Wednesday, June 29, 2005

What ring?



Sure, we knows The Putin is tricksy, but we had no idea how tricksy.

This from the Chicago Tribune via the Hartford Courant

From the Hartford Courant
Putin gets Super gift

By Paul Doyle
The Hartford Courant

June 29, 2005

With 124 diamonds, the Patriots' latest Super Bowl ring is among the most gaudy and expensive of its kind.

And apparently, the ring has enough bling, bling to catch the eye of the most somber of ex-KGB agents. Russian president Vladimir Putin, hardly a man who flashes diamonds, was taken with the ring worn by Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

When Kraft and a group of American executives shared face time with Putin Saturday, the NFL's most successful owner handed Putin the ring. Putin fitted his finger with the ring, removed it and slipped it into his pocket.

Did Kraft intend to give Putin the ring as a gift? Or did Putin misunderstand the gesture and assume the ring was his for the taking?
...

Kraft was traveling Wednesday and a Patriots spokesman said it would all be explained when he returns next week.

But by the end of the day, Kraft had issued a statement. The ring was a gift, Kraft explained.


After a two hour meeting, Putin held a press conference. Posing with Kraft, Weill and Murdoch, Putin admired the ring.

"It's a Super Bowl ring ... it's a very good ring," Kraft reportedly said.

According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Putin "carefully tried it on, but when he noticed that photo and video cameras were pointed at him, quickly took it off and held it in the fist."

And before leaving the room, Putin pocketed the ring.

Sure it was a gift.

Nothing to add but:

1, Oh come on! What is this, tee-ball? I am not going to swing at a pitch this fat and low and [insert theoretically unlimited number of Precioussss jokes here]

2. Does anyone know anyone at the Department of Heavy Handed Metaphors? Because I think the image of The Russian stealing the Ring of Power from The Bumfuzzled American “Patriot”, on camera and with a “Fuck You” smile on his face is just too…too.

38 comments:

Anonymous said...

too...too...Bush-esque

He'd steal the pennies off a corpse with the widow watching and grin all the time don't ya think?

Anonymous said...

"THIEF! THIEF! PUTIN! WE HATES IT! WE HATES IT FOR EVER!"

Speaking of movies, one of my favorites is 1990's (I think it's from 1990) PUMP UP THE VOLUME. I know it came out somewhen during Bush Senior's term. The very first line goes: "Did you ever get the feeling everything in America is completely FUCKED UP?!?" Only every day, and what was true during Bush Senior's term is many times more so during Bush Junior's.

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Anonymous said...

Is it just my hallucination, or has everything morphed into some kind of archetypal morality play lately?

Mister Roboto said...

Kid Charlemagne:

That's one of my favorite movies of all time!

Anonymous said...

Well.

Was the ghost of old Josip, in HIS time, as covetous of another baltic country as Ebeneezer Scrooge was of a gold guinea, goosing Putin in the ass, and whispering in his ear:

"Oh go ahead and do it! Nobody will call you on it. This is happy-time detente...What?...You think that fucking billionaire will ask for it back?

Quelle gauche..."

Anonymous said...

Maybe it was the Ring of Befuddlement and now Putin's stuck with it. Apparently the effect is permanent.

parsec

driftglass said...

us blues,
I can't vouch for your state of mind but, yes, everything these days seems to come with an extra side order of Pointed Moral Lesson.

Kid Charlemagne,
Love the flick. (And loveandlight, we know why you're a fan :-) The movie/quote that springs to mind for me is Pacino in "Glen Garry"; "What you are here for is to help us. Does that seem...clear to you? To help us, not to FUCK US UP!"

And so forth

Anonymous said...

When you sup with the devil, use a long spoon.

If Kraft has any sense, he's now learned everything he needs to know about the business environment in the Soviet Union...uh, Russia.

And everyone else has been warned.

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