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The Katie Halper Show

203 - Working For Neera Tanden with Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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bonus: Zaid Jilani on being low key censored by Center for American Progress https://www.patreon.com/posts/being-censored-26205426 First I talk to Ben Armbruster & Zaid Jilani, two former employees of Think Progress and Center for American Progress about the editorial independence of the blog from the think tank. They explain the beef between them and Bernie Sanders. Then I speak to Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace and a student organizer named Sarah about BDS.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Katie helper show. You can find the Katie helper show on iTunes

0:16.7

where you can read and review us. You can also find us on soundcloud, find us on Facebook.

0:20.9

Come patron supporters at patreon.com slash the Katie helper show. on and extra episodes. Save the date and buy your tickets May 10th at Littlefield.

0:35.6

The Katie Helper Show will be doing a live show with our friends The Struggle Session

0:41.0

podcast, that's Leslie Lee and Jack Allison.

0:43.4

So these two great shows will be coming together for one night only, for now,

0:47.6

One Night Only live taping of the Katie Helper show and Struggle Session with amazing special

0:52.3

guests including Rolling Stones

0:54.1

Matt Taibi, Jamie Peck, the co-host of the podcast The Antifada, also a journalist in

0:58.9

her own right, and Stand Up comedian Jake Flores who's also also the host of the podcast, Pod Dam America.

1:05.8

That's Friday, May 10th at Littlefield in Brooklyn.

1:08.7

On this show, you'll be hearing from four different people.

1:11.6

First, you'll hear from two people, a former editor and

1:14.5

writer from the Center for American Progress's Think Progress publication. They

1:18.9

shared the experiences of working there under Nira Tandon and talk of course about the beef

1:25.2

between Center for American Progress and Bernie Sanders and the reason we're talking

1:29.8

about that is because this past weekend Bernie Sanders finally hit back not physically

1:33.9

although near a Tandon we now know thank to the New York Times article has actually

1:38.1

hit her employers or shoved them as she says. Someone said that she punched one she says that she shoved him. So he metaphorically hit back at Center for American Progress over a really bad video that they put out which attacked him for being a millionaire while being a socialist.

1:53.8

Sanders sent the organization a letter criticizing them for playing a quote unquote

1:59.2

destructive role in the critical mission to defeat Donald Trump.

2:03.0

Tandon, in turn, admitted that the video was overly harsh,

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