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FOX 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 Murdoch’s 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 Fox’s military analyst K.T. McFarland (that’s 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. That’s 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, Russia’s 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 they’d created.”
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=10532
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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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- 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.......
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
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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."
