Putin is a dog turd.
Putin is commie trash -- old line KGB and that is the Russia he wants. He does not, and will not like any American President that will stand up against tyranny and communism.
I haven't read the article, but based on the title, I say, "YES!" The media likes him. He's a crude version of Gorby without the flamboyant wife. He knows how to manipulate the US press.
The adulation the lefties heap on Putin is sickening. Unlike President Bush who they constantly whine about, Putin actually is subverting democracy.
What do you think? May respectable man (like president such huge country as Russia is) has such nicknames as "Kremlin gopher", "fish-eyed" plus a few untranslatable into English?...