Ukrainian troops sent by Kiev defect to anti-government protesters.

[Catherina]

160. All the right people on the Left are under the bus. It's not even respectable 2b anywhere else now!

The criticism of RT is beyond laughable but by my observations marching orders were sent from the top, where they know they're still losing the information war. And for good reason after a long, substantiated record of misleading the public for their corporate owners. RT's viewership numbers keep shooting up so they're very worried. The desperate squealing and shrieking from a thoroughly discredited quarter only helps so I hope those back-handed compliments continue.

I like the weasel wording that RT isn't allowed in LBN. Skinner said he was leaving that up to the host teams. The hosts that hate RT are pretending it's a hard and fast "rule", something we no longer even have at DU3 and that totally contradicts DU's mission statement that this is a forum for Sharing news and information, free from the corporate media filter.

I hope more Lefty donors start packing the LBN forum hosting to knock some sense into this.

The minute I see someone squealing against RT, I just put them on ignore because it shows exactly where they're coming from. It's one thing to criticize some Op-eds they publish (which are mild in comparison to Op-eds of absolute hate we see in organs like the NYT or that itching-for-war New Republic that helped lie us into Iraq and is still publishing pieces by neocon Robert fucking Kagan) but it's another to try to discredit their reporting as "propaganda" when everyone knows who the masters of propaganda are. Wake me up when they find those WMDs ok?

I'm only confused by the inconsistency which is as incoherent as our foreign policy, but not the intent. The intent is clear. Wave those flags and don't interrupt the march to war because our corporate government has been working on this longrange plan forever since Zbigniew Brzezinski armed Al Qaeda in Afghanistan over 35 years ago in his Grand Chessboard war against Russia.

Russian studies professor Stephen F. Cohen stated in 2012 that RT does a lot of stories that "reflect badly" on the United States and that they are "particularly aggrieved by American sermonizing abroad." Thus RT compares stories about Russia allowing mass protests of the 2011–2012 Russian election protests with those of U.S. authorities nationwide arresting members of the Occupy movement. Cohen states that despite the pro-Kremlin slant, "any intelligent viewer can sort this out. I doubt that many idiots find their way to RT."[104]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29#cite_note-Zwick-104

“I’m highly suspicious about the narrative I’m getting on CNN,” he (Cohen) says. “It seems to be the flip side of RT. It’s too black and white, too virtuous and simple. Each side sounds like one hand clapping.” RT might have a hard Kremlin slant, but Cohen argues that “any intelligent viewer can sort this out. I doubt that many idiots find their way to RT. First, you have to pay a lot for cable, and then you have to get way up in the numbers to find it.”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/world/magazine/101703/russia-tv-rtv-cohen-alyona

That's what seems to be worrying them the most, "I doubt that many idiots find their way to RT."

as reported in a reasonably balanced article (despite undertones of jealousy for RT's fine work) from the New Republic titled Pravda Lite.