Elsewhere on the Internet! A (Mostly) Non-Media Linkfest
• NYTimes.com designer Khoi Vinh discusses his ‘90s design education. (ZT) • My roommate started singing this SNL Digital Short song last night, and I went to listen on Hulu only to find it not there....
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This Exists: Overthrow Futuristic Dictator Obama In This Online Game
Wow. Online strategy gamers who wish to lead militias against Obama (?) can finally do so in “2011: Obama’s Coup Fails,” an “action-packed, satire-filled” multiplayer strategy game served up by United...
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This Exists: Vladimir Putin Serenades Audience With Rendition Of ‘Blueberry...
Renaissance man Vladimir Putin is at it again. Inspired by the illustrious musical repertoire of Venezuelan TV show host/crooner Hugo Chavez (or perhaps feeling the ’90s vibes after watching acclaimed...
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Russian News Network Ties Moscow Airport Bombing To Call Of Duty: Modern...
Russia Today, a government-financed satellite news network, has aired a report linking the suicide bomb attack on the Domdedovo Airport in Moscow Monday with an American video game. According to the...
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Former Reagan Official: If Law Fails, Julian Assange Will Be Assassinated By...
Paul Craig Roberts, the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Reagan Administration and an outspoken journalist and author since, appeared on RT America this past weekend to discuss the...
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Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher: Bill Maher’s Racial Stereotypes Were Worse Than...
Obama impersonator Reggie Brown‘s appearance at the Republican Leadership Conference reignited concerns about what constitutes appropriate racial humor and whether there is a double standard over what...
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Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher Talks Debt Ceiling ‘Poker’ With Thom Hartmann Panel
With a national debt default teetering dangerously near, the spirit of compromise seems to elude both parties, both within and without Congress. On The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann this week,...
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Wikileaks Chief Julian Assange Lands Talk Show Gig On RT
It has been a while since we heard from the chief editor of Wikileaks and profoundly bizarre Australian “hacktivist” Julian Assange, currently on house arrest in the UK. As it turns out, he is working...
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The New Trailer For Julian Assange’s Talk Show Features Music By MIA, Cursing...
As the year began, Julian Assange surprised the world with the news that he would now add “news talk show host” to his resume, with an as-yet-untitled show airing on RT America. This week, the first...
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Larry King Takes Talk Show To Russia Today
Former CNN talk show host Larry King is heading to the Russia-based cable news network, Russia Today. The network announced on Wednesday that he would take his new show, Politics with Larry King, to RT...
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Gay Journalist Hijacks Russia Today Broadcast to Condemn Anti-LGBT Laws
Foreign correspondent James Kirchick took over a Russia Today segment on Bradley Manning Wednesday morning, using his time to denounce Russia’s recent slate of anti-LGBT laws. “You have twenty-four...
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Putin Dissolves Russian News Agency, ‘Tightening State Control’
Russian President and 2005 Super Bowl champion Vladimir Putin unexpectedly dissolved RIA Novosti, a state news agency, along with its radio affiliate on Monday, a move the agency itself said would...
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WATCH: Ukranians Up the Protest Ante with a Fully Functional Catapult
As the nationwide protests against Ukranian president and perceived Putin ally Viktor Yanukovich escalate, the million-plus activists in Kiev have taken some wild and crazy (read: effective) tactics...
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RT Anchor Who Condemned Russian Invasion Is Also a 9/11 Truther
Abby Martin became something of an internet folk hero Monday after she publicly condemned Vladimir Putin’s military intervention into Ukraine on her Kremlin-backed, English-language RT program...
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CNN’s Cuomo Grills RT Reporter Who Claims Russia Didn’t Invade Ukraine
Tensions between the United States and Russia materialized in the media Wednesday when CNN’s Chris Cuomo took on Russia Today political correspondent Anissa Naouai over the escalating crisis in...
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John Kerry Calls Out ‘Propaganda Bullhorn’ RT
During a press conference at the State Department on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry tore into Russia’s failure to honor the commitments agreed to in Geneva last week which were designed to...
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Cuomo Recounts Feisty RT Interview: Russia ‘Winning’ at Propaganda
Back in the studio, New Day’s Chris Cuomo recounted the contentious interview he conducted with Russia Today anchor Peter Lavelle yesterday, in which the two traded accusations of water carrying and so...
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Sons of Jesse Ventura and Oliver Stone to Host TV Show Backed by Kremlin
The sons of Jesse Ventura and Oliver Stone are not just friends, they’re the new hosts of a Russian television show that may focus on conspiracy theories. Yeah! We know! Sources told BuzzFeed that...
View ArticleRT (Russia Today) Ad Depicts Eldery Obama, Predicts Edward Snowden’s Presidency
Ever heard of, read or watched RT? It’s the satellite news network formerly known as Russia Today, a generally pro-Russia news network that reports on Vladimir Putin‘s hockey bad-assery and operates as...
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‘You’ve Had Your Moment’: State Dept Spox Snaps at RT Reporter for...
State Department spokesman John Kirby snapped an at RT reporter yesterday who asked about the United States’ involvement in Iraq and tensions between Iraq and Turkey. The prime minister of Iraq wants...
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