Lee Camp: No difference between RT and the BBC
We caught up with the activist, stand up comedian and head writer of the show Redacted Tonight With Lee Camp. We spoke about a range of topics including the upcoming Midterms in November, the Russian hysteria sweeping the globe and why the British Broadcasting Corporation is, in Lee Camp’s opinion, no different from Russia Today. We were delighted to welcome Lee to Newsvoice Think. Redacted Tonight takes a satirical, yet sober look at U.S. current affairs for RT America. He explained to us why he feels the idea of RT America having to register as a foreign agent is contradictory, and why the U.S. is trying to shut down discourse that doesn’t fit its mainstream media narrative.
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“The whole designation of registering as a foreign agent is funny because it was passed back in the ’40s to expose Nazis who were lobbying American agencies. So the actual idea of what a foreign agent is applies perfectly to AIPAC which is Israel’s lobbying arm in the U.S., but AIPAC’s never had to register as a foreign agent.”
Lee Camp’s ascent to a weekly TV show on RT took him through the dark, damp comedy circuit clubs. He explains it was a transition with its bumps along the way. The energy of a live audience, such as the great Stand comedy nightclubs in Scotland can never be replaced: “The idea that you’re in on something with a small number of people in a room, you can’t compare that to when you have million dollar cameras in front of you.”
I asked Lee what he thought about the world’s attention being focused on Russia and whether he agreed with the idea that “Russian hysteria”, was a dangerous exercise in psyops.
“A quarter of the candidates for the Democrats, about 57, who are running for the House of Representatives at the November Midterms are proudly ex-Military and intelligence people they proudly say ‘I used to be at the CIA, I used to be at the FBI’. It’s really sad.”
Cambridge Analytica is a name and term that will indelibly go down in the history. Camp feels we need to be angry about a multitude of platforms — not just Facebook, Twitter too — who he feels suppressed the DNC Leaks, and whose lawyers openly admitted the fact to Congress.
You can read more about Lee Camp’s work at www.leecamp.com
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