Yesterday an RT anchor was removed from the air for criticizing President Vladimir Putin, she was dispatched to Crimea for “additional education“.

Today, a second RT anchor quit over her inability to sell the BS any longer.

…..”And that is why personally, I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian  government that whitewashes the actions of Putin.    I’m proud to be an American and believe in disseminating  the truth, and that is why, after this newscast, I’m resigning.”…

(New York Daily News)  A Russia Today anchor broke through the Iron Curtain.  Liz Wahl, a (former) Washington, D.C. correspondent for the state-owned  television station, quit live on-air Wednesday because she does not agree with  the network’s backing of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military  intervention in Ukraine’s Crimea region.

The self-described “Filipina-Hungarian-American” said she faces several  “ethical and moral challenges” as a reporter for the network.

Wahl described herself as the daughter of a veteran who grew up in the  United States. Her partner, she said, is a military-base physician “where he  sees every day first hand accounts of the ultimate prices people pay for this  country.”

“And that is why personally, I cannot be part of a network funded by the  Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin,” she said as she went  off-script on live TV. “I’m proud to be an American and believe in disseminating  the truth, and that is why, after this newscast, I’m resigning.”

Wahl says her grandparents fled Hungary, "ironically" as Soviet forces drove out thousands in 1956.

During her minute-long statement, Wahl also mentioned the “international  headlines” RT host Abby Martin made Tuesday night when she said “Russian  intervention in the Crimea is wrong.”  (link)

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