Black Agenda Report
06-07-2017, 06:18 AM
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U.S. Empire (http://www.thebellforum.com/category/political-economy/us-empire)
by Ann GarrisonVladimir Putin mopped the floor with NBC’s Megyn Kelly last weekend, responding to her canned anti-Russia spiel with the contempt, and even humor, it deserved. NBC failed to broadcast a far more newsworthy interchange between Kelly and Putin, doubtless because it called attention to Washington’s deep ties to jihadist terror. “Vladimir Putin said that the U.S. is using terrorists against Assad and that the same terrorists are likely to bite back.”
Russia’s Vladimir Putin v. NBC’s Megyn Kellyby Ann Garrison“Kelly asked stupid questions and Putin answered intelligently.”
On Sunday, June 7th, Megan Kelly’s new NBC hour, “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” debuted after much advance hoopla about her exclusive interview (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-sundays-with-megyn-kelly-review-20170604-story.html)with Russian President Vladimir Putin. LA Times television critic Lorraine Ali wrote (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-sundays-with-megyn-kelly-review-20170604-story.html) that Putin outmaneuvered her, grimacing and smirking all the way, and that it was “a poorly planned match.”
Hell yes. The simple truth is that Kelly asked stupid questions and Putin answered intelligently. How could he not grimace or smirk at Kelly’s appeal to the expertise of U.S. spooks and politicians with classified information that none of the rest of us have seen regarding the alleged Russian hacks that allegedly gave the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump?
“What the experts say is that this couldn’t have been faked, that it’s 100 factors that point to Russia, they say it’s the forensics, it’s the digital fingerprints, it’s the IP addresses, the malware, the encryption keys, the specific pieces of code, that all of them, all of them, point to Russia, and none of them points to anyone other than Russia.” [Megyn Kelly]
The audience seemed to enjoy Putin’s response as much as I did:
“What fingerprints? Or hoof prints? Or horn prints? What are you talking about? IP addresses—they can be invented, you know. There are a lot of specialists who can even make it so it comes from your home IP address, as if your three-year-old daughter carried out the election..”
This exchange actually took place at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which began on June 1st and concluded on June 3rd, the day before Putin sat down for the videotape of his one-on-one interview with Kelly, but NBC editors inexplicably chose to include it in the interview aired Sunday night.
Megyn Kelly had for some reason been invited to moderate at least one panel of the St. Petersburg forum, perhaps because its organizers knew that she would make us—Americans—even more of a laughingstock for allowing our public conversation to be swamped by the ridiculous story that Russians hijacked our election.
In Kelly’s hamfisted narration of the rest of her interview Putin—which lasted all of 11 minutes—she referred to him as a former “KGB spymaster,” “Russia’s strongman for 17 years now,” “the former KGB agent,” etc.
The most successful propaganda ever convinces us that "Western interests" or "national interests" coincide with ours, but "Kremlingate" now rivals the Tonkin Gulf Incident and weapons of mass destruction. If it trips off a nuclear war, it'll win the prize, even if none of us ordinary folks without nuclear bomb shelters survive to award it.
Putin on defending the Syrian state
More... (https://blackagendareport.com/putin_demolishes_megyn_kelly)
U.S. Empire (http://www.thebellforum.com/category/political-economy/us-empire)
by Ann GarrisonVladimir Putin mopped the floor with NBC’s Megyn Kelly last weekend, responding to her canned anti-Russia spiel with the contempt, and even humor, it deserved. NBC failed to broadcast a far more newsworthy interchange between Kelly and Putin, doubtless because it called attention to Washington’s deep ties to jihadist terror. “Vladimir Putin said that the U.S. is using terrorists against Assad and that the same terrorists are likely to bite back.”
Russia’s Vladimir Putin v. NBC’s Megyn Kellyby Ann Garrison“Kelly asked stupid questions and Putin answered intelligently.”
On Sunday, June 7th, Megan Kelly’s new NBC hour, “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly,” debuted after much advance hoopla about her exclusive interview (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-sundays-with-megyn-kelly-review-20170604-story.html)with Russian President Vladimir Putin. LA Times television critic Lorraine Ali wrote (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-sundays-with-megyn-kelly-review-20170604-story.html) that Putin outmaneuvered her, grimacing and smirking all the way, and that it was “a poorly planned match.”
Hell yes. The simple truth is that Kelly asked stupid questions and Putin answered intelligently. How could he not grimace or smirk at Kelly’s appeal to the expertise of U.S. spooks and politicians with classified information that none of the rest of us have seen regarding the alleged Russian hacks that allegedly gave the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump?
“What the experts say is that this couldn’t have been faked, that it’s 100 factors that point to Russia, they say it’s the forensics, it’s the digital fingerprints, it’s the IP addresses, the malware, the encryption keys, the specific pieces of code, that all of them, all of them, point to Russia, and none of them points to anyone other than Russia.” [Megyn Kelly]
The audience seemed to enjoy Putin’s response as much as I did:
“What fingerprints? Or hoof prints? Or horn prints? What are you talking about? IP addresses—they can be invented, you know. There are a lot of specialists who can even make it so it comes from your home IP address, as if your three-year-old daughter carried out the election..”
This exchange actually took place at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which began on June 1st and concluded on June 3rd, the day before Putin sat down for the videotape of his one-on-one interview with Kelly, but NBC editors inexplicably chose to include it in the interview aired Sunday night.
Megyn Kelly had for some reason been invited to moderate at least one panel of the St. Petersburg forum, perhaps because its organizers knew that she would make us—Americans—even more of a laughingstock for allowing our public conversation to be swamped by the ridiculous story that Russians hijacked our election.
In Kelly’s hamfisted narration of the rest of her interview Putin—which lasted all of 11 minutes—she referred to him as a former “KGB spymaster,” “Russia’s strongman for 17 years now,” “the former KGB agent,” etc.
The most successful propaganda ever convinces us that "Western interests" or "national interests" coincide with ours, but "Kremlingate" now rivals the Tonkin Gulf Incident and weapons of mass destruction. If it trips off a nuclear war, it'll win the prize, even if none of us ordinary folks without nuclear bomb shelters survive to award it.
Putin on defending the Syrian state
More... (https://blackagendareport.com/putin_demolishes_megyn_kelly)