I’d be curious to know whether it was the payola that persuaded the bloggers to unquestioningly spout the talking points they were given, or whether at some instinctive level they sympathize with the alpha authoritarian in the room. As people have pointed out, Yanukovych should theoretically be anathema to red-blooded lovers of liberty … but maybe, just maybe he was talking the kind of talk they like to hear.
In other words, are they merely venal, or does it go deeper than that?
