1. Let's talk about what a cesspool of corruption the New York Times op-ed page has become under James Bennet.
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6. Hudson Institute & Foundation for Defense of Democracies (sic!) are not supposed to take foreign funding or funding from autocracis. But via Broidy, Nader got Saudi & UAE sway over them.pic.twitter.com/3Hm0lQs0UQ
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7. Tangentially, or maybe not tangentially, Nader & Broidy are both major league sleazeballs. Nader has served time for sexually abusing children. Broidy accused of coercing former mistress to have abortion & paying hush money (via Michael Cohen).
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8. Nader is also a co-operating witness in Mueller investigation.
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9. If you read only the oped, this is all you'd know about authors. Nothing about think tanks tied to Arab autocrats, or Nader, or Broidy, or child sex abuse, or the Mueller investigation. Just two normal guys from a normal think tank. Foreign policy experts.pic.twitter.com/nmwFmpyuRX
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10. I lay out the whole matter here: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152387/new-york-times-publishes-pro-saudi-writers-think-tanks-deep-autocratic-ties …
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11. One takeaway from this is that the Times Op Ed page is in a different universe than Times news section. By publishing that op ed in the form they did, they were denying or erasing the hard work Times reporters did.
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REALLY glad you're pointing this out.
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Nader is also a twice convicted pedophile as well as Saudi bagmanpic.twitter.com/fbHzfAAjwI
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