[Trumpinator]

There is no proof at all Putin ordered killed any journalists - it's rumors started by people who don't like Putin's regime in the first place.

A 28 year old female intern was found dead in Joe Scarborough's office under highly suspicious circumstances. Can we imply Joe killed her then if we imply every journalist killed in Russia was under Putin's order?

The hell with the main stream GOP media hacks. Trump 2016

[apocalypto]

I agree there is no evidence.

As for killings by the US, the Serbs might say we do it. The Serbs never did anything to us, and yet we killed quite a few, including women and children. There are threads her on FR pointing to Jeb B and Terri Schiavo.

[Hugin]

I believe he has, particularly the one in London who died of thallium poisening. But then look at how many of the Clintons’ enemies have mysteriously died. Huckabee had a great one liner, “I’ve beaten the Clinton machine my whole career and I’m still alive to talk about it”. In either case there’s no proof, just a lot of “coincidence”.

[Redleg Duke]

Hell, “journalists” have been responsible or the killing of many American soldiers over the years.

[elhombrelibre]

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/05/putin_condemned.html

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/11/journalist-safety-vladimir-putin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902604.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11212072/Russian-actor-and-Putin-critic-found-dead-in-Moscow.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi5-believe-vladimir-putin-behind-3897973

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/dec/18/observer-editorial-putin-russia-journalists-murdered

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/07/16/open-letter-to-russias-putin-on-tenth-anniversary-of-forbes-editor-paul-klebnikovs-murder-why-havent-you-solved-this-case/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10728908/Billionaire-critic-of-Putin-may-have-been-murdered-rules-coroner.html http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Labyrinth-Spies-Murder-Russia/dp/0812978412

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/22/brits-investigate-the-assassination-of-the-spy-who-warned-us-about-putin.html#

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/malaysia-airlines-flight-father-letter_n_5607856.html

http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2014/07/13/19336.shtml

November 1998 - Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg.

April 2003 - Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block. Yushenkov had been serving as the vice chair of the group known as the “Kovalev Commission” which was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin’s KGB had planted the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombs

July 2003 - Yuri Shchekochikhin , a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Dumaand the Kovalev Commission, suddenly contracts a mysterious illness. After his sudden death on July 3rd. The Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy, his relatives “managed to send a specimen of his skin to London, where a tentative diagnosis was made of poisoning with thallium” (a poison commonly used by the KGB, at first suspected in the Litvinenko killing).

June 2004 - Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, Professor of Ethnology and expert on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation is shot dead in his home in St Petersburg.

July 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow.

September 2004 - Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko’s chief of staff OlegRibachuk suggests that the poison used was amycotoxin called T-2, also known as “Yellow Rain,” a Soviet-era substance which was reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon. Miraculously, he survives the attack.

September 2006 - Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and killed in Moscow.

October 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow.

November 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki andKashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

On January 19, 2009, Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and killed was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

On July 14, 2009, leading Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova , a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/ Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3dd_1401997313#XRRREys6DwG6l1tA.99

[chuckee]

I would like Putin to turn Rachel Maddow orange for Christmas

[montag813]

Clinton’s drinking buddy Boris Yelstin had an aide who was CONVICTED of having a reporter critic murdered. There is no evidence however of Putin or anyone in his circle having journalists killed. But yet this has taken on an air of certainty among liberals.

[usurper]

From what I can tell the way the original statement by Joe S to Trump was during a discussion on the conflict in the Middle East including Russia combat air power.

Then Joe S criticized Putin for killing journalists. I though Joe was talking about collateral damage from air sticks. So when Trump responded that we have done the same it made perfect sense to me.

[montag813]

well-documented allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has had political opponents and journalists killed

Well that's as good as a conviction! Who needs a jury when one has "well-documented allegations" against you?

Who died and made blog pimp Zeke Miller some respected media figure?

[Hostage]

Why are media people so stupid?

Were FDR or Truman happy to sit down with Stalin at Yalta? Stalin was responsible for more murders and genocide than anyone in history, yet American Presidents sat with him, smiled for the cameras and called him a critical Allie, why?

The answer is simple, the Soviets were part of the effort in defeating Nazi Germany.

Now Donald Trump views Russians as critical to defeating ISIS. After ISIS is defeated, then the relationship with Russia will be reviewed.

It’s not complicated when you have Trump as CINC. He understands better than any other candidate what’s going on. He knows the Middle East is full of bad guys and one must choose which bad guy to take out first and to that end it is efficient to make alliances with other bad guys to get it done. No other candidate is as smart as Donald Trump in this subject matter, none. And it is exactly coming from Donald’s prowess in being a smart and tough negotiator. That’s why he’s the best guy bar none for the job. We are so fortunate to have him at this time in American history.

[GilGil]

“Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump brushed off well-documented allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has had political opponents and journalists killed.”
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If Time calls them “allegations” even though they are well documented means they are not a certainty. So what are they saying? Basically nothing.

[Rastus]

Killing journalists is a bad thing? Did Joey ask Trump his opinion on former Congressman blowhards with dead staffers in their offices?

[kaehurowing]

“. . . well-documented allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has had political opponents and journalists killed. . . “

What a bunch of crap.

[Flick Lives]

If the MSM press is trying to get sympathy for the MSM press, I’m sorry to inform them the well is dry.

[Candor7]

There is no proof at all Putin ordered killed any journalists - it’s rumors started by people who don’t like Putin’s regime in the first place. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

But yet ISIS Islamofascists have executed journalists and published the videos for the whole world to see.

Yet the MSM seems to have forgotten about that fact, and its ludicrous for the MSM to try to place Trumps nuts in a vice when he is actually communicating with Putin on security matters which are very important. Obama has refused to accept the security warnings offered to interdict terrorists, and the Tsaranov brothers are a case in point.

[Milton Miteybad]

"He also is a person that kills journalists, political opponents and invades countries. Obviously that would be a concern, would it not," Scarborough asked.

Well, Joe...I know you'll agree that there are a lot of hacks purporting to be "journalists" out there, and some of them probably need killing. As you are no doubt aware, Joe, life ain't for everybody. ;-)