I thought we got Dan Rather fired!
Posted on 02/27/2005 1:37:05 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
George Bush knew Vladimir Putin would be defensive when Bush brought up the pace of democratic reform in Russia in their private meeting at the end of Bush's four-day, three-city tour of Europe. But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed, TIME magazine will report on Monday.
If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says a senior Administration official. "It was like something out of 1984."
TIME's John Dickerson: The Russians did not let the matter drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides.
Developing...
this is too bizarre to be made up, i guess. Putin must think bush is really a pushover to have taken this long simply fire a few folks, without any arrests for forging government documents.
Does this mean that Dan Blather is a KGB operative?
Hasn't anybody brought the Russians up to speed on Bloggers?
They are so last year.
I thought we got Dan Rather fired!
One can only assume that a country that has always been steeped in misinformation would have a hard time distinguishing between truth and lies.
More interesting will be to see how the MSM handles this.
If this is true, this moron Putin must understand that the White House did not fire Rather, but CBS let him go so they save their ratings.
Anyway, I do not believe this story at all of what Putin told President Bush, it is too dramatic and too dumb to be true. Another lie created by a delusional left wing liberal media.
And this guy has his finger on the button. Scary.
Its real. I saw clip on FNS.
This is too good to be true.
Maybe ;)
I guess he just assumed the American government controlled their media just like he does.
Frank Gannon's sleepover friends got Rather fired...? ;)
no bias in our MSM...only enough to have a former KGP leader think our govt. controls our media!
And since that has been disproven time and time again, you can be sure that he (and his aides) corrected the record.
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