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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2020 8:24:02 GMT
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Tucker Carlson, the anti-immigration Fox News anchor has become a favorite of White Supremacists. Samm Levine (Freaks & Geeks) explains how Carlson went from being rejected to the CIA to being taken down by Jon Stewart on to Dancing With The Stars to Fox News. » Subscribe to NowThis: go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2020 8:24:11 GMT
Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elitesVox 8.51M subscribers Why would Tucker Carlson, who used to brag about being an “out-of-the-closet elitist,” use his primetime Fox News show to rail against the “ruling class?”
Tucker Carlson has branded himself as a populist, condemning the “liberal elite” that he argues makes up the American “ruling class.” It’s a good shtick, and it’s helped him stand out from other Fox News hosts. But while Tucker decries the “elite” on his show, he regularly ignores major stories of Republican economic policies that harm the working class, choosing instead to focus on bogus culture war stories.
That isn’t an accident. Carlson’s show is meant to distract Fox News viewers from Republican economics, channeling their frustration and anger at groups that don’t deserve it. That kind of misdirection produces what Marxist theorists call “false consciousness”: when workers are tricked into accepting their own exploitation.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 23, 2021 21:42:26 GMT
This guy keeps rising to the top of the shit heap.Tucker Carlson's College Yearbook Entry Goes Viral, And It's A Doozywww.yahoo.com/huffpost/tucker-carlson-yearbook-105821225.html Ron Dicker·General Assignment Reporter, HuffPost Fri, April 23, 2021, 3:58 AM www.huffpost.com/news/topic/tucker-carlson www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-perpetuation-of-the-species_n_606ed95dc5b6034a7085a474 www.huffpost.com/news/topic/fox-news
Tucker Carlson’s college yearbook seemed to foretell plenty about the man whose bigotry would later fill the prime time airwaves on Fox News.
In a 1991 Trinity College yearbook entry now making the rounds on social media, Carlson wrote that he was part of the “Dan White Society.” News outlets presumed he was referring to the man who in 1978 murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and city Supervisor Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official. www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-appears-endorse-harvey-050930031.html thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/549738-tucker-carlsons-college-yearbook-reveals-he
Carlson also