Matched Set
For some reason these articles make a good pair. One’s about Obama’s image. The other is about Stalin’s.
TIME, Michael Scherer: “Calling ‘Em Out. The White House Takes on The Press. Obama aides say they can’t rely on reporters to referee public debates.”
I made it through two or three of the examples before I became nauseated by the insufferable whining of second- and third-tier functionaries about their semantic beefs with one of the most ingratiating, lickspittle White House press corps of the modern era. They really dislike the use of the word “controversial.”
OK, moving on to today’s other big image-oriented whinefest.
AP: Yevgheni Dzhugashvili sues Russky opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta for libeling his grandad, Joseph Stalin, in an article that claims the Soviet tyrant of personally approved thousands of executions.
The lawsuit, brought by Dzhugashvili and a pro-Stalinist group, is seen as part of a broader campaign that includes extensive government efforts to rehabilitate the old mass murderer, who when he wasn’t imprisoning and killing his own people by the million, was conspiring with Hitler to do it for him, or was occupying other people’s countries and doing it to them.
Obviously there is a world of difference between the public images and the policies of Joseph Stalin and those of Barack Obama. Obama’s socialism is of an entirely different sort. But I thought their hangers-on reactions to critical reporting reflect a similar grasp of reality and nestle together as nicely as stacking dolls.
Topics: Obama, Russia, commies, media
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:40 pm on Thursday, October 8, 2009
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October 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
It’s likely that most of the death warrants for the various “purges” were signed by Beria. It’s even possible that the squinty little pedophile psychopath signed his own death warrant, as he wasn’t known for reading the names before scribbling his signature.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
The methodology differs, but the intent is the same: to silence the opposition.