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Tag: Mehdi Hasan
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Mehdi Hasan Reveals 1 Word Used By Trump That Should ‘Terrify’ Everyone
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“That’s not a word we often hear used in everyday conversation,” Hasan said. “It was a word frequently used by Nazis to dehumanize Jewish people during the Holocaust.”
Trump, he noted, said recently that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” which is similar to language found in Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”
“So there you have it: An ex-president and current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination not once but twice in just the last few weeks taking a page right out of Hitler’s Nazi propaganda playbook,” Hasan said.
“These reports should terrify each and every one of us,” Hasan told his viewers, adding:
“Trump isn’t hiding his authoritarian ambitions for a second term. From punishing his political opponents to locking up immigrants in camps to deploying the military, all while echoing the hateful rhetoric of Adolf Hitler. We know exactly what we can expect if he retakes the White House in 2024. But hey, what was it about Joe Biden’s age again?”
See his full segment below:
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MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Spots Rupert Murdoch’s Most ‘Unremittingly Toxic’ Legacy
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MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan slammed the “very real wake of destruction” that Rupert Murdoch is leaving behind as the billionaire media baron prepares to step down as Fox Corp. and News Corp. chair.
“It’s difficult to sum up Murdoch’s unremittingly toxic and pernicious record, to encapsulate the sheer power of Murdoch to do damage to our politics, our media, our world,” Hasan wrote in an essay published on the MSNBC website on Sunday, an adapted version of a monologue he gave on his show in April
“Three of the most destructive events of my lifetime — the Iraq War, the Brexit vote and the rise of Trump and his big lie — simply could not have happened without Rupert Murdoch,” he added.
On Trump, Hasan explained how Fox “laid the groundwork” for his 2016 victory and then “essentially became his propaganda arm” once he was in the White House.
After Trump’s 2020 loss, Hasan noted how Fox and Murdoch “had a moment of opportunity to break with Trump” but lamentably didn’t.
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MSNBC Hosts Totally Go To Town On Sen. Ted Cruz’s ‘Barbie’ Freak-Out
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Mehdi Hasan and Ayman Mohyeldin delivered a withering analysis of the “male conservative meltdown” over the film, and explained why “they are wrong once again.”
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Mehdi Hasan Nails Why Latest Tucker Carlson Report ‘Doesn’t Add Up’
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In the message reported by The New York Times, Carlson described watching a video in which three white men attacked an “Antifa kid.” He said the men were “dishonorable” because that’s “not how white men fight.”
Carlson also admitted he wanted them to murder the kid, then seemed to feel bad about that wish.
Hasan told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace that “you can’t not be shocked by this stuff” but added that it’s “not that surprising” given Carlson’s history.
The network instead stood by him.
Hasan also noted other racist comments made by Carlson on the air.
“You just have to wonder: Was the Fox board not watching ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ for the last few years?” he asked, adding:
“It’s been five years, Nicolle, since the Daily Stormer ― the neo-Nazi website ― said that Tucker Carlson is our greatest ally and ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ is basically Daily Stormer: The TV Show. Not sure if the Fox board were paying attention when they said that five years ago.”
“I don’t think this is the full story yet,” he concluded.
Fox News parted ways with its star host last week just days after the right-wing network agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit over lies about the 2020 presidential election.
It did not give a reason.
See more of Hasan’s conversation with Wallace below:
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‘It Will Shock You’: Mehdi Hasan Exposes Mike Pence As GOP’s Most Extreme 2024 Contender
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MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan on Thursday urged people not to be “deceived” by Mike Pence ahead of the former vice president’s potential 2024 campaign.
“This aw shucks, mild-mannered, soft-spoken, moderate-sounding family man has a political record that may be more extreme and out there” than any other GOP candidate, he said.
Hasan laid bare Pence’s extremist viewpoints on issues from abortion to climate change, warning viewers that Pence’s rhetoric “will shock you.”
Watch the full video here:
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Mehdi Hasan Exposes The Democrat Pushed By Some Of Trump’s Biggest Backers
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“A candidate willing to condemn the consolidation of corporate power, the evils of environmental racism and ever-increasing income inequality ― and a Kennedy to boot!” he said on Sunday night. “What more could Democrats ask for?”
Kennedy even met with Trump at one point to discuss a job in his administration.
“So forgive me if I don’t buy Kennedy’s left-wing ‘credentials’ and I’m not surprised he went on Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour on Fox to promote his Democratic presidential bid,” Hasan said.
Then, he noted that while Kennedy has support from figures on the right, many of the “people who know him best” have publicly denounced his views: his own family.
See more from Hasan’s Sunday night show:
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Mehdi Hasan Reveals What ‘Loser’ Ron DeSantis’ Buddies Really Think Of Him
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“It’s one Florida fascist or another, I mean that,” he said on Sunday night. “Don’t for a second think the Florida governor is any less extreme, any less dangerous, any less authoritarian than Donald Trump.”
DeSantis, Hasan noted, has struggled to differentiate himself from Trump on matters of policy while continuing his attacks on the LGBTQ community, the media, Dr. Anthony Fauci and more.
“DeSantis will take on everyone: The doctors! The media! The gays!” Hasan said. “But he won’t take on the former president.”
“His own people! His own buddies!” Hasan exclaimed. “They see him as a potential loser, too. The calls are coming from inside the house.”
Hasan said he’s reminded of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) describing the 2016 choice of Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.)
“Choosing between those two, he said at the time, was like choosing between being shot or poisoned,” Hasan said.
