I’ll take Putin for U.S. president over Fauxbama Alex.
Bob Costas is a total a—hole.
He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
I would not perpendicularly traverse a linearly aligned conveyance route to micturate upon him were I to ascertain that he was rapidly combining with oxygen.
I was assured by our local FR russophiles that Vladi was trying to teach journos a lesson by placing them in sub-standard accomodations.
People around here praise Putin. Why should NBC be different?
The threat is windbag neocons like Limbaugh.
Obama, Limbaugh and Putin - two of them love their country.
Costas is a muttering moron.
First day of Olympics coverage and I was hearing about the terrible conditions in sochi. I have no doubt that the stories could be true but I also don’t trust anyone in western media to say a single nice thing about Putin. I turn on the coverage and I hear them talking about homophobia in Russia. The olympics haven’t even started and they were starting with this garbage. The left wing gay news will do whatever it takes to insult russia and putin.
No contest: NBC = Nothing But Communism.
I really don’t think Putin is communist. I think he’s an autocrat, for sure. I’m not disputing that. His policies are surely not democratic. He seems to be more of a czar type, rather than a communist Premier. In time we’ll see, but Putin may be the best thing FOR RUSSIA right now. He’s made alliances with the Russian orthodox church, which certainly couldn’t be a bad thing, considering the communists tried to stamp out religion. Whether it’s for political purposes or not, doesn’t matter. I for one find myself at odds (as usual) with the main stream media; I don’t care about the Russian anti-gay propaganda law. In fact, it’s probably good. Not to say i want to see it here in America...
Neither Putin nor Russia are communist. They’re heavily given to cronyism and corruption, but have a capitalist economy all the same. In some ways Russia is actually more capitalistic than the US: it has no death tax, and it has a flat tax on income. On the other hand, Russia has single-payer health care; it isn’t a uniformly more capitalistic country than the US.