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Russia Today Anchor Quits Live On Air Over "Whitewashed" Coverage Of Putin
Presented with little comment, suffice to add former Washington DC RT correspondent Liz Wahl's comments that "personally she cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the action of Putin..." At least RT was correct when it said yesterday that "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air." One wonders if Ms. Wahl's next stop will be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, where the truly unbiased coverage can be found.
Today's drama takes to a entirely new level the statement voiced by another RT presenter who also denounced as "wrong" Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
"I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs," Abby Martin declared in her news programme.
RT said it respected Ms Martin's views, and that she would not be reprimanded.
Ms Martin made her remarks at the end of her Breaking the Set show, broadcast from a studio in Washington.
"Just because I work here doesn't mean I don't have editorial independence," she said, adding: "What Russia did was wrong."
The outspoken presenter admitted that she did not possess in-depth knowledge of Ukraine's history or "cultural dynamics", but insisted that military intervention was not the answer.
"I will not sit here and apologise for, or defend, military aggression," she said.
RT responded as follows:
In response to the journalist's on-air statement, the Russian TV channel said: "Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn't beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air."
The broadcaster added that it would send Ms Martin to Crimea to "give her an opportunity to make up her own mind from the epicentre of the story".
So far Ms. Martin has not taken up RT's offer to provide unbiased reporting from the "epicenter" of the story.
And now back to the US mainstream media's expansive coverage of the story of the day that it may well have been Kiev's current post-coup and US-supported acting government ordering the murder of its own civilians in an apparent provocation to escalate the regime change. Wait what?
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I'm proud of her and I'd totally tap that. Liz, I have a job for you.
RE
boom
But really, good for her, even if her goodbye had a little too much nationalism for my taste. Might as well take advantage of the freedom of being an individual (while we still have it).
RT being a Kremlin outfit has been a moonlanding from the start; but there should be some kind of standard that separates news reporting from editiorial opinion stuff. I know what I am geting when I am watching Keiser Report, Abby, etc......but when the anchors come on, I do feel they short change viewers with their skewed, biased bullshit*. I don't advocate this for myself, but for the millions of American viewers out there who, collectively, have a reading and problem solving comprehension level of a 3rd grade classroom.
*But after watching and studying media for over 20 years now here in the goold ole USA (A.K.A. The Bullshit Capital of The Universe), what TV MSM outlet DOESN'T skewer reporting to their corporate and governmental/political interests?
Plus, the whole "Shitting on America" meme is making everyone millions; if it surprises anyone (and you'll certainly read about it tomorrow on the news beat) that person should be beaten over the head with a dose of reality and common sense.
If it wasn't for the governments around the world failing and bankers stealing shit from those same moron governments, there wouldn't be sites like this.
Much easier on the eyes than Fart Aroma. But she will have a hard time fitting in there. She has ethics it appears.
Reggie you are lucky barry don't swing that way
She made money she didn't care where it came from. Shes a money honey like Maria. I would take her job in a minute but I'm not pretty. RT needs to get out of DC. These girls go to the highest bidders, they have no loyalty or she wouldn't have been there in the first place.
She went off prompter, I didn't know Barry supporters could actually do that.
She's not pretty either.
Double post.
Obama, the EU, the UN, Dems, Reps, etc... are all corrupt and NWO serving assholes with ulterior motives for everything they do and cold blooded in their disregard for human lives, but Putin is no different. This RT stuff is propaganda as much as CNN is. I like this piece by Martin Armstrong today about how there has never been a government that tells the truth:
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/03/05/ukraine-the-truth-2/
Blackmail or payday, one of the two with this bitch.
Haha - you read my mind - also her husband is in the US military, the heart of the propaganda machine - so maybe a bit of pressure from the brain washed home front.
Fuck all those msm outlets. I get my news from ZH, specifically, the comment section.
Where the news begins and never ends, now with "live team coverage".
Tyler...:)....this is the most cynical post ever...:)
Wonder if the sniper changed her mind. Gee perhaps her husband should share medical stories with Ron Paul...
