Originally Posted by deltav

I think you just heard what you wanted to there. He commented that Zhirinovsky was insulting a female RT journalist, and that Zhirinovsky could easily have been jailed for his 1000 other antics pulled over the decade. That guy is only popular with super nationalist type nuts - again like Limbaugh - most ordinary Russians think he's an idiot or a lunatic or both. It's not like he's unknown in the West either. IIRC, in the 1990s when Playboy interviewed him he tried to get the interviewer and translator to have sex with him.

Edit: here's a snippet about that interview: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/199...uts-the-moves/

So obviously this dude making women feel uncomfortable isn't really breaking news.