The Secret American Subculture of Putin-Worshippers

By C. J. Refsland on September 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

My Comment: I’ll have to admit that I’ve thought from time to time that Russia & Putin made more sense than our president. It was very confusing to see Putin saying the things that our president should be saying and doing, and obama saying the things you would expect from Russia. Very sad indeed. But Putin worship? Sound crazy huh? Well it’s not really as crazy as you think, it turns out that there really is a church that worships him, in fact they say that he is the Apostle Paul reincarnated, he is also thought to be a part of other reborn apostles who have returned to fight the Antichrist. Read about it here. So let’s just watch and it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

By Marin Cogan/National Journal.com

Two years ago, Gayne C. Young, a Texas-based writer and blogger for Outdoor Life, scored the interview of a lifetime. As a beat writer, Young had enjoyed the outdoor exploits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been documented shooting a gray whale with a crossbow, tranquilizing a tiger attacking a news crew, hunting shirtless, fishing shirtless, and riding horseback shirtless. On a personal level, Young liked the rugged brand of masculinity that seemed a throwback to Teddy Roosevelt. “Although you have Clinton shooting ducks, you never see it. Although Rick Perry says he enjoys hunting, you don’t see it. They say they do, but they don’t. Obama says he shoots skeet, but they only released one picture,” Young says. “Here’s a guy out there fishing, with no qualms. He’s like, ‘You don’t like it? Tough.’ Then he’d escalate and do more.”

His posts on Putin brought in great traffic, so his editor kept encouraging him to escalate. Soon, Young was declaring his “man crush” on the Russian president. (“I hate to use that word, especially on a hunting website,” he admits.) He called the Russian consulate, flirted with the right secretary, and went through “hoop after hoop after hoop” until, one Friday, a press attaché called and told him the president wanted his questions in the next 20 minutes.

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