My first reaction is I'll miss her on RT, she's such a doll, then, she's certainly received a lucrative contract on some MSM news show, then crap, I'll have to watch some crappy propaganda show to see her ... I think I'll stick to Russian propaganda, Hillary said it was the best.
"One wonders if Ms. Wahl's next stop will be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, where the truly unbiased coverage can be found."
You gotta be kidding? You really believe the fairy tale of a fair and unbiased media Tyler? Come on.......as the old song goes...."Stop, Hey what's that sound everybody look at that hottie going down..."
She's a hot number and better looking than most Russian babushkas on Moscow TV and Radio, but she better be ready to prostitute herself and go down (professionally speaking, of course.....) at the altar of the TBTF if she wants a new job. That's the problem with the media, mass communications and journalists today......everyone goes down on someone, it's just a matter of choosing which one!
I miss the smell of napalm in the morning after a molotov cocktail party the night before. Get right with your maker soon cause I think the age of "I can't get no satisfaction" is coming soon.
You really have a hard time with sarcasm dont you?
ick. what? A hot number? Maybe if you're blind.
Hot: Chloe Bennet
Not hot: Liz Wahl
lol looks like we get a little fallout from the IIART reorg... bwahahahaha... fucking Voice of Russia bullshit... RT will be rolled back under the apron of Mother Russia in short order
aw wassamatta, did that hit too close to home lol... fucking bulgarian commie echo chamber in here
Maybe the stupid cunt could explain why the western press other than the Guardian is not running this story?
Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet tells EU's Cathy Ashton about claim that provocateurs were behind Maidan killings
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/ukraine-bugged-call-catherine-ashton-urmas-paet
because it's trumped up fake bullshit, that's why
No.
It is not.
As you know.
Wahl's grandparents fled the Soviets, did they?
Well, I'm sure she will be well taken care of for this stunt. I suspect she'll have no trouble working for an American outlet.
I can see the Young Turks reaching out. I think they have double Alex Jones' audience. TYT are also a great news source for people who like the truth, but not too much of it.
Abby Martin is entitled to her opinion, but she isn't quite the punk rock truth jihadist she makes herself out to be... frankly, a move in Crimea is not only wanted by most Crimeans, probably necessary to secure Russian national security, but it is protecting at least part of Ukraine from the oligarchs and the IMF Riot.
She was on Joe Rogan's podcast and I had the sense she was trying way too hard. Maybe she was nervous.
Underwhelming.
I wanted to read more about her on wikipedia, but alas, she is an unperson there.
She should have gone to Crimea and followed the 'story', I would have, you have all thise resources to use and Russia needs to hear alternate voices, but it's her choice to abandon the effort.
Sounds like maybe the script writers were going in a bit too heavy on the auto-cue's content.
Wikipedia actually has an official policy to banish any page on Abby Martin there. Not just an unperson but a banished person.
As if anyone needed further proof of the utter stupidity of "journalists".
But what Nuland did is OK ? For a journalist, she is clueless. Note that she has been getting less and less air time at RT, perhaps the writing was on the wahl.
They don't hire them for their brains...
Wtf does Putin have to do with Hungary? He was how old then?
Soviet is defunct, bitch...get over it!
Soros was the one doing devils work from a young age.
Did she say which massage studio she was gonna be twerkin' at?
I watch the news when I want some cheap and instant entertainment - it's on the same level as my polka-dot unicorn that shits gold and pisses silver.....
Beware any teve cunt journalists proclaiming integrity or ethics.
Champion Spirit
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollie_Free How far we have fallen. All hail The Exceptional American, Smokey Yunich!
In my educated opinion ... She don't swallow!
Spitterz r quiterz!
In my educated opinion ... She don't swallow!
Spitterz r quiterz!
That joke was definitely better the second time you told it.
Finally she's outta here. Her lezbo thing creeped me out. Hilarious she thinks anybody cares!
