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Assange Getting Russian TV Show

Posted by: Linda Carbonell on January 25, 2012.

Julian Assange, post make-over

WikiLeaks announced Monday that their co-founder Julian Assange has signed a deal with Russia Today for a television series to consist initially of ten weekly half-hour episodes that will be “in-depth converations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world.” The theme of the series will be “the world tomorrow.” Licensing agreements for this syndicated series have been allegedly signed with outlets that will reach “600 million viewers across cable, satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks.”

“Terrestrial broadcast networks”? Oh – got it – they mean the analog stuff you get with rabbit ears in underdeveloped countries. Russia Today is available on American cable systems and reaches about 85 million viewers here, the ones who have subscribed to third-tier cable services, as in above basic and digitial basic services. I found it on my cable system in nose-bleed territory just below the pay channels.

The series is set to begin in March on Russia Today, a government-funded English language satellite news network. A Russian crew will film the series at Ellingham Hall, the grand manor house where Assange has been spending his house-arrest in England.

The series will look at “upheavals and revolutions” and expose how “the deterioration of the rule of law has demonstrated the bankruptcy of once leading political institutions and ideologies” in the West.” And to do this exposé of the deterioration of the rule of law, Assange has chosen a television network that is a mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin. Assange continued in the same self-effacing vein, “Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it. Are we heading towards utopia or dystopia and how can we set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.” Unlike Charlie Rose or Alan Parkinson or Barbara Walters or Edward R. Murrow – okay, forgive me. It is blasphemous to mention Murrow in the same paragraph with Assange. Murrow was an actual journalist and the closest thing the God the profession has. Assange is a poser. The point is, there is nothing new about in-depth, one-on-one interviews with world leaders or analysts or thinkers. It’s a format that has been around since before broadcast TV networks. Assange’s credentials for this TV gig consist of getting other people to risk their jobs and their freedom to give him information to put on his website and promoting himself as the savior of mankind.

It should be really interesting to see who agrees to be a guest on this show.

Of course the series is entirely dependent on Assange either winning his final appeal against extradition to Sweden in the British court system or getting his case heard in the World Court. Lest we forget, there are two young women in Sweden who are not getting television deals or being put up in manor houses or getting a make-over with designer duds provided by deluded supporters. They are trying to go about their ordinary lives while waiting for this POS to return to Sweden to complete the investigations into their accusations of sexual assault. It was on September 1, 2010, that Swedish Director of Prosecutions Marianne Ny reopened the rape investigation on Assange after the initial charges had been reduced to sexual molestation based on complaints filed in August, and on November 20, 2010, that the international arrest warrant was issued for him to be returned to Sweden to complete the investigation. It has now been 17 months that these two women have been waiting for justice. It has been 17 months that this predator who has allegedly left a string of bastard children around the world because he doesn’t like condoms has dodged official questions about his actions. He admits the basics of the charges, and says that they only prove he’s a chauvinist pig, not a criminal. In Sweden, at least, being a pig is a crime.

Julian Assange believes that he is so freaking important to the world that he can operate under a separate set of rules from ordinary people and should not be held responsible for his actions. That makes him and Putin a perfect fit.