Last week in the midst of a discussion on politics, we became convinced that the United States, world class home of spin doctors, host to the largest investor relations focused university program in the world (i.e. the entire State of California), a country unparalleled in turning fiction (particularly earnings) into fact, a least temporarily, had no peer in the political bullshit arena . Our favored presidential candidate is elevated above the masses on a dais, as if the figure of a heroic Greek statesman, after all. Who could rival the innate obscenity of U.S. star fucking, so ritualized from repetition at this point as to roll off us like mercury off a greased duck’s back?
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold a live call-in show on national television next week, in what analysts say may signal the start of his campaign to regain the presidency.
The broadcast will be held “in the first week of December,” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said by phone today. The exact date will be announced later this week, he said.
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Putin, who has remained at the center of power as premier since stepping down as president in May, last week vowed to protect Russians from another financial collapse like the 1998 default in a speech to United Russia’s annual party congress. He will use the call-in show to further cement his credentials as a national leader in a time of crisis, said Olga Kryshtanovskaya, a political analyst at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“This is to maintain his status as national leader,” Kryshtanovskaya said by telephone today. “He needs to remind everyone that he is the most important person in the country and can solve problems in difficult times.”
And you thought the “Fireside Chats” were impressive. Hah…
President from 2000 to 2008, Putin held an annual nationwide call-in for the past seven years, broadcast live and lasting several hours, with questions on a wide range of issues submitted by TV link-up, phone and Internet. The event dominated TV news coverage on the days it aired.
Down with Capitalism!!! Back in the USSR baby!!
I just KNOW that that Olga Kryshtanovskaya chick is friggin succulent babelicious tyolka.
@2 not so much
http://www.ecsocman.edu.ru/db/msg/181743.html
Da! Is babushka!
Russia = Thugocracy
Even writing this put us all at risk, especially Equity Private for writing the article….
Once 1 year oil price averages under $90, the Russians will back to their place in society – Gutter with begging bowl in their hands!
With declinging population and increasing HIV rates, Russia is doomed. Even the Chinese have started migrating inside Russia and are taking over land and Russian women.
@TGFD
Did you get out of your C position?
The criminal enterprise formerly known as Russia.
Recalling all Russian Girls from NYC nightclubs, will offer some kind of bottle service with sugar daddies -since NYC bankers are so done with you
@6 I agree, but that is what makes a country with an assload of nuclear weapons dangerous.
Seriously Bess,
How the hell did Paulson get by the admissions committee at Dartmouth, not to mention become CEO, when he stutters like a shivering Eskimo on mescaline?
I used to trade bonds with guys from Dartmouth and they would have pummelled him mercilessly they had been there when he was…
all of my russian friends: such_pompous & ignorant_assholes. gee, if you’re so damn rich, why is uncle sam paying you $50MM+/year to safeguard your own damn weapons? oh, and you can’t_even_name the STD you caught from your prostie boyfriend? perhaps they truly are the Gog and Magog of biblical infamy…
fuckin’ barbarians who co-opted european culture… a cravate does not a gentleman make, tovarisch
@ 4 HOT!! SOOO hot!
http://ecsocman.edu.ru/images/pubs/2005/04/12/0000208787/small_image.image001.jpg
@12 spoken like a bitter entitled euro jerkoff – congrats
@12 – go get some Russian Dragon Tears for yourself
Dealbreaker have the day off?
Too long, didn’t readovich.
Get that, bitches
http://drudgereport.com/flashrur.htm
What did I just read?
Pretty sure that guy has never been to the US. If you didn’t think he knew what he’s talking about in the first few paragraphs, the end part where he predicts the US would split into six countries is just about the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. I’m pretty sure that Canadian cultural influence, if there is such a thing, won’t cause a breakaway republic among northen US states.
@18/20 the Drudge story is very funny. No basis but gets published on Drudge.
New post EP, Come on. These were good but make haste.
14, 15: russian jews (e.g., you) are not real russians
@EP- Did Putin come see you with his shirt off and pull some jujitsu moves on you?
NEW POST
@18 Are you sure that is not an Onion article? Serious? Very amusing.
My favorite part is the militant Native Americans in the central states. Not to be outdone by Canadian “cultural influence”.
Real Russians have the ethical standards and business savvy of Somali pirates. They take what they want and make grandiose demands while saber rattling. Life is good for a while, but collapse is inevitable
i am as a russian do not approve this post! no foken collapse. worship putin and he may yet be merciful.
i am as a russian do not approve this post! no foken collapse. worship putin and he may yet be merciful.
you have to love arrogance.
Let the russian jerkoffs claim alaska, sarah palin will put them all in that turkey head cutter from that video.