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skylucy

(3,854 posts)
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 09:18 PM Aug 2016

Watching Bill Maher doing a rather interesting interview of

Julian Assange. Maher has no ax to grind with Assange except he wasn't going to put up with Assange talking bullshit about what was actually in the hacked DNC emails and Assange's obvious hatred of Hillary. Bill asked Assange to hack into Trumps tax returns!

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Watching Bill Maher doing a rather interesting interview of (Original Post) skylucy Aug 2016 OP
It's Assange and gang, bet we could find where he is not being fair to Hillary, never Thinkingabout Aug 2016 #1
Maher pretty much nailed Assange on his anti Hillary crap. skylucy Aug 2016 #2
They don't Jamaal510 Aug 2016 #6
I think maher did a good job showing the differences spooky3 Aug 2016 #3
Yes, and it was obvious that Maher got under his skin pointing this out. skylucy Aug 2016 #4
good point spooky3 Aug 2016 #5

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. It's Assange and gang, bet we could find where he is not being fair to Hillary, never
Fri Aug 5, 2016, 10:28 PM
Aug 2016

Was fair to President Obama either, Snowden delivered his crap trying to discredit Obama, like reading the rags, don't believe anything this bunch says. If they were interested in blowing whistles they would blow whistles equally, it is about destroying reputations. It will not get their candidates elected.

skylucy

(3,854 posts)
2. Maher pretty much nailed Assange on his anti Hillary crap.
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:50 AM
Aug 2016

Assange is quite an asshole. It was obvious that his email leak didn't work out quite as he had hoped it would (i.e. destroy Hillary)

spooky3

(36,204 posts)
3. I think maher did a good job showing the differences
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:21 PM
Aug 2016

Between Assange and Snowden. Snowden was all about privacy and concerned that the public didn't know their privacy was compromised. Assange is about "transparency"--if you believe him. He wants the info he gets put out there regardless of whose privacy rights may be violated.

Snowden was also very careful and got help determining exactly what to release and what not to release. Assange dumps everything.

Etc

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