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Related: About this forumHilarious. Someone calling Putin "dickhead" causes meltdown by Russia Today/Putin TV/Kremlin
dvduval
(260 posts)Near the bottom of the story is the Alert Abuse button. I clicked it and reported this!
Burf-_-
(205 posts)your abuse alert is crap
newthinking
(3,982 posts)real good idea...
He can post his comments in the existing OP just like everyone else.
Here is the one just made a few hours ago: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017197161
dvduval
(260 posts)In 2013 President Putin stated Certainly the channel is funded by the government, so it cannot help but reflect the Russian governments official position
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
So let's be clear this is a news outlet that likely is here on DU to help promote the Russian position.
Meanwhile, even in Eastern Ukraine there is likely a super majority that want a free Ukraine (for now), but what is happening is many are migrating West because they fear for their lives, and can't even vote safely.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)How does that translate to fear of not being able to vote?
And ethnic Russians are not going to be migrating to Lvov. That is just a hillarious proposition (and from one who obviously does not talk to many, if any Russians (emigrants, etc).
If someone flees the east they may go toward Kyiv (lost in a crowd and most of Kyiv still speaks Russian), or they will go someplace like Odessa.
They are also fleeing to Russia. Many of the old "Soviet" beach resorts in Crimea are filling with refugees (the government there is housing them in facilities and tents as they don't have housing for them all).
But you are free to believe the line out of Kiev.
dvduval
(260 posts)I just helped a friend pay for an apartment who moved from Donetsk to Kiev. I have another friend in Luhansk that is also considering fleeing. They are both Russian speakers and support the Kiev government, as do most in the East despite the RT propaganda.
I have to wonder about the activity levels of RT here on DU. Something isn't adding up.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)I could certainly believe you may know two people who would be as you imply but you can't possibly make that claim about the majority, especially given that those areas were very strongly party of regions.
There are though gallop polls that were taken that indicate the opposite. If you really are interested I can find them and post them.
The presidential vote alone shows that the narrative of the Maidan parties representing the majority was pure fiction. All the parties involved were soundly beaten, there wasn't even a runoff required. Before you say the same of party of regions, it is impossible to determine, but history shows they would have had a strong showing, if not for boycott by many and if the party as an organization had not been severely disabled by persecution, burning buildings, threatened families, and candidates not beaten.
dvduval
(260 posts)I don't know if you saw Vice News cover several polling places that were shut down by rebels. People literally could not vote. Why would they do this if they thought voting would help them prevail? The logic is flawed. I assume RT didn't cover this.
https://news.vice.com/article/ukraine-says-russian-tanks-have-crossed-into-the-rebel-held-east
A majority voted for the current President of Ukraine. I said nothing about Maiden.
fireflysky46
(224 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)some of the pro-Putin posters have even let fly with hateful, racist stuff. Notice that many of them are pretty new to DU.
As you say, something doesn't add up
Rt is like fox in that they leave out important details like the viewpoint of the other side.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)side. Check out "Words Apart" with Oksana Boyko on RT. Not an advertisement, you will find at a list of guests who offer a diplomatic world view that challenges RT and President Putin. Not all guests are equal, keep an open mind and practice your most loved teacher's guide to critical thinking.
dvduval
(260 posts)He was actually trying to protect the Russian embassy. Told them fine to tell Russia to get out but keep it peaceful.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)to keep the crowd from getting worse that it was by by using a word. I would much rather see that then the crowd getting worked up and storming the embassy. I do not know why some would alert, I too think it is funny how the side that has been fomenting real live violence gets all worked up over a word.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)The correspondent was live but the "diplomat's" comment was recorded. They could've easily succeeded in not covering this.
If RT is such a shameless propaganda outfit, it would've been simple to pretend the comment never happened.
Better stick with General Electric/Comcast TV, where you are sure to get the unvarnished truth.
newthinking
(3,982 posts)was turned around?
Not to mention since it was related to what became a very serious riot that threatened people in the building? I think surely it would have been ALL OVER our media.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)That profoundly stupid looking individual is the top diplomat of our puppet government in Kiev. And no, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister was not elected but rather was simply appointed by our lackeys in the "interim government."
Your tax dollars at work in Ukraine!
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)it was bought out by Rupert Murdoch.