Since the merits of David Johnson and his, in my opinion, indispensable Johnson’s Russia List is such a hot topic of debate, I point readers to his interview in the Moscow News. It is rare that we actually hear what the man behind JRL actually thinks about Russia. Most of the time critics infer his views from the copious numbers of articles he includes (or doesn’t) in his daily newsletter. Here are a couple of responses that I found relevant to the debate:
MN: Once you wrote about a news conference at the Kremlin where President Putin spoke to a group of editors and correspondents. What was your impression of Vladimir Putin?
DJ: Putin was very impressive in his command of subjects and apparent open-mindedness. I think most of us at these meetings felt this. However, there were certainly critical views expressed about some of Putin’s policies. I never got to ask my question so let me do it here: How does President Putin try to insure that he has the best information and makes the best decisions? What institutions and practices does he have in place in this regard?
MN: Would you say that Russia is on the right path of development?
DJ: These days I try to avoid having strong opinions about Russia and generally succeed in this. While I was very skeptical of Yeltsin and uneasy about Putin as Yeltsin’s appointed successor, I think it has become harder to reach judgments these days than before. My working notion is that most subjects are complex and difficult to understand from the outside and that diverse opinions are inevitable. I try to make JRL a useful vehicle for exposing the diversity of views. I do feel that many people in the US and the West are rather quick to jump to the attack, just as they were rather superficially infatuated with Yeltsin once-upon-a-time.
I am sympathetic to the view that these days Putin and Russia are perhaps getting too dark a portrayal in most Western media. Or at least that critical views need to be supplemented with other kinds of information and analysis. An openness to different views is still warranted.
MN: Some commentators in the past have criticized JRL for focusing too heavily on articles that emphasize Russia’s problems. How do you respond to such accusations?
DJ: I actually would like to carry more informative, substantive “defenses” of Russia and go out of my way to get those items. I do not do translations myself and am dependent on what comes my way in this regard from Russian media. I do carry items from important Western media because it’s important to know what The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Economist, etc. are saying about Russia. It’s also important to know what’s in Novaya Gazeta and the like. If anyone would like to help me find more positive articles about Russia please do.
MN: In what ways do you think the United States could be a better partner with Russia?
DJ: I’m sure that if officials in both Russia and the U.S. look dispassionately at themselves they will find mistakes that have been made and initiatives that can be taken. Americans tend to be missionaries and see themselves as the center of the universe (As perhaps others do?). Americans need to work even harder at understanding the perspectives of non-Americans. Both Americans and Russians need to recognize that there are many more peoples and nations in the world as well.
So there you have it. The man in some of his own words. I have to say that I agree his logic on why he carries articles from the major US newspapers. The Washington Post, NY Times, and business weeklies like the Economist are some of the publications of record, not just for the US, but the world. One must intimately know the prevailing discourse about Russia if one seeks to dispel it.
PS – Apologies to everyone for breaking the string of hilarious comments. And Sean, I’m sorry to use your comments section as a platform for acting as Mike’s personal truth policeman, but he did call me back into this.
No problem Lyndon or for anyone. I gave up worrying about the comments a few days ago. Plus they’ve been quite amusing. I’m more amazed by the tenacity displayed by you all.
I do think I have an answer to why Mike doesn’t have a blog. He’s right. He doesn’t need one. I think the incredible 151 comments about or from Mike on this thread attests to this.
I am happy to oblige so you all may continue, that is if you have any steam left.
Lyndon, the self admitted party pooper. Yuh can’t take him anywhere besides formal neocon/neolib gatherings. Chill dude! Jus havin fun at yo expense. Yuh earned it and then some. Your repeatedly incorrect calling me a liar here because of some severe mis-comprehension on your part. It’s all on record.
Sean, this discussion reflects the spirit of a more open media as opposed to the wonk like closed from viewing type which has had some not so brilliant moments.
It further reveals what a certain “pundit” and his friend are actually all about.
Irish has requested to be on my list and I’ve obliged. I received 2 new emails regarding my recent SL exchange with Ethan Burger. The support of which is overwhelmingly in my favor.
