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Georgian President Checks In With Glenn Beck, Katie Couric

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Posted on Aug 14, 2008
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First the showdown with Russia, now the U.S. media tour: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili paid a virtual visit to American news shows on Wednesday, telling CBS News anchor Katie Couric that the Russians were violating the newly instated cease-fire agreement with Georgia, then being buttered up by CNN’s Glenn Beck, who reminded his audience that there are streets in Georgia “named after our president.”


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By Lewis Beyman, August 15, 2008 at 5:14 pm Link to this comment
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I don’t know—-you folks are nothing but commie simps. Here such notables like, Bush, Cheney, McCain and company are telling us about the horrible Russians and no one is believing it.

  What you don’t wear a FLAG PIN?

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By ken, August 15, 2008 at 8:47 am Link to this comment
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I agree 100%. GEORGIA STARTED THIS WAR/ATTACK/GENOCIDE

So the best thing is to put the President in jail and extradite him to UN criminal courts to be handled properly as a criminal.. and hope that the BTC oil pipeline is not taken from Chevron/Brits/EU.. jejeee

And while they are at it.. Impeach Bush

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By BlueEagle, August 14, 2008 at 5:04 pm Link to this comment

12 yr old San Francisco Girl to Russian Troops: Thank You


http://revolutionarypolitics.com/?p=94

12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth on Fox News about Georgia. Fox News even had to cut them off right in the middle of the account of Georgian aggression even though they had just come from a commercial break 2 minutes prior to that.

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By reason, August 14, 2008 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment

Talking with Glenn Beck and Katie Couric? Georgia is in some serious trouble alright. Show biz alive and well but it seems Georgia is in the “dumper”

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By C.P.T.L., August 14, 2008 at 10:59 am Link to this comment
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Well…

If you ever needed a perfect proof, a concrete thing, an occurrence to point to, evidence self-evident that the United States of America has shit itself, you have the president of a foreign country at war talking to Glenn Beck, and everybody looking on with a straight face, un-aghast, un-appalled, un-outraged, but commenting on his comments.

As if it weren’t silly enough that that meager media medium Katie Couric should come between us and a chance to meaningfully encounter the Georgian President…

We would have gotten more out of watching a conversation with President Saakashvili and Cher, then one with Jerry Lewis.

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By Fadel Abdallah, August 14, 2008 at 9:34 am Link to this comment

I am glad that another puppet of American imperialism and another CIA agent is in trouble: His name is Mikheil Saakashvili, and his qualification for being dubbed as a democratically-elected president is because he openly declared Georgia a new Christian-Crusader nation! 

Thank you Russia for forcing this SOB to hasten withdrawing his Crusader army from Iraq! You have answered part of my prayers!

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By Hannah, August 14, 2008 at 8:35 am Link to this comment
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Why is no one mentioning that Georgia was the aggressor in attacking Ossetia. As is always the case there is more here than meets the eye. The bush administration is tight with the Georgian president and there is an oil pipeline involved (gee, wouldn’t you know it).  But none of this is mentioned in our corporate media.

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By Ricardo reis, August 14, 2008 at 5:05 am Link to this comment
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I really wanted to know the opinions of some psicologists about the President of Georgia.

This guy definitelly is insane and the mainstream press is still keeping his delusions up.

Although he caused such a suffering to the people of South Osetia and also the Georgians, he still keep saying the same bloody stupid statements (ethical leasing, regime change, truce violation).

And now, he comes with such a nut´s pearl like “our streets are named after your president” ?

For Christ´s sake, This guy must be sent to Haia to be trial and put in a mental instituion before he makes more damages to his own people!

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