Maddow opposed the Iraq invasion, which John Bolton played a fundamental role in manufacturing support for.

She was elevated on MSNBC by Keith Olbermann, who himself made his name railing against the warmongering insanity of the President Bush administration and is himself now just as much of a demented McCarthyite Russia hawk as Ms Maddow.

It is actually amazing how many journalists and pundits secured left-wing credibility by opposing the Iraq war, then spent the rest of their careers leveraging that left-wing credibility to circulate the exact same toxic imperialist mind viruses which led to the Iraq war.

The Guardians George Monbiot for example once attempted to make a citizens arrest of Mr. John Bolton for war crimes committed during the Iraq invasion; now he spends his time circulating war propaganda about Syria and Russia.

The Intercepts Mehdi Hasan often writes angrily about the Iraq invasion to this day, and you will see him using that fact to justify the way he always scrambles to condemn whatever world leader the United States war machine happens to have in its crosshairs, including Mr. Maduro and Mr. Assad.

Contrast Ms Maddows "President Trump is making John Bolton act too nice" monologue with a recent segment on Fox News Tucker Carlson Tonight, conducted in the aftermath of last weeks attempt at a military coup by opposition leader Juan Guaido.

Journalist Anya Parampil appeared on the show and delivered a scathing criticism of the President Trump administrations heinous actions in Venezuela based on her findings during her recent visit to that country.

She was allowed to speak uninhibited and without attack, even bringing up the Center for Economic and Policy Research study which found President Trumps administration sanctions responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 Venezuelans, a story that has gone completely ignored by western mainstream media.

Mr. Carlson introduced the interview with a clip from an earlier talk he had had with Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, who supports direct military action to overthrow Mr. Maduro and whose arguments Mr. Carlson had attacked on the basis that it would cost United States of American lives and cause a refugee crisis.

Ms Parampil said the media is lying about what is happening in Venezuela and compared Mr. Guaidos coup attempt to a scenario in which Hillary Clinton had refused to cede the election, banded together 24 United States soldiers and attempted to take the White House by force.

"I was there for a month earlier this year," Ms Parampil said. "The opposition has no popular support. Juan Guaido proved today, once again, that he will only ride in to power on the back of a United States tank.

And what’s more, we hear about a humanitarian crisis there, Tucker, but what we never hear is that is the intended result of United States sanctions that have targeted Venezuelans since 2015, sanctions which according to a report that was released just last week by the Center for Economic and Policy Research has led to the deaths of 40,000 Venezuelans, and will lead to the death of thousands more if these sanctions are not overturned.

President Trump, if he truly cared for the Venezuelan people, and the United States of American people for that matter, he would end this disastrous policy.

He would end the sanctions, and he would look into John Boltons eyes, into Elliott Abrams eyes, into Mike Pompeos eyes, and say you are fired.

You are leading me down a disastrous path, another war for oil.

Something the president said-he was celebrated by the United States of American people when he said Iraq was a mistake, and now he is willing to do it again."

"I believe in an open debate,” Carlson responded. "And I am not sure I agree with everything you have said, but I am glad that you could say it here. And you were just there, and I do not think you would be allowed on any other show to say that."

"No I certainly do not," Ms Parampil replied. "And I really appreciate you giving me the opportunity, because President Trump promised to drain the swamp, and he flooded his national security team with that exact swamp."

"Well I agree with that actually," said Mr. Carlson, who had a heated exchange with Mr. Bolton last year immediately before his appointment as National Security Advisor.

Some people are going to twist this article into "Hurr, Caitlin loves Tucker Carlson!", and there is ultimately nothing I can do about that because this is the internet and people are morons.

But for the record my point here is not that Tucker Carlson is awesome, it is that it is outrageous that in order to hear dissident views about Venezuela on United States of American mainstream media, you have to turn on Tucker f-cking Carlson.

Unlike Rachel Maddow, Mr. Carlson was wrong about the Iraq invasion and supported it up until 2004. He plays into the United States of Americas idiotic culture wars, frequently on the more idiotic side of each issue, and he has said hawkish things about Venezuela in the past.

It is absolutely horrifying that this is the closest thing that the United States of America has to a platform for sanity in the mainstream media.

The United States of Americas political landscape has restructured itself so much and the need to propagandize the masses has grown so severe that the liberal pundits are attacking the foreign policy of a widely reviled president for being insufficiently hawkish, and the only pundit with a foot anywhere near the brake pedal works on the news media network which was most aggressive in selling the United States of American public on the Iraq invasion.

President Trumps ostensible opposition are not just letting his worst foreign policy impulses run unchecked, but are actually egging him on, and the only ones asking meaningful questions about it are the leftists and antiwar voices who are aggressively silenced, and Mr. Tucker motherf-cking Carlson.

This is insane, and it needs to end.

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