Then, there’s an elderly blogger, who lies and censors at his venue, some person called db and an American, who appears to be a somewhat bum in Russia. He didn’t reply to the retort of his mummy and dada bank rolling his stay there and what he has actually achieved in Russia besides wonking for the status quo.
It has also been you know who free. On the other hand, Chris Doss has shown himself to be an exemplary replacement with his troll like search efforts to try to blemish me. For his kind, being up front and honest is a sin.
“For a change, I tell you how to act with blogs.”
You know, I just had the strangest image come to mind of a green-skinned, hugely-muscled Averko in purple shorts screaming this at the top of his lungs.
“RARR! Mike Averko strongest one there is! Why puny Heribert always try hurt Mike Averko? FOR A CHANGE, I TELL YOU HOW TO ACT WITH BLOGS! AVERKO SMASH PUNY HERIBERT! RARR!”
Du-hud, the only thing I’ve cited in this entire hilarious flame war was in defense of your claim to have a higher education! Do not look ze gift horse in ze mouth, verstehen Sie?
Not at all. Must we go back?
As for touting physiques, there was your somewhat confrontational exchange with Ira Straus, where you acknowledged being the same height as Putin.
What the hell are you talking about, you gamma-irradiated freak?
“RARR! Mike Averko Smartest Russia Columnist Ever! Much Smarter Than Abomination, Rhino, and Puny Ethan Burger Put Together! RARR!”
You wish. Any reasoned person can see what you duck.
FYI, I got a Moscow based non-Anglo-American posted at JRL, care of my essentially rewriting his article. Never mind how senior level legal folks approach me for resume edits.
Your pundit friend did a lousy job moderating a panel on Montenegrin indpendence, allowing two not so Ruyssia friendly folks to trample Russocentric views which were non-existent at that venue.
You do know that my “pundit friend” has a name? Don’t be afraid — he will only materialize from the Pit, surrounded by brimstone, to drag you off to eternal torment if you write his name BACKWARDS. Sheesh, don’t they teach basic demonology in the schools in the States anymore? What are things coming to? We’re going yo hell in a handbasket, I tell ya.
“RARR! AVERKO SMASH! PUNY AVENGERS NO MATCH FOR AVERKO! RARR!”
Lyndon, the self admitted party pooper. Yuh can’t take him anywhere besides formal neocon/neolib gatherings.
What are you talking about? You have absolutely no idea about my political views, other than your assumptions. Just keep putting people in your convenient little boxes, Mike. I guess it makes the world a lot simpler, and I’m sure it works on talk radio.
Someone should suggest to XM that they set up a channel for LR and Averko to scream at each other ’round the clock, in a 24/7 smackdown. It seems like arguments involving Mike are indeed popular, and Mike’s last comment about this being “the spirit of a more open media” suggests he’d be only too happy to get involved.
Your repeatedly incorrect calling me a liar here because of some severe mis-comprehension on your part. It’s all on record.
Mike, since you’ve repeatedly lied, you should expect to repeatedly be called a liar. I read your most recent anti-JRL rant in its entirety a couple of times (at least as many times as you’ve posted and reposted it here) and didn’t miss anything. You failed to do any sort of climb-down from your false claims that JRL has not published any of your stuff from Sean’s Russia Blog, much less apologize for misrepresenting the situation. Do you have anything more to say about Edward Lucas’s “positive reference” to your email list?
I understand that some might forgive you these “exaggerations” and “distortions” (which can also be called lies) since you sometimes portray yourself as an underdog, “oppressed” armchair analyst. But your distortions cannot possibly all be innocent mistakes, Mike. There are too many of them.
Another problem with you suddenly changing your tack to act like a goofy, innocent guy is that such a characterization doesn’t fit with someone who trumpets his status as an “an independent foreign policy analyst and media critic” and an incisive dissector of international media bias.
