War Of Words: Russian News Anchor Claims Marines In Iwo Jima Memorial Are Gay After CNN Called A Belarusian WWII Memorial 'Ugly' -- Daily Mail
* CNN included a Soviet-era WWII memorial on a list of the world's ugliest monuments, saying that the soldier looks 'constipated'
* Russian foreign minister issued an official reprimand to CNN's Moscow correspondent and the list was eventually taken down from their website
* News anchor on Russian state television then suggested that the marines in the American Iwo Jima memorial were gay because of their stance
A war of words has begun between a top Russian news station and CNN with the networks trading insults after an American correspondent insulted one of Russia’s WWII monuments and then a Russian anchor shot back by suggesting that two of the soldiers in the American Iwo Jima monument were simulating gay sex.
CNN caused a firestorm when it included a war monument in Brest, a city in the former Soviet republic of Belarus, in an article on the 'world's ugliest monuments' published last month.
The piece said the Soviet soldier 'emerging from a mountainous block of concrete looks as if he's about to thump the West into submission before hurling North America at the sun.
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My Comment: To me .... the Olympics is all about sports and looking at some gorgeous looking Olympic babes.
Update: This is a good one .... some are now starting to wonder why is there so much coverage of beautiful Olympic athletes (in lingerie).
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