It's obvious what Russia did wrong in the media's eyes, they are old "white" men from a culture that isn't metrosexual. Russians were ok by the media's standards, until they gave up that communism thing that is.
The idea of them becoming an ally? Absolutely intolerable now. We wouldn't want to win you know, well the media wouldn't want us to.
...and that is absolutely my favorite scene from Casablanca and very apropo!