{"id":1770744,"date":"2022-12-09T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770744"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:05:12","slug":"very-amused-russian-state-media-mock-bidens-woke-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-amused-russian-state-media-mock-bidens-woke-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Amused\u2019: Russian State Media Mock Biden\u2019s Woke Diplomacy"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fvery-amused-russian-state-media-mock-bidens-woke-diplomacy%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=1770744&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--><p>Russian state media are mocking the United States for prioritizing WNBA player Brittney Griner over former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan because of Griner&#8217;s race and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan in a television appearance Thursday said she was &#8220;very amused but not surprised&#8221; that the Biden administration swapped Griner, rather than Whelan, for <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/who-is-viktor-bout-the-merchant-of-death-arms-dealer-biden-traded-to-russia-for-brittny-griner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notorious Russian arms dealer<\/a> Viktor Bout, as Whelan has &#8220;three problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His first problem is that he is white. His second problem is he is a man. His third problem: He is a heterosexual. This is not something that can be forgiven today,&#8221; Simonyan said.<\/p>\n<p>Whelan, a former Marine convicted in 2020 on manufactured espionage charges, has spent two years in a Russian penal colony. &#8220;I was arrested for a crime that never occurred,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/08\/politics\/biden-griner-whelan-decision\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CNN Thursday. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why I&#8217;m still sitting here.&#8221; During the television segment, Simonyan and the other panelists repeatedly refer to Whelan as a spy and repeat the trumped-up charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>The segment suggests that Russia&#8217;s propaganda machine plans to weaponize the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/a-shameful-prisoner-swap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversial decision<\/a> to swap Bout for Griner, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/no-special-treatment-for-brittney-griner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> at a Moscow airport in February for possessing less than a gram of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;American voters were given a choice: a hero who suffered while serving his fatherland \u2026 or a black lesbian, hooked on drugs, who suffered for a vape with hashish,&#8221; Simonyan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And well-known, for the sake of PR!&#8221; adds another unidentified panelist.<\/p>\n<p>Bout, a former Soviet military translator known as the &#8220;Merchant of Death,&#8221; was convicted in 2011 of selling weapons to a Colombian terrorist cell that planned to kill American soldiers. Simonyan, whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/disarming-disinformation\/faces-of-kremlin-propaganda-margarita-simonyan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Department calls<\/a> &#8220;Vladimir Putin&#8217;s loyal propagandist,&#8221; said Bout&#8217;s release is &#8220;the first good news&#8221; for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second good news is that [the United States] spits on its heroes to the extent that it considers it significantly more important to free a rightfully charged, well-known athlete,&#8221; the Russian propaganda chief said, adding that &#8220;this says a lot about the state of this society, of these intelligence agencies, and everything related to geopolitical confrontation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Griner since her arrest has become a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre, which likely informed the Biden administration&#8217;s decision to prioritize her release over other Americans imprisoned abroad. President Joe Biden has met with Griner&#8217;s wife Cherelle several times, inviting her to the Oval Office on Thursday to personally share the news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian state media are mocking the United States for prioritizing WNBA player Brittney Griner over former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan because of Griner&#8217;s race and sexual orientation.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018Very Amused\u2019: Russian State Media Mock Biden\u2019s Woke Diplomacy appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":1891531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7348,7349,4092,3706,3817,4188,4945,3965,5558],"class_list":["post-1770744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-very","tag-amused","tag-beacon","tag-bidens","tag-diplomacy","tag-media","tag-mock","tag-russian","tag-woke"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}