Russian Web site makes extraordinary attack on Palin

Myanmar News.Net
Sunday 14th September, 2008

The Russian media Web site Pravda has published a front page article slamming US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

The extraordinary attack likens Palin to the devil, refers to her as the 'know-it-all shreiking cow from Alaska,' and 'the joke of American politics.'

Provoking the attack was a claim by Palin in an ABC television interview that the gates of hell would open if Russia invaded Georgia again.

The article said: 'So Sarah Palin, Mrs. Hockey Mom housewife-cum-small-town gossip merchant and cheap little guttersnipe, suppose you shut up and allowed real politicians and diplomats to do their work.'

The Pravda article continued: 'Threatening Russia with a war is perhaps the most irresponsible thing anyone could do at this moment in time. Have you any idea what a nuclear holocaust is? Have you any notion of the power of Russia’s armed forces? Did you know that Russia has enough missiles to destroy any target anywhere on Earth in seconds?'

'And have you not forgotten, you pith-headed little bimbo from the back of beyond, that small detail about the slaughter of Russian citizens by Georgians, which started the whole debacle? So next time suppose you keep your mouth shut and while you’re at it, make sure the members of your family keep their legs shut too. Your country has enough failed mothers as it is.'

The opinion piece penned by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey suggested Ms Palin had been 'plied with a couple of vodkas,' before doing her interview with ABC.

Bancroft-Hinchey also described John McCain's Republican running-mate's experience as 'small town politics, mothers´day dos' and the local hockey club.'

Pravda has been online since 1999. It is operated by former journalists of the newspaper of the same name, which was closed down by then-Soviet President Boris Yeltsin in 1991.

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