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"The political landscape is changing. Journalism needs to keep up, especially as the stakes in these elections keep getting higher," @mehdirhasan says. "But how are voters supposed to know if the media keeps letting them down?"
Watch the full segment: youtube.com/watch?v=L9X2AHJW…
Most coverage would have you think this midterm election is about inflation and gas prices. It isn't. on.msnbc.com/3DSQtVD
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The Mehdi Hasan Show retweeted
WH chief of staff Ron Klain responds to Pres. Biden's statement that "the pandemic is over":
"The fight against Covid certainly isn't over. The phase of the pandemic...where we had no vaccines, where we had no treatments — that phase is over." on.msnbc.com/3FEjtBK
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.@Ha_Matar says Itamar Ben-Gvir is "as far right as Israeli politics currently go."
He tells @mehdirhasan: “We’ve seen people very much to the right in Israeli politics, but never someone as far as this getting such levels of legitimacy.”
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Will far-right leaders like Italar Ben-Gvir in Israel’s government affect the country’s relations with the U.S.?
“I just don’t think that’s going to happen,” @dianabuttu says. “The bigger issue is whether the rest of the world is going to follow suit.”
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Another round of elections, another set of even more extreme candidates. *sigh*
No, @mehdirhasan isn’t talking about the U.S. midterms. He’s talking about Israel's parliamentary elections, where Itamar Ben-Gvir and his party make MTG and Kari Lake look mild.
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“It’s bizarre,” @mehdirhasan says, that Dems wouldn’t be more invested in a historically blue seat that recently flipped red. TX-34 is also “a warning sign that Dems may be taking Latino voters for granted.” Their complacency, he warns, may cause them to lose even more races.
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Senate control may come down to a few neck-and-neck races. But @EdMarkey says Democrats are "doing well right now.”
“You can expect all the experts to be wondering, ‘How did the Democrats pull that off?’ And it’s going to be because people did the work in the final 7 days.”
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While it’s safe to say most Republicans don’t want a ‘windfall tax’ on big oil, some Democrats — including fmr Obama Treasury Secretary Larry Summers — say it’s a bad idea.
@EdMarkey’s response to Summers? “There’s absolutely no truth to that whatsoever.” WATCH:
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Everybody’s hurting from inflation, especially at the gas station.
Well, not everybody: As you pay record prices at the pump, Big Oil is reaping more profits than ever.
But there’s a plan that could bring fairness back, @mehdirhasan says… if Democrats have the will:
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Not all Democrats are on board with @EdMarkey’s plan for an oil windfall tax. @LHSummers, for one, argues it will discourage investment. Not true, Markey says.
Hear the Massachusetts senator's full rebuttal, and watch his convo with @mehdirhasan on @MSNBConPeacock.
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.@mehdirhasan has the craziest right-wing politician yet to tell you about—someone who’s running circles around any GOP extremist running in the midterms.
@dianabuttu & @Ha_Matar join Mehdi to discuss Itamar Ben-Gvir & Israel’s parliamentary elections. Watch on @MSNBConPeacock.
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As you pay record-high prices at the gas pump, oil companies are making record profits — and that money's going straight into billionaires’ pockets.
A ‘windfall tax’ on Big Oil could fix that, says @EdMarkey, who joins @mehdirhasan to discuss: peacocktv.com/mehdi
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The GOP argues political violence is a "both sides" problem. But let’s not forget that only one party is eager to downplay the significance of the threat posed by domestic violent extremists. (via @MaddowBlog) msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show…
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The Mehdi Hasan Show retweeted
Ben Collins on Twitter's first days under Elon Musk: "We're heading toward that space where all information is flat...at the end of the day, that benefits the far right-wing media ecosystem which thrives on myths and conspiracy theories and lies." on.msnbc.com/3frUQxA
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Watch Mehdi's full interview with the White House chief of staff here: youtube.com/watch?v=0wdR4qhC…
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Republicans and right-wing media deflect and spread falsehoods on the attack on Paul Pelosi, avoiding any introspection on the vile and incendiary rhetoric on the right.
A new message should unnerve them, but the question remains: Are they listening? WATCH:
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“We have not risen to the moment at all,” @jemelehill says of journalists in the age of Trump and far-right extremism:
“Everything doesn’t need both sides,” she tells @mehdirhasan. “I think our jobs as journalists is to be fair. Fair is different than objective.”
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It’s not an exaggeration: Democracy “is on the brink, if not…something that has already slipped away from us,” @jemelehill says. “You have one [party] that still believes in democracy, and the other one who…really wants to usher in a state of authoritarianism.” WATCH:
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To better understand what’s at stake in the midterms, @mehdirhasan’s looking at specific congressional races across the country.
Today, he zooms in on IN-01, a district that’s been reliably blue for nearly 100 years but could be on the verge of flipping red:
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In the wake of the attack on Paul Pelosi, @WHCOS says political violence is “something that should be of concern to all Americans.”
“And to the extent that was promoted and generated by some of the rhetoric we have around,” he tells @mehdirhasan, “obviously, we are concerned.”
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