Condi And Sergei Air Differences Over An Open Microphone

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7-1-2006 | Adrian Blomfield

[blam]

Get'em Condi!

[Huck]

Kind of surprising she can't speak Russian, given her background.

[CindyDawg]

20 minutes and no one thought about turning off the mic?

[Chani]

This occurred Wednesday, I wonder why it's not been splayed on all the news networks? Or maybe I just missed it. It would be kinda fun to hear it. hehe

[builder]

You GOGirl!

[xrp]

20 minutes and no one thought about turning off the mic?

You think the journalists are on Sec. Rice's side?

[doug from upland]

She speaks Russian, French, and Spanish.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

Its not Miss Rice, it's DOCTOR RICE to you!

[Hilltop]

Don't be fooled by the lie contained in this article, Secretary of State Rice is fluent in the Russian language.

[CindyDawg]

Well, I kind of thought she might have at least have had a body guard around.

[builder]

I personally would not want to get into an argument with Secretary Rice.[I think she would intellectually kick my butt]

[Man50D]

20 minutes and no one thought about turning off the mic?

Maybe someone did and thought it was better to leave it on!

[onehipdad]

And a daughter of Notre Dame!

GO IRISH!!!

[Jorge]

Well this puts to bed all my worries that Condi lacks the brass ones needed to be an effective Secretary of State.

[Huck]

Like the old line from Dire Straits: "Two of em say they're Jesus; One of em must be wrong!"

Weird. I wonder which one is true.

[Huck]

It would be very interesting to hear what their conversations are like. A fly on the wall type thing.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Quick! Someone post the photo of Condi's boot. I'm cubicle bound!

[Chani]

I agree...but I would want to hear the whole thing.....I am afraid the media would dice and splice it to fit whatever agenda they would want us to hear. ;(

[maine-iac7]

Miss Rice's Russian is poor

The opposite of what has been said for some years...?

Here's one testimony on her expertise in speaking the language = FROM a Russian:

(excerpt from...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6729551/site/newsweek/

in a story by Eleanor Clift!

"Maltsev [a professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin...one of the last defectors from the Soviet Union before it collapsed. He was an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev...] has met with Condoleezza Rice, whom he believes brings a more realistic assessment than Bush to what Putin is all about. “She speaks Russian as well as myself, maybe better,” he says. Rice studied Russia during the height of the cold war,"

So either this reporter is ill informed, making up as he/she went along or deliberately lying to make Condi less that she is - hmm, could be the green eyed monster too.