But what you don't understand is that VOA is not a news organization. It was created during WW2 by the Office of the Coordinator of Information for the express purpose of spreading pro-American propaganda in Germany and in Japan. And it has kept doing exactly that ever since.
I remember it showering the USSR with pro-American high-power shortwave radio broadcasts in Russian and in English when I was a kid in the 70's. Everybody knew VOA was America's response to radio Moscow.
VOA is quite explicitely a propaganda thing. Really! You guys can downvote me all you want, it's the plain truth. VOA journalists are quite literally paid to spread American propaganda.
His Orangeness has decided to turn the country around 180 degrees and make it a fascist pro-Russia state and I despise him with all my heart. But Trump is right: the VOA has no business not being 100% aligned with him.
That makes the VOA an enemy of freedom, democracy and common decency, just like Trump.
As much as I hate Trump, there's a logic in this. VOA has always been a publicly-funded propaganda mouthpiece. They are NOT an independent media. Independence entails not taking money from people you want to criticize.
If VOA refuses to spew out the latest flavor of propaganda, they're not doing their job.
They didn't "clash" at the White House: Zelensky got a bona fide dressing down from the orange utan and the couch fucker, like a little kid who done something wrong, purely based on untruths and lies.
If anything, the man should be praised for keeping his cool. Can you imaging being scolded by those two morons while your country has been at war for three fucking years and you have to endure the indignity to try and save it? If I had been Zelensky, I would have spat on them, gotten up and left.
I reckon Canadians should be required to visit Finland: there's a country that also shares a huge border with a fickle and dangerous neighbor, but whose citizens are keenly aware of the danger and prepare themselves very thoroughly for the worst, to the point of paranoia.
"I know where he comes from, from a political standpoint," Trump said. "I was surprised we got along very well. I mean, we had a lunch that ended up being longer than we thought. That's always a good sign, you know, longer in the sense that we got along."
Some guy stays diplomatically polite and pretends to be his pal for 30 minutes to get what he wants and Donny boy thinks they're besties forever. What a dumbass... No wonder why Putin and Kim Jong Un managed to butter him up and make him think they're on his side so easily.
I know all there is to know about Stewart, and I'm 99% certain he won't go easy with Musk. All I'm saying is, if it ever dares do that, I and all the folks who know him will hate his guts.
It's very common for hosts - hell, anybody - to be vitriolic with someone who isn't there in person, and then become all civil, polite and buddy-buddy-like with them when they're around. For example, Bill Maher recently invited that turd Matt Gaetz on his podcast show thing and it was the most nauseating best-friends act you never saw, considering how critical Maher has been of the guy.
Oh this disgusting scene that shows in no uncertain way that all politicians are in fact in the same club of psychopaths, and their public rivalries are just theater.
This is a make-or-break moment for Stewart, because if he ever shows any sort of complacency with Musk when he's face-to-face with the sonofabitch, when he's so passionately against him when he's not, as talk show hosts often do with controversial guests, his audience will punish him something fierce.
What part of "As much as I hate Trump" don't you understand?