January 24, 2014

"The U.S. has created a Big Brother system."

And Edward Snowden "will not be sent out of Russia," according to Aleksei K. Pushkov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s lower house of Parliamen, quoted in the NYT, which also calls him "Mr. Pushkin."

Pushkov... Pushkin... what's the difference?

(Alexander Pushkin was one of the great Russian writers.)

19 comments:

jimbino said...

"Althouse," "Cathouse." What's the difference?

bleh said...

The typo has been corrected. But I don't see any acknowledgement of the error.

Crimso said...

There should be an equivalent to Godwin's Law for invoking Big Brother (especially from a Russian). George Orkin is spinning in his grave.

Anonymous said...

OT but it appears to be a sad day over at the Drudge Report.

Bill, Republic of Texas said...

Pushkov/Pushkin close enough for government press work.

Bob Boyd said...

They'll stand by Snowden when Push comes to shkov.

lemondog said...

Obama offers US security assistance to Putin as Olympic terror fears mount

One can't help wondering, but it would be unfortunate if assistance to any extent was contingent upon a Snowden deal.

CWJ said...

The house of Parliamen? Is that some subset of the Masons?

"Are we not men? We are Parlia?"

CWJ said...

Actually, I took a Russian referencing Big Brother as of a piece with Putin saying he hadn't heard of Snowden until he read it in the newspapers.

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traditionalguy said...

The Russians can spot the birthing of Marxist Police State from 10,000 miles off. The deluded Harvard intellectuals only see their own greatness.

Oso Negro said...

Here is an indisputable fact. Obama has the means for spying and populace control that Stalin and Beria couldn't dream of.

Anonymous said...

Obama has the means for spying and populace control that Stalin and Beria couldn't dream of.

Granted, Obama could have and should have reined in the NSA. But this mess is the creation of the Bush administration. To blame it on Obama exclusively is disingenuous at best.

Oso Negro said...

Freder - I did not blame it on Obama, and the roots of it pre-date Bush. I simply stated the fact that Obama currently possesses such means. If there is a president after Obama, then that president will possess the means.

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Kirk Parker said...

Crimso,

Nah, there already is a word for what Russia's leadership is feeling: envy

Stephen A. Meigs said...

Not a huge deal, the typo. At least they can change it seamlessly. If I say in a comment "Ray Kohn" instead of "Roy Kohn", 'tis probably not worth the intrusiveness of creating a new, correcting post. When I make such mistakes, it greatly annoys me, though.

Anonymous said...

I want him back here as a free american. He's a throwback to a time when Americans were soft spoken and did the right thing. It makes me homesick for something that may well have been gone before I was born. I wish there were more like him. America has gotten so stupid, crass, and Kardashian. It's embarrassing.

The fact that a large part of the establishment would reject him shows how deeply we've fallen into the funhouse mirror world. The NSA guys venting about how they want to kill him ... if the structure they think they are protecting allows such depraved possibilities, they are not protecting anything of value, but rather their own stupid, self-made internal war games.

Snowden upheld the higher promise - to protect the Constitution, and those that kept the lower promise, to protect the secrets of the NSA, not only did not uphold it, but did their best to shatter it in a million pieces.