I Watched Russian State Television for a Whole Day

[DGuller]

All the counterarguments for going to war were presented to me by kiss-ass, self-censoring US media.  This is a myth of the American left.

Arguments are not enough, you also need facts.

[Valmy]

All the counterarguments for going to war were presented to me by kiss-ass, self-censoring US media.  This is a myth of the American left.

I was only there at the time.  What do I know?  I was appalled by the idiocy by both sides.  It was amazing.  That was when I checked out, for the most part, on the big media outlets.  Given their ratings these days a lot of people have joined me.

[Valmy]

Yes, Russian State TV shows the other side of the coin.

The other side of what coin?

The World coin. The Cold war is not ever, it never was. It was on hiatus because Elstine was a poor Russian leader.

He might have been an amazing leader while sober.  The world will never know.

[Admiral Yi]

Arguments are not enough, you also need facts.

Facts are lovely.  Were there available facts that US media didn't report at the time?

[KRonn]

Whatever happened to the truthful Pravda? Now that it's gone Russian media standards have clearly gone out the window!   

[Valmy]

Whatever happened to the truthful Pravda? Now that it's gone Russian media standards have clearly gone out the window!   

Pravda is still around but became a tabloid reporting on Aliens and crap I thought.

[KRonn]

Whatever happened to the truthful Pravda? Now that it's gone Russian media standards have clearly gone out the window!   

Pravda is still around but became a tabloid reporting on Aliens and crap I thought.

Oh how the mighty have fallen!

[Razgovory]

Whatever happened to the truthful Pravda? Now that it's gone Russian media standards have clearly gone out the window!   

Pravda is still around but became a tabloid reporting on Aliens and crap I thought.

I think they always did that.  The Soviets never managed to separate bullshit news and real news.

[Razgovory]

Arguments are not enough, you also need facts.

Facts are lovely.  Were there available facts that US media didn't report at the time?

Define "available" here.

[Admiral Yi]

No.

[derspiess]

[Razgovory]

So much for the Myth of the Left then.

[Syt]

Whatever happened to the truthful Pravda? Now that it's gone Russian media standards have clearly gone out the window!   

Pravda is still around but became a tabloid reporting on Aliens and crap I thought.

Their op-ed pages are hilarious.

"America: Most corrupt democracy money can buy
It's official! Thanks to five reprobates-Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy-who comprise a majority on the United States Supreme Court, America is now the most corrupt democracy money can buy"

"Ukraine and Crimea - an Illegal Putsch and a Democratic Referendum
At 6.05 a.m., (GMT) on Tuesday 1st April, a correspondent on the BBC's flagship morning news programme "Today" stated that Russia had "seized Crimea", faithfully following the rampant propaganda being hysterically stirred from Washington and Whitehall and by newspapers ranging from the Los Angeles Times to pick-your-favourite-news-outlet land."

"Obama: 'Bordering' on Hypocrisy
Russia is doing no more and no less than the American people would expect of their own government if it was indeed run by an American. In what appears to be a media-led effort to resurrect the days of Khrushchev and Kennedy, America is pursuing a path that can only be described as economically, politically, and socially suicidal"

"Barack Hussain's Legacy: The Top 10 Greatest Achievements and lessons to the world
Thanks to the overdose of gay propaganda he established a solid base on which to build gay bashing. Side effect 1: Gushing over the openly gay couples, yet refusing comments on his own ambiguous past associations he facilitated the spread of rumours about his own sexuality. Side effect 2: He makes Vladimir Putin look even more macho."

"America, minus the mask: First and foremost, a nation of killers
The entire American population is trapped in a self-delusion that they are heroes, fighting an endless string of evil enemies. But in fact their targeted enemies have always been innocent people, usually minding their own business, put in harm's way by their own valuable possessions, which Americans inevitably covet, and will kill anyone to get."

"The loneliness of Russia and the revenge of Hitler
Has the Fuehrer finally become the inspirer of the West? After the destruction of Iraq or various states of Central America, after the extermination of 4 million Vietnamese, it seems that the West, believing in its eternal and capitalistic force, omnipotent propaganda and humanitarian Messianism, wants its final war with the Russian bear"

Quite a few of these articles are written by Americans, btw.

[Admiral Yi]

It's nice that Cathy Sheehan found something to occupy her time.

[Tamas]

Well, everybody laughed about Hitler and his schenangians until his propaganda machine of insane stories mobilised an entire nation for total war.