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You are here: Home / My memory has just been sold

My memory has just been sold

by DougJ|  September 13, 20125:28 pm| 68 Comments

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All that Putin porn the wingers drooled over..IT’S FAKE!

Couldn’t these idiots at least find real pictures of a shirtless foreign tyrant huntin’ n’ fishin’ to whack off to?

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  1. 1.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    He is neither an angel nor a centerfold.

  2. 2.

    Feudalism Now!

    September 13, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    In Soviet Russia, photos fake you!

  3. 3.

    Lev

    September 13, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    Personally, I would have used this, but that’s me:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qKcJF4fOPs

  4. 4.

    John

    September 13, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    Staged, not fake.

  5. 5.

    Spaghetti Lee

    September 13, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Hell, I’m disappointed by this. I thought he was our best chance for a real-life James Bond bad guy.

  6. 6.

    the Conster

    September 13, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Conservatives are so fucking weird.

  7. 7.

    beltane

    September 13, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    I don’t get it. Russia is known for its gorgeous women and yet the one Russian the wingnuts chose to fap over is a middle-aged man. Am I missing something?

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    September 13, 2012 at 5:38 pm

    Couldn’t these idiots at least find real pictures of a shirtless foreign tyrant huntin’ n’ fishin’ to whack off to?

    I think they’re holding out for Sarah Palin.

  9. 9.

    jl

    September 13, 2012 at 5:39 pm

    I clicked one link to see the dumb wingnut compare and contrast. One Obama pic looks like he is body surfing and I doubt that is faked. Why is body surfing sissy? Maybe Obama is just swimming in the ocean, and just looks like body surfing, which could be on SS no no list, just like poor old Joe can’t hot rod no more.

    Edit: And even if he is ocean swimming, what is sissy about that?

    So wingnut stuff was dumb even before Putin let out the no so secret secret.

    Might be a subtle Putin push to favor Mitt. Putin figured OK for gullible in Russia, but if gullible were swallowing the PR stunts in US and they might vote for Mitt, then Putin better disillusion them?

    Or was story that Putin is going to dawn a beak, and fly a light aircraft to guide geese on their migration too over the top? Putin really going to do that or is it a spoof?

  10. 10.

    taylormattd

    September 13, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    Angel is NOT a centerfold.

    Barf.

    Angel is a droopy, aging old white man.

  11. 11.

    RSA

    September 13, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    Where’s a memory hole when you need one?

  12. 12.

    Mojotron

    September 13, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    You didn’t include my favorite one.

  13. 13.

    matt

    September 13, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Well, who are your target audience for crude propaganda?

  14. 14.

    gogol's wife

    September 13, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    This is not news to anyone in Russia.

  15. 15.

    darkmatter

    September 13, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    @Mojotron: Love that the bag says “Magic Horse Feed” on it.

  16. 16.

    gogol's wife

    September 13, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    @jl:

    It was cranes, not geese, and he didn’t wear a beak, but yes, he did that.

  17. 17.

    dr. bloor

    September 13, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    I’d love to have someone photoshop him on the sheer face of a cliff with the Dos Equus guy. Or maybe Ted Nugent.

  18. 18.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    September 13, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    Hey, there is this: Vladimir Vladimirovich DOES hold black belts in Judo and in Karate. He DOES shoot expert with the Makarov pistol. And he was trained as a field agent in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Besopasnosti, one of the best intelligence organizations in the world.

    The man is something of a badass, staged photos or no, blockheaded American conservatives knob-bobbin’ him or no.

  19. 19.

    Linda Featheringill

    September 13, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    The picture in the upper left corner:

    I always wondered why he was hunting in the brush country without a shirt on. The flora pictured there can actually hurt if it comes into contact with your precious little skin.

    I realize that these pictures play to a Russian culture but they always remind me of what I think Genghis Khan was probably like. Leftover cultural influence?

  20. 20.

    Citizen_X

    September 13, 2012 at 5:54 pm

    Staged or not, Putin Is actually a black-belt judoka, and actively supports the sport in Russia. One of the few things I actually admire about the guy.

    And our wingnuts have a crush on him? Ugh. Move to Russia, creeps.

    ETA: Ivan got there first. (Shakes fist.) IVANNNNN!

  21. 21.

    Quincy

    September 13, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    They understand this isn’t the Iliad right? Global supremacy won’t be determined by one-on-one combat between our two nations’ great champions? We won WWII despite FDR’s physical impairments?

    Their entire party is a fraternity of morons who are unable to distinguish politics from Hot or Not.

  22. 22.

    The Moar You Know

    September 13, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    I don’t get it. Russia is known for its gorgeous women and yet the one Russian the wingnuts chose to fap over is a middle-aged man. Am I missing something?

    @beltane: Nope.

  23. 23.

    pablo

    September 13, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    I REALLY didn’t want to go to RedState!
    Now I have to take a shower!

  24. 24.

    Roger Moore

    September 13, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    @Quincy:

    Their entire party is a fraternity of morons who are unable to distinguish politics from Hot or Not.

    And have a very disturbing idea of “Hot”.

