© Reuters / Brian Snyder
RT | February 21, 2019
US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is being accused of “flip-flopping” on her Syria stance and “caving” to mainstream media pressure after a combative interview on The View.
Questioned aggressively by panelist Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain, Gabbard said there was “no disputing the fact” that Syrian President Bashar Assad is a “brutal dictator” who “used chemical weapons against his people.”
The comments stand in stark contrast to previous statements made by the Hawaii congresswoman, who in the past said she was “skeptical” about allegations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on citizens and called US efforts to overthrow Assad an “illegal war.”
She faced a major backlash from both the media and her colleagues in congress for taking a trip to Syria and meeting Assad himself in 2017.
While Gabbard tried to offer a balanced view of the situation in Syria, it was the antagonistic questioning from McCain that immediately grabbed headlines, with many framing the interviewer in a heroic light for “confronting” Gabbard, the “Assad apologist.”
During the interview, Gabbard also said that US military interventions are often “begun and waged from a place of humanitarianism” despite having previously taken a tougher stance on “military adventurism” and the reasons behind it.
Gabbard did push back many times against the panel of hostile hosts, saying repeatedly that US interventions have historically made bad situations worse and increased suffering, some of her supporters accused her of folding in the face of “bullying” from McCain.
Others acknowledged that Gabbard might have been trying to appease the panelists to get her wider point about the human costs of US interventions across, but argued that she risked alienating the people who already supported her in the process — and said that if she starts making concessions now, she will be forced to make more.
When the conversation turned to Venezuela, Gabbard angered the panel again, saying that the US trying to choose the leader of that country was “not something that serves the interests of the Venezuelan people,” despite co-host Ana Navarro’s hailing Donald Trump for “leading the solidarity and support of freedom-loving Venezuelans.”
via Caving under MSM pressure? Tulsi Gabbard interview on The View has some supporters fuming
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There is no one in politics who does not cave under pressure from the warmongers, war hawks and yes, MSM. Why anyone would think that this Tulsi Gabbard person would be any different, I don’t know. Look at what happened with Bernie Sanders. He pretended to be fighting mad the last time around and had many supporters and yet, he caved and Hillary Clinton went up against Donald Trump. And now Sanders has thrown his hat back into the ring; a democratic presidential contender yet again. I have long since become so disillusioned by anything and everything to do with politics that I hardly pay any attention anymore to any of that ridiculous circus of horrors. I didn’t even know a thing about Tulsi Gabbard until I read this article and from what I have read, she is just more of the same.
There will be no hope for any of us regardless of who is left standing to go up against Trump. The Democrats have nothing to offer and come Election Day, they will still have just that; nothing.
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Shelby, I think I last voted for a Democrat (Clinton) in 1992 and I’m even embarrassed to admit that – especially after he repealed the New Deal Aid to Dependent Children program, passed NAFTA, created the WTO and cheerleaded for the mass incarceration of Black people as superpredators.
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