Tucker Carlson: Putin takes charge as TV host gives free rein to Kremlin
bbc.co.uk
The Russian leader was given the opportunity to expound familiar grievances unchallenged.
The Russian leader was given the opportunity to expound familiar grievances unchallenged.
Can we just, cancel Tucker's passport so he can't return? Pretend we aren't home and turn all the lights off?
Russian propaganda molded a big part of a nation and some of its media into a submissive lab dog. Amazing that it became the Republican Party cozening up to Russia and making this 180° turn of it previous stance without losing the empty mind of their followers, as Russia transformed themself closer to the republican extreme it is today creating a match made in hell. Brother in heart, cruel, authoritarian, corrupt, brass, lying, projecting, and slaying anyone who falls out of line. And in the End of all the politics Bowtie-Tucky sits on Putins lab, panting, drooling, like the spineless overbred dog he is.
Carlson is a millionaire funded by billionaires (Rutger Bregman).
I don’t see the contradiction, Russia went from the center of a nominally socialist union to a hypercapitalist libertarian dictatorship, of course the Republicans are going to try and support it.
I mean, that's the job of a body double. He's right there in the picture.
The biggest challenge of the interview was the translator trying to understand what Tucker Carlson was saying with his mouth full.
To be clear here, I actively hate what Tucker does. He's a symptom of a great sickness to society that causes more harm then anything else.
The only part of this that is Carlsons fault is that he took the interview and went to Russia. There's no other way this would have played out when a reporter does an interview of Putin. Carlson was likely in that room with nothing but Russian agents who let him know exactly what was going to happen before the interview.
Anything else could have easily resulted in Carlson never coming home.
Nah. Anything else would have resulted in him going home sans interview tape. Putin is not dumb enough to start another Khasoggi style incident.
Carlson's a total sycophant yeah but he wouldn't be murdered. Putin just doesn't have anything to gain by that.
'Course, that wouldn't stop the FSB from implying or outright threatening it, nor possibly iCarlson believing the death threats to be real especially given their track record of defenestration. That would effectively accomplish the same goal.
If only.
Maybe they got kompromat on Tucker so there was never any worry? Or he's just a useful tool for them, any definition of tool will do in this case.
The reason he took the interview doesn't matter, that decision is his fault. Even if kompromat, he did something he wants to hide in that case.
But the moment the interview was announced, we should have been expecting this exact thing.
I expect to hear in a few years that Carlson has been on the payroll of the Russians for years.
Never watched this Carlson fool but it seems that others do to their detriment. If you are so desperate for ratings that you need to give a platform to Putin, your life must be in tatters.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The American had touted his sit-down with Putin as a triumph for free speech, asserting that he was heading where no Western news outlets dared to tread.
Carlson's claim also ignored the fact that Russia's president has spent the past two decades in power systematically stamping out free speech at home.
He talked about a Russian "patriot" who had "eliminated a bandit" in a European capital, seeming to confirm previous reports that Russia is demanding a prisoner swap with Vadim Krasikov.
It's all part of how Putin justified his full-scale invasion, almost two years ago - along with "de-Nazifying" Ukraine, which he claimed is still a work in progress.
"Sooner or later this will end in agreement," was Putin's message, arguing that Nato was coming to realise that defeating Russia on the battlefield would be impossible.
The American did not push Putin at all on political repression at home, which includes locking up vocal opponents of the war in jail.
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The fact that we're talking about this means that, as a publicity stunt, it worked. Tucker got a massive amount of media attention for this.
And in the social media algorithm, there's no such thing as bad publicity; all that matters is engagement.
Personally I won't be watching. Not even for the memes. If enough people ignored pundits like Tucker Carlson, they'd go away.
I didn’t watch the whole thing… as the amazing J Cole Says « Nothing New Under The Sun »