A Right-Wing Media Star Is Born: Vladimir Putin September 6, 2013 1:42 PM EDT ››› ERIC BOEHLERT Casting a wide net and always willing to promote whoever will mount attacks against President Obama, conservative commentators have recently reached out all the way to Moscow to embrace their latest champion, Russian president Vladimir Putin. The more he criticizes Obama for wanting to mount military strikes against the Syrian government for gassing its own citizens, the more Putin's comments are cheered by conservatives here. The new found affection is downright bizarre considering Russia, and the former Soviet Union, has for decades been the epicenter of right wing suspicion and hostility; the proverbial Evil Empire. And in terms of the current debate regarding Syria, Putin is isolating himself from the international community. As USA Today noted this week, "Russian President Vladimir Putin's strident defense of a Syrian regime that has killed tens of thousands of its people in a civil war that has divided him from many world powers viewing Syria as a humanitarian disaster that demands intervention." Putin's an outlier with very little international leverage or power. But because he's publicly opposing Obama he's treated as a right-wing folk hero in America. That's how deep the hatred for Obama runs in today's conservative media circles. Note that late last moth, just hours before Obama addressed the nation regarding Syria, Matt Drudge bizarrely tweeted that "Putin is the leader of the free world." Putin is the leader of the free world... -- MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) August 31, 2013More recently, the Putin admiration society has been on full display all across the right-wing media landscape. On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh also seemed to side with Putin: Now, you know, Vladimir Putin is saying that Obama and Kerry are lying. And I don't know about you, but I find myself to be in a really curious situation. Who do I believe, Vladimir Putin or Barack Obama and John Kerry?Limbaugh appeared to be impressed by the fact Russia had compiled a 100-page report blaming Syrian rebels for the chemical weapons attack, not Russia's longtime ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Limbaugh told his listeners: "Now, I don't know about you, but what does it feel like to have to agree with a former KGB agent?" Meanwhile on Fox News, hard-right military analyst Ralph Peters was in full Putin swoon mode yesterday, insisting that "the world is on Vladimir Putin's side about Syria." According to Peters: "He's a thug, but he's defending the Christians and the other minorities in Syria." More: I don't like Putin, but I respect that guy. He is tough. He delivers what he says he'll deliver. He knows his people. He presents himself as a real He-Man....But he lives up to it! Our president talks tough, but in the clinch he's gutless.Putin, the right wing's anti-Obama. The Putin admiration has been growing for weeks now. In August, when the leader helped cracked down on gays in Russia by banning the positive depiction of homosexuality as well as the adoption of Russian children by any foreign couples from countries with marriage equality, the American conservative media cheered the former KGB agent as a righteous champion. Syndicated columnist Patrick Buchanan toasted Putin's move and praised him for trying to restore Russia's "moral compass" by implementing anti-gay policies. (Limbaugh had previously praised Putin's stance on gay adoption, conceding it was "ironic" for him to be agreeing with a Russian leader.) At this rate, if Putin ever gets tired of running Russia he can always sign on as a Fox News contributor. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/06/a-right-wing-media-star-is-born-vladimir-putin/195756
I agree, some of the more vocal republicans are so consumed with hatred for Obama, Democrats and Liberals that they'd rather side with the worst people in the World. What does that make them? IMO, it makes them the worst people in America. They would rather have a failing economy than a healthy one. They'd rather have suffering and death rather than treatments for those most in need. They'd rather side with Putin than Obama. Why? Because their hatred has consumed them to a point where, despite the waving-of-the-flag, despite the salute-to-our-troops, despite their stated desires to improve America, they are un-American...because they are that @#$%ing nuts. Again though, not all republicans are like that, but if they don't see what's happening by now, if they don't understand how this has been going on for over thirty years now, it doesn't bode well for America. If we keep on the path we're on, our economy is going to crash again and again. The result of that is further deterioration of our infrastructure, and further collapses of the economy. Riots would be an everyday occurrence and people would be dying left and right.
Here is what a treasonous bitch looks like. Palin: Obama Wears Mom Jeans, Putin Wrestles Bears Sarah Palin on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s “weak leadership” on the situation in Ukraine, insisting people see Putin as “one who wrestles bears and drills for oil.”
Never mind that Palin has been wrong about everything always. I believe that the Bush Doctrine would give Putin the green light to invade far, far more than the fact that Obama flew into Pakistan and killed Bin Laden, the fact that Obama took out Gaddafi, the fact that Obama threatened Syria if they didn't get rid of their chemical weapons, the fact that Obama took out Somali pirates, the fact that Obama has killed more Al Qaeda leaders than any president, no matter how the Right-wing tries to spin those successes. Anytime you have to quote Palin, you should know that you have lost all credibility.
UHM? Not really. I was being a bit facetious. However, I would guess you really think they are on the run?
