Hiatusing Paul of WizBang! e-mails to note the following from MSNBC: Rating the Roadshow

When Bush confronted his Russian counterpart about the freedom of the press in Russia, Putin shot back with an attack of his own: “We didn’t criticize you when you fired those reporters at CBS.”

It reminds me of a story about a visiting delegation from Mexico during the PRI days (i.e., the authoritarian, non-competitive election period, i.i.e., pre-2000) in which it was assumed that criticism of the Mexican government in the Washington Post was orchestrated by the Reagan administration (I think it was Reagan…). At any rate, such pronouncements say much about the indigenous politics of a given state.