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71. How about Rachel Maddow?

Do you write off everything she says, and everyone else on that network? You do know they are owned by General Electric, one of the largest military contractors in the world.

The corporate MSM rarely will give airtime, at least not whole shows, to left-of-center commentators. Cenk understands that all too well.
Its not that complicated.

The only reason Putin allows it is that he knows hosts like Hartmann will highlight mistakes, problems, shortcomings of American policies and behaviour. And he's smart enough to know that he must have an arms length policy with RT America. Let them have free reign or it won't be authentic.

Now you may have a problem, like the right wing media like Ann Coulter that despise anyone that criticizes the US in any way, but some of us think that we have to learn about and face the problems in order to counter them.

As far as not criticizing Russia? Why do they have to? If you want to get your daily dose of Russian critique you can pick up any mainstream newspaper or news network.

If you think Thom Hartmann, or Abby Martin for that matter, have the kind of character that can be easily bought and will simply follow some script they deep down do not believe in, for a modest salary, then you either have zero ability to judge character, or you are darkly negative about the human race in general.

He was given some airspace to present his take on the news, and he took it. Maybe in some future utopia the large news media conglomerates will be publicly owned or owned by Noam Chomsky, but until then we should calm down on the purity test, and appreciate that someone like Thom has a place to spread progressive thought and response.