It's heart-warming to see the irascibly uncharming uber-lib, Lawrence O'Donnell find common ground with the self-righteously earnest neoconservative, Jamie Kirchick. Kirchick recently commandeered an RT interview in which the scheduled topic was the Bradley Manning case. Kirchick's self-aggrandizing ambush of his interlocutor included criticisms of the Russian policy on homosexuality and the dangers Russian journalists face from the Russian government.
Today [O'Donnell] will meet his hero – partisan gay reporter James Kirchick, who, sitting in a Swedish TV studio, bravely stood up against Putin’s evil homophobic dictatorship authoritarian Russia during a LIVE appearance on a Kremlin propaganda machine. And what happens when a real journalist meets real journalist on air? Right – an explosion of objectivity and balance.
...Minutes before one of the most anticipated and crucial news announcements in recent years, pure heroism happened when Kirchick pulled on his gay-pride suspenders and started blasting the “horrific repression” of gay people in Russia and the “anti-propaganda law”, which, according to Kirchick, “effectively makes it illegal to talk about homosexuality in public” (but not according to the law itself, though who needs fact checking?).
...Attracting the world’s attention to human rights issues is one of the main tasks for journalists. But if it is done without dignity, without coherence and puts the journalist above others – that is the moment where the sympathy of the audience is lost. So, I really hope you too sleep very well, Mr. Kirchick.
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