My brother lost an election, and all I got was this lousy TV show

April 2nd, 2009 § 0 comments

What I love most about Georgia is the constant stream of head-slappingly ridiculous news. There was the [anti-Putin Eurovision entry](http://www.rferl.org/Content/Russian_Activists_Protest_Georgian_Eurovision_Entry_/1502642.html), of course((http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3OScJ2kfM&feature=related)). But Russia can counter that with its hastily-produced [action film](http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Unleashes_The_Butterflies_Of_War/1565184.html) about the Ossetia war (also on [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoz-ZaJSbE)).
Far more entertaining is the [political talk show from self-imposed jail](http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5143PJ20090205):

It’s been dubbed “Protest TV”. A man in an improvised prison cell under the 24-hour gaze of television cameras, promising to stay put until Georgia’s president quits.

And to top it off, [here](http://www.rferl.org/Content/Flinging_Russia_Mud_In_Georgia/1511819.html) is a former Minister for Conflict Resolution threatening to hunt down the president and “make him sorry for ever having been born”.

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