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As to 'Putin-Versteher' and RT shill Udo Ulfkotte:

I've written about the "journalist" Udo Ulfkotte over the years and was pleased that he seemed to have faded from view, disappearing into the pages of the 9/11 Truther Site of Kopp Verlag. Ulfkotte distinguished himself as a racist and anti-Islam hatemonger, demanding that all Muslims be deported from Germany in order to create more Lebensraum for ethnic Germans. For years he has been publishing articles and books that distort the truth, or are outright lies. A few examples: Ulfkotte claimed that Muslims were waging a "fecal Jihad" against Germans"because Turkish women were allegedly defecating in fields of strawberries that were exported to Germany. He warned Germans to stay away from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, since black African "savages" were planning to rape and murder European visitors. Of course, President Obama is one those black African savages - or at least a 'half-breed" - whom he hates. He lied that Obama was persecuting Christians in the United States, and had given orders to burn Bibles. I could go on and on. Actually, I cannot identify any examples where the "journalist" Udo Ulfkotte reported truthfully about anything.

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It's fairly easy to a smear campaign someone that does not fit into your narative.

All you have to do is put some labels on him, take things of out context, attribute things not said or done to the said person, and pretend to debunk him.

This way you never have to make the counterargument to the argument made by that person. You just dismiss him in whole.

I don't know if that's the case here, but considering the name-calling from the start, the typical labeling (racist, homophobe, islamophobe, Nazi, RT-shill), I'd say it fits.

There's no need to "smear" him. By appearing on RT, he's discredited himself enough.

Remarkably, Richard Stallman has appeared on RT.

And by attacking RT you've discredited yourself enough.

Especially when they start with " RT shill". As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN.

As a non-Russian and non-US person, I find it way more balanced.

As if RT is in any way worse than, say, CNN.

My Russian friends would probably laugh at what you're saying. You have to be very, very naive about what's happening in Russia these days to have that impression.

And MY Russian friends would laugh at what you're saying too.

It's a kind of selection bias: the kind of Russian friends that laugh at RT are the kind of friends a westerner would make (especially if they are involved in entrepreneurship and IT or social media etc).

They are the kind of people with little experience of modern history and a strong western bias that westerners find everywhere (e.g. even in places like the Middle East, and make general examples out of them). They are not representative of the majority of Russian population, though, who predominantly voted for Putin.

Kind of like liberal lefties reading Counterpunch and the like are not representative of the majority of the US population.

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