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MSNBC Guest Calls Nikki Haley ‘Perfect Manchurian Candidate’ For White Supremacists
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Wajahat Ali slammed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as an “alpha Karen with brown skin” and the “perfect Manchurian candidate” for white supremacists and racists.
On Sunday’s episode of MSNBC’s “The Mehdi Hasan Show,” the playwright and political commentator explained why he was “disgusted” by Haley, the daughter of two Indian immigrants, who has been criticized for trying to play both sides of MAGA nationalist and unifier with her campaign launch.
“Instead of pulling us up from the bootstraps, and pulling others from the bootstrap, we’re told to take your boot and put it on the neck of poor browns, immigrants, refugees, and Black folks,” Ali said of the former GOP South Carolina governor and Trump-era U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“And that’s what she did in her ad,” he continued. “I see her, and I feel sad Mehdi because she uses her brown skin as a weapon against poor Black folks and poor brown folks and she uses her brown skin to launder white supremacist talking points.”
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Mehdi Hasan Trashes ‘Far-Right Loon’ Tucker Carlson Over Paul Pelosi Conspiracy
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“They spent so much time spreading homophobic conspiracy theories insinuating that there was some hidden secret story behind that assault,” he told fellow MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday. “And they were obsessed with wanting to see the body cam footage.”
Now released, that footage shows the attack on Pelosi by a hammer-wielding home invader looking for his wife, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was speaker of the House at the time.
The 82-year-old was hospitalized for nearly a week after suffering a fractured skull. Police say the alleged attacker, 42-year-old David DePape, wanted to kidnap the then-speaker, who was not at home.
Hasan played a supercut of Carlson demanding the body cam footage.
“We’re not the crazy people, you’re the liars,” Carlson ranted last year over the lack of footage.
Hasan wondered if Carlson will apologize now that the footage has been released and doesn’t support any of the conspiracy theories.
“No, of course not,” he said, answering his own question. “You simply cannot engage in good faith with these people.”
Mohyeldin agreed, saying the footage was eventually released to appease the “far-right loons” and debunk the conspiracies… to no avail, since they’re already spinning new ones.
“That’s the beauty, Ayman, of being a far-right loon, of being a conspiracy theorist,” Hasan concluded. “You don’t have to worry about evidence. Any evidence to the contrary just becomes part of the conspiracy.”
See their full discussion below:
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Mehdi Hasan Calls Out Merrick Garland For Pandering To Bad-Faith Republicans
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“Democrats were largely overcome with glee” when President Joe Biden named Garland to the post in 2021, five years after Senate Republicans blocked his nomination to the Supreme Court. “They were finally owning the cons.”
But Hasan said they weren’t. Garland, he said, is “out of his depth and getting outplayed” by Republicans, especially as figures such as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) now demand investigations into Biden over the classified documents found in several private locations.
“This is the same bad-faith Kevin who didn’t care about ‘justice’ or ‘equality in the law’ when it was Donald Trump with alleged nuclear documents in Mar-a-Lago ― refusing to give them back, by the way,” Hasan said. “Bad-faith Republicans are everywhere.”
“The hypocrisy and bad faith of the modern GOP should be clear to anyone paying attention,” he said. “So perhaps Merrick Garland just isn’t.”
See his full segment below:
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Mehdi Hasan Sums Up Musk’s Twitter: ‘Right-Wing Crazies Make Whiny Complaints’
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MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan called out new Twitter owner Elon Musk for claiming he wants to make the website neutral but in reality is acting on behalf of only one side.
“He’s already engaged with a bunch of only far-right accounts” Hasan told fellow MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, noting, for example, that Musk quickly replied to a gripe by election denier and conspiracy theorist Tom Fitton with a promise to be “even-handed.”
“Yeah, Ayman, we should all be ‘even-handed’ when it comes to election denial,” Hasan mocked, then wondered what this portends for the future of the platform.
“Is this how Twitter is gonna work now, do you think, going forward?” Hasan asked. “Right-wing crazies make whiny complaints and the owner of Twitter, the world’s richest man, responds to all of them personally? Not only does that not seem to be a good use of his time, but it doesn’t feel very ― what’s the word I’m looking for? ― even-handed.”
Mohyeldin was even more blunt in his appraisal, warning advertisers not to “sit by and watch as this site increasingly becomes a cesspool of racists and antisemites” under Musk.
See their full discussion below:
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MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Exposes Glaring Hypocrisy In Right Wing’s Latest Freakout
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Many on the right went into full meltdown mode last week after Grammy-winning artist Lizzo played a crystal flute once owned by James Madison.
And MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan couldn’t help but point out the biggest hypocrisy.
“We live in an America where conservative media stars don’t lose their minds when Donald Trump supporters do this to the United States Capitol in full view of the world,” he said, and rolled footage of the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
Yet they had a “collective breakdown” over a Black woman playing a flute once owned by the fourth president, he told fellow MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin.
Hasan noted it was part of an obvious trend among those on the right.
“For conservative media stars in America today, a Black woman cannot be cast as a queen on ‘Lord of the Rings,’ cannot be the Little Mermaid, and cannot play James Madison’s flute ― a flute none of them had ever heard of until five days ago.”
“This is about a proud, talented Black musician showcasing to her audience and the world a moment of her happiness and joy that just triggered the right wing,” he said. “The very same right wing that loves to call everyone on the left ‘snowflakes.’”
See their full conversation below:
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