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Posted on 11/23/2011 8:46:15 AM PST by NCjim
A top Russian female newsreader has caused a stir after appearing to offensively show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast.
nline footage of the incident, which occurred earlier this month during an afternoon news bulletin on the privately held REN TV channel, is being avidly viewed in both Russia and the United States.
In the footage, Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organisation.
She is then heard to say that the post "has (previously) been held by Barack Obama" before mechanically and unambiguously raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger in an offensive gesture that is sometimes known as "flipping the bird."
The channel, which goes out to 120 million people across Russia, has declined to comment. But sources close to it have tried to defuse the row by claiming that the newsreader had believed she was off camera at the time and merely providing a voice-over for a report. According to the same storyline, the rude gesture was intended for studio technicians who had been trying to put her off her stride.
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Sure, Mac.
Heck, we’ve all done it.
Come on, admit it, lady - you just feel like we Americans do.
No, she is just IMITATING Obama’s numerous “shoot-the-finger” tactics AT republicans during his speeches, while mentioning republicans during his speeches, towards Hillary while campaigning against “The One”, and during congressional meetings WITH republicans to their faces .....
All which were, are, and will be continued to be ignored by his ABCNNBCBS news mediadumbs.
Tatyana Limanova for President. She has a good deal of insight.
sometimes known as “flipping the bird.”
...we should change that to flipping an Obama. He’s “flipped” it more than anyone. Little punk ass twirp.
That’s strange...
I do that too when I see Obama on television.
I wonder if the Russkies cower in fear at being called a “racist”, like the overwhelming majority of Americans, including many conservatives.
Go have a look at Drudge. LOL!
I was going to ask Comcast to put her on our cable system ;-)
120 Million People accross russia -
Russian population :: 138,739,892 (July 2011 est.) [CIA World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html
]
Wow. that is one popular channel.
That’s infantile.
Never mind that thunder... 
of applause, sports fans--
For as Red Skelton said... 
at the huge turnout for the funeral of movie mogul Harry Cohn--
"It proves what Harry always said: Give the public what they want... 
and they'll come out for it!"
If red X above go to http://www.palzoo.net/file/pic/user/Red-Skelton.jpgf
I can’t stand to here him speak but we should go in mass to a Obama rally and just stand quietly giving him the finger. 500 hundred people giving him the finger, priceless and emotional satisfying.
I have done worse.
She must have shorted the ruble and bought the dollar
My view is that this was a Putin-state sanctioned and planned gesture to show 0bama that
“ we know your a weak,nutless wonder and we own you”.
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