Posted on 11/19/2015 2:38:57 PM PST by sparklite2
They have offered to correct any further "fake letters" before publication, saying: "Dear Izvestia. Next time you are going to use fake letters, send them to us - we will be happy to help correct your mistakes. Yours sincerely, State Department."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Who should we believe? Izvestia or the State Department? Or BBC and the News Media?
that is kind of worth a half chuckle
General Petraus used gmail.
“There is no pravda in Izvestia, and no izvestia in Pravda.”
—USSR-era Russian saying
"Troll-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo"
There’s a great story behind that.
Did the letter come from Kinkos?
I know it.
OK, maybe the gmail thing was a little obvious but it wouldn’t be the first time the State Department had its stuff run through a non-government server, would it?
I’m out of the loop, fill me in please.
Eduard Anatolyevich Khil was an entertainer in the USSR who wrote a song about a cowboy and his girlfriend. But the government thought the lyrics were too pro-western, so he was not allowed to record it. He liked the tune, though, so he changed all the words to la la la. Someone videotaped his singing it (the pic upthread is from that tape) and nothing was heard about it for decades until it popped up on the internet and went viral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Khil
Our State Department in a battle of wits with Isvestya?
a battle of wits between propagandists, with no winners
Thank you. I saw the video on YouTube after they did a part of it on Family Guy.
My 8th grade history teacher used to tell us the same thing.
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