The Legion Of Liars
One of my favorite sites on my daily reading cycle is La Russophobe covering Russian politics. Sometimes when I’m reading the editorials, I get the distinct feeling that I’m looking at one of our possible futures, if we are not careful.
This latest editorial titled, Putin’s Legion of Liars, discussing all the Vladimir Putin apologists really struck a cord with me:
But this is par for the course in a Russia governed by a proud KGB spy. It’s simply impossible to defend him using actual facts, so you have to make them up. Soon, you get used to doing it, and soon after that you start to believe your own lies. Within Russia, there is nobody to contradict you, since there are few available sources of real information and most are too terrified of violent retribution to speak out.
But this is not the Soviet Union’s world. Russia has been exposed time and time again, and these shameless liars only look more and more ridiculous as they scurry to cover up the failures of the Kremlin’s KGB incompetents. If the people of Russia don’t soon realize that it is these “defenders” who are Russia’s true enemies, Russia will collapse just as the USSR did, for the same reasons.
This reminds me of the latest spin from the White House regarding the stimuls “saving or creating” X number of jobs, and no one in the press corps calling him on it.
It’s hard to get real information out when reporters are sucking up to the ‘The One’ rather than asking tough questions.
Or when they are too busy bowing to an ELECTED representative.
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