{"id":11355,"date":"2013-10-12T01:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T08:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2013-10-12T01:16:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T08:16:19","slug":"vladimir-putin-r-ru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/12\/vladimir-putin-r-ru\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin (R-RU)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Not long ago, the military forces of Vladimir Putin, aka GOP Pootie, attacked a Greenpeace ship on the high seas, imprisoned its crew, and is holding them to face trumped up charges in a Russian court.&#160; One would think that all Americans would be furious over such violation of human rights, but not so.&#160; Putin loves guns and hates gays, so Republicans love their GOP Pootie so much, that they are even helping him promote his oppression of LGBT people.&#160; Here\u2019s some Republican praise for him.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"gopVision\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gopVision\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gopVision.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"393\" \/>The American Family Association\u2019s Bryan Fischer began his radio program yesterday by reading a series of quotes from a mystery public figure, asking his listeners to guess \u201cwhat country do you think this guy is the president of?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The big surprise is that the quotes \u2013 encompassing such topics as European rejection of \u201cChristian values that underlie Western civilization,\u201d the pursuit of policies that \u201cput large families and same-sex partnerships in the same category\u201d and \u201cexcesses of political correctness\u201d \u2013 are from Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/globalizing-homophobia-part-1-how-american-right-came-embrace-russia-s-anti-gay-crackdown\">escalated his crackdown<\/a> on LGBT people in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho is it?\u201d Fischer asked. \u201cWhich president is the lion of Christianity, the defender of Christian values, the president that\u2019s calling his nation back to embracing its identity as a nation founded on Christian values? Those, ladies and gentlemen, are quotes from Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>The contrast between that president and our president could not possibly be more striking,\u201d Fischer continued. \u201cJust a bizarre day. To ever think we would get to the day that Russia would be more advanced spiritually than the United States<\/strong>. I mean, it\u2019s just staggering to see what is happening to this country.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/fischer-praises-putin-calls-him-lion-christianity\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/lgbt\/2013\/04\/03\/1815691\/brian-brown-encourages-hate-groups-to-be-more-anti-gay-than-nom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel Maddow covered Republican attempts to influence Russian law, contrary to the interests of US citizens.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc6038cc\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=53250689^0^614381&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc6038cc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=53250689^0^614381&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"height: 13px; border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; font-weight: normal !important; color: #5799db !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Russia clearly demonstrated that Russia has a Republican Regime. They are not even sufficiently competent to keep the &quot;eternal flame&quot; burning.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note that by addressing the Duma a private citizen lobbied a foreign government against US interests.&#160; That is a violation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com\/Logan+Act\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Act<\/a>, and therefore a chargeable act of Sedition against the United States.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are not Christians.&#160; Authentic Christians, who do not see Christianity as a vehicle to promote Republican hatred, should not be painted with the same brush, and I am not doing so.&#160; In the same way, not all Republicans are hate mongers, but almost all hate mongers are Republicans, because the Party put out the welcome mat for them.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Needless to say, prominent Republican legislators are actively supporting this crime.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, the military forces of Vladimir Putin, aka GOP Pootie, attacked a Greenpeace ship on the high seas, imprisoned its crew, and is holding them to face trumped up charges in a Russian court.&#160; One would think that all Americans would be furious over such violation of human rights, but not so.&#160; Putin <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/12\/vladimir-putin-r-ru\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}