Gay Reporter Kicked Putin, Russia and RT Channel in the Teeth All in The RT Channel

American reporter and pundit Jamie Kirchick did the cable news medium proud by ambushing a conversation about Bradley Manning on RT, the cable channel funded by the Russian government, to attack Russian President Vladamir Putin over his government’s anti-gay policies. Truly. Great. Cable. Television.

“Being here on a Kremlin-funded propaganda network, I’m gonna wear my gay pride suspenders, and I’m gonna speak out against the horrific anti-gay legislation that Vladimir Putin has signed into law, that was passed by the Russian Duma, that criminalizes homosexual propaganda [and] that effectively makes it illegal to talk about homosexuality in public,” he said, among other things.

After the appearance, Kirchick tweeted that RT tried to get a taxi company to drop him off on the side of a highway in Sweden. “True fact: @RT_com just called taxi company that took me to studio to drop me off on the side of the highway on way to Stockholm airport,” he wrote.

RT’s own Twitter feed had no comment on the Kirchick protest.