Here’s the problem – in your desperation to get “published,” you have associated yourself with a couple of shady websites and then engaged in a campaign of promoting them. In order to appeal to people’s sympathies and paint yourself as some kind of victim, you have exaggerated (I called it a lie, and I still think the word applies) your “censorship” by JRL and the extent to which JRL “promotes” LR. I have called you out on these things, and you have no serious response.
If you want to be taken seriously, Mike, try to at least pretend that you are concerned about your credibility, which isn’t helped by the various mischaracterizations, distortions, appropriations of other people’s thoughts as your own, etc., which have emerged in the comments at this post and elsewhere on this blog. Note: alleging that unnamed other people also engage in e.g. plagiarism to deflect criticism from yourself (as you’ve done) is not exactly a strong defense.
Mike, as I said in my last comment, no one’s begrudging you your opinions (at least those supported by facts) and your email list, and no one is “censoring” you. Along with others here, I have in the past offered to help you set up a blog get your views out, although I’m not sure I would make a similar offer anymore, now that I’ve seen your full array of tactics, and of course you don’t need a blog, since you operate on a higher level in your own mind.
Still, I have to give you your due and admit that you seem remarkably energetic in promoting yourself in the few ways you know how (mass emails, blog comments, and your “Lying about Russia” page). See, now you can say that I’ve “positively referenced” your commentary.
Rock on, Mike. I think I’m done with this, as I certainly don’t regard interacting with you as a “party.”
“RARR! Averko smash puny Lyndon like he smash Leader! RARR!”
What Chris no Modok? Given all your references to actual enemies of the Hulk, I can see that you to are or was once a fellow comic book nerd. Oh, btw, I would like to see the translation where Kaganovich speaks about Conquest. I forgot to say that on the other thread.
KAGANOVICH SMASH PUNY HULK!!!!
The translation I did of Kaganovich is of part of his memoirs. The Conquest bit is in a different book, which is a collection of interviews with and commentary on several of the people around Stalin (Kag, Mikoyan, and some others). Kag doesn’t really get into detail at all in the interview, just says that Conquest’s claims (as reported by the interviewer) are “ravings” (vranye). The bit of the memoirs I translated (about a quarter of the preface of a rather large book) is mostly him explaining why he decided to write his memoirs and him feeling sorry for himself after having being expelled from the Party and the death of his wife.
If you are interested in the Kag piece I translated, I can send it to you or post it — though not here, so as not to break up the flow of invective — and if you’re interested I also have some of Ilya Ehrenburg’s wartime articles for Krasnaya Zvezda, one of Stalin’s teenage poems and one of his letters to his wife, and some very small snippets from Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Let Vmeste I translated. You know Russian of course but this might be easier than getting the Russian copies,
Oh, and as all real afficionados of the Incredible Hulk know, Ethan Burger did in fact appear in that comic as one of the Hulk’s enemies in an early issue. Burger was irradiated by gamma rays and became a huge, malformed, green monstrosity that caused much carnage throughout New York until foiled by the combined efforts of Mike Averko and the Fantastic Four.
Hehehe. Cancel that. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk for the Three Stooges. DB probably stands for Dumb Bell. Chris Doss probably wacks off as much as he wonks off. A toubled child with his out of the blue comments about the human anatomy and kissing a girl. He also lied about not being a translator. Last but not least is Heribert Schindler, the man with the fryed brain. Good riddance Lyndon.
This is so much better than the eXile. On sock puppets, will the real Gary Brecher or Brechers’ please stand up. La Russophobe was not the first.
My oh my, the displayed talent is an all around mesmerizing.
No wonder why Lyndon dropped out. He did what the US should’ve done back in the 19 sixties in Vietnam. Declare victory (not) and get out. Although I see that Lyndon has some TOL like talking points in the Va. Tech segment which I’ll momentarily get to. For all I know, this is a plot to keep me occupied from other projects.
The pundit’s attack dog, the pundit himself and Ethan Burger have come out swinging without any dents.
I’ve some of Ehrenburg’s works.
Alexandra & Mike, don’t you know that if you really want someone to go away, you should just ignore them? Thanks for giving me an excuse to read back over some of this comedy. I’ve realized that I haven’t been as strict a truth policeman as I should have been.
