Vladimir Putin27 Feb 05
Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: Uncategorized
To President Bush:
“We didn’t criticize you when you fired those reporters at CBS.”
- via MSNBC
He’s got a point, except for the fact that:
- Bush did not (and could not) fire them
- They were executives, not reporters
- They still haven’t left yet
Other than that, yeah, what right do the Americans have to criticize you, Vlad?!
At the same time, if Putin thinks the U.S. government fired reporters at CBS, they indeed should have criticized us! The fact that Putin thought that and didn’t criticize America is proof that Russia has some serious problems.
February 28th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
That Newsweek was a spin in search of a story. I heard that press conference while driving, and it was, as the
WaPo labeled it, a Mutual Admiration Society.
I couldn’t find the quote that newsweek leads with anywhere in the transcript. Maybe it’s from a different press conference, one which google can’t find.
In that press conference, Bush did correct a REPORTER about the conception that he fired journalists. Putin backed him up. If anything, it was Bush and Putin vs. some conspiracy theorist russian journalists.
February 28th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
That’s odd. Here’s a TIME article that claims basically the same thing, but it doesn’t quote Putin directly.
Also, I see that one of the three CBS producers has now stepped down.