Monday, February 28, 2005

Putin's Question To Bush

Putin asks a questions the rest of America should be asking:

When Bush complained about restrictions on press freedom in Russia, Putin gave a response that surprised Bush and baffled the Americans. He said if the press was so free in the United States, why did reporters at CBS News get fired over a story that arose during the presidential campaign, officials said.

CBS News fired four employees in January after an independent report critical of CBS anchor Dan Rather found a "myopic zeal" led the network to disregard basic journalism principles when it aired a faulty story on Bush's military service record.


A senior U.S. official said other Russian officials raised the same issue during the day and noted a Russian journalist at the Bush-Putin news conference had asked about journalists fired in the United States. This led to suspicions that the question had been orchestrated by the Kremlin.

The view that Bush somehow had something to do with the CBS firings was "divorced from reality," the U.S. official said.

Sure, the Kremlin probably did orchestrate the question so that Bush would get asked in in the news conference. After all, Bush is used to having reporters working in concert with government agencies in our country, so why not over their also?

I am not surprised that other "less than democratic" countries start to point fingers at the blatant hypocrisy of our administration. How can the country that is busy spreading freedom be at the same time imprisoning its citizens without charging them, torturing prisoneers (some of which are innocent of any crimes against the US), and "disappering" people to other countries where they can be held indefinately (or killed) ?

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