Russia Today Editor: I Forbid Myself to 'Gloat' Over John McCain's Death

[DonViejo]

Margarita Simonyan, the editor in chief of the Kremlin-backed news organization Russia Today, appeared to slight the late Sen. John McCain in a gloating Monday tweet. “I am of course a bad Christian, because I can't love my enemies. I can’t even sympathize,” Simonyan wrote, according to a translation tweeted by Washington Post Moscow reporter Amie Ferris-Rotman. “I can only strongly forbid myself to gloat.” McCain, who passed away Saturday night, long held a contentious relationship with Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin: He backed pro-Western leaders in Georgia and Ukraine, and advocated for harsh economic sanctions against Moscow after the annexation of Crimea and its suspected involvement in the 2014 downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine. McCain was also a vocal critic of Russia Today, writing in a 2017 statement that “[Russia Today]’s propagandists debunk the truth, spread lies, and seek to undermine democratic governments in order to further Vladimir Putin’s agenda.”

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[MineralMan]

1. Trump just loves that editor, I predict.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Way To Go Out On A Limb, MM!

Like predicting the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning!

[MineralMan]

4. Well, they don't call me Sergeant Obvious for nothing.

[Adrahil]

2. Remember when all the idiots....

were talking about how RT was a reliable news source?

[MineralMan]

5. I remember those folks. They got real mad at those of us

who pointed out that RT was just the propaganda outlet for Putin. Oddly, I haven't seen any of those folks since the election. Odd, that...

[tenderfoot]

6. She's getting totally flamed by other Russians in response

Link to tweet