Posted on 11/23/2011 8:45:15 AM PST by Red Badger
A top Russian female newsreader has caused a stir after appearing to offensively show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast.
Online footage of the incident, which occurred earlier this month during an afternoon news bulletin on the privately held REN TV channel, is being avidly viewed in both Russia and the United States.
In the footage, Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organisation.
She is then heard to say that the post "has (previously) been held by Barack Obama" before mechanically and unambiguously raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger in an offensive gesture that is sometimes known as "flipping the bird."
The channel, which goes out to 120 million people across Russia, has declined to comment. But sources close to it have tried to defuse the row by claiming that the newsreader had believed she was off camera at the time and merely providing a voice-over for a report. According to the same storyline, the rude gesture was intended for studio technicians who had been trying to put her off her stride.
REN TV has traditionally been perceived as a more liberal channel in a country where TV content is tightly controlled by the state. But it is now controlled by structures owned by a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, and has been criticised for allegedly becoming more slavish to the Kremlin.
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A large part of the U.S. feels the same way about him...hehe
Heck, I do that all the time when I see the lying, blithering idiot on the tube.
The quickest way to get my dear old mother to say the F-word is to just mention obama.
...Bddddddravo!
This is 2 days old.
Have the MSM reported this?
Would they have reported it if it were directed at Bush?
Heck I was aiming to ask Comcast to put her on our cable system ;-)
Maybe she can get a job with Fox News..........That morning crew needs to go........................
Ha!...Big deal!...I’ve been flipping him off everyday since he landed his butt in the White House!
Never mind that thunder... 
of applause, sports fans--
For as Red Skelton said... 
at the huge turnout for the funeral of movie mogul Harry Cohn--
"It proves what Harry always said: Give the public what they want... 
and they'll come out for it!"
If red X above go to http://www.palzoo.net/file/pic/user/Red-Skelton.jpgf
I hear about this lady can we get peition get together so she could get gig at MSNBC they would love her there LOL!
Damn ruskies should not flip our President the bird, that right is reserved for US Citizens only!!!
Never thought I’d see the day the ruskies and I would agree on something.
there are MANY different videos from different campaign speeches available on youtube which show Obamalama doing this! And his sheeple thought it was cute, funny, witty, etc.
Disgusting.
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