Russian Newsbabe Salutes Obama
By Wyatt Earp | November 23, 2011
I’m calling DirecTV and demanding I get her station streamed to my home.
Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organisation.
She is then heard to say that the post “has (previously) been held by Barack Obama” before mechanically and unambiguously raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger in an offensive gesture that is sometimes known as “flipping the bird.”
The channel claimed Limanova didn’t know she was on camera at the time and was giving the finger to studio technicians. Anyone buying that?
Topics: Coolness! | 14 Comments »
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:02 pm
I’ll buy it but it still is funny. Now if the rest of the former USSR would be funny………..
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Obviously, all newscasters are leftists. I mean, she DID use her left hand.
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:26 pm
I don’t get one commie flipping the bird to another commie. Need some explanation.
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Then again, maybe it’s just a commie flipping the bird to an asshole.
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
LDIV – They’re too busy rattling sabers this week to be funny.
Robert B. – Good point. But that’s what makes this so bizarre.
TonyF – Maybe she is down with OWS?
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Interesting…
November 23rd, 2011 at 7:52 pm
D’ya ever notice how we never get THESE kinda people as illegal immigrants ?
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:24 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…UH..UH…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:53 pm
Looks like she needs a beer in the rose garden with B.O. and joe Simpleton Biden. Joe will straighten the bitch out
November 24th, 2011 at 12:21 am
So, Hillary, how’s that diplomatic reset button you handed Dmitri Medvedev a couple of years ago working out?
Heh.
(Oh, that’s right: She mistranslated the label on the thing as the “peregruzka” – Russian for “overload” – button.
Hey, I’m certainly getting a charge out of it…
)
November 24th, 2011 at 1:09 am
She heard Obama was Hawaiian and was just giving him the traditional Hawaiian One-Finger Greeting.
November 24th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
I just read in the paper over here she got fired.
November 25th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Old NFO – Very interesting.
JT – Funny, isn’t it?
Jon – Yeah, I thought it was a pretty funny moment.
Crusty – Vodka Summit!
Wes S. – Medvedev and Putin laughed it off for the simplistic offer it was.
Ranba – Aloha!
Ajdshootist – Yeah, I read that, too. I guess political correctness reaches behind the Iron Curtain.
November 25th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Wyatt:
In a word:
NOPE!
(wonder if I can Frontier to ante up and stream that to our Fios?)
Stay safe.