Remember a few days ago Putin accused Bush of having Dan Rather

[Tony_FLADEM]

fired and Bush reportedly opened his mouth in astonishment. Could it be that Putin knows Bush had the documents forged, and Rather retiring early is what Putin refers to as the "firing" and Bush was shocked that Putin found out about him having the documents forged?

[alphafemale]

1. Maybe Putin's a DU'er?

hehheh

[still_one]

2. do you have a link or tanscript for that?

[Must_B_Free]

4. the only links I'm finding are for contard rags

pretending to be "shocked" that Putin is so "ill informed"...
:eyes:

[Fovea]

3. You cant believe Putin

He's from the bureau of spies, he's
gotta be a conspiracy theorist!
/sarcasm

[dzika]

5. The press can only seem to think of one answer to this "surprise" question

"Putin doesn't understand the West"

It so obvious when every MSM journalist only reports the Administration side of the story. It just goes to show you how tight of a grip Rove has on the media.

[cliss]

6. Now, I don't think it was Putin who said that.

Bush, the perennial fool, opened his mouth and put his foot in it. He made some asinine statement about the "Press being 'free' in the United States".

A reporter then asked Bush about certain journalists being fired. Bush seemed irritated. He said something to the effect that, "Governments don't fire journalists. And, it has to be the 'Truth'".

Ahhh, don't you love it? And, of course, we all get to read it the next day in Yahoo news..

[banishbush]

7. Here is a link that might clear things up

http://www.rense.com/general63/putt.htm

NEW YORK (PRNewswire) -- When George W. Bush confronted Vladimir Putin last week about the freedom of the press in Russia, Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe reports, Putin shot back with an attack of his own: "We didn't criticize you when you fired those reporters at CBS." Details of the meeting, which included just the two presidents and their translators inside the historic castle that overlooks the Slovak capital of Bratislava, are reported in the March 7 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, February 28).

It's not clear how well Putin understands the controversy that led to the dismissal of four CBS journalists over the discredited report on Bush's National Guard service. Yet it's all too clear how Putin sees the relationship between Bush and the American media -- just like his own. Bush's aides have long feared that former KGB officers in Putin's inner circle are painting a twisted picture of U.S. policy. So Bush explained how he had no power to fire American journalists. It made little difference, Wolffe writes.

When the two presidents emerged for their joint press conference, one Russian reporter repeated Putin's language about journalists getting fired. Bush (already hot after an earlier question about his spying on U.S. citizens) asked the reporter if he felt free. "They obviously planted the question," said one of Bush's senior aides.

[oasis]

8. "They obviously planted the question," said one of Bush's senior aides.

:eyes:

[sweetheart]

10. Putin, given his intelligence network, probably "knows"

He surely has more in-depth surveillance than he makes plain, that
would miff bush the screwup.

Surely it was a tit-for-tat exchange, as every charge bush can levy
against putin can be bounced back:

1. Election tampering... neither putin or bush would tamper with the
fraud that put them in office.

2. Mass murdering and war crimes... neither putin or bush would expose
just how many 1000's they've murdered.

.. so you see that no topic is "on menu" except firing journalists ..

Ya gotta admire the hipocrisy. ;-)

[cliss]

11. Interesting......

and thanks for the follow-up.

Welcome to the DU, also:smoke:
:party: :toast:
Keep those posts coming.

[banishbush]

12. Thanks for the welcome!

[Selatius]

9. The US gov't doesn't fire journalists; it's the corporatists who do

And the corporatists run the government. dun Dun DUN

It's a more subtle model than the one the corporatists in Nazi Germany employed, which was the overt, total binding of government and corporation into one.

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[oneighty]

14. How do you know that?

Do you have a link?

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[Dave Reynolds]

16. I'm sure that the espionage business is

still going strong in both the US and Russia.

Just an opinion, I have no proof or link.