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20 October 2006

what what?

"Greetings to your president. What a powerful man he turns out to be! He raped 10 women,'' Putin was reported as saying yesterday by Russian newspaper Kommersant. "I would never have expected this from him. He surprised us all. We all envy him.''

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Putin, confirmed today the newspaper's account was accurate. Peskov said the joke suffers in translation from the original Russian.

Oh yeah, Israel's president has been charged with rape. (Note that in Israel most of the power rests with the Prime Minister, as in Canada)

post by: delmoi at: 16:14 | 5 comments

I was going to post this to mefi, but I posted something less then 24 hours ago. via wonkette. Is it too farky?

posted by delmoi 20 October | 16:16

Nothing against the content per se, but the formatting, bleah! What a mess!

posted by pieisexactlythree 20 October | 16:19

Nothing against the content per se, but the formatting, bleah! What a mess!

Hmmm, it would have looked better on Mefi. I think.

posted by delmoi 20 October | 18:37

It's true that the tone of Putin's comment was a lot more jokey (and more sarcastic) than the English translation makes it sound. But it was still a most tactless and embarrassing thing of him to say; something he definitely wouldn't have said, had he not thought (as Kommersant implies) that the microphones were switched off.

posted by Daniel Charms 21 October | 06:03

Hmm... Upon reflection, it seems to me that it was the sort of comment that Vladimir Vladimirovich™, Putin's fictional double would make. Perhaps he was merely trying to imitate art?

posted by Daniel Charms 21 October | 08:24

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