She should accept the offer by RT and go to see for herself. No matter what her beliefs may be, it's likely they will be changed in some way once she has her own boots on the ground. A good object lesson for any journalist.
Told you so. They're all psychopaths.
Here's the difference between RT and U.S. MSM....
On RT, she said: "Personally I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the action of Putin"
If she had been speaking off-prompter on U.S. MSM, what you would have heard is: "Personally...(dead air, cut to black, take two and roll commercial) and security please escort her from the building.
And just how the fuck do we know the backstory on this? As big a mess as the U.S. gov has made of this contrived affair, Kerry's boys may just have made her an offer she couldn't refuse, after all she's in the U.S. They need to reinforce "Putin bad, Obozo good"!
Rt's best and hottest women all seem to leave for the big money -I love Abbys "Breaking the Set" , but I suspect she and Wahl are opportunists looking to cash in on their success at RT. anyone with a brain and who has followed what is going on know that Putin and russia have no choice but to react in such ways to the US/Nato provocations and arttempts encircle and ultimately enslave Russia as they (the Globalists) are doing to Americans and the rest of the free world. Russia was enslaved by the Bolsheviks and then the Oligarchs under Yeltsen -twice in the last century. They will not let it happen a third time without a fight.
She's harboring bad sentiments stemming from Soviet abuse back to her grandparents days. Objectivity lost.
Damn Mafia, that's some good insight. She took this job and she had an agenda from day one on the job waiting for her swan song and a jump to a pay raise with ZionBroadcastingCorporation: ABC CBS NBC Paramount, Time Warner, Robertson Cable, Hollywood, FOX SKY TV DISH Network CME(CME is owned by Ronald Lauder head of World Jewish World Domination Congress and Bureau of Misinformation for Goyim jackass slave scum look up their media outreach http://www.cetv-net.com/en/about-cme/ronald-s-lauder.shtml) and so on and so on....
Just sayin if she heard horror stories at her grandaddy's knee she's biased. Kinda odd that there are two of them having fits on air but when it comes from Rand Paul it's odder:
http://www.paul.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1115
Sen. Paul’s Statement on Situation in Ukraine Feb 28, 2014Sen. Rand Paul today issued the following statement in reaction to the developing situation in Ukraine:
"We live in an interconnected world and the United States has a vital role in the stability of that world. The United States should make it abundantly clear to Russia that we expect them to honor the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which the U.S., Russia, and the United Kingdom reaffirmed their commitment 'to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.' Russia should also be reminded that stability and territorial integrity go hand in hand with prosperity. Economic incentives align against Russian military involvement in Ukraine. Russia, which has begun to experience the benefits of expanded trade with World Trade Organization accession, should think long and hard about honoring their treaty obligations and fostering the stability that creates prosperity for its citizens. Most importantly, Russian intervention in Ukraine would be dangerous for both nations, and for the rest of the world," Sen. Paul said.
You know Rand and most all the 'controlled' opposition are either showing their ignorance or cowardace as of late especially on the Ukraine. No one is standing up to call people out and bring forth the truth. Even Ron Paul sounds Mr MacGoo as of late with pg non-interventionalist fluff with no substance like a living internet meme.
To counter that whole argument.
From radio free europe of all places. Frankly I am shocked they put this piece out and not a typical propaganda article you'd expect to see. Maybe there is just a little hope that not everyone has gone insane yet on the inside.
http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274...
...
Dueling Constitutions
But a legal gap remains. According to the terms of an EU-brokered peace deal finalized on February 21, Yanukovych was due to sign a measure returning Ukraine to its 2004 constitution. (In 2010, Yanukovych restored the country's 1996 constitution, which hands greater power to the presidency.)
Yanukovych, however, failed to sign the measure. The omission appears to leave Kyiv in the kind of legal limbo that may prove fodder for future arguments against the current government transition.The 1996 and the 2004 constitutions are uniform when it comes to the reasons for removing a president, with Article 111 stating the parliament has the right to initiate a procedure of impeachment "if he commits treason or other crime."
