Posted on 05/22/2024 4:21:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin fell for a joke on live TV that circulated in the wake of the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
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Not long after the reports emerged, a reporter for a French TV station mistakenly reported as a rumor a joke on Telegram and X, formerly Twitter, that Raisi's helicopter had been piloted by a Mossad agent named "Eli Kopter."
State TV host Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most-prominent figures in Kremlin-backed media, appeared to fall for the joke during a live broadcast on channel Russia-1. The Daily Beast's Julia Davis shared an excerpt of the footage on Tuesday on X. Newsweek has contacted Russia's Foreign Ministry for comment by email.
"Meanwhile in Russia: in his zeal to blame the U.S. and Israel for the Iranian president's helicopter crash, state TV host Vladimir Solovyov totally fell for a joke blaming Mossad agent 'Eli Copter,'" Davis said in a caption accompanying the video.
"We talked about yesterday's tragedy. Today, suddenly, a French TV channel produced the following," Solovyov said, and then showed a clip of the broadcast of the joke.
"It is a political analyst, Daniel Haik, on the French channel 24 News," added Solovyov.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Exactly.
Yah, jackson hunkle the raging anti semite.
He was just one of dozens who tweeted that meme.
Which is humor for those with the wit to get it
Regrettably my using his post provided a trigger for you to clutter your own thread with irrelevant trash to try to discredit
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That was an epic prank on that local news station. Still funny to this day.
Hinkle is trash.
Sum ting Wong?
“Sum Ting Wong?”
No, it was his Iranian friend, Ibn Fahlin.
I crown you the new King of Ukrainian Propaganda spam.
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At 1:16
[President Joe Biden] And when I was Vice-President, things were kind of bad during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what happened was, Barack said to me, "Go to Detroit and help fix it."
Before Michael Cohen, Joe Biden was The Fixer. Vice-President Biden went to Detroit in 2016 and fixed the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why did Justin Wells and Alex McCaskill suddenly abandon Tucker’s TCN sinking ship?
Don’t care.
It’s creepy how obsessed you are with it.
Music, for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_eWFCceJg4
TCN = RMS Titanic
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