Russian television shows what the Kremlin thinks of Clinton

Fox News.com via AP ^ | July 31, 2016

[Kaslin]

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MOSCOW – To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination.

Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and cannot be trusted, while the Democratic Party convention was portrayed as further proof that American democracy is a sham.

In her acceptance speech, Clinton reaffirmed a commitment to NATO, saying she was "proud to stand by our allies in NATO against any threat they face, including from Russia."

In doing so, she was implicitly rebuking her rival, Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has questioned the need for the Western alliance and suggested that if he is elected president, the United States might not honor its NATO military commitments, in particular regarding former Soviet republics in the Baltics.

While Trump's position on NATO has delighted the Kremlin, Clinton's statement clearly stung.

"She mentioned Russia only once, but it was enough to see that the era of the reset is over," Channel One said in its report.

[Intolerant in NJ]

RT’s rearrangement of the “This Is a Woman” puff piece on Hillary from the convention is a scream - kept the soundtrack but substituted footage of the various scandals, like “What she’ll be remembered for” accompanied by scenes of Gowdy egging Comey into saying she had misused classified materials. Saw it twice this weekend - hope it ends up on their webpage or YouTube - the Russians, at least RT, don’t like her at all....

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Eric Shawn reports: Is Putin behind the computer hack?

Still waiting for someone to point out the obvious about Trump's comments.

- If our own FBI, with actual physical access to the equipment, cannot obtain her 30,000 emails, then no hacker can do it.

- The only way Russia could have them is if they had previously hacked her accounts and that would mean they had everything - she had betrayed her trust in a big way.

- If Russia were to pony up the emails, it would provide us with the proof that she had been hacked and allow us to stop assuming but to act on the solid knowledge that everything she had dealt with had been compromised - that would be a good thing for America.