{"id":279560,"date":"2021-06-21T05:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T02:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-media-bought-vladimir-putins-flattering-lies-devine\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T05:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T02:19:30","slug":"the-media-bought-vladimir-putins-flattering-lies-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-media-bought-vladimir-putins-flattering-lies-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#The media bought Vladimir Putin&#8217;s flattering lies: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25db54c1f4e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25db54c1f4e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-media-bought-vladimir-putins-flattering-lies-devine\/#Yangs_healthy_insight\" >Yang\u2019s healthy insight<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> bought Vladimir Putin&#8217;s flattering lies: Devine<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Russian disinformation is so yesterday. Vladimir Putin speaks the gospel truth, now that he\u2019s declared Joe Biden is not the senile old fool he\u2019s been painted to be by a hostile media, especially in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden is a \u201cprofessional\u201d who is \u201ccompletely knowledgeable on all issues,\u201d the former KGB case officer told an audience of college graduates last week after his meeting in Geneva with our 78-year-old president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to be very careful when working with him so as not to miss something. He himself does not miss a thing, I assure you, and this was absolutely clear to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is focused, he knows what he wants to achieve and does it very skillfully, and you can instantly sense it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In China there is an expression for this sort of shameless puffery: \u201cpeng sha,\u201d praising someone in order to destroy them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In most cultures, flattery is viewed with suspicion as a potential prelude to hubris, particularly in Russia and China. But US media outlets such as CNN took Putin\u2019s praise at face value because it is precisely what they wanted to hear. It reflected the White House narrative they themselves were pushing when they gushed sincerely about Biden\u2019s \u201cseasoned air of confidence\u201d in Europe, his \u201creputation as a foreign-policy wise man\u201d and his \u201cfluidity on the world stage,\u201d while papering over his obvious weakness and frequent befuddlement on tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Putin did not once crack a smile as he waxed lyrical about Biden\u2019s cognitive skills last week, but he was having a lot of fun all the same, as became clear when he made what at first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared to be a baffling reference to White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who was not present at talks between the two leaders and was irrelevant to proceedings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what that [Biden] sometimes confuses things,\u201d Putin said. \u201cHis press secretary is a young, educated, beautiful woman \u2014 she herself constantly confuses things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not because she is poorly educated or has a bad memory, it\u2019s just that when people think that some things are secondary, they don\u2019t focus too much attention on them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans think that nothing is more important than themselves,\u201d he added, with a typically arrogant flourish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"President Joe Biden with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland on June 16, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-18584909 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Fact-Check-Week.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Fact-Check-Week.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Fact-Check-Week.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Fact-Check-Week.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Fact-Check-Week.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland on June 16, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reference to Psaki was a dead giveaway that Putin was taking the mickey, because Psaki is a comic legend in Russia, especially among Putin\u2019s nationalist base, and not in a good way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When she was John Kerry\u2019s spokeswoman during the Obama administration, she made a number of glaring gaffes that made her the favorite punching bag of Russia\u2019s Internet trolls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in a 2014 press conference, she mixed up her directions when she said natural gas flowed from Western Europe to Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are flows of gas . . . that go through from Western Europe through Ukraine to Russia, and we \u2014 or I\u2019m sorry, the other way \u2014 from Russia through Ukraine to Western Europe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although she quickly corrected herself, the Russian Internet used the initial misstatement to portray her as an ignoramus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another favorite flub was Psaki listing a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of State Department objections to an election in Ukraine that she said included \u201ccarousel voting,\u201d a form of multiple voting. When asked by an Associated Press reporter what that meant, she had no clue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Psaki lit up the Russki Internet again when she defended a Ukrainian foreign minister, who had called Putin a \u201cf\u2013ker\u201d on camera, by saying he was \u201cencouraging calm.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video mashes and photoshopped images of Psaki started going viral after her press conferences. Russians couldn\u2019t get enough of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There even was a new verb coined in her honor: to \u201cPsaki,\u201d defined by the Russian blogosphere as \u201cwhen someone makes a dogmatic statement about something they don\u2019t understand, mixes facts up, and then doesn\u2019t apologize.