jimnyc
01-11-2020, 02:21 PM
This is fantastic! listen until a few minutes in to when they actually call Maxine. And when they get to the juicy part and she thinks she has ammo on Trump - well you can just hear her voice change and wants to meet little greta! LOL
And this undermines America? How stupid. No it does not. The only thing it does is make you laugh, and make you further realize how stupid Mad Maxine is! It's about 2:10 when they make the prank call to her!
There weren't no dang "security experts" involved. She was punked by comedians, nothing more nothing less. And now trying to save face for looking like a gullibe knucklehead that got over-excited about potential Trump info.
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Washington Post: Russians Pranking Maxine Waters Undermined America
The Russian comedians have struck again and the Washington Post is not amused. as you can see in the title of their story last Saturday by Kim Bellware, "Rep. Maxine Waters thought she was talking to Greta Thunberg. It was actually Russian trolls." The article strongly suggested that the comedians are actually disinformation agents of the Russian government.
The comedians also released an animated video cartoon of the call as you can see below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DpdWE9oKc
The call starts innocently enough: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warmly greets the voices on the line, whom a staffer identifies as Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante. They share a laugh about Waters’s nickname, “Auntie Maxine.” The congresswoman praises her young caller for her climate change activism.
“You have made quite a big, big, big, big thunder on this issue. I am really, really very proud of you and the work that you’re doing,” Waters is heard saying.
The congresswoman and her staff thought they had connected with Thunberg, the 17-year-old Swedish climate activist who was recently named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” In reality, two 30-something Russians, Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, were on the other end of the line. The duo describe themselves as comedians and pranksters, but they are widely suspected of having ties to the Russian government.
In case you didn't get the Washington Post message that the comedians could be a latter-day Boris and Natasha, it was emphasized again.
But security experts warn that what’s being passed off as prank-call mischief is really Russian misinformation meant to undermine the United States.
Got that? Anonymous "security experts" equate embarrassing gullible liberals like Maxine Waters or Adam Schiff with undermining America. Then it was repeated yet again.
Whether the pair are agents of the Russian government, the kind of ruse they pulled on Waters can accomplish two goals for Russia, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the 2018 book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President.
“The first [goal] is adding info to a political dialogue in which discrediting one side is useful to Russia,” Jamieson told The Post by phone. “The second is being able to make the argument to the rest of the world that U.S. leaders are easily duped. Putin’s interests are served when U.S. leaders are made to look foolish in the eyes of the world.”
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2020/01/11/russian-comedians-prank-maxine-waters-greta-thunberg-call
And this undermines America? How stupid. No it does not. The only thing it does is make you laugh, and make you further realize how stupid Mad Maxine is! It's about 2:10 when they make the prank call to her!
There weren't no dang "security experts" involved. She was punked by comedians, nothing more nothing less. And now trying to save face for looking like a gullibe knucklehead that got over-excited about potential Trump info.
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Washington Post: Russians Pranking Maxine Waters Undermined America
The Russian comedians have struck again and the Washington Post is not amused. as you can see in the title of their story last Saturday by Kim Bellware, "Rep. Maxine Waters thought she was talking to Greta Thunberg. It was actually Russian trolls." The article strongly suggested that the comedians are actually disinformation agents of the Russian government.
The comedians also released an animated video cartoon of the call as you can see below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5DpdWE9oKc
The call starts innocently enough: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warmly greets the voices on the line, whom a staffer identifies as Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante. They share a laugh about Waters’s nickname, “Auntie Maxine.” The congresswoman praises her young caller for her climate change activism.
“You have made quite a big, big, big, big thunder on this issue. I am really, really very proud of you and the work that you’re doing,” Waters is heard saying.
The congresswoman and her staff thought they had connected with Thunberg, the 17-year-old Swedish climate activist who was recently named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” In reality, two 30-something Russians, Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, were on the other end of the line. The duo describe themselves as comedians and pranksters, but they are widely suspected of having ties to the Russian government.
In case you didn't get the Washington Post message that the comedians could be a latter-day Boris and Natasha, it was emphasized again.
But security experts warn that what’s being passed off as prank-call mischief is really Russian misinformation meant to undermine the United States.
Got that? Anonymous "security experts" equate embarrassing gullible liberals like Maxine Waters or Adam Schiff with undermining America. Then it was repeated yet again.
Whether the pair are agents of the Russian government, the kind of ruse they pulled on Waters can accomplish two goals for Russia, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the 2018 book, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President.
“The first [goal] is adding info to a political dialogue in which discrediting one side is useful to Russia,” Jamieson told The Post by phone. “The second is being able to make the argument to the rest of the world that U.S. leaders are easily duped. Putin’s interests are served when U.S. leaders are made to look foolish in the eyes of the world.”
Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2020/01/11/russian-comedians-prank-maxine-waters-greta-thunberg-call