Yesterday on “The Lead,” Sen. McCain jokingly told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’d like to write an op-ed for Pravda in response to Vladimir Putin’s New York Times troll piece. Well, thanks to a little nudging by Foreign Policy’s John Hudson, Pravda’s English editor Dmitry Sudakov has tentatively agreed to publish an attack op-ed by McCain (or maybe not; see update below).
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/378595405782847488
Here’s what Sudakov said:
“If John McCain wants to write something for us, he is welcome,” Dmitry Sudakov, the English editor of Pravda tells The Cable. “Mr. McCain has been an active anti-Russian politician for many years already. We have been critical of his stance on Russia and international politics in our materials, but we would be only pleased to publish a story penned by such a prominent politician as John McCain.”
And here’s what others are saying:
Begun, the Op-Ed Wars have. RT @DylanByers: McCain to attack Putin in Pravda http://t.co/8YaupvhrPU via @POLITICO
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) September 13, 2013
McCain will write op-ed for Pravda. I hope it comes with a disclaimer that he was never actually President. http://t.co/dtIxxLP2Z3
— Sean McCord (@seanmccord) September 13, 2013
Is McCain writing in Pravda because he thinks it's Russia's equivalent of the New York Times and he's America's equivalent to Putin?
— John Allen Gay (@JohnAllenGay) September 13, 2013
I'm glad we're responding to Putin's op-ed in Pravda (our turn!). I just wish it wasn't McCain doing the talkin' / representin' us
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) September 13, 2013
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https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/378612018980208640
Will readers even see it?
I doubt it will be published intact. McCain Will Attack Vladimir Putin in the Pages of Pravda |http://t.co/W8JnnREveO
— Beth (@betbell3) September 13, 2013
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Update:
Forget everything I said about that McCain/Pravda thing. Turns out it's a Foreign Policy blogger trolling.
— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) September 13, 2013
Most likely just bluster from both Pravda's editors and McCain's press office.
— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) September 13, 2013
The Pravda/McCain thing is a story made up by an FP blogger who called both McCain's press office and Pravda. It's BS. Apologies.
— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) September 13, 2013
https://twitter.com/UnseenPerfidy/status/378622748932571136
@UnseenPerfidy Not exactly fake, but trumped up based on dishonest reporting.
— Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) September 13, 2013
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