Stephen Colbert's recent interview with film-maker Oliver Stone is a surprisingly good encapsulation of everything wrong with the Russophobia that has gripped America since the middle-years of the Obama administration, a phenomenon which has vastly accelerated since Hillary Clinton labelled the winning candidate, now POTUS Trump as a man compromised by 'Russian links' which are totally non-existent by any objective standard.
There is much to objectively praise and criticize about Trump, but the idea that he is 'in it for Russia' is not only a sign of the childishness and pettiness which has run rife in US politics thanks to the Democratic party of Hillary Clinton along with their neo-con fellow travelers, but it is also symptomatic of America needing a foreign enemy to avoid tackling its burning internal issues.
It is not in Russia where a crazed opposition supporter has been radicalized by a violent mainstream media and ends up shooting a prominent Congressman. No, this terrorist atrocity happened in the United States.
It is not Russia where the opposition are trying to undermine the legitimacy of a democratically elected President, that is happening in the United States.
As Donald Trump rightly said during his campaign, it is foreign wars, particularly in the Middle East that is bankrupting America while bridges collapse, airports decay and infrastructure is reduced to third world standards.
But for the mainstream media, rather than take action about these domestic problems, it remains important to lambaste Russia not based on any objective criticism but based on vague, false and cartoonish notions that Vladimir Putin is somehow evil, though no one in the American mainstream media is able to articulate just why they believe that.
Stephen Colbert mocked Oliver Stone throughout a deeply sardonic interview. What was the mockery for? Because Oliver Stone interviewed Putin without an agenda. Stone said very clearly to Colbert that he set out to find out what Putin has to say and to do so with the respect the leader of a great super-power deserves. Colbert wanted Oliver Stone to be Steven Colbert. Stone had the audacity to be himself and to allow the Russian President to speak openly and honestly rather than cut him off every few seconds with boring MSM talking points.
Colbert's interview may have scored him points with members of the DNC and I'm sure it was popular in the McCain household. But for ordinary Americans, comments on Colbert's YouTube interview show that people are not buying into the MSM anti-Russian agenda.
Here are just some examples of ordinary American television viewers expressing their support for both Oliver Stone and President Putin.
Not content with just losing the 2016 US Presidential election, the supporters of Hilary Clinton and her anti-Russian elite friends want to hammer home a dead message, something that really amounts to little more than beating a dead horse.
This is one of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost the election. Hillary Clinton ran against the President of Russia, Donald Trump ran to be President of the United States. The choice was obvious and the better man won.
Reader Comments
You snivelling little prick of a hireling.
I really hate the state of media in the usa.
Every time you turn on that filthy propaganda machine you are making money for the networks and their Zionist owners by the advertising they sell. If nobody watched them, they would all close down and get real jobs, like waiting tables or picking beans in the fields of California.
Or they might do us all a favor and emigrate to Israel, where within a week they would be given free apartments, Israeli passports, and jobs harassing the native Palestinians.
If this audience is a representative proportion of popular American thought then it is somewhat ironic how they can't see their role in the political satire that is taking shape.
Why do Americans insist on viewing Russia as their enemy? What does it matter to them how Russians choose their leaders or how they choose to live? Most of the audience have never been to Russia yet they take it on absolute faith that theie press speaks the gospel truth about the state of affairs in modern Russia. And they judge Russia and Russians accordingly, Americans have been told, repeatedly, that VVP is a corrupt thug and a dictator hell-bent on hurting America. So that is what they believe. After all, why would their leaders and media lie to them?
If they watched the Putin interviews would they come to their own conclusions?
Comtemporaneously, American police demonstrate egregious rights abuses of civil disobedience, millions of Americans are in prison or poverty and the American war machine conquers many a nation with shock and awe.
F or a country that was once a beacon of enlightenment, America may have become the single most existential threat to the whole world. But the American audience doesn't see things that way.
Too bad, he started out so well dissing Bush at the Press Club or whatever it was.
I guess that was all part of the plan - they launched him on us - "look at this guy who speaks truth to power", immediately gave him his own show... then ever since he's been selling the pro-war, patriotic "pro the troops" Amerikkka the beautiful BS under the guise of a so-called liberal "progressive".
Oliver Stone looked very unhappy & a bit depressed at the end.
4 years of work bowled over with 20 seconds of jingoistic lowest-common-denominator manipulative red-scaring red-baiting war-inciting baloney.
Colbert is CIA.
There, I said it.
However, look underneath. The reason such factions are employing " jingoistic lowest-common-denominator manipulative red-scaring red-baiting war-inciting baloney" is because Putin presents well and, if an individual actually listens to Putin, makes sense. He is a well-spoken, thoughtful international leader who must not be allowed a podium from which to talk to the American people. Look how easily these CIA-Colbert- ad nauseum connections achieve their results. Completely unsubstantiated ideas given as "information" or "knowledge" coupled with the hyena-laughter to denigrate the leader or person in question. In these days of bread and circuses.
If he ever stepped over the line drawn by his Zionist masters, he would be fired, just like all the other famous talking heads we no longer see anywhere, and the word would go out in the media and entertainment industry: "Colbert is a shmuck, a little putz who none of us will ever hire again." They might however give him a job cleaning the toilets in their synagogue, just so they could laugh in his face every Saturday.