Russia-Insider | Dear NBC News Team,
Congratulations! You have graduated from fake news to falsified news,
arriving at a journalistic level that is identical to that in the
Soviet Union in its heyday.
A couple of days ago, the political talk show moderated by Vladimir
Soloviev on state television channel Rossiya 1 broadcast two versions of
a segment from Megyn Kelly's interview with Vladimir Putin last Friday
in the St Petersburg on the sidelines of the International Economic
Forum. One was the complete, uncut version that was aired on RT. The
other was the cut-to-shreds version that you put on air for the American
audience.
The segment was Megyn Kelly's aggressive question to Putin, asking his
response to what she said was Americans' understanding of his
government, namely one that murders journalists, suppresses political
opposition, is rife with corruption, etc., etc. In the NBC version,
Putin's answer has been cut to one empty introductory statement that
"Russia is on its way to becoming a democracy" bracketed by an equally
empty closing sentence. In the full, uncut version , Putin responds to
Kelly's allegations point by point and then turns the question around
asking what right the USA and the West have to question Russia's record
when they have been actively doing much worse than what was in Kelly's
charges. He asks where is Occupy Wall Street today, why US and European
police use billy clubs and tear gas to break up demonstrations, when
Russian police do nothing of the sort, and so on.
