:Talk:Irina Rodnina

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Racist-Tweet Scandal

On September 13, 2013, Rodnina caused a stir when she tweetedhttps://twitter.com/IRodnina/status/378502979508137984/photo/1 an unflattering photo of U.S. President Barack Obama, his mouth full of food, as an undentified hand held up a banana in the image's foreground. She saidhttps://twitter.com/IRodnina/status/378508067757125632 she was practicing her right to free expression, but critics said she was making a racist comment about the African-American president.http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/russian-politician-takes-racist-shot-at-barack-and-michelle — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.182.181.197 (talk) 12:38, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

:Usually we are not "in the business"(?) of reporting every crap politicians reposted in their blogs and twits, only if the reposts cause stir going out of blogosphere. I think if in a few days we would not find a report of this twitter scandal by a reliable notable secondary sources (e.g. mainstream newspapers, TV-channels, academic publications) we should blank the section per WP:BLP Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:09, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

alex, think again, Mr. Obama is the US. President. what about Putin and his background, worse than an ass?

  • Can you elaborate your suggestions, I am affraid I could not get them Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:41, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Is this mainstream enough? Or you guys are expecting a comment from the White House?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/russia-obama-banana-racism-debate

Should add a separate section "Controversy" or something like that... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.250.96.103 (talk) 14:32, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324576304579075070416880790.html

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/09/201391416012939370.html

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/russian-mp-irina-rodnina-in-obama-racism-row/story-fndir2ev-1226719337293

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/18931027/russia-mp-in-racism-row-over-obama-banana-image/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.250.96.103 (talk) 14:55, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

:Seems mainstream enough to me. I have reinsrted the tweet section and added your references. Alex Bakharev (talk) 21:35, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

References

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https://twitter.com/IRodnina/status/378502979508137984/photo/1

https://twitter.com/IRodnina/status/378508067757125632

http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/russian-politician-takes-racist-shot-at-barack-and-michelle

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  • Neither of them are reliable secondary sources as described in WP:RS. BTW, Rodnina has deleted the twit, so the first link is dead Alex Bakharev (talk) 23:41, 15 September 2013 (UTC)