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applegrove

(118,683 posts)
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:10 PM Feb 2015

Russian government propaganda stokes anti-West sentiment

Russian government propaganda stokes anti-West sentiment

By Susan Ormiston, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russian-government-propaganda-stokes-anti-west-sentiment-1.2944274

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One prominent television news program recently suggested that America was pushing its children into homosexuality. As an example, it showed a U.S. television ad for giant "Monster Truck" decals to decorate children’s bedrooms. In the ad, a boy opens his bedroom door on his birthday to find a wall-sized decal of a monster truck. He shrieks with delight, covering his eyes.


The version shown on the Russian program is doctored … the boy opens his door to find images of naked men covering his bedroom wall. The cutaway shows the same shrieking and covering of eyes, as the announcer asks: "Is this what a child’s playroom should look like?" (See the Russian video here, at 43 minutes and 55 seconds into the show, and the original commercial here, or watch them back to back.)

The American company behind the commercial, Fat Head, is considering a lawsuit.

"There is quite a lot of talk about morality," says Irina Prokhorova, "but I think this is the most immoral of all - trying to seduce people into becoming part of this repressive campaign."





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applegrove

(118,683 posts)
2. I saw the report on the tv. They showed what the Russians
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:16 PM
Feb 2015

replaced the truck with on the wall of the boy's room and it was disgusting to think of that in a kids room. Equating gay rights as child abuse deep in the guts of russians. Really scary.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
5. Russian and Ukrainian Jews are probably getting a bit tense these days.
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:22 PM
Feb 2015

You KNOW they'll come after the Jews next.

MattSh

(3,714 posts)
8. One minority to go, then they'll pick another.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 02:08 AM
Feb 2015

Any proof of that? I didn't think so.

No proof is needed about anything Russia these days. It's just one continual parade of stupid made up bullshit, each one trying to outdo the earlier one, everybody from the President to Congress to the media to the average Joe on the street. Nauseating.

Seems you're fixated on propaganda.

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
4. How utterly bizarre. Russian media is that desperate to make shit up about the USA?
Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:22 PM
Feb 2015

Or maybe they are just that homophobic, since this really plays more into the Russian government's anti-gay campaign.

applegrove

(118,683 posts)
10. A canadian reporter for a canadian news source. Well respected. Not western propaganda.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 03:13 AM
Feb 2015

Their is actually bad **** going on there.

Behind the Aegis

(53,959 posts)
9. Homophobia sells.
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 03:02 AM
Feb 2015

What is even more disgusting is watching so-called progressives deflect, or worse, defend this crap by hook or crook. I love how the idea of gay equality and human rights are consider "Western sentiment."

pampango

(24,692 posts)
11. All sides to it to varying degrees. Just recognize it and search for the truth. Sometimes propaganda
Thu Feb 5, 2015, 08:05 AM
Feb 2015

says more about the propagandist than it does about the target.

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