{"id":1349500,"date":"2022-02-28T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349500"},"modified":"2022-02-28T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:22:38","slug":"the-right-loves-putin-and-other-lies-the-media-tell-about-trump-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-right-loves-putin-and-other-lies-the-media-tell-about-trump-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right \u2018Loves Putin\u2019 And Other Lies The Media Tell About Trump And Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-right-loves-putin-and-other-lies-the-media-tell-about-trump-and-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4716854356_3d9fccac5b_k-e1644011358240.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What is it about Russia and Vladimir Putin that forces the American national media to lie, make things up, and blurt out statements that have no basis in reality? The latest fiction is that Republicans and conservatives have a newfound affinity for Putin.<\/p>\n<p>If you only watched MSNBC or read The New York Times, you\u2019d be forgiven for holding the impression that all of Fox News and the Republican party have draped themselves in Russian flags and set up GoFundMes for the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Times on Sunday ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/27\/opinion\/ukraine-putin-steve-bannon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the headline<\/a>, \u201cHow the American Right Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Russia,\u201d by Emily Tamkin. According to the piece, the \u201cAmerican political right\u201d has in recent years \u201cshifted toward fawning praise for autocrats\u201d and now views authoritarian regimes like Russia\u2019s as \u201csymbols of U.S. conservatism \u2014 a mirror for the right-wing worldview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sounds awful! Tamkin\u2019s examples of this \u201cfawning praise for autocrats\u201d include Tucker Carlson telling his audience to ask, \u201cWhy do I hate Putin so much?\u201d; former President Trump referring to Putin as \u201csmart\u201d and \u201csavvy\u201d; and GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate J.D. Vance remarking in a recent podcast interview that \u201cWe did not serve in the Marine Corps to go and fight Vladimir Putin because he didn\u2019t believe in transgender rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I guess others can decide whether any of this constitutes \u201cfawning praise,\u201d but Tamkin nonetheless called the comments \u201cyet another way in which the political right is weaponizing culture wars to further divide Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her argument might have been a little stronger if she included more searing examples of praise for Putin, like the time Trump called him a \u201cmaster tactician.\u201d Wait, sorry. That was actually how The New York Times itself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/us-russia-putin-intelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> the Russian president in mid-February. And also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/07\/world\/europe\/putin-belarus-kyrgyzstan-caucasus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in October 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Tamkin could have mentioned the time Tucker Carlson said in a monologue that there was a legitimate argument as to \u201cwhether Mr. Putin\u2019s grievances had bases in fact, whether the United States and its allies were too cavalier in expanding NATO, [and] whether Russia was justified in believing that its security was compromised.\u201d My bad. That was also the Times on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/23\/opinion\/ukraine-biden-putin-invasion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feb. 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>J.D. Vance definitely did say, though, that Putin was \u201cthe most influential human being on the planet,\u201d and also described him as \u201cbrilliant.\u201d Never mind, that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/02\/opinion\/vladimir-putin-most-influential.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Brooks<\/a>, one of the Times\u2019 marquee columnists.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Friedman, another one of the paper\u2019s dumb-but-still-famous writers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/21\/opinion\/putin-ukraine-nato.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asserted<\/a> last week that \u201cAmerica is not entirely innocent of fueling his [Putin\u2019s] fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s \u201cfawning praise\u201d when Trump calls Putin \u201csavvy,\u201d what is it when our country\u2019s most important (even if compulsively dishonest) news outlet calls him a \u201cmaster tactician\u201d and employs writers who blame the U.S. for instigating Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine?<\/p>\n<p>President Biden, whom the Times has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/23\/opinion\/ukraine-biden-putin-invasion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heralded<\/a> for engaging the conflict \u201cwith toughness, patience, resolve and dignity,\u201d characterized Putin just last year as \u201cbright,\u201d \u201ctough,\u201d and \u201ca worthy adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That right-wingers are cozying up to Putin is a complete myth generated by a news media that seemingly can\u2019t do anything with regard to Russia <em>but<\/em> generate lies.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump was a Russian asset. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/14\/hemingway-durham-reveals-spying-on-trump-was-worse-than-watergate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russia put bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/15\/surprise-the-russian-bounty-story-hyped-up-by-corrupt-media-to-hurt-trump-turned-out-to-be-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Never proven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hunter Biden laptop story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/16\/7-media-lies-katie-couric-and-the-aspen-institute-would-decry-if-they-really-hated-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">False.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be more pleasant to say that the media are easily duped when it comes to stories about Russia, but as dumb as our American media are, they\u2019re not <em>that<\/em> dumb. They simply lie.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about Russia and Vladimir Putin that forces the American national media to lie, make things up, and blurt out statements that have no basis in reality? 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