  25. 25.

    Parallel H

    September 13, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    Nothing cements one’s status as a serious big daddy foreign policy analyst like falling for Russian propaganda.

  26. 26.

    Andrey

    September 13, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    @Roger Moore: Hold up there. There is nothing wrong with finding someone of Putin’s body type attractive. I know a few straight women and gay guys who are all over that. You just have to be into older men, and he is pretty well in shape for his age!

    Of course, I don’t imagine a lot of Republican men would want to describe themselves as “into older men”…

  27. 27.

    Arclite

    September 13, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    @Ivan Ivanovich Renko:

    Hey, there is this: Vladimir Vladimirovich DOES hold black belts in Judo and in Karate. He DOES shoot expert with the Makarov pistol. And he was trained as a field agent in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Besopasnosti, one of the best intelligence organizations in the world.
    The man is something of a badass, staged photos or no, blockheaded American conservatives knob-bobbin’ him or no.

    Okay, but can he take Obama off the dribble?

  28. 28.

    Roger Moore

    September 13, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    @Andrey:
    I think the wingnuts are judging Putin by his political type (guy who likes to project an image of manliness) rather than his physical type (old guy who’s in good shape for his age). That’s what I think is disturbing about their idea of hotness.

  29. 29.

    hep kitty

    September 13, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    Putin Thanks Romney for Calling Russia No. 1 Foe

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    September 13, 2012 at 6:23 pm

    All that Putin porn the wingers drooled over..IT’S FAKE!

    That’s OK. Wingers have moved on. They are now drooling over Paul Ryan porn.

    Equally fake, but at least it’s Amurrikin.

  31. 31.

    hep kitty

    September 13, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    @Ivan Ivanovich Renko: It’s propaganda but apparently not unrepresentative of the man.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    @jl:

    And even if he is ocean swimming, what is sissy about that?

    It’s sissy because:
    A) No animals were harmed or killed
    B) No humans were stomped or otherwise beaten
    C) No automatic nor semi-automatic weaponry
    D) Excessive melanin of the participant
    E) You can’t do it in Kansas or other parts of Real America
    F) Because SHUT UP!

    I hope this helped clear things up.

  33. 33.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 6:33 pm

    @Ivan Ivanovich Renko:

    Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Besopasnosti

    Showoff.

  34. 34.

    Narcissus

    September 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    There’s weird psycho-sexual shit going on in the GOP mind. If any of them were the least bit introspective they could examine that.

  35. 35.

    sparrow

    September 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Boy, I am sorry I clicked over and read some of that diarrhea that counts as commentary at RedState. What a pathetic bunch of white men with imaginary enemies.

  36. 36.

    Bill in Section 147

    September 13, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Kind of a balder Romney or an older Ryan. And just as real.

    In dreams he moves with Reaganesque clarity. In dreams he has climbed many mountains. In dreams he has excellent times in the running events. And in the dream he appears fiscally conservative never spending, spending, spending his own deficit. He is also in dreams a wonk, so perfect for rightwing fap.

    I picture myself sweating, laying in the dark like Kurtz as I write of this man, this dream.

  37. 37.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 13, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    @SFAW: Nah. This

    Комитет государственной безопасности

    is showing off.

  38. 38.

    Arclite

    September 13, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    @Brachiator:

    That’s OK. Wingers have moved on. They are now drooling over Paul Ryan porn.
    Equally fake, but at least it’s Amurrikin.

    Yeah, but at least the Russians have the sense to follow the rule “Pictures or it didn’t happen!” The Repubs don’t even have that.

  39. 39.

    WereBear

    September 13, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    I guess it is now standard cult of personality stuff, but really. The Wingnuts should seek therapy for the Strong Man Fetish; it’s not gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that) it’s a desperate attempt to paper over their personality fissures with some external authority.

    To be clear: it has nothing to do with sexual orientation. It has everything to do with their misogyny and character disorders.

  40. 40.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:
    Whatever. You and Renko can fight over who’s more of a commie.

    And, frankly, it’s not that much more of a show-off attempt if you leave out OGPU and NKVD, mой друг

  41. 41.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 6:56 pm

    @Arclite:

    Yeah, but at least the Russians have the sense to follow the rule “Pictures or it didn’t happen!”

    Hey, Paulie Ruiz Ryan had pictures from his ‘thon!

  42. 42.

    ChrisNYC

    September 13, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    The one on the horse has serious Bo Derek vibes.

  43. 43.

    YellowJournalism

    September 13, 2012 at 6:57 pm

    Those soft, fuzzy sweaters were too magical to touch, I guess.

  44. 44.

    scav

    September 13, 2012 at 6:58 pm

    Not enough Vodka in the world. . . .
    Man hides artifacts so he can find them for the cameras. Potemkin leader: Potemkin manhood. Whatever he may have had, he’s attained the stage of frantic and increasingly laughable (if slightly worrying) combovers. Put your shirt on and stop looking so desperate and needy — or no, go ahead, let your freak soul fly for all to wonder at.

  45. 45.