However, it is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers.
...
Forget about 'protests' and counter move of Russia going into Crimea the government itself is most likely unconstitutional and illegal under international law.
Whether you like Yanokuvych or not you can make the case he was chased out by a mob recogonized as the legal government by the 'international' community aka the US/EU/NATO. The case can be made that the Ukrainian Constitution was violated and in turn international law because the US/EU/NATO recoginize the current government. Therefore Russia by giving Yanokuvych who is still technically the legal President refuge is acting as the guarantor of international law here and holding up their end of agreement of the memorandum of understanding.
But the rule of law doesn't matter with these assholes and when people like Rand Paul make statements like that shows just how much they are sucking the company's cock like everyone else or ignorant like the rest of low information viewers that Rand is trying to sell himself to. If you have to sell liberty you are doing something wrong..... It is not an idea that needs to be sold. And that is the fucking problem in the first place with people like him.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Who threw the first punch in this school yard fight?
When it comes to liberty & the average dumb Murrikin yes, you do need to sell Liberty to them because they are that far gone. Otherwise I agree.
Every (and I mean EVERY) Jew with whom I am friends absolutely hates Russia.
Say, you don't think the mainstream press is mostly run by Jewish people, do you?
Found proof Wahl is full of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDC7zmJgQg
I guess now she is free to do her own investigation of the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, because at the moment, Ed isn't exactly in a position to release what he knows.
She can also investigate Michael Hasting's death, since fair is fair.
And the execution of Christopher Dorner.
chindit13,,,,
Fucking BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!+1000
She might want to listen to that leaked phone call before she resigns.....
She knows nothing and likes it that way.
In her resignation 'speech'....she mentioned having an interview with Ron Paul in which she asked RP's opinon about the Ukraine and that said interview was edited out.
Now....Ron Paul's opinion of the Ukraine would be 'we should stay the hell out of it'.
So why would RT cut that and get her panties all bunched up?????
If this broad was quitting FOX, CNN, or MSNBC, everyone would be claiming her to be a genius......RT is the same garbage as the Western media, just the flip-side of the propaganda coin.
BYE! [who cares]
Wow, I think she just padded her resume for one of the big state run propaganda media enterprises here at home. Well played my dear. ABC, CBS, and NBC await you. Hell, this little piece of drama might land her a Today show gig. She'll fit right in with the other zombie marxist twits.
I got it! She can do a talk-show with Sarah Palin, one reporting what she saw in Russia from her front porch & the other from "behind enemy lines"
LOL
No, really, Murrika's just so bent that could happen.
Let me get this straight. Am I actually seeing someone in the media grow a pair of balls and put their money where their principles are? And it's a woman, of course. Because the men in this country are such a bunch of pantywaists.
Da Svidanya, Suka. Don't let the Dvier hit you on the Popka.
cheap show off
She believes in "disseminating the truth" -> ok, what's the disseminated truth then? Her grandparents were WWII refugees and her boyfriend is a military doctor; that's why she's quitting?
How are Putin's actions whitewashed by RT? That would be a real opportunity to disseminate truth, but what you did bitch is just a purely self-serving stunt to preach to the choir and climb your way up so you can suck a bigger dick.
My goodness, she now goes to the highest bidder.
Where do you think, MSLSD? CNN?
she is an idiot
> "FOX news"
> "Unbiased"
> Sarcasm not obvious enough
She'll show up shilling on Western propaganda media or have a "bad breaks" or nail-gun accident.
Sure a lot of pro-Russia people around here now. Must mean you haven't spent much time there. Let me assure you the propaganda is just as thick and they practice realpolitik as well. You are almost as annoying as the pro-USA everything people
it is not pro russian as much as it is multipolar. power needs to be balanced. russia and china do an outstanding job keeping the teeter totter level. the usa and the west are not used to real effective leadership from the opposition since the 60s 70s.
