Carlson sat in silence
Just what the world needs: Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin.
For much of it, Carlson sat in silence as Putin expounded his dubious historical theories about Ukraine, aired his grievances, and pushed MAGA talking points designed to appeal to Carlson’s core audience.
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Putin has used these theories to justify his brutal invasion of Ukraine, where, according to the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has used mass killings, rape, and torture in an attempt to subjugate the country. Putin even published an essay on the theories just ahead of the invasion.
It matters because Putin is seeking to erode support for Ukraine among the GOP voters who form Carlson’s core audience, as congressional Republicans continue to block a $66 billion Ukraine aid bill.
Carlson seemed to lack the knowledge, or willingness, to offer even the most cursory pushback.
Well you see Putin isn’t some disgusting crazed Marxist like Obama or Biden.
For instance, he allowed Putin to claim that the 2014 Maidan protests, in which Ukrainians took to the streets to demand freedom from Russian control, were a CIA plot. There is no evidence of this.
He also allowed Putin to claim, unchallenged, that Russia sought peace with Ukraine before launching the 2022 invasion. There is no evidence of this, with Russia illegally seizing swaths of Ukraine in 2014 and stoking conflict in the east of the country.
Putin was also able to state, unchallenged, that the invasion was a bid to “de-Nazify” the country, and not a campaign of revanchist conquest it is in reality.
Putin was given a two-hour platform to further undermine Republican support for Ukraine, and offer an alternative version of history in which the US and NATO are the true aggressors.
I guess because Carlson (like Trump) is not so much a Republican or a conservative as he is an agent of chaos-plus-profit. Smash everything and give me $$$.
‘ chaos-plus-profit. Smash everything and give me $$$.’
That is it, isn’t it? The assumption that to be wealthy and ‘successful’ is the highest moral good, an assumption that has been growing in the number of its adherents throughout my life-time. ‘The Sovereign Individual’, standing outside any society except that of the like-minded as celebrated by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ghastly father and James Dale Davidson in the book of that name, now with a foreword by Peter Thiel, and contemptuous of anything like the common weal.
I don’t think I have come across anyone who I find so utterly despicable as Tucker Carlson.
Tucker demonstrated himself to be an emasculated shadow of an empty suit. Seeing Putin openly mock him for being an entertainer rather than a serious figure, while simultaneously using Tuckers platform to spread his propaganda was chef’s kiss.