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" alt=\"Putin brought up White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki while talking about Biden getting confused.\" class=\"wp-image-18584913 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/USA-BIDEN_-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/USA-BIDEN_-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/USA-BIDEN_-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/USA-BIDEN_-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/USA-BIDEN_-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Putin brought up White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki while talking about Biden getting confused.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Leah Millis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, the propaganda motive was to undermine American efforts to defend Ukraine from Russian aggression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the feeble foreign-policy era of the Obama administration, Psaki and her hapless boss, Kerry, were trolled mercilessly by Russia\u2019s urbane and tricky Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was by Putin\u2019s side inside last week\u2019s summit in Geneva, sizing up Biden and his neophyte counterpart, Anthony Blinken, and no doubt advising the Russian president how best to outsmart them. It\u2019s a case of deja vu for the Russians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in January 2014, during meetings with Kerry in Paris, Lavrov presented Psaki with a pink Russian fur hat adorned with the Communist red star and hammer-and-sickle, and then got her and Kerry to pose with him for a photo, which was promptly posted on Twitter by Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the bland caption: \u201cHat gifted to [Psaki] to stay warm and fancy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if there were any doubt about the propaganda intent, Lavrov\u2019s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who also was in the photo, would repost the image in 2018, with the caption: \u201cToday this photo is exactly 4 years old. Masterpiece in every sense. Soldiers of the information war.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All very funny, just not for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s excessive praise last week for Biden, choosing compliments that are the exact opposite of a reality that is clear for all to see \u2014 but which reflect the White House\u2019s fervent in-house narrative \u2014 was a sign of trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was winking at America\u2019s enemies and signaling they should make hay while the sun shines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Yangs_healthy_insight\"><\/span>Yang\u2019s healthy insight<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If Andrew Yang previously had shown the insight and fortitude he did when speaking about the mentally ill homeless during the latest mayoral debate, he would be doing a lot better in the polls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMentally ill homeless men are changing the character of our neighborhoods,\u201d he said, citing a friend of his wife in her Hell\u2019s Kitchen moms\u2019 group who was punched in the face by a lunatic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is happening in New York City and we\u2019re not talking enough about it. Families are leaving as a result. In East Harlem . . . the Upper West Side, the neighborhood has been changed . . . Yes, mentally ill people have rights, but [so do] the people and families of the city. We have the right to walk the street and not fear for our safety because a mentally ill person is going to lash out at us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang spoke out on the problem of homeless people in New York City neighborhoods.\" class=\"wp-image-18584928 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/062021Garcia_Yang_Wiley16GSB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/062021Garcia_Yang_Wiley16GSB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/062021Garcia_Yang_Wiley16GSB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/062021Garcia_Yang_Wiley16GSB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/062021Garcia_Yang_Wiley16GSB.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang spoke out on the problem of homeless people in New York City neighborhoods.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gabriella Bass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yang was late to recognize that law and order is the priority for New York voters, but at least he finally told the truth about this rapidly deteriorating city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not for lack of money or housing, considering Mayor de Blasio has thrown billions at the problem and the homeless have had free room and board in nice hotel rooms for a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I asked a wise psychiatrist friend if there was a solution, because there\u2019s nothing compassionate about leaving the mentally ill to live in chaos. In a nutshell, he advocates a type of Marshall Plan with an army of mental health counselors dispensing psychiatric medication, as needed, along with long-acting naltrexone or Antabuse to block the effect of drugs and alcohol. Any mentally ill homeless person who commits a crime is sentenced to locked hospitalization followed by long probation with drug testing. There\u2019s more to it for a future airing, but good for Yang for breaking ranks.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Vladimir Putin speaks the gospel truth, now that he\u2019s declared Joe Biden is not the senile old fool he\u2019s been painted to be by a hostile media, especially in Russia.\u00a0 Biden is a \u201cprofessional\u201d who is \u201ccompletely knowledgeable on all issues,\u201d the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/vladimir-putin.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[109925,79087,71039,93263,991,108149,4947,4975,73234],"class_list":["post-279560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-20-21","tag-andrew-yang","tag-homelessness","tag-jen-psaki","tag-joe-biden","tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2021","tag-opinion","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}