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Putin thinks Bush fired CBS reporter?

DaChew said:
Can this guy really be that out of touch? If so, I guess I understand now why he'd sell nuke plants to the Iranians.
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Not really surprising. The new Russia has a "free" press and Putin thinks it works the same way here.
 
Re: Re: Putin thinks Bush fired CBS reporter?

Abdul Alhazred said:
Not really surprising. The new Russia has a "free" press and Putin thinks it works the same way here.
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I would have thought that a world leader like Putin would have access to all the major U.S. Newspapers and the their foreign services along with others like the BBC.

The more I think about it, the more I think he wants his people to think that our press is like Russia's press.
 
I imagine that Putin is talking to a different constituency. He is either selling Russian that their "free press" is the same a western free press or he is talking to the European left who are likely to believe anything bad about Bush.

But perhaps he is to paranoid to understand the difference.

CBL
 
Puting was not the only one "out of touch."
The president also responded to a question by saying:

White House transcript
PRESIDENT BUSH: I live in a transparent country. I live in a country where decisions made by government are wide open, and people are able to call people to -- me to account, which many out here due on a regular basis.
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Transparent until Dick Cheney says, "go get a court order if you want to know whom I met with."

Transparent until President Bush tells the 9/11 commission, "I will meet with you behind closed doors while Dick Cheney is present, while I am not under oath, while there is no electronic recording device in the room, and while no written transcript can be made."

Transparent until the White House initiates Republicans-only town hall meetings.
 
Ladewig said:
Puting was not the only one "out of touch."

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Transparent until the White House initiates Republicans-only town hall meetings.
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Puting?

Donate a grand to the RNC and you can attend too.:D
 
I dunno, but one of the blogs I read speculated that Putin was getting bad intel from his advisors. He probably doesn't read our papers, just summaries. The problem with highly restricted countries like Russia is that the top people may be getting what they want to hear, not what's true.
 
IIRichard said:
I dunno, but one of the blogs I read speculated that Putin was getting bad intel from his advisors. He probably doesn't read our papers, just summaries.
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Doesn't read newspapers?! What kind of idiot would try to run a country without reading newspapers? ;)
 
Most likely Putin knew exactly what he was saying, but was just delivering a zinger to Bush against criticism of his anti-democratic practices. As usual, the rubes (Putin's intended audience) won't sweat the fine points.
 
Ladewig said:
Puting was not the only one "out of touch."
The president also responded to a question by saying:

White House transcript


Transparent until Dick Cheney says, "go get a court order if you want to know whom I met with."

Transparent until President Bush tells the 9/11 commission, "I will meet with you behind closed doors while Dick Cheney is present, while I am not under oath, while there is no electronic recording device in the room, and while no written transcript can be made."
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Keeping methods of intelligence gathering, etc, secret is quite a bit different than firing reporters.
 
This didn't really surprise me. Does anyone remember the interview Barbara Walters (I think it was her) had with Gorbachev? (the guy with the stain on his head) just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Talk about out of touch. Talk about isolation. It was quite a few years ago and i've forgotten the details but I remember my reaction to his answers.

It's hard to believe Putin would be just as clueless, given how far they've seem to have come but you never know. It could be too that he knows the truth of the matter and is playing a political card (albeit a rather low one).
 
Liek the whitehouse press corps is a bastion of free press. Bunch of hand pick suckups who dont want to lose their cushy spots. They are on a fisrt name basis with the prez!!! It smacks of an old boys club set up.
 
Ladewig said:
Doesn't read newspapers?! What kind of idiot would try to run a country without reading newspapers? ;)
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It's highly unlikely that I'll be president but IF:

I Were the President of the US, I wouldn't spend much time reading the papers. I'd want summaries of the world press, radio and TV.

This is a serious issue, how much time should the President spend each day finding out what reporters and columnists think of him/her? My take, not too much, but some.
 
IIRichard said:
It's highly unlikely that I'll be president but IF:

I Were the President of the US, I wouldn't spend much time reading the papers. I'd want summaries of the world press, radio and TV.

This is a serious issue, how much time should the President spend each day finding out what reporters and columnists think of him/her? My take, not too much, but some.
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I think your post is insightful. I don't think the question is 'how much time would you spend reading/watching the news' but how much time would you have to read or watch the news. I suspect: not to dang much. Still, the summaries a president receives are probably, more than not, the choice of the president. Still another reason to hope and...(never say pray on a skeptic forum)... that the man has the sense not to hire yes-men. I think few presidents adhear to that hope exclusively, but some more than others. Some may well want more of the editorials than the hard news (not surprising in politics) than others. I find it hard to believe that any (absent kim-woo-II) would only want the news from sources obvious partisan to their POV. More likely just the opposite. A president is in a unique position to (more or less) know the truth on many matters so hearing the version of that truth from the oft-read probably is more helpful career-wise.
 
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