Russian news chick is apparently not a fan of Obama.

[46Tbird]

lmfao.

[Bassics]

I'm not sure but I think she got a little tongue-tied between :09 and :11, and according to one report she was flipping off someone in the studio who was laughing at her about it. I can't tell because I can't understand that shit when they speak it real fast, but on the other hand that was a western style "FU" bird, not russian (they use a thumb generally).

[mikec]

I'm not sure but I think she got a little tongue-tied between :09 and :11, and according to one report she was flipping off someone in the studio who was laughing at her about it. I can't tell because I can't understand that shit when they speak it real fast, but on the other hand that was a western style "FU" bird, not russian (they use a thumb generally).

Spin it baby!

[8mpg]

lol

[Bassics]

Spin it baby!

That's what I thought, it was too well timed and directed.

[line-em-up]

...

She got fired.

Russian newsreader fired after 'giving Obama the finger'





Tatiana Limanova
© RIA Novosti. Alexei Danichev
18:50 24/11/2011


MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)


Tags: REN TV, APEC, Irada Zeinalova, Barack Obama, Tatiana Limanova, Moscow, Russia



A Russian newsreader who was reported to have given U.S. President Barack Obama the finger while on air was dismissed on Thursday.

Award-winning REN TV presenter Tatiana Limanova made the gesture while reading Obama's name during a November 14 item on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference. Online footage of the incident has since gone viral.

But REN TV said Limanova's gesture was not aimed at Obama, but was rather a response to her “editorial staff” colleagues, who were standing off camera and trying to distract her, for a joke. It was not, REN TV stressed in a statement, "linked to the item being presented by Limanova.”

Limanova said she did not know she was on camera when she made the gesture, an explanation that failed to impress the REN TV bosses.

“This does not diminish her guilt and cannot be considered an excuse. The REN TV management views this action as the gravest violation of on-air discipline and a demonstration of unprofessionalism,” the channel said.

Limanova is not the only Russian newsreader to have made the headlines for similar discrepancies in recent years.

Irada Zeinalova of the state-run Channel One TV channel has sworn at least twice on camera. In one such incident, her anger was directed at a small boy who accidentally distracted her while she was recording a standup.

http://en.ria.ru/strange/20111124/169006185.html

[78X]

Link to video?

[line-em-up]

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All of the links I found point to youtube. Damn you youtube.

[RWhite]

On Drudge

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8912395/Russian-newsreader-fired-after-Obama-middle-finger-insult.html

[SMEGMA STENCH]

Wouldn't many Russians uh... like obama? Guess I'm not really familiar with their current political climate.

[Denny]

No way! They realized we got the same 'ol when he continued with the Europen missle defense system.

On another note, Putin just got his party's nomination . Surprise surprise!

[SMEGMA STENCH]

What party is that? From what I can tell, its the "Everyone who is personal friends with Putin" party. I don't really know what the party itself is actually called.

[Strychnine]

What party is that? From what I can tell, its the "Everyone who is personal friends with Putin" party. I don't really know what the party itself is actually called.

Google, motherfucker!

20 seconds.

Vladimir Putin's United Russia party

United Russia (Russian: Единая Россия, Yedìnaya Rossìya) is a centrist[5] political party in Russia and the largest party in the country, currently holding 315 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. The party was founded in December 2001, through a merger of the Unity and Fatherland-All Russia parties. Ideologically, it self-identifies as a "Russian conservative" party, and it supports the policies of the presidential administration of Dmitry Medvedev. The party's association with former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is currently the leader of United Russia, has been the key to its success, and there is also evidence that the electorate credits the party (in addition to Putin) for improvements in the economy. Although the party's popularity has declined from its peak of 64.4% in the 2007 Duma elections to 41% in May 2011, it remains the by far most popular party in the country, ahead of the Communists (13%).