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  5. 5.

    Spaghetti Lee

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

  7. 7.

    beltane

    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

    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

    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?

  17. 17.

    dr. bloor

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  25. 25.

    Parallel H

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

  26. 26.

    Andrey

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    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.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    @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.

  34. 34.

    Narcissus

    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

    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

    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.

  38. 38.

    Arclite

    @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

    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

    @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

    @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!

  44. 44.

    scav

    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

    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.

  48. 48.

    Arclite

    @SFAW:

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

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

  50. 50.

    ericblair

    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.

  54. 54.

    hep kitty

    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.

  56. 56.

    hep kitty

    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

    @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?

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    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

    @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

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

  63. 63.

    SFAW

    @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?

  67. 67.

    Brachiator

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

    Yes, Putin on the Ritz.

  68. 68.

    Triassic Sands

    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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