From Mike’s comments above:
DJ is full of it. He never posted any of my RB, SRB, Intelligent.ru, TT and Serbianna articles…
From Mike’s “formal mass email,” which he’s replicated a couple of times here:
Despite being very well received commentary (in terms of views, replies and being picked up elsewhere), JRL never posted any of my Serbianna, Tiraspol Times (including my most recent), Russia Blog, Sean’s Russia Blog, and Intelligent.ru commentary.
Mike, I focused on your untruth about the SRB piece (which you never recanted or apologized for), though you said you had never received that issue of JRL. But what about the Russia Blog piece on “Coverage of Intolerance in Russia and Abroad” from last May? The one that says, at the very top, “The following commentary originally appeared in the Sunday, May 7, edition of Johnson’s Russia List.” Maybe you didn’t receive that issue of JRL either? I understand that you can escape this one on a technicality – at the time JRL posted it, the piece wasn’t yet a Russia Blog piece. But isn’t that a bit of a dodge?
A few final howlers from the comments above:
Jason Cooper has no problems with my writing.
Clearly he doesn’t, as he’s a member of Tiraspol Times’ “skilled team of international journalists.” Is he also the author of the statistical account of the TT’s “success within its bracket” which you posted under your own name?
I can’t wait to hear your more detailed analysis of the situation in Transnistria. I guess you’ve received your instructions from Tiraspol. Tell me, do you have a vertushka with a direct link to Igor’ Smirnov’s office?
By the way, I notice that TT’s website now has information on “print advertising rates” – I hadn’t noticed this section before in surveying that website, although it’s certainly possible it’s been there all along. So I happily stand corrected, though I still wonder whether anyone actually pays $492.48 for the back cover.
But let’s get back to our regularly scheduled comedy hour.
This is classic:
Lyndon should note how my momz was brought into this discussion. It doesn’t bother me because it shows the asshole factor of the person bringing her up.
What does that say about your “asshole factor,” Mike?
As is this:
Never mind how senior level legal folks approach me for resume edits.
I guess they are impressed with how you convert letters to the editor into op-eds without batting an eye.
Mike, you’ve shown there’s a good reason for the tradition mentioned by Sergei Roy in the email you quoted above:
touting your own virtues is absolutely not the done thing in Russian culture, unless you want to make a laughing stock of yourself.
Lyndon:
You need help. You aren’t alone, so don’t take it personally.
If anyone owes an apology, it’s yourself for your ongoing omission of what I actually stated; which I will once again post. Here’s the specific excerpt from 4/21:
Despite being very well received commentary (in terms of views, replies and being picked up elsewhere), JRL never posted any of my Serbianna, Tiraspol Times (including my most recent), Russia Blog, Sean’s Russia Blog, and Intelligent.ru commentary. Instead, JRL often promotes individuals subscribing to topics and views which can’t be confused with being Russocentric (the definition of Russocentric is in the answer to question 14 in the link in the last paragraph).
Sean Guillory of Sean’s Russia Blog just claimed that JRL carried my Sean’s Russia Blog article on Andrei Vlasov in its Feb. 8, edition. I didn’t receive it while having received JRLs before and after it. Even if true, my points are 100% valid. The validity is shown in the kind of favoritism JRL plays with its frequent posting of source material from the likes of Julian Evans, Anna Arutunyan, Jake Rudnitsky, Alexi Pankin and Dmitry Babich. Russocentric folks and a number of others aren’t so greatly impressed by what they offer. David Johnson’s bias is further shown by what he chooses to archive (link) at his site (not all of the JRL posted material is linked), in addition to his best of JRL posted material at The Moscow Times influenced Russia Profile. Note how David Johnson claims to seek solid defenses of Russia. The supposition being that they’re hard to find. BS! WHY then did he not post my last Serbianna column “Russia’s Sane Position on Kosovo” as well as some of my other commentary?
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I don’t get any “instructions” from Tiraspol. But good for you for acknowledging where TTT is located.
