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Putin voices disgust at TV broadcasting of Gaddafi's death
xinhuanet.com ^ | October 27, 2011

Posted on 10/26/2011 11:48:56 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

MOSCOW, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he was disgusted by TV coverage of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's death.

"Nearly all Gaddafi's family was killed, his corpse was shown by all TV channels around the world. It was impossible to watch without disgust," Interfax news agency quoted Putin as saying.

Speaking at a meeting of the Russian Popular Front in Moscow, Putin also said that none of the world religions would allow TV channels to broadcast the killing of a bloodstained but yet alive man.

"There is nothing good that all these scenes were demonstrated on the screens and millions of people, including children, saw that," Putin stressed.

He added that the media must take moral responsibility for the broadcasting.

Gaddafi, who was in power for 42 years in Libya, and his son Mutassim were captured alive last Thursday when forces of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) wrested full control of his hometown of Sirte. But both of them died in murky circumstances shortly after being seized by NTC fighters.


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This is the same Vladimir Putin who dropped cluster bombs on innocent Georgian women and children to punish them for being America's friend.

Some of the Chekist Putin's innocent victims:

1 posted on 10/26/2011 11:48:59 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Lord help me, but I actually agree with Putin and his disgust.


2 posted on 10/26/2011 11:53:13 AM PDT by NoGrayZone ("Get ready for an aberration of historic proportions" - Herman Cain)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I am still waiting to hear Putins condemnation of the 100 million that communists slaughtered.

... still waiting....


3 posted on 10/26/2011 11:53:13 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Seems like the ex-KGB chief protests too much.


4 posted on 10/26/2011 11:55:22 AM PDT by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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This is the same Vladimir Putin who dropped cluster bombs on innocent Georgian women and children to punish them for being America's friend

As long as they aren't showing the atrocities on TV, it should be fine. lol.

5 posted on 10/26/2011 11:56:40 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NoGrayZone

It’s okay to show it a few times, but to replay it over and over again simply to attract viewers is in very poor taste, IMO.


6 posted on 10/26/2011 11:58:28 AM PDT by GSWarrior (Click HERE to read the entire tagline.)
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“Putin voices disgust at TV broadcasting of Gaddafi’s death”

He SHOULD!


7 posted on 10/26/2011 12:00:06 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Edmund Burke)
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To: NoGrayZone

Would you have been disgusted if they had shown the dead body of bin Laden on the TV?


8 posted on 10/26/2011 12:00:38 PM PDT by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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Seems Putin is generally correct in his assessment of the world media, which was the subject of the article.
9 posted on 10/26/2011 12:02:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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Yes I have noticed that the world’s current and future dictators have protested the loudest re: Gaddafi’s death at the hands of his own people...


10 posted on 10/26/2011 12:04:29 PM PDT by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Putin would like to shut them down like he shut down a Russian newspaper for printing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.


11 posted on 10/26/2011 12:06:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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That's because Vlad knows he might be next.
12 posted on 10/26/2011 12:08:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
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Not at all, I would have liked to see him dead though. The fact they stated “they took the time to bury him at sea in accordance to his traditions” raises a red flag for me.

We have NO proof it was bin laden thrown into the sea. Then our Navy Seals were murdered shortly after wards?

Doesn’t sit pretty with me.


13 posted on 10/26/2011 12:10:14 PM PDT by NoGrayZone ("Get ready for an aberration of historic proportions" - Herman Cain)
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To: Navy Patriot

“If it bleeds, it leads.”


14 posted on 10/26/2011 12:11:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Putin is a murderer himself. This humanitarian concern is nothing other than a “Potemkin Village”-like emotion conjured up by Vlad to influence the world’s media.


15 posted on 10/26/2011 12:14:03 PM PDT by 3Fingas
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He’s right. Anyone should also be disgusted at Hillary laughing, joking, and cackling about it.
And no sane person should celebrate the replacement of Kaddaffi with an Al Qeida sharia regime.
Now Obama has created in effect, a swath of Al Qeida from Libya across to Israel.
Notice how with Iran and Syria,, we remain hands off no matter how brutal the repression is?
But the more secular governments of nations like egypt, libya, etc,, Obama moved against them.

And Georgia (created in a Soros financed “rose revolution”)attacked Russians in S. Ossetia. It had nothing to do with them siding with us. After 9/11 we got FREE unleased unrestricted use of Russian controlled, former soviet airbases north of Afghanistan. We rewarded them by supporting the Islamonuts in Chechnya, Kosovo, and backed up an unfounded Georgian claim to S. Ossetia.

Then we screeched when they evicted us from their bases. Amazing diconnect. In this case, Putin is correct.


16 posted on 10/26/2011 12:17:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Well you see, he’s just thinking that this could be his fate one day, although it seems Russia can’t get enough of dictators.


17 posted on 10/26/2011 12:20:41 PM PDT by Carl from Marietta (Herman Cain 2012..get on the CAIN train! Content of Character, that's the ticket!)
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Putin does as he pleases with media for personal or Russian reasons.

The biggest part of world media generally abuse their position and trust with the people in a manner that assists Putin in his policy and goals, so he has little interest in shutting them down.

18 posted on 10/26/2011 12:20:41 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Putin knows he may be seeing his own future. Pretty revolting to see Putin fans here on FR. I guess dictators just appeal to a certain type of person.


19 posted on 10/26/2011 12:27:48 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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The only thing more disgusting than fans of the genocidal monster Putin are the repulsive fans of his good comrade the psychopathic islamofascist terrorist Kadaffy.


20 posted on 10/26/2011 12:40:06 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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