I'm calling bullshit. She knew all of this when she signed up for the job. Moreover, her grammar sucks, so she won't make it to a job where she has to edit her own shit or worse, do live standups. I think she's just throwing in the towel because her aptitudes are not aligned with the job. Or she's pregnant and doesn't want to go through it on-camera because she's afraid it'll ruin her career. Whatever the case, her exit speech should have been STELLAR, but it was underwhelming. Better hit the books in your downtime, babe, and get back to basics.
"One wonders if Ms. Wahl's next stop will be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, where the truly unbiased coverage can be found."
LOL
Money Talks and Fox makes her walk
Young Female Models = News Integrity in America. See how far things have gone.
"My Partner" they only talk that way in America. I remember the days before all that garbage. People were totally different even just 20 years ago.
12 years ago I had a girlfriend who referred to me as her "partner" one day. I felt weird & creeped out by that.
It doesn't matter. S&P futures and the DOW are green.
It would take a direct nuclear attack on NY Fed head William Dudley's trading desk to keep this market from breaking another record high.
they are but HVU & UVXY aren't buying it which means VIX isn't either.
HVU is 32% higher than it should be, as is UVXY. http://scharts.co/1cFAvIk
Right now SPY & HVU going up at the same time. Just imagine when SPY slams down, DIA, QQQ & all the US financials.
Slame-dee-slam. Big cash from that HVU = (219/SPY)11, and today it's (224.5/spy)11.
btfd
Her sex tape will be out shortly.
Where can I buy it?
to resign live on air, one must read a script?
Narcissitic cunt.
Attention seeking.
Wonder how much it took to get her to read that script?
So Abby Martin has a show called breaking the set where she talks about how corrupt the Main Stream Media is, and what does she do? She goes on with Pierce on CNN. You know the guy whos ratings are so big because all Americans love to watch his show. News anchors with nose rings.
Abby's Heart Goes Out
Abby might be somewhat above average in the looks dept., but that doesn't excuse being a dolt... and she's seems to have been wrestling with her "inner bimbo" for quite some time now.
Abby: all well and good that your heart goes out, (Lord, spare me this most grating of clichés) but how's about letting your brain go out... go out to get the facts? Maybe that way you wont be embarrassing yourself - and making us cringe - with your uniformed gibberish re. Ukraine.
After about the 3rd time Abby Martin had a true commie on, Peter Joseph Merola, of Zeitgeist, I ended watching her.
The kind of anti-intellectual anti-freedom stance one needs to support Zeitgeist in a desire to destroy all ownership of all things forever, leaving everyone equally poor under the central control of a global computer is fucking insane.
so she drew the line at anal..........
re A bird-brain bimbo script-reader quits!
OMG!!! What we gonna do now???
Relax folks - they're a dime-a-dozen. And that's for the good-lookin' ones - not like this mutt.
I can perhaps appreciate that some of youse might not have been laid in a while, but why go gaga over these skanks in the media ???
Freshen-up, take a shower (don't wanna be mistaken for a Brit), scrape the moss off your teeth (once again, that Brit thing!), put on a clean shirt and get out there!
Thank me later -youre welcome ;)
I certainly noticed: her heart-felt very short announcement was on a script she read from.
I mean, come on, if you really mean it, do you have to read it? Just say it.
Even real quality actors actually rehearse their lines. Can you imagine them reading a script in every scene...
Saturday, January 1st, 2011 @ 02:00
"To the media, I have this to say. As communicators to the world, the arrogance you display today will turn to despair when your word is no longer heard."
http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/media-and-other-censorships-to-com...
Hello bimbo? They're not commies anymore. They're corrupt capitalists just like ours.
in geopolitics there are no good or bad guys . there are just chess pieces. hey i have a radical idea how about all gubmints everywhere being honest. i know i know dats funny
Live stooge.
Pure BIMBO- next stop MCNBS or FOX
so she's angling for a CNN job. Will she display the same integrity or shut her piehole the next time the US invades a foreign nation in the name of "democracy"? Which should be happening any time now.
Thick cunt.
