Daniel Ellsberg is being interviewed about Assange right now on RNZ National. 📂 Archived Message Posted by Morrissey on November 5, 2021, 7:42 pm, in reply to "Julian Assange" RNZ National, Saturday 6 November 2021, 8:10 a.m. KIM HILL: If you were prepared to risk imprisonment should Julian Assange not do the same? DANIEL ELLSBERG: Huh.. Well he has. He was locked up in the Ecuadorian embassy for eight years. Are you joking? Moments later... DANIEL ELLSBERG: The first prosecution of a journalist--- KIM HILL: Well he's a PUBLISHER! KIM HILL: I understand your empathy for him, but you're 90 years old. Why doesn't he just go back to the United States and see what happens? KIM HILL: You and Julian Assange both had {sing song voice} complicated relationships with the media. KIM HILL: He has not got a good image. The rape charges still cling to him. DANIEL ELLSBERG: He was never charged. KIM HILL: Quite right! DANIEL ELLSBERG: The media have a symbiotic relationship with the secret state. Officials leak all the time. KIM HILL: As Janet Malcom says, the truth is not your friend. She wrote a book, I don't know if you've read it, called The Murder of a Journalist. DANIEL ELLSBERG: She should know. She betrayed someone I know. KIM HILL: Who was that? DANIEL ELLSBERG: Jeffrey Masson. KIM HILL: You're not going to get us sued are you Daniel. Ha ha ha ha! continues.... https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/09/24/jeffrey-masson-trial-second-chance/ https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/05/kim-hill-spouts-braindead-neocon.html Message Thread: Julian Assange - scrabb November 5, 2021, 3:14 pm Re: Julian Assange - Neil Donaldson November 5, 2021, 6:10 pm Daniel Ellsberg is being interviewed about Assange right now on RNZ National. - Morrissey November 5, 2021, 7:42 pm Re: Daniel Ellsberg is being interviewed about Assange right now on RNZ National. - Ken Waldron November 5, 2021, 9:06 pm We do have some excellent journalists in this country. - Morrissey November 5, 2021, 9:33 pm Right now Hill is having her ass handed to her by Rafia Zakaria. - Morrissey November 5, 2021, 9:51 pm Re: Daniel Ellsberg is being interviewed about Assange right now on RNZ National. - John Monro November 6, 2021, 7:10 pm I heard her read out your letter, John! - Morrissey November 6, 2021, 9:08 pm « Index   Searching