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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFOX NEWS FLASHBACK - Sept. 2013: “Putin Is The One Who Really Deserves That Nobel Peace Prize.”
Uh oh. It appears that while we were distracted by all of the world-class stupidity that Fox News disseminates on a daily basis, we missed a stunning transferal of control of the network from Rupert Murdochs Patriopathic zealots to some clandestine cabal of communist, Russian subversives. How else would you explain this: Putin Is The One Who Really Deserves That Nobel Peace Prize.
That is the headline of an op-ed on the Fox News web site by Foxs military analyst K.T. McFarland (thats Fox News, not the notoriously lie-riddled Fox Nation, as one might expect). Fox News is now taking the position that Vladimir Putin is a beacon of world harmony and togetherness, and deserving of recognition by a prestigious international organization.
Remember, we are talking about the same Putin who has been the most reliable partner to hostile regimes around the world including Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Somalia, Ukraine, Cuba, Uzbekistan, etc. The same Putin who has reinstated some of the most draconian and repressive policies since the fall of the Soviet Union. Thats the Putin who Fox News thinks deserves a Nobel Peace prize.
The inspiration for this tribute to Putin sprung from the recent proposal that Syria turn over its chemical weapons to an international body for destruction. Fox News has been applauding the Russians for two days, and now their admiration has produced this fawning praise:
In one of the most deft diplomatic maneuvers of all time, Russias President Putin has saved the world from near-certain disaster. He did so without the egoistical but incompetent American president, or his earnest but clueless Secretary of State, even realizing they had been offered a way out of the mess theyd created.
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"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and
trustworthy. I was able to get a sense of his soul: a man deeply
committed to his country and the best interests of his country."
-- George W. Bush
"People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil."
-- Sarah Palin
"He's what you call a leader!"
-- Rudy Giuliani
"He's one of us!"
-- Pat Buchanan
I know the only time that Vladimir Putin shivers is when he takes his shirt off in a cold Russian winter.
-- Mike Huckabee
Putin is the leader of the free world...
-- MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) August 31, 2013
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FOX NEWS FLASHBACK - Sept. 2013: “Putin Is The One Who Really Deserves That Nobel Peace Prize.” (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Jul 2014
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. Apparently, Fox loves leaders who ride horses shirtless and
are extreme religious right wing, homophobic, sexist bigots.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)2. Right....
- From the country that is the world's largest arms producer AND has killed more women and children in the past few years in its warped murderous pursuit of world democracy and to rid the world of terrorism, than all those that died in the Revolutionary War when it gained its own freedom....
Oh yeah, and then there's this.......
Oh yeah, and then there's this.......
Cha
(297,650 posts)3. Poor miserable fox "news".. they hate President Obama sooooo much..
that Russia looks good to them. Of course this tragedy of the plane being shot down by Putin's missile in Ukraine is "all Obama's fault "
George W. Bush looked into Putin's eyes and claimed to have seen his soul. Putin looked into President Obama's eyes and told Syria .. "Hey, I get rid of those chemical weapons if I were you."
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)4. Well, we know Fox News is full of shit.
Really.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)5. Everywhere the best friends of Putin
Are all from far right
marew
(1,588 posts)6. Hey! Buchanan was right for once!
They all have no soul, no heart, power and greed are everything to them. Compassion and kindness are not in their vocabulary.
Last Oct. I was in Vienna and saw the following sign in a store window: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace."