When the propaganda machine is against the Democrats they suddenly care about credibility.

Democrat presidential candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was fighting back on Wednesday against reports that the Russians are working to help her campaign.

She appeared on the MSNBC show “Morning Joe” and defended her campaign to Kasie Hunt.

“”There have been reports that — that Russian apparatus that interfered in 2016 is potentially trying to help your campaign. Why do you think that is?” Hunt said.

“Cite those reports and their credibility,” Gabbard responded.

“Well, the Russian propaganda machine. We — we did an analysis, actually,” Hunt said.

“I just want to point out — I want to point out that that NBC article has been debunked and disproven,” Gabbard said.

“By whom?” Hunt responded, questioning where Gabbard found her information.

“But because — look at — I would ask you to look at the credibility of the sources and the so-called experts,” she said.

“Well, I’m certainly not going to say that my colleagues did not do their due diligence, because I do know what our standards are here,” Hunt said.

“Other journalists have debunked and — and disproven the so-called experts that have been cited in that article,” Gabbard said.

“And I think it’s actually very dangerous for articles like that and outlets like NBC to put out this information that seeks to bully people into saying, you can’t come out and take the positions that I’ve taken of calling for an end to the Cold War, calling for an end to this nuclear crisis that we’re facing, otherwise you’re going to be smeared as someone who is subject of Russian propaganda,” she said.

But the NBC report does show that it is believed that the Russians are working to help Gabbard.

A new report from NBC News says that the Russians are launching a cyber campaign to help Democrat Tulsi Gabbard become president.

It reported that the same Russians that they claim helped President Donald Trump are now helping Gabbard.

The Russian propaganda machine that tried to influence the 2016 U.S. election is now promoting the presidential aspirations of a controversial Hawaii Democrat who earlier this month declared her intention to run for president in 2020.

An NBC News analysis of the main English-language news sites employed by Russia in its 2016 election meddling shows Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who is set to make her formal announcement Saturday, has become a favorite of the sites Moscow used when it interfered in 2016.

Several experts who track websites and social media linked to the Kremlin have also seen what they believe may be the first stirrings of an upcoming Russian campaign of support for Gabbard.

Since Gabbard announced her intention to run on Jan. 11, there have been at least 20 Gabbard stories on three major Moscow-based English-language websites affiliated with or supportive of the Russian government: RT, the Russian-owned TV outlet; Sputnik News, a radio outlet; and Russia Insider, a blog that experts say closely follows the Kremlin line. The CIA has called RT and Sputnik part of “Russia’s state-run propaganda machine.”

All three sites celebrated Gabbard’s announcement, defended her positions on Russia and her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and attacked those who have suggested she is a pawn for Moscow. The coverage devoted to Gabbard, both in news and commentary, exceeds that afforded to any of the declared or rumored Democratic candidates despite Gabbard’s lack of voter recognition.

Gabbard was mentioned on the three sites about twice as often as two of the best known Democratic possibilities for 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, each with 10 stories. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren had fewer. In each case, the other contenders were treated more critically than Gabbard, with headlines like “‘Don’t Run’: Vermont Paper Begs Bernie Sanders Not to Seek US Presidency in 2020” and “Sexist much? Biden blames ‘conservative blonde woman’ for shutdown, ‘forgets’ Ann Coulter’s name.”

“Her promulgation of positions compatible with Russian geo strategic interests can help them mainstream such discussion in the [Democratic] party,” said Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook and now an NBC News analyst. Gabbard, said Stamos, helps them with all their “lines of attack.”

But The Intercept reported that the source used for the story was also found to have fabricated Russian propaganda to help Democrats in Alabama.

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