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The Advocate has named Russian president Vladimir Putin its “Person of the Year.”
From the article:
“Driving the governmental, religious, and popular disdain for gays and lesbians the Russian president became the single greatest threat to LGBTs in the world in 2014.”
Read the entire piece at Advocate.com.
Jon Stewart dives right in the deep end with the cognitive dissonance on display by some conservatives these days who can’t fan the flames of their affection for Russian President Putin enough.
Lately, you can’t count number of right-wing wackos who get on TV chatting about how strong and decisive Putin is, and at the same time trashing our President. Remember when trashing your President in public was considered a no-no?
And — here’s the tricky part – they turn around and call President Obama a dictator and hating on his policy approach after loving on some Putin.
Check out The Daily Show’s take on this flip-flop love affair Palin and company have for a guy who’s breaking international law.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia’s decision was a “brazen act of aggression” and that US President Barack Obama was “considering all options” before responding to the situation.
“This is not, or should not be East-West, Russia-United States, Russia versus Europe: this is about the people of Ukraine, people who stood up against snipers firing at them from the roofs, who are fighting against the tyranny of having political opposition put in jail,” said Mr Kerry.
“And President Putin, I think, needs to think carefully about Russia’s real interests here. You know Russia may be able to invade Crimea, but in the end, Russia will isolate itself,” he added.
(via The Telegraph)
President Obama talks on the phone with President Putin about situation in Ukraine (WH/Pete Souza) pic.twitter.com/SduAQl90FT @CBSEveningNews— NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) March 1, 2014
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| Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates Team Russia on first gold medal of Sochi Olympics |
Russia finally found it’s first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics by winning the new event Team Figure Skating.
Russia won with a total of 75 points in the event. Team Canada took silver with 65 points, and Team USA placed third with 60 points.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was on hand to congratulate the Russian team.
Speaking to the BBC yesterday, President Vladimir Putin totally played the “some of my best friends are gays” card in denying he and the Russian government have an anti-gay agenda.
“I myself know some people who are gay. We’re on friendly terms. I’m not prejudiced in any way. If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don’t care about a person’s sexual orientation. I’ve honoured several members of the gay community in this country but for their personal achievements, regardless of their sexual orientation. There’s no danger for individuals of this non-traditional sexual orientation who are planning to come to the games as visitors or participants.”
(h/t JMG)
Via Mediaite:
In the second segment of George Stephanopoulos’ interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the ABC host pressed Putin on the controversy over Russia’s heightened anti-LGBT laws, which have led to calls for a boycott of the Sochi Olympics.
Putin argued that the laws were not repressive, and that the United States had no room in which to criticize on gay rights, given its own statutes. Said Putin:
“Acts of protest and acts of propaganda are somewhat different things. They are close, but if we were to look at them from the legal perspective, then protesting a law does not amount to propaganda of sexuality or sexual abuse of children. That’s one.
“Two is that I’d like to ask our colleagues, my colleagues and friends, that as they try to criticize us, they would do well to set their own house in order first. I did say, after all, and this is public knowledge, that in some of the states in the U.S., homosexuality remains a felony.
Stephanopolous pointed out that “the Supreme Court has struck those laws down.”
Watch the interview above from ABC News.
GOP strategist Mary Matalin makes this odd comment on This Week With George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning regarding Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBT controversy saying it’s no biggie because Matalin’s gay friends all think Putin’s hot.
“Can I just say, I’m so sick of sports and politics,” Matalin said. “All of my gay friends think he looks so buff when he is shirtless. Why is he even talking about this?”
To be honest, I don’t know what on earth she means. What a strange comment…
President Putin of Russia says gay Olympians have nothing to fear when attending the Sochi Olympics as long as they leave children alone.
“We don’t have a ban on non-traditional sexual relations between people,” Putin told a group of volunteers who will be working at the Games.
“We have a ban on the propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia,” Putin said in televised comments from host city Sochi, with three weeks to go until the event.
“We don’t ban anything and we won’t arrest anyone,” he said. “Therefore you can feel calm, relaxed. But leave children alone please.”
Ironically, uniforms for volunteers for the Games have been designed with a rainbow theme. When asked by a volunteer if the rainbow might breach the “gay propaganda” law, Putin responded by saying he didn’t design the uniforms.
(source)