Inform me of my asshole factor and explain away why you don’t have one.
Did you ever make The NYT op-ed and if so, was it done in the pre-internet age when it wasn’t easy to do so? Back then such letters were lengthier from the current trend.
As for Roy’s comments, I’m 1/4 ROC, American born and bred. A nice lead in for a Chris Doss hack attack.
Seeing how you aren’t on my mailing list, here’s some of the feedback (all of which is in my favor) to my latest SL exchange with Ethan Burger:
“Mike, obviously this Burger person is making some mileage out of accusing you of being anti-Semitic, of hate speech, etc., because that’s a common attack against one who dares to express a differing viewpoint, esp. when it comes to foreign policy. Don’t you know that’s a no – no? And, of course, how dare you take on ‘someone of his long list of credentials who has what it takes’ to hit you with a lawsuit?
The guy is full of himself.”
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“Mike: It’s a typical ambush tactic by people of a pea sized intellect. Its the worst form of bigotry and bullying to call someone anti-semite knowing fully well that there is no foundation or context to such an accusation. And when there is, they won’t say a word or lift a finger against racism or anti-semitism. Who is this Ethan Burger anyway? I think you pay him too much attention. I never heard of him and read anything of any consequence written by him.Sounds like just another fraudster.”
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“Mike anti-semitic? That is news to me. One may or may mot share his views, and/or the way he presents them, but if there is one thing he cannot be accused of, it is anti-semitism, let alone race hate crimes as referred to by Ethan.”
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“Mike,
Without taking back anything I have said in previous exchanges, I want to state that I have never had the impression that you are anti-semitic or profess anti-semitic views. I really don’t understand why somebody would accuse you of THAT…
Puzzled.”
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“Hi Mike, I am recovering from the cold, flu, and the sweep by the Red Sox. This has been an interesting exchange. If memory serves from the ****** event, I think you have a Sephradic background on one of the sides of your family, so you couldn’t be anti-Semitic which you never have been in person or writing. Good onion on ****** for sticking up for you there. It just shows you how low some people will go. Keep up the good work. Best,”
I can’t believe you are reposting that text again. Your own words show that you failed to back down from your untrue claims about JRL not publishing any of your Russia Blog or Sean’s Russia Blog pieces. To use the words of your buddy from Tiraspol, the “flim-flamming caveat” that “even if true, my points are 100% valid” is just that – flim-flam – and does not a valid retraction or apology make. You did not back down or say anything about mischaracterizing JRL’s posting of your pieces. You don’t have to apologize to me – I don’t care – but you can’t very well lie about someone’s record and then complain that he doesn’t post your work.
I have never suggested that you “need help,” so I’d appreciate it if you refrain from trying to diagnose me remotely.
Inform me of my asshole factor and explain away why you don’t have one.
You mentioned an “asshole factor” when someone made a comment – in the midst of a non-serious flame war – about you living in your mom’s house, and you suggested that I condemn that person. It seemed strange for you to make the “asshole factor” comment, given your attempts to bring my family members and ethnicity into a relatively serious discussion earlier. I have never made such comments about you. Hence, no “asshole factor.”
Did you ever make The NYT op-ed and if so, was it done in the pre-internet age when it wasn’t easy to do so?
Actually, I made the front page of the NYT once in my youth. Not something I put on my resume, but since you asked… As for the op-ed page, I never tried. I did write a letter to the editor of the Washington Post in 1999, I think, but it didn’t make it in. Oh, well. How many letters did you have to send in to get your valuable puffed resume line?
Mike, as I’ve already mentioned, I visit your “Lying about Russia” page every once in awhile to see what you’ve got up there. So I’ve seen those comments already. Thanks for sharing, though. I’m happy you have so many supportive email correspondents.
I am not a translator, Mr. Banner. I am capable of translating and sometimes do so for fun, much as I am capable of walking and occasionally do so for fun. However, I am not a professional walker.
Whoever Mr. Banner is. In media, some of the better paid professionals aren’t necessarily the best of sources.
