Another day, another controversy involving Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the press. As the millions of viewers of Bill O'Reilly's Super Bowl Sunday interview with President Donald Trump heard, in the interview, O'Reilly brought up the issue of Trump's favorable remarks about Russian president Putin. O'Reilly said that Putin is a "killer," to which Trump responded: "We've got a lot of killers," adding, "You think our country's so innocent?" Trump's comment ignited another firestorm of controversy and criticism, but it was O'Reilly's characterization of Putin as a "killer" that got the Russian government fuming. As the BBC reports, the Kremlin wants an apology from Fox News, where O'Reilly's show, "The O'Reilly Factor" airs. The Super Bowl coverage on Sunday aired on Fox. The New York Times adds that, according to reports from Russian state-run news agencies, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov called O'Reilly's remark "unacceptable, insulting," continuing, "Of course, we would prefer to receive apologies to our president from such a respectable television network." http://www.oregonlive.com/tv/2017/02/report_bill_oreilly_will_addre.html
Russian reporter is currently in the hospital after being poisoned for negative reporting about Putin. http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-february-6-2017/ Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza in 'critical state' after organ failure A Russian opposition politician and well-known Kremlin critic is in intensive care following organ failure in a sudden illness, two years after suffering a suspected poisoning, supporters said. Vladimir Kara-Murza was on a ventilator and undergoing renal dialysis and other intensive care procedures, lawyer Vadim Prokhorov wrote on Facebook late on Thursday. Kara-Murza was in a critical state, he said. The 35-year-old was an ally of the late opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead close to the Kremlin in 2015. Until last year he was deputy chair of the Parnas liberal party led by former prime minister turned Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov. He now works as the federal coordinator for the Open Russia foundation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former oil tycoon who served a decade in jail after openly opposing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Kara-Murza was taken to hospital in 2015 and diagnosed with acute kidney failure in connection with poisoning and tests found high levels of heavy metals in his blood. He asked Russia’s investigative committee to probe whether he had suffered intentional poisoning but no criminal case was opened. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...a-murza-in-critical-state-after-organ-failure
America does it's fair share of killing. We just do it from a computer screen attached to a drone, tomahawk cruise missile, or Apache helicopter. Most people are just to uniformed and brainwashed to understand or realize it. Sure it maybe not be as blatant as Putin, but we're not angels, and I think that's what Trump was getting at. A sample:
Yeah. I didn't say it was right or wrong. I am just saying we are not innocent like some people think we are.
You would lose your mind if Obama or Hillary said that in the context that Trump did. And you would be justified in doing so.
Probably not... I am not a delicate snowflake who doesn't realize we're a bunch of murders too. Obama wins a Nobel Peace Prize and drops how many bombs on people again? Putin is no friend of ours, but let's not absolve ourselves of our own crimes. I ain't down w/that.
And that makes sense to you? We're murders so Trump shouldn't have sent the Navy Seals to kill those terrorists. We're murders so we shouldn't fight Isis. We're murders so we shouldn't care about Iran getting nukes. No, we're murders so we shouldn't say that Putin is. Mmmmkay.
Not sure what you're getting at. All I am saying is his remarks about Putin don't trigger me like it does everyone else. If ya don't agree , you don't agree.
