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Russian Media's treatment of President Obama:
From 2015:
Russian Media Explodes With Vulgar and Racist Anti-Obama Rhetoric
http://observer.com/2015/12/vulgar-and-racist-anti-obama-rhetoric-inundates-russian-pop-culture/
On the surface, the Kremlin avoids putting President Obama down, though the Russian government approves the trend and, from time to time, openly endorses it.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of spreading the Kremlin’s views to the world, Russian government-funded TV network RT kicked hard at President Obama in a recent promotional video. The film depicts what Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry will be doing 20 years from now, at a time when Edward Snowden is president and the whole world watches nothing but RT. Nobody is afraid of America any longer, and Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry have a drink. “Yes we can!” says a decrepit Mr. Obama as he goes for a beer in the fridge.
Mainstream Russian media delivers ugly insults wrapped in “newsworthy” and “innocent” packaging, like Vesti’s “The Farmer’s He-Goat Obama is Looking For His Raging She-Goat Merkel.”
When RT speaks to a mostly international audience, the anti-Obama message it spreads is only on the verge of being hostile and is never personal. When presented for domestic consumption, however, the attacks on the U.S. president—orchestrated by the Russian government—are straightforward.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of spreading the Kremlin’s views to the world, Russian government-funded TV network RT kicked hard at President Obama in a recent promotional video. The film depicts what Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry will be doing 20 years from now, at a time when Edward Snowden is president and the whole world watches nothing but RT. Nobody is afraid of America any longer, and Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry have a drink. “Yes we can!” says a decrepit Mr. Obama as he goes for a beer in the fridge.
Mainstream Russian media delivers ugly insults wrapped in “newsworthy” and “innocent” packaging, like Vesti’s “The Farmer’s He-Goat Obama is Looking For His Raging She-Goat Merkel.”
When RT speaks to a mostly international audience, the anti-Obama message it spreads is only on the verge of being hostile and is never personal. When presented for domestic consumption, however, the attacks on the U.S. president—orchestrated by the Russian government—are straightforward.
During last summer’s Day of Youth celebration in the Siberian city of Bratsk (population around 250,000), the local administration organized a “Who Can Kick Obama Higher” contest. A life-sized poster of Mr. Obama was placed in the central square of the city and, to the joy and enthusiasm of the young participants, the rules were simple: the winners are those who kick Mr. Obama highest in the face.
Blatant racism has long accompanied attacks on the U.S. President’s image, but until recently never became a cause for concern among Russian authorities.
Last April, in the city of Samara, local company hung a poster in the middle of the street that read, “Shame on you, unwashed chimney sweep!” with a picture of Barack Obama’s face. The company received national notoriety and a great deal of new business, but was fined 10,000 rubles ($150) for breaking advertisement laws.
‘Shame on you, unwashed chimney sweep!’
In the center of the city of Lipetsk, a local printing firm put a huge commercial banner with Mr. Obama’s face and a tear printed under his right eye. “We work for everybody—but Barack Obama,” it read. But this company was not fined because the banner didn’t break any laws, and “Barack Obama did not complain to the department personally.”
Last week’s disgustingly racist scandal finally broke the patience of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which had been silent despite all of the vulgar anti-Obama assaults in Russia. The high-end Bakhetle supermarket chain displayed cutting boards styled as the 2016 calendar that, according to Chinese horoscopes, will be “the year of monkey.”
“The product features a family of monkeys,” AFP reported, “with an image of Obama’s face superimposed onto that of the smallest primate.”
The owner of the supermarket chain, according to the Maxpark social network, is Mrs. Muslima Latypova, the deputy of the regional Tatar Parliament.
“It is disgusting to see that such blatant racism has a place on Russian store shelves,” Will Stevens, the spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Moscow wrote on his Twitter.
The response of the cutting boards’ producer was even more disgusting than the “product” itself.
“Nowhere on the cutting board is it written that this is Obama. These are nothing but boards with monkeys on them,” said the commercial director for the “Eurostyle” manufacturing company, Mr. Kirill Naumenko.
Last April, in the city of Samara, local company hung a poster in the middle of the street that read, “Shame on you, unwashed chimney sweep!” with a picture of Barack Obama’s face. The company received national notoriety and a great deal of new business, but was fined 10,000 rubles ($150) for breaking advertisement laws.
‘Shame on you, unwashed chimney sweep!’
In the center of the city of Lipetsk, a local printing firm put a huge commercial banner with Mr. Obama’s face and a tear printed under his right eye. “We work for everybody—but Barack Obama,” it read. But this company was not fined because the banner didn’t break any laws, and “Barack Obama did not complain to the department personally.”
Last week’s disgustingly racist scandal finally broke the patience of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which had been silent despite all of the vulgar anti-Obama assaults in Russia. The high-end Bakhetle supermarket chain displayed cutting boards styled as the 2016 calendar that, according to Chinese horoscopes, will be “the year of monkey.”
“The product features a family of monkeys,” AFP reported, “with an image of Obama’s face superimposed onto that of the smallest primate.”
The owner of the supermarket chain, according to the Maxpark social network, is Mrs. Muslima Latypova, the deputy of the regional Tatar Parliament.
“It is disgusting to see that such blatant racism has a place on Russian store shelves,” Will Stevens, the spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Moscow wrote on his Twitter.
The response of the cutting boards’ producer was even more disgusting than the “product” itself.
“Nowhere on the cutting board is it written that this is Obama. These are nothing but boards with monkeys on them,” said the commercial director for the “Eurostyle” manufacturing company, Mr. Kirill Naumenko.
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