    Heliopause

    September 13, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    They aren’t faked, they’re staged. In common with the vast majority of images of politicians that we are treated to, including those of your favorites.

  46. 46.

    scav

    September 13, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    @Heliopause: There’s staged and there’s desperate. The man’s about to go full-on 90-year-old grannie in 7-inch-heels and shorty-shorts delusional.

  47. 47.

    Fluke bucket

    September 13, 2012 at 7:34 pm

    @SFAW: Where is Condi Rice when you need her?

  48. 48.

    Arclite

    September 13, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    @SFAW:

    Hey, Paulie Ruiz Ryan had pictures from his ‘thon!

    Yeah, but I’m still waiting for pics from his 20 fourteeners.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 13, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    @Fluke bucket: Shoe shopping?

  50. 50.

    ericblair

    September 13, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    Basically, authoritarian manliness power pr0n designed to impress the usual 27-ish percent knuckledragging nationalist yahoos in the country. Big problem is that Putin seems to have decided that the only way he’s going to leave the Kremlin is in a box, so these things don’t bode well for international relations.

  51. 51.

    redshirt

    September 13, 2012 at 7:57 pm

    I’ve been blogging the Putin Sexy Time for a while now. Fun stuff!

  52. 52.

    Heliopause

    September 13, 2012 at 8:01 pm

    @scav:

    Putin is desperate? Seems to me he’s been in the catbird seat for a long time.

  53. 53.

    rikyrah

    September 13, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    Putin cracks me up. he’s a straight up gangsta. A KGB trained gangsta.

  54. 54.

    hep kitty

    September 13, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Those Russian men like to let it all hang out during summer. I guess they try to make the most of some warm weather while it lasts, with those teeny bathing suits and fish-belly white paunches. Putin is ripped compared to most of his comrades.

  55. 55.

    Omnes Omnibus

    September 13, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    @Heliopause: Perhaps there is a difference between desperate to seem manly and desperate to stay in power?

  56. 56.

    hep kitty

    September 13, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    The state of the Romney campaign today is the natural progression and acceleration, the crescendo if you will, of the craven, soulless pursuit of and pandering to teabaggers that Mitt has already been doing from the beginning. I can’t imagine it getting worse but it will.

  57. 57.

    Heliopause

    September 13, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Do you think Obama is desperate to be seen as loving the troops when photographed speaking in somber tones to them, or desperate to be seen as engaged when he is photographed in rolled-up shirtsleeves at the scene of a disaster, or desperate to be seen as a traditional family man when he is photographed on the way to church with the family in its Sunday finest, or desperate to be seen as a regular guy when photographed visiting a diner or shooting hoops?

  58. 58.

    Steeplejack

    September 13, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    @redshirt:

    Funny stuff. Not sure why he needs a crossbow to help the whales, though. That looks a little sketchy.

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    September 13, 2012 at 8:47 pm

    I think the funniest part is that America’s right wingers thought those were actual action shots of Putin’s everyday life and not publicity photos. I’m not sure these guys should be allowed to watch TV or movies anymore since they seem to have trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy.

  60. 60.

    scav

    September 13, 2012 at 8:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Exactly. These photos aren’t about appearing to be leader-powerful, these are personal testosterone-lifts, cult-of-personality, coconuts down the underpants fables. They’re far beyond the day-in day-out white fibs everyone engages in when putting their best foot forward or the rolled-sleeve traditional symbols and they’re becoming a torrent which makes them even funnier.

  61. 61.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    September 13, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    @scav: I don’t follow Russia as much as I should. But are there rumors that Putin is in poor health?

  62. 62.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    @Fluke bucket:
    Out blaming Jamie Gorelick for Benghazi, Cairo, and Yemen.

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    @Arclite:

    Yeah, but I’m still waiting for pics from his 20 fourteeners.

    I thought it was 40?

    But what I want to know is: isn’t a 14-er a little young for him to be hittin’ on? Or did you mean something else?

  64. 64.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    @Or something like that.Suffern Ace:

    But are there rumors that Putin is in poor health?

    Well, he HAS been having nightmares (or perhaps hallucinations) of seeing Sarah Palin’s face watching him from her window. But outside of that, I hadn’t heard anything.

  65. 65.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 13, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    @SFAW: Why would he be having nightmares about a beautiful, articulate, brilliant vixen watching his every move?

  66. 66.

    SFAW

    September 13, 2012 at 9:46 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:
    You’re thinking of Tina Fey, I’m guessing. And, no, SHE most definitely doesn’t induce nightmares.

  67. 67.

    Brachiator

    September 13, 2012 at 10:52 pm

    TMZ claims they have exclusive photos of Vladimir scaling the walls of a posh hotel.

    Yes, Putin on the Ritz.

  68. 68.

    Triassic Sands

    September 13, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    Photo Captions:

    Top Left: Hunting baby gophers.
    Top Right: Hunting baby foxes.
    Center Left: Hunting baby fish.
    Center Right: Hunting (for female) baby black belts.
    Bottom Right: Hunting baby seals.

    Quite the hunter. To bad he didn’t hunt for his shirt before all the photos were taken.

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