Never Forget They Smeared Assange & Laughed At Him! (Jimmy Dore)

Julian Assange has been released from prison and returned to his native Australia, a fact anyone who cares about press freedom should cheer. And while left-leaning commentators like Cenk Uygur and Krystal Ball are joining in the applause at Assange’s release, back when the U.S. government was pursuing criminal charges against the Wikileaks founder, Uygur and Ball felt no compunction about smearing and laughing at Julian Assange and his predicament.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss why no one who smeared Assange this way should ever be allowed to forget it.



A large portion of the left wing media turned against Assange because he trashed Hillary Clinton, helping Trump win in 2016.

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Good clip from Jimmy Dore. The left dumped Assange in two waves, when he was charged with sexual assault, that was made up, and when Wikileaks helped to wreck Hillary's campaign after a Bernie Sanders supporter leaked emails showing they cheated. Rather than considering these events objectively a lot of people took a political position against him (Assange) and dumped the dude.

However, it is also truth that one cannot fully trust everything that comes from Wikileaks, because the released material can, and has been, controlled, but he's done a lot of good when it comes to exposing basic levels of corruption - the illegal wars, corporate money laundering, bribery, blackmailing - and for providing info on the more heinous aspects of Washington politics that includes Pizzagate. So he's done more good than bad for sure, but because of the smearing and political mindset of many people, a lot of ordinary people, and the tools in the mainstream media, ended up dumping him.

A lot of what happened is because he ended up indirectly helping Trump who was someone he could not find dirt on. He did not uncover such things as such as rigging votes, being involved in coups and military interventions, stealing aid money, mishandling classified information etc. That is the objective position he was in back in 2016.

And anyone that has looked into the Russiagate stuff knows that it was nonsense from the start. The fact that people bought into it is another amazing aspect of living in The Twilight Zone.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 30, 2024.]