The most consistent aspect of Max Fisher’s coverage is that
it is unhinged. He is a serial
Russia hater in article after article.
His Vox August 27th screed, Let’s
be clear about this: Russia is invading Ukraine right now conjured up
visions of the Wehrmacht breaking down the border gate with panzers rolling.
Of course, that did not happen but the lad is not
deterred. He must be running out
of bile, as there is nothing but buffoonery in his recent This quote about Putin’s machismo from Angela
Merkel is just devastating.
Max had to go all the way back to 2007 to dredge up something so
little. According to Max;
“The
incident of Vladimir Putin, Angela
Merkel, and the dog is a famous one. It was 2007 and Merkel, Germany's
Chancellor, was visiting Putin at his presidential residence in Sochi to
discuss energy trade. Putin, surely aware of Merkel's well-known fear of dogs,
waited until the press gathered in the room, then called for his black Labrador
to be sent in. The Russian president watched in unconcealed glee as the dog
sniffed at Merkel, who sat frozen in fear.”
Yeah, tough ol’ Angela is afraid of a labrador. It must be a hell of a phobia. Labs have got to be about the
friendliest pups around. We’ve
owned a few and as to protection from robbers, they’d help the thieves to the
silverware just to be neighborly.
Okay, I don’t know what drives fear of mutts, but according
to the Fish, what Angie said next was the ne plus ultra of digs;
"I
understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man," Merkel said.
"He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful
politics or economy. All they have is this."
Max thinks
it “one
of the most pithily succinct insights into Putin and the psychology of his 14-year reign that I have read.”
For all I
know he’s right, but devastate means “to lay waste; render desolate.” Moi, I think your man is reaching a
tad. Maybe Angie was upset because
Vlad is more macho than La Chancellor.
I suppose
Putin did enjoy his little bit of fun.
We don’t know what may have been going on between the two and it may
have been some smallness on his part.
The operative word here is small and Merkel’s words were nothing grand.
Why the
drumbeat. Max and Vox are not the
only ones. There is a lot of media
out there that are screaming that Putin is the antichrist. Well, at least another Hitler, but then
again isn’t just about everyone eventually. The hysteria sounds a lot like the propaganda leading up to
the Iraq invasion.
That was
stupid, and so is the Putin as devil narrative. The difference is Russia has
nukes, the Iraqis didn’t.
Destroying Iraq led to many bad events, but there was none of Condi
Rice’s mushroom cloud smoking gun.
No one doubts what the Russkies could do if pushed too far.
I have no
answer as to why Fisher, with the probable blessing of his editors, keeps this
up.
Vox Media
appears to be a start up with angel investor funding. It does not seem to make a profit yet and won’t soon if the level of
advertising is any indication. So
far, it is little more than a present to its staff and writers.
The
Putin/Russia as mad dog aggressor trope is pervasive across the mainstream
media. It is a lie, but why? It can’t be just to provide a sinecure
to Joe Biden’s drug addled kid.
Well, maybe
it sort of is. Hunter B.’s job
isn’t crucial, but The Ukraine has, as the U.S. Energy Information Administration
reports, Europe’s third-largest shale gas reserves at 42 trillion cubic
feet. According to Consortium
News, this is “an inviting target especially since other European nations,
such as Britain, Poland, France and Bulgaria, have resisted fracking technology
because of environmental concerns. An economically supine Ukraine would
presumably be less able to say no.”
That may be why we are bugging the former
Soviets, but does not explain why so many so-called news outlets fall into
line. The pervasive toadying
on the issue from the major outlets down to the fashionable lefty vanity sites
like Vox is amazing to watch.
In the case
of Fisher it could be he has some unfathomable hatred or he knows which side
his bread is buttered on. Either
way, it is not a sterling testament to his character.
By the way,
Vox seems to have no comment section.
Well this saves them the trouble of trolls,
i.e. those who are so unsophisticated that they notice when someone is full of
it and tell the little emperors how unwell dressed they are.