Why can't this happen on MSNBC with Mr. Madow, ballwashing of obummer
Liz is still hawt...but what happened to Abby? She used to be smoking hawt, but is starting to look like a meth ho these days.
Ick.
You old guys and your "standards".
Lauren Lyster, Perianne Boring & Erin Ade are hot. Liz Wahl, Abby Martin, not nearly so much. Abby's OK but ... no thanks.
Anyhow, none of that should be important. I'm not watching the news to find titties, I'm watching it to find the truth.
The hypocrisy of Clinton, Kerry, and the US gov is astounding, just to listen to them is amazing, in the past 15 years US invaded several countries and destabilized many more including Ukraine, killing probably a million people (Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt). Yet they make out Putin the be the bad guy for sending troops to his own base in a country with a possible civil war created by the USA and EU to protect a minority. Did you forget Grenada where US sent troops into a foreign country to protect it's citizens?
New information shows snipers in Kiev were paid for by the new government which was funded by the US state dept to a tune of $5 billion. So perhaps CIA shot these people in Kiev.
It is sick to watch our leaders on tv and the US media is totally biased and tells bold faced lies. it is not even possible to get accurate information in the US media.
The biggest threat to the world is the USA. Clinton is not qualified to be president. And USA reminds me of Japan or Germany running up to WW2. We are the naxzis now.
There should be new jails built to house our war criminals who are OUR politicians after their trials at the Hague. Would someone please indict them.
Did you forget Grenada where US sent troops into a foreign country to protect it's citizens?
Apparently sending troops into a region to protect your own people without asking the U.S. is evil and unacceptable. After all, it's the same thing Hitler did with the Sudetenland. As I recall, the U.S. did not approve then either.
All the leaders in all the nations are scammers: Obama, Putin, Bush was, Harper, Cameron, Brown, Mugabe, you name it.
Frauds, every last one.
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How much Cocaine Importing Agency, CIA Paid her to say that on the air?
So are we to believe that RT is live TV and this could not have been edited out even if RT wanted ?? RT is mainstream, not as mainstream as CNN, FOX, MSNBC, et al., but still financed by big money and special interests, therefore it is very safe to assume that this is theater aka propaganda.
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." ~ October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to the president.
She'll be on The View next week talking about her brave stance and introducing cat videos on CNN the week after.
Self promotion at its finest.
Another dumb American woman.
IF the crisis grows worst and more bitter I can envision them pulling RT off the air in the west like they did to PressTV.
Propaganda is only truly effective when you have no competition and you have the full undivided attention of the target audience.
Washington based American's working for a Russian state news channel? not exactly a good combination under these kinds of high tension conditions.
I can only imagine some of the sly comments they must be enduring as well as obvious self conflicting personal opinion when they are expected to stick to the general bias line, and that is paint Russia in a good light.
Of coarse there is also that back of the mind question did she jump of her own accord or was she paid to jump in the most public way possible to discredit?
With all that said the other main stream news channels are no different in how they operate.
THEY ARE ALL BIAS TOWARDS THE ADGENDAS ULTIMATLEY SET OUT BY THE CHANNEL/NETWORK OWNERS.
The most important thing above all is you research and investigate multiable sources and think things out for yourselve and draw your own conclusions.
That girl has a bright future on CNBC!
What she did was brave but grossly unprofessional for a journalist / news anchor.
Sadly (as that's the way it is) any news channel watching that willing probably be thinking more along the lines ' nightmare, no one is going to trust her again, you just don't do that live on air '.
But as she did take a shit on Russia / Putin she may well end up on CNBC or Foxnews (might be a pre-recorded spot at some ungodly hour in the morning though, just to play it safe lol).
Obama supporters are loosing it.
She's gonna have to be more inclinded to give 'happy endings' at her next job!
Slap a couple of tats and piercings on her and she'd be a perfect fit for MTV!
A Faux Newz interview where she justifiably criticizes US corporate news media, too. Strangely, she looks like a different person in this video, beyond just the change in hair color. Liked her better as a blonde:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPFcykoTxo
She's like only into American Imperialism! It's like more kewl!
