The Useful Idiots Spreading Socialist Propaganda - Reason.com: "
"Why does American journalist Abby Martin do propaganda for socialist murderers?
You've heard about Russian propaganda.
Martin once worked for RT, Russia's state-run news network.
Now she's got a similar gig at teleSUR, an anti-capitalist, pro-socialist news network funded by Latin American leftists.
I'd never heard of teleSUR before researching this week's YouTube video.
But teleSUR matters because its videos get millions of views.
Latin America stays poor because people believe socialist propaganda.
One teleSUR video lists countries where "capitalism failed": Canada, Mexico, England, Peru, Panama, Switzerland, the United States...
Another says that "Trump is killing our brains with Nazi-era chemicals."
Few viewers know that teleSUR is funded by the tyrants who control Cuba and Venezuela.
Venezuela, once rich, has been bankrupted by its socialist rulers.
...One shows a picture of Warren Buffet's son while telling viewers, "Philanthropy is a scam that allows the super rich to influence global affairs ... as if capitalism were the solution, not the cause of world problems."
...In the last few decades, capitalism has lifted billions of people out of miserable poverty.
By contrast, in Venezuela, many store shelves are empty.
How can teleSUR put a positive spin on that?
They hire "useful idiots," as Communists once called naive leftists who spread tyrants' propaganda..."
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