In a Guardian-heavy column, Pat Buchanan gives Putin reason to smile:

John Laughland writes in the Guardian of the double standard our media
employ: “Enormous rallies have been held in Kiev in support of the prime
minister, Viktor Yanukovich, but they are not shown on our TV screen. …
Yanukovich supporters are denigrated as having been ‘bussed in.’ The
demonstrators in favor of Yushchenko have laser lights, plasma screens,
sophisticated sound systems, rock concerts, tents to camp in and huge
quantities of orange clothing; yet we happily dupe ourselves that they are
spontaneous.”
Laughland is saying the Yushchenko demonstrations may be as phony as that
U.S-Albanian war in the Dustin Hoffman-Robert DeNiro film Wag the Dog….