Putin Says American Reporter Is Too ‘Beautiful’ to Understand His Very Clever Point [False Headline Alert]

Yahoo ^ | Allison Quinn

[BenLurkin]

The exchange took place Wednesday at a Russian Energy Week panel in Moscow moderated by CNBC journalist Hadley Gamble. The reporter had pressed Putin on reports of Russia withholding gas supplies to Europe to drive up prices, and after the Russian leader dismissed the claim, she asked how Moscow could convince its European partners that it’s a reliable gas supplier in light of such reports.

“A beautiful woman, pretty. I tell her one thing, and she says something completely different. As if she didn’t hear what I said,” Putin said, turning to the male members of the audience.

And while he called it “politically motivated blather” to suggest the Kremlin might take advantage of soaring gas prices to get German regulators to approve the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, he said such an approval would “significantly relieve tensions on the energy market.”

He later noted that it was “entirely possible” gas prices could soon reach $100 a barrel.

In a separate interview with Gamble on the sidelines of the event, Putin appeared to react defensively to a question about whether he’s given any thought to potential successors.

“What about Mr. [Alexei] Navalny?” Gamble asked the Russian president. “Are you interested in improving his quality of life?”

“The citizen that you’ve mentioned is now in prison,” he said.

Acknowledging that conditions in Russian prisons are “not the best,” Putin said “he’s not alone.”

[mcshot]

The “bee” on line 5.

[mass55th]

"Very beautiful woman? She ain’t no tennis star."

Billie Jean King maybe.

[mcshot]

Confirmed without flashbacks.

[BenLurkin]

One my might of the of the young guys as art at a gallery. No need to possess them in order to merely appreciate.

[DesertRhino]

Communists in Moscow are fairly rare these days. They are basically the David Duke weirdos of Russia. There are more Marxists in the Bay Area and DC than there are in the Kremlin.

That is why the America media and Democrats (communists) hate Putin so much.

[EEGator]

[heavy metal]

i’ll take that with nothing on it...

to go...

please...

[EEGator]

There’s a line...

[heavy metal]

i’ve used it numerous times...

😁...

[EEGator]

LOL

[AnotherUnixGeek]

She kind of looks like whatever Bruce Jenner has turned into these days.

[monkeyshine]

I tell her one thing, and she says something completely different.

It's got nothing to do with her beauty. It's just modern American journalism.

[Bernard]

At first she heard, “Let's Go, Brandon” and came up with different wording so she would not be accused of plagiarism.

[smalltownslick]

Totally understand. I simply can’t understand the whole schoolteacher/teenage boy thing. What would a grown woman ever see in that?

[bigbob]

This explains why Helen Thomas was always perfectly understood.

[VTenigma]

Meh

[KevinB]

I like this guy, lol.

Yep, pretty bad when I have far more respect for the Russian president than our own.

[Does so]

Too often, an answer is given to a different question...

[Chickensoup]

There are things that teen aged boys can do that no one else can said a once former teenaged girl.

[Sequoyah101]

I just really like the way Putin handles himself.