By Joshua Gardner PUBLISHED: 14:09 EST, 16 September 2013 | UPDATED: 15:17 EST, 16 September 2013 Just hours after the nation was rocked by news of a mass shooting in Washigton’s Navy Yard, a politician in Russia shocked them once more by mocking the tragedy before a death toll had even been tallied. Alexei Pushkov took to Twitter Monday morning and used Obama’s words from a speech on the Syria crisis to ridicule Americans in the wake of the tragedy in the capital. ‘A new shootout at Navy headquarters in Washington – a lone gunman and 7 corpses. Nobody’s even surprised anymore,’ Pushkov tweeted two hours after shots first rang out. ‘A clear confirmation of American exceptionalism.’
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Alexei Pushkov ridiculed 'American exceptionalism' just hours after shots rang out at Washington's Navy Yard
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The mocking tweet used words from Obama's speech on the Syria crisis last week to ridicule America
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Pushkov became a staple of media coverage of Russia during the Edward Snowden controversy
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Snowden was eventually granted asylum in @placeholder, but not before Pushkov got in his jabs—at Snowden and America.
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'Why should the United States expect restraint and understanding from @placeholder,’ Pushkov mocked at the time.
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'Why should the United States expect restraint and understanding from Russia,’ @placeholder mocked at the time.