Why would anyone hire her. She could burn them too down the road.
Wow, so a reporter saying how it is, is 'burning them' ? Ya?
Wow.
Shows the evolution of Newsspeak & 1984think in play today.
+doubleplusungood arrow for you, my friend.
... oh wait - there isn't one of those (yet)
She already had an interview with CNN & MSNBC
https://twitter.com/lizwahl
RT's financial coverage is better than anything out there. No news outlet "has it all." Good point ZH on the low-level options to RT. Maybe the anchor was under social pressure and didn't realize it. That said, RT's Russia news page has been threadbare + pretty ridonkulous.
Reporters with integrity.
Balls to the Wahl.
...oh wait...
She always seemed a little niave, soft or vulnerable, not the strong, smart and sexy types that comprise most of the RT lineup. One would guess that having a husband in the US military might be an issue.... that's what i heard on a link to Huffington... and the Abby Martin thing isn't a surprise, as she probably isn't aware of the Russian experience with the West for the last century or so... Putin and most Russians probably have a good memory of the same Ukrainian script ploy used as it was used when Yelstin was in power.... and in came the oligarchs to tear the system apart thru theft, giveaway to their patrons in the West... same pattern we used to destroy Russia during WW1... Germany sent in their agent Lenin and we sent in our agent Troksky. Sound familiar? Try reading or viewing interviews of Professor Antony Sutton(Cali State U): www.sott.net/article/274519-Wall-Street-and-the-Bolshevik-Revolution-Ban...
That should get you started, recorded a few decades ago. The pattern remains the same. Another good point to remember is that 'America' was founded by the British empire, so the spread of its rule here wasn't exactly peaceful, and that practice remains... it's just easier to put the puzzle pieces together these days with the internet, no wonder the PTB want to close it down... or as they put it, make it safe for democracy.
I think it's good for RT and its audience, if Mz Martin shares her education on this topicwith her viewer. The truth is the truth, it's just a question of when you learn it. Remember that line from The Matrix? "Everyone fails the first time"... but when the pattern repeats and repeats, either the sheep wake up and learn or they die silently never knowing the truth, which sheep don't need anyway. In the end, it is a choice to 'know thyself'... as the answers await the questions.
March 6-7, 2014 -- "Soros Eruption" at RT: subtle warning signs were there all along
Three years ago, this editor forecast the downward spiral which has led to the recent on-air diatribes by two RT (formerly Russia Today) anchors against Russia's policy of ensuring security in the majority ethnic Russian autonomous republic of Crimea in Ukraine. In 2008, I became the first American journalist to provide RT with a regularly-scheduled live news feed (12 noon Moscow time, 4:00 am Eastern time) from RT's original studio on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, DC. After RT moved to a larger broadcasting facility on G Street in Washington, thus expanding its broadcast operations, this editor became a regular commentator on RT, appearing at least three times a week on the network and additionally, for breaking news stories, and for commentary on RT's Spanish and Arabic language broadcasts.
RT's satellite news broadcasts in English, Spanish, and Arabic reached an estimated 380 million people around the world. With its expanding news coverage and influence, RT caught the attention of both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors chairman Walter Isaacson. In October 2010, Isaacson called RT and other broadcasters, including Press TV of Iran and CCTV of China, "autocratic" and enemies of the United States.
That same month, radio broadcaster and self-proclaimed "progressive" Thom Hartmann relocated his radio and television programs from Portland, Oregon to Washington, DC. Hartmann's radio program broadcast from studios of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, DC. Soros is an avowed enemy of the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the hedge fund multi-billionaire funds many of the domestic pressure groups against Putin in Russia, including the notorious Pussy Riot.
After signing off on his afternoon radio show at the CAP offices on H Street, Hartmann walked around the corner to RT's studio on G Street to air his one-half to one-hour television program.
