Andrei Sitov, Russian reporter, points to America’s darker side

Andrei Sitov, Russian reporter, points to America’s darker side January 14, 2011

That’s like MSNBC calling Rush Limbaugh biased.  Russia.  OK, let’s break it down a bit.  A nation with a history of violence that makes America’s history look almost Amish by comparison.  A country whose revolutions killed about as many as soldiers were killed in WWII.  A country whose reign of terror for the last century wracked up the second worst body count in human history (and hint, Nazi Germany isn’t number one).  A country that even now is cracking down on such pesky freedoms as Americans take for granted, assuming – I suppose – that because they have a hot, young spy we won’t notice.  A country where journalists and other dissenters turn up dead for some strange reason or another.  That Russia.  And here, a Russian journalist, Andrei Sitov, tries to do what other countries and cultures have been doing to America and Europe for about fifty years: he tries to say ‘doesn’t the speck in your eye demand your concession that those logs hanging out of our eyes are no worse?’  Mr Gibbs, well done


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