Mikhail Gorbachev

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 31, 2022
***The complete post is on NewsBusters*** In the immediate wake of the world learning that former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev was finally…
Scott Whitlock | August 31, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] In order to build up the “monumental,” “acclaimed”  Mikhail Gorbachev’s role in ending the Cold War, the networks on…
Nicholas Fondacaro | August 30, 2022
***The complete post is on NewsBusters*** With the breaking news that former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev was finally being a good communist on…
Scott Whitlock | August 30, 2022
[See NewsBusters for more.] The late talk radio star Rush Limbaugh coined the phrase “Gorbasm” for the ecstasy that many reporters felt when covering…
Rich Noyes | January 2, 2013
On the December 31, 2012 installment of Showtime’s ten-part Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, Stone ripped Ronald Reagan's…
Geoffrey | May 1, 2012
"From the perspective of the West, the former President of the Soviet Union of course was a courageous, far-seeing prophet whose reforms set in…
Scott Whitlock | October 29, 2009
On the November 8, 1999 The World Today, CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour insisted that it was capitalism that unleashed "misery" on post-Soviet…
Scott Whitlock | October 29, 2009
On the October 29, 1996 edition of MSNBC's InterNight, Tom Brokaw gushed over former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, calling him "peaceful" and…
Ken Shepherd | October 9, 2009
No wonder why Chris Matthews is all tingly over Obama. It's just a neverending Gorbasm for him. On the October 9 "Hardball," Matthews favorably…