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In reply to the discussion: Remember when DUers still tried to defend RT? [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)27. It's very sad. They started off with a lot of promise and were on the right track.
When Putin started to take Russia south, he must have given orders to the various Russian media outfits to spew the propaganda necessary to support what he was doing.
RT was always Pro-Russia and had some minor snarkiness towards the US in a lot of broadcasts, but it became completely ridiculous. In the middle of that metamorphosis, Russia passed the anti-gay law and I told them I would no longer do any Russian media (I had done Russian radio as well as RT multiple times) until that law was rescinded.
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You're right. It is indefensible. RT is just figuring out what we all knew already.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2015
#1
Thom and Louise are wealthy and have been for decades, he says 'we are rich, not Super Rich but
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2015
#7
You seem to turn up a lot when antisemitic conspiracy theories are being called out.
NuclearDem
Oct 2015
#10
LOL! It is funny watching how obsessed some are here, yet remain blind to that log in their own eye.
Rex
Oct 2015
#22
I think posters who promote homophobes, racists and bigots should be banned...nt
SidDithers
Oct 2015
#37
WOW. Awesome find. yes, it's good that RT has become a clearly objectionable source
uhnope
Oct 2015
#5
Illuminati is right up there with crop circles, UFOs, and chemtrails on the batshit crazy scale
Major Nikon
Oct 2015
#6
It can be defended as an alternative news source. As a kid in the 60's I listened to Radio Moscow
LiberalArkie
Oct 2015
#17
As long as you know their bias, it is useful to know what the "official" line is.
pampango
Oct 2015
#25
I'm just glad that most of the Putinistas appear to be sporting BS avatars. Good grief.
Tarheel_Dem
Oct 2015
#26
It's very sad. They started off with a lot of promise and were on the right track.
stevenleser
Oct 2015
#27