Episode Transcript: #634 - Abby Martin
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We are live Abby Martin. How do you feel about that? I feel great. You've done that live shit before. Oh, yeah, hell, yeah
You're free the Russians free Abby Martin formerly of Russia today
The lone standing voice you were like the person who everybody would say Russia today who the fuck's gonna watch that?
Well, that chick seems to be speaking her mind. Yeah, hmm
Gave a lot of credibility to the network when you have dissent against the funder
I mean, yeah, that's a weird place to be though, huh?
like that whole Crimea thing when you were protesting what you were talking and speaking and I guess in editorial fashion on your show about what was going on with the
Russian invasion of
Ukraine the Crimea situation they were like, well, you should go there yourself and see it and you were like fuck that
Was that when you were starting to think like man, maybe I should not be here
Well, well the problem was waking up to a press release saying that I was already going to be shipped there without asking me
So that was when it shipped
Yeah, so I just said no, I'm not gonna I just didn't want it to be a vetted press experience for me
You know, I wanted to make my own contacts on the ground in Kiev plus it was like a war zone at the time
I mean, maybe not Crimea, but Ukraine. Yeah, even though it's part of it
Yeah, so I wanted to get training and also make my own contacts instead of just going with like
Vetted Russians and just like going around Russians there and being like look everything's great. They're all happy like we've added everyone already
So here's your experience. It has to be a weird gig working for Russia like the Russian sponsored news
Network in America living in Washington DC like what a block from the White House
Yeah