During a press conference with the State Department on Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry rounded on RT, lashing out at its Ukraine coverage.
"The propaganda bullhorn that is the state-sponsored RT program has been deployed to promote - actually, RT network - has been deployed to promote President Putin's fantasy about what is playing out on the ground," Kerry said. Furthermore, he said RT almost spends all its time "propagandizing and distorting what is happening, or not happening, in Ukraine."
Dismissing the entire eastern Ukrainian, anti-Maidan movement as sponsored and controlled by Moscow, Kerry did not address allegations of American involvement in Ukraine. Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that America was "running the show in Ukraine" and referenced the visits to Kiev of CIA head John Brennan and Vice-President Joe Biden.
Lavrov decried John Kerry's latest comments about RT as "uncivilized" and "prosecutorial."
"[The West] was convinced for some time that it had a full monopoly on mass media," said Lavrov in a statement. "Russia Today has won a large audience in the US and Western Europe, not to mention in Latin America and the Arab world."
The head of RT, Magarita Simonyan, also responded the Kerry, saying the channel was preparing a letter, calling from an apology from the State Department and asking for evidence to back up their assertions.
"We are planning to write an official request to the State Department for concrete examples of when RT has distorted facts," said Simonyan. "It's unfortunate that the head of the State Department knows so little about what's going on in Ukraine at the moment."
Back in 2011, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the US was losing a media war with up-and-coming, alternative outlets like Al Jazeera and RT.
"We are in an information war and we are losing that war," said Clinton.
Comment: Yes Killary, the lies aren't working like they used to.
Previously, the US State Department had attacked Al Jazeera for broadcasting videos of Osama Bin Laden justifying the 9/11 attacks. They accused the channel of engaging in propaganda for terrorists and tried to get the emir of Qatar to shut it down.
Comment: They eventually settled for second best when Al Jazeera sold out and got behind America's Arab Spring project.
Kerry's statements follow a flurry of anti-Russian rhetoric from Washington and when it comes to the facts - it's not the first time broad statements without any factual backing have come out of Washington.
RT correspondent Gayane Chichikyan was shot down by State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki when she asked about the launch of Kiev's anti-terror operation which coincided with Vice President John Biden and CIA head John Brennan's visit. Psaki accused Chichikyan of repeating "ludicrous claims" by the Russian government and refused to answer the question.
Psaki treated RT's Anastasia Churkina in a similar manner back in March when asked to clarify American assertions that Russia had "shot first" in a fight at a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on March 17 that left two people dead. Psaki cut Churkina short with a swift "I think we're ready to move on" and refrained from answering the question.
Russia has called the coup-appointed government in Kiev "illegitimate" and accused it of instigating anti-Russian policies and alienating the east of the country, which is largely Russian-speaking.
The truth hurts, but a puppet doesn't feel any pain, right? And perhaps neither does the 'mechanical man'? Though it does seem that they have a relationship to stress, which is showing up in the rapid ageing of their faces... if not a sign of the stress on their 'windows to their soul', then, like the corporate earnings reports and govt econ stats, I guess we'll have to blame it on the weather? Exactly how much longer can that be done without a loss of confidence? and once that is lost, so goes any need to keep these puppets around, as well as so many mechanical men. Not a good sign either way.
In the end, we have the imperial PR staff telling the masses not to tell the truth. Do as I say, not as I do, etc. Nothing ever changes in this school, does it? for most students that is. Surely a few leave to learn elsewhere, right? College isn't for everyone, no anyone in the USofA that knows what's good for them, and RT need do no more than simply tell the truth, as best they can, which is the worse thing any opponent can do to hurt and injure their target. These puppets haven't been trained well, they aren't used to competition, which reflects in our business practices as well as most every other aspect of society. Competition is the bane of capitalism, at least the true type that is so hard to find, if it ever existed at all in the real world, and what good is a bully if afraid of a challenge? Name-calling? That's what the regime in DC thinks wise to engage in? They are ready to back that up, right? Surely they know the next move... right? But then puppets are expendable, and it's best if they don't know what's coming... namely, the end of the show.