Lyndon, I hope Sean follows Andy’s design of more easily getting to a given comment. I don’t feel like scrolling down again to clarify what you said. Was your front page WP feature an actual article by you? Having 7 NYT published letters within a 2 year span in the pre-internet age is nothing to sneaze about. Especially, when the views are mainstream Russocentric on issues like former Yugoslavia, Ukraine and NATO membership. You can access those writings and critique them instead of broad unsubstantiated comments, having nothing to do with the raw analysis.
Sorry, but you continue to either misunderstand or misrepresent my legitimate critiques with JRL. The sad thing about them is that some in the business privately acknowledge my points, but dare not do so in the open. You can believe what you want and misrepresent as you please.
Mike, it’s late, and you must be tired. I know I am. I mentioned an NYT piece where I was featured, not one that I wrote, in something of an attempt at humor. The link is at my most recent comment above. The WP, sadly, refused to publish the one letter I sent to them, oh, back in ’98 or ’99. Must have been censorship.
I’ve given you plenty of substantive questions at the other thread, which you haven’t even touched. I’m not talking about the questions relating to the Tiraspol Times, although those are of course interesting; I’m referring to my questions about the conflict surrounding Transnistria itself, which should be right in your wheelhouse since you are such an incisive analyst on the region, and to which you have yet to respond.
I’ve already said several times that of course you’re free to have your opinions about what JRL posts – obviously there’s an editorial selection process of some kind, but since he does the work to run the list, I guess he gets to make the selection.
My point for this entire thread has been that you’ve been saying falsely for months that JRL did not run any of your SRB pieces or any of your Russia Blog pieces. In fact, JRL ran one of each. It’s a detail, but when you are trying to construct a campaign to discredit someone, you should be careful with your details.
I don’t want to repeat myself any more either, so please don’t repeat your claims that I’m misrepresenting anything, since I’m not.
Man, your knowledge of US pop culture must be really shoddy!
Wait, no, I get it — you’re just trying to protect your secret identity through denial! Don’t worry, Banner, your secret is safe with me. I will also not mention to anyone that Alexandra’s secret identity is Mike Averko.
With Peter Lavelle’s blessing no doubt, Chris Doss most probably posted the very first comment at this discussion under “anonymous”. Nope, I’m not Alexandra. Doss and Lavelle don’t like advertising anything positive having to do with me. Instead, they take a Soviet like route of either outright ignoring or scurrilous attacks. I don’t correspond in such a manner. Their tact reminds one of what the Stalinists in the Spanish Civil War were to the Trotskyites. Not that I’m politically anything close to being a Trotskyite.
Lyndon, there’s censorship at JRL. Mark Ames wrote about it, with others acknowledging it privately. Once again, try taking my 4/21 posted comments and break my points down from top to bottom. No one has yet to do that. You continue to misrepresent what I actually said of JRL. Points that are fact based.
Actually, I doubt PL has any idea this flame war is even taking place, or would care if he did. It’s really astonishing how you seem to interpret everything as a grand anti-Averko plot. It’s funny as hell, too, given that you’re not very important. Just some wacko scribbling on the Internet (in other people’s blogs).
Mike, it’s possible for me to state that you were untruthful about certain important facts in your “April 21 Manifesto” while not disagreeing with some of the other points you made. That’s what I’ve done. You always claim to be a “hit-and-be-hit” kind of guy. You’ve been hitting David Johnson fairly hard for the past few months (and earlier), and it’s emerged that you were hitting him, in part, with false information. Would you just own up to it already? Your larger point may stand, but if you can’t admit your dissembling on the details, you’re only hurting your own credibility.
As for other points in your 4/21 anti-JRL volley, I always thought the eXile was “censored” because DJ didn’t like their bad language and horse-sperm-type stunts. But who knows, maybe it’s a plot.
And as for the Captive Nations Committee, maybe the reason it’s never talked about on JRL is because (while I’ve agreed with you that it had no useful purpose after the USSR’s breakup) it is utterly irrelevant today – except as a way for you to try to dig up dirt on Yushchenko’s wife using a 24-year-old letter.
