Putin to W: "What about 60 Minutes?"

Contrary to the cloying WaPo versionLINK , Putin didn't exactly take W's lecturing sitting down. Maureen Dowd said today on MTP that Putin refered to the electoral colleges and his daddy's friends. Also, according to Newsweek

NEWSWEEK: Putin to Bush: 'We Didn't Criticize You When You Fired Those Reporters at CBS'
Sunday February 27, 12:34 pm ET
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- When George W. Bush confronted Vladimir Putin last week about the freedom of the press in Russia, Senior White House Correspondent Richard Wolffe reports, Putin shot back with an attack of his own: "We didn't criticize you when you fired those reporters at CBS." Details of the meeting, which included just the two presidents and their translators inside the historic castle that overlooks the Slovak capital of Bratislava, are reported in the March 7 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, February 28).
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I linked the delicious Bartcop thread about it