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January 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
But a commentator on Russia’s main Channel One television immediately
suggested that McFaul – who once penned a book called “Russia’s
Unfinished Revolution” – was now on a mission to “finish the
revolution”.
Similar comments were aired over the weekend on another channel as the furore
showed no signs of abating.
A leading member of Putin’s United Russia party on Tuesday relaunched the
attacks on both McFaul and the Russians whom he invited to his Spaso House
residence on January 17.
“US representatives are acting in an incredibly cynical manner,”
Andrei Isayev told a rowdy session of parliament.
“This concerns both the embassy meeting, and the very fact that McFaul,
who specialises in ‘orange revolutions’, has been appointed US ambassador to
Russia,” he said in reference to pro-democracy protests that swept
ex-Soviet nations.
Isayev also suggested stripping MPs who met McFaul of their right to speak in
parliament until new legislative elections are held in 2016, and called for
a formal ethics committee probe.
The ruling party’s call was picked up by the populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky of
the Liberal Democratic Party and several other State Duma deputies as well
as leading members of the Russian media.
“A person who does such things can only be called a traitor,” Russia
Today channel editor Margarita Simonyan told one political analyst who met
McFaul during a debate on NTV television.
Russian officialdom’s anger at McFaul coincides with a wave of swelling street
protests over a fraud-tainted December parliamentary ballot won by Putin’s
United Russia group, albeit with a reduced majority.
A new rally with decidedly anti-Putin slogans has been called for February 4
as Russia begins the one-month countdown to an election that should see the
59-year-old return to the presidency for at least one more six-year term.
Putin’s relations with the Republican administration of former US President
George W. Bush were marked by repeated spats that intensified with the years
as the Russian leader’s crackdown on independent media and opposition groups
continued.
He accused Washington of overstepping its bounds and imposing its will on
other nations. And he returned to the subject almost immediately after
announcing plans to swap jobs with Medvedev in March.
Analysts said the media and Duma attacks on McFaul appeared to be a part of a
rather blunt Kremlin message to Washington that it should keep the tone of
its criticism muted.
“This campaign is designed to show that we are not afraid of the
Americans, that we feel comfortable and are ready to put up a fight,”
said USA-Canada Institute analyst Viktor Kremenyuk.
Source: AFP
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