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Monday, February 28, 2005
Putin doesn't get it
It’s scary to stop and think that this is as well as we understand each other:
But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says a senior Administration official. "It was like something out of 1984."
That may be the first time someone has suggested that a conservative was running CBS News.
A thought: Does Putin honestly believe that he’s at the helm of a "western-style democracy" in Russia because he keeps hearing Democrats bitch and moan about stolen elections in Florida and Ohio?
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