Comments on: Freddy Gets Fingered: How I Busted The Washington Post’s Op-Ed Page Editor

By: oleg

oleg — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:33:19 +0000

Every time I see Hiatts and Applebaums of the world write their nonsense about Russia, I get warm and fuzzy, because I know that the day it happens is the day when WaPo loses another 5-10 readers. I mean, people may be stupid but NOT THAT STUPID.
When I feel down I just take a look at WaPo stock price, and that makes me happy and content. That thing is gonna die soon, or shrivel into complete irrelevance. There is God after all.

By: GO MIC!

GO MIC! — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:42:46 +0000

Nothing will beat the Yellow Journalism’s coverage of the 2008 South Ossetian War. Nothing. Some quotes:

“The Russians couldn’t sit inside a steel car, because it was hot!” (but the Russian driver could)

“Russia’s army is poorly trained, they lost one airplane.” (Army isn’t the Air Force and 1/10,000 planes lost…yeah riiight)

“Russia went around killing South Ossetians”

“Putin will invade Tbilisi and take Saakashvili hostage”

“This was will cause a rift between Russia and China”

Sorry Ames, but like I said, nothing can beat the Military Industrial Complex’s coverage of the South Ossetian War.

By: RPG Cunthair

RPG Cunthair — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:54:10 +0000

If his fuckin eyes get closer together he will have trouble blinking. Fucking inbred monkey.

By: james

james — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:43:09 +0000

I’m sure the fact that he is Jewish (like 99% of the media in the US) and supported Israel’s slaughter in Lebanon has nothing to do with the fact that he hates Russia.

And Russia during th 90’s was not economic policy gone wrong. It was specifically designed to destroy the country manufactured by George Soros and his Harvard economic goons who just happen to be Jewish also.

In fact let’s get to the crux of the matter Communism was a Jewish invasion of Russia.
http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/zionism/jews_and_bolshevism.htm

By: yabadabadoo

yabadabadoo — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:53:16 +0000

Putin sucks ass.

By: ShMiller

ShMiller — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:23:14 +0000

Keep chipping away at em’ Ames. You’ll nail someone to the wall yet for the Western media (in the general sense)’s clustfuck of an excuse for “reporting” on pretty much anything to do with Russia.

First up Hiatt … we can only hope. Next … the Economist? Haha.

By: slavdude

slavdude — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:31:21 +0000

Ah yes, reminds me of the good old days of the late Cold War and my grad school teachers at Harvard. I think the wingers are looking for a new enemy, and they are still being influenced by people who haven’t gotten over the real or perceived slights and harm they (may or may not have) received at the hands of the old Soviet Union. Why not pick on Russia, which in the mid-1990s rejected the Shock Doctrine so beloved by Republicans, Democrats, and mainstream academic economists in the United States?

By: Kavuye Toon

Kavuye Toon — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:10:00 +0000

I’m glad you exist

By: Rubino

Rubino — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:07:52 +0000

Great article. Other than, “This hardline, deeply flawed position by one of the nation’s most influential editorial pages has played a leading role in driving America and Russia to the brink of a new cold war.”

For there to be a new cold war, there would need to be an ideological stalemate. Russia would need a distinct ideology to oppose that of Western democratic capitalism, which it does not. In fact, it appears to have no ideology at all.

By: TB003

TB003 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:56:52 +0000

You think this is bad, you should’ve seen Hiatt’s editorializing during the Iraq War mess. Even when he listed facts that contradicted his own beliefs, he would always conclude with something along the lines of “this proves we should not cut and run.”

You see, facts tend to have a “liberal” bias, so Hiatt feels the need to balance it out with right-wing BS.