I know that to be bullshit as he noted his appearing at other forums. Who is Bill Everett, a self described 60 yr. old Moscow based media person as well as pmshek?
BTW, to show how full of shit you are – amng other things, he offered me a moderator role at a forum he was involved with. Why did he choose me? Quite obvious. Who was Pedro who recently posted here? I’ve heard from several sources what he has said behind the scene.
You’re a Soviet like hack trying to dismiss me in the slimiest of manner.
Lyndon:
Ames wrote of JRL censorship and others besides myself have experienced it. His biased views were also released at intelligent.ru. Kind of tired. Will reread your point on Yushchenko’s wife. I’m quite proud of my piece on the CNC.
Mike, the person in question is totally uninterested in blogs and internet fora. I doubt he knows that Sean’s Russia Blog exists. (No offense Sean!)
This may be hard for you to believe given that you seem to live entirely in the world of English-langguage blogs about Russia (in a parasitic fashion, in the body of other people’s blogs, much like the humble tapeworm), but — surprise! — it is a marginal phenomenon most people don’t care about.
Note the more civil tone from Mr. Doss.
Hey, RTTV is a blip on the screen for many Eng. language Russia watchers. They’ve some good and maybe some not so good people at that network.
At his now closed group, he said how the two of you participate at other forums. One of which was described in a way resembling the recently ended NYT one. Perhaps that’s why you’re now here.
He has expressed knowledge of La Russophobe and told another blog owner how he reads his site.
I’ll leave it at that for now. I’ve more than a few sources all over the place.
I don’t take kindly to behind the scene BS slur games against others, when they aren’t there to fend for themselves.
The two of you are dreaming if you think I’m a lone wack.
Averko writes: “Who was Pedro who recently posted here? I’ve heard from several sources what he has said behind the scene. “
Jesus Christ, Averko, have you never seen Napoleon Dynamite?
By the way, the moniker I adopted was “vote for Pedro” and not “Peter” or “Pedro.” “Vote for Pedro” is a damn near universally understood (in the U.S.) reference to the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
Get over yourself and watch a decent movie for once. You seem to be the only one around here not deriving any comic relief from these threads.
P.S. I’m just waiting for you to tell us that Malverne Park, Long Island is part of New York City.
P.P.S. Congratulations on stealing La Russophobe’s thunder.
Nice bullshit tactic. Go from the slimeball attack mode to the: hey we’re just tying to chill out route. I’m as anti-La Russophobe in delivery as they come. The same can’t be said of those trying to make a false linkage between it and myself.
My tact is to deal with the issues in a direct head on way. LR doesn’t follow suit. Neither are your prior BS remarks about me. Similar to those of at least 2 others I’ve previously mentioned in this discussion.
No, I haven’t seen Napoleon Dynamite. I’m sure there’re perhaps some good to great American pop culture screenings that I have seen unlike yourself.
I think I’ll do a QT. I saw something in the media today and wonder if anyone else picked up on it?
Because it would be tantamount to a crime to let this thread die, and in the interests of accuracy, I would like to note that I did not adopt a “more civil tone” vis-a-vis Mr. Averko. Rather, I compared him to a tapeworm.
What does that say of yourself when you carry on like a less advanced species (if that can be imagined)?
Shouldn’t you add Russia Today to your listing list on the right side bar?
Russia Today – Internet broadcast
Note that it was Chris Doss who suggested that the discussion at this venue isn’t taken so seriously.
Shouldn’t Russia Today start considering to utilize some of the other available options which it hasn’t yet utilized?
It’s a very tough media market.
i am commenter 187. damn! has miss bliss ever got these type of numbers!!!! who cares if half of them are nut job averko, and the other half the nut jobs actually arguing with him! i’m impressed!
With the biggest nut of them all dropping by for a visit.
How yuh doin?
BTW, the one before you is me. I was temporarily interrupted by my sweatheart as I was inputting. other than that, I only post under my name. Do oyu do the same?
That db character is curious.
This seems to have happened to some others as well.