Only weeks after Hartmann began showing up at RT's studios, there were subtle changes at the network and none of them were for the better. In addition to my own schedule of three appearances per week being pared back, it was apparent that RT was losing some of its veteran reporters and anchors, in addition to my own producer. Eventually, loyal anchors were replaced with newcomers like Liz Wahl and Abby Martin.
Earlier discussions about this editor co-hosting an on-air debate program called CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle in Moscow and a solo interview program in Washington were replaced by last-minute canceled appearances by the network.
In March 2011, Mrs. Clinton told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that she was concerned that RT, Al Jazeera, and CCTV were outgunning the United States in the propaganda war. Of course, Clinton wanted more money for Isaacson's operations at the BBG.
After Clinton's warnings about RT, this editor heard rumors at RT that Russia was being pressured by the Obama administration to tone down what the White House and State Department considered "anti-American" rhetoric on the network. In 2011, Russia was negotiating its membership of the World Trade Organization and the message from Washington was clear: curtail the rhetoric or face problems with WTO membership. Russia acceded to the WTO in 2012.
RT began inviting more and more "mainstream" guests to its programs, including policy wonks at the CAP, which hosted Hartmann's radio program. Neo-conservatives and pro-Obama "neo-liberals" began showing up more and more at the RT studio. Vapid policymakers from such institutions as the Heritage Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies replaced commentators like myself, retired CIA officer Ray McGovern, and radio host Alex Jones who take a more critical view of U.S. policies and did so with vigor during both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations.
Infiltration of RT was made known by this editor to officials at RT in Moscow and its parent, RIA Novosti.
Within the past few days, Martin used her broadcast to issue a scathing attack on Putin's policies in Ukraine, although she admitted she was not familiar with the history of the country. That was followed by Wahl resigning from RT during a live broadcast. Wahl's screed was nothing more than a jingoistic pro-American attack on Putin and RT's coverage in a manner more befitting a Fox News commentator.
The danger of what was nothing more than an infiltration operation targeting RT was communicated in late 2010 and early 2011 by this editor to RT and its former parent company, the Russian state-owned RIA Novosti, by email and in person.
Now that we have experienced two "sleeper" agents, Wahl and Martin, slam Russia on RT in a premeditated "Soros Eruption" earning the immediate attention of and praise from the likes of the pro-ObamaDaily Beast, CNN, Huffington Post, and other supporters of U.S. intervention in countries ranging from Ukraine and Syria to Venezuela and Libya, the warnings conveyed by this editor have, unfortunately, come to full fruition.
RT operates in the United States through its RT Television America subsidiary, with bureaus in Washington, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
Russia reached out to the concept of freedom of the press in America long after it was known by many Americans that independent news outlets were not allowed to function without overt and covert subterfuge from organs of the U.S. government like the State Department, BBG, and their privatized agents-of-influence like Soros and his infrastructure of propagandists and provocateurs. Russia took a chance on broadcasting independently from American shores while playing by First Amendment principles. Russia, found out like the rest of us, that the concepts of free speech and freedom of the press, were short-circuited within the Soros media matrix. With the on-air "Soros Eruptions" by two RT anchors, the attempt by Russia to experiment with America's First Amendment rights failed miserably. The content of RT, for a few moments, was indistinguishable from Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN. And the statement by RT's and RIA Novosti's successor Rossiya Segodnya's editor-in-chief in Moscow, Margarita Simonyan, seemingly defending the bizarre and misinformed on-air statements of Wahl and Martin, suggest the subterfuge of RT in the United States also extends to its main news bureau in Moscow. WAYNEMADSENREPORT.COM
I guess playin' the Sex Card and doin' the low cut sweater thing only takes you so far?
I wonder if she was asked to leave her RT issued panties behind?
Are you americans so stupid or what??? What about 1 million deaths in Iraq? What about Afghanistan, Liybia, Egypt and so on??? What the f... was (AND IS) that???? How dear you fu...rs to refere on international law? You ruined that f... law first! Damn you all. Civilized world hates you. Yes - civilized. Cause you are technologized, but far from civilized. Murders.