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CNN looking for fakes under the guise of frank conversation with President
Watch the TV version of President Lukashenko's interview with CNN
The interview with Alexander Lukashenko, although was the top news in all the media editions over the past few days. Matthew Chance, a British journalist working for CNN has been begging to talk to the President of Belarus for several months. It seemed that the man wanted to make an interview of his life and America finally wanted to know the truth about Belarus, well, or at least the Belarusian version of the events in our country. But, it seemed to us. Amazingly, a journalist from such a serious media outlet just kept on churning out the most blatant yellow press allegations.
The American-British reporter, to everyone's horror, repeated all the old accusations, voiced a set of long-refuted fakes and was in all respects beaten by the President of Belarus. At the same time, Matthew himself, for some reason, was terribly nervous. Instead of a full interview, the material presented to the public looked more like a promotional clip, full of clichés about the dictatorship and the regime. That was all the American viewer saw, despite the promises, though we know the price of American promises.
The full version was posted on the Internet, not on the main page, but somewhere in the remote dusty tabs of the website with the answers in Russian and a text translation. Would a sophisticated American viewer look this up? Certainly not. Users have already written to the CNN all they think about it. And here we recall Donald Trump with his diagnosis of CNN.
During the interview, the President answered almost two and a half dozen questions. The situation inside Belarus, relations with Europe and the United States. They did not do without human rights that the United States cares so much about in other countries. But what about your own country? Matthew Chance didn't really want to talk about it, but Alexander Lukashenko reminded him of something, for example, the bombing of peaceful Afghans and the horrible death of 12 Afghan children at the hands of the American military.
Well, who will show such things in the USA, and moreover from the lips of the President of Belarus? Lukashenko, so convincing and calm, with facts and arguments, simply could not appear on the American democratic airwaves.
Chance also asked about the migrants, who, according to Poland, are allegedly being pushed across the border by Belarus. Chance couldn't help it and repeated one of the most grandiose fakes of recent days, like our border guards are drugging migrants.
By the way, the journalist probably does not know that there are dozens of videos proving abuse of migrants by Poles and Lithuanians. He was not indignant about the silence of human rights defenders about this either.
But he remembered the complaints of human rights defenders in connection with the events of August last year in Belarus. He had to listen in silence about the adventures with video falsification by the White Helmets, the U.S. favorite human rights defenders.
Anyway, you should see the whole interview on the Internet.