On 2/3/21 2:47 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
On 2/3/21 1:05 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
Of course, the fact that there were people who turned out in support
of Navalny doesn't really tell you anything at all about who he
actually is. For that, the *Times* audio team would have been better
off going to the *Times* archives, where they would have found a
profile of Navalny from 2011. After telling readers that he has
"Nordic good looks, a caustic sense of humor and no political
organization," Troianovski's predecessor Ellen Barry (12/9/11
<https://fair.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6457f9552de19bc603e65b9c&id=f8373186ae&e=9e9cb3e1ce>)
related some rather more relevant background:
He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads,
and once starred in a video
<https://fair.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6457f9552de19bc603e65b9c&id=3540a02e95&e=9e9cb3e1ce>
that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches.
While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in
the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.”
It's not much of a cliffhanger, but the *Times* turns out to have
known who Navalny is
<https://fair.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e6457f9552de19bc603e65b9c&id=61d825ca3f&e=9e9cb3e1ce>
for almost 10 years.
Not a surprising article from an outfit that has pimped for Bashar
al-Assad since 2011.
Here's that fucking moron Naureckas backing up Mint Press's account of
the sarin gas attack in Ghouta in 2013, an account that was repudiated
by the author whose name was used in the byline without her permission.
https://fair.org/home/which-syrian-chemical-attack-account-is-more-credible/
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