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" I would like to state for the record that, if this whole New Republic thing doesn&amp;#039;t work out, Julia Ioffe is more than welcome to a job in this shebeen along the docks of Blogistan. I was invited on the show to talk about Obama&amp;#039;s (very wise) decision to cancel his Moscow summit with Putin, about which I wrote here. I am an expert on Russia. In fact, it is how you introduced me: &amp;quot;Previously, she was a Moscow-based correspondent for Foreign Policy and The New Yorker.&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;m not going to toot my own horn here, but I was there for three years, I&amp;#039;m a fluent, native speaker of Russian, and, god damn it, I know my shit. Which is why I wish you&amp;#039;d let me finish answering your bullshit question, which went like this:  Well, OK, then. What that? There&amp;#039;s more? The Obama administration totally fucked this up.I mean, totally. Soup to nuts. Remember the spy exchange in the summer of 2010? Ten Russian sleeper agents-which is not what Snowden is-were uncovered by the FBI in the U.S. Instead of kicking up a massive, public stink over it, the Kremlin and the White House arranged for their silent transfer to Russia in exchange for four people accused in Russia of spying for the U.S. Two planes landed on the tarmac in Vienna, ten people went one way, four people went the other way, the planes flew off, and that was it. That&amp;#039;s how this should have been done if the U.S. really wanted Snowden back. Not a word of which would cause me to disagree, including the profane ones. Can we talk about Lawrence again now? Cool. My main beef with O&amp;#039;Donnell is not that he wouldn&amp;#039;t let me make these 11 points-because, let&amp;#039;s face it, that&amp;#039;s not what the TV is for-but that he did exactly the same shit Russians did to me when I was in Russia. They assumed that the U.S. and its government was one sleek, well-functioning monolith, that Obama was omnipotent, and that everyone in the world, including other important (and nuclear!) world leaders, act and must act as Russia demands it should, using Russian foreign policy calculus, and with only Russian interests in mind. Sound ridiculous? Believe me, it sounds just as insane in reverse. The problem is that this was not in the ranting comments section, but was coming from the host of a prime time, national television show. And if you don&amp;#039;t have the good sense and education or, hell, the reporting experience to know better, then just let the guests you invited on speak. Otherwise, don&amp;#039;t waste my fucking evening. I am in awe. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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