Posted on 02/06/2017 5:55:19 AM PST by Enlightened1
The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one of the channel's presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly described Putin as "a killer" in the interview with Trump as he tried to press the U.S. president to explain more fully why he respected his Russian counterpart. O'Reilly did not say who he thought Putin had killed.
"We consider such words from the Fox TV company to be unacceptable and insulting, and honestly speaking, we would prefer to get an apology from such a respected TV company," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
Fox News and O'Reilly did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Trump's views on Putin are closely scrutinized in the United States where U.S. intelligence agencies have accused Moscow of having sponsored computer hacking to help Trump win office, and critics say he is too complimentary about the Russian leader.
Trump, when commenting on the allegations against Putin in the same interview, questioned how "innocent" the United States itself was, saying it had made a lot of its own mistakes. That irritated some Congressional Republicans who said there was no comparison between how Russian and U.S. politicians behaved.
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Fox should apologize, or there will be no Fox News personel allowed into Russia to cover future news.
Putin was called a murderer. But then Obama should have been called a murderer too.
Trump was right, he was telling the truth. He was not denigrating the USA. Whether one is president of USA or head of Russia, one cannot help but be involved in “murder” per se.
Fox and O’Reilly should apologize.Its just smart business.
There was a time when I though BOR could do no wrong. Sadly he sold out years ago and is a borderline Marxist nowadays. He ain’t quite at Beck/ Levin levels but he’s not far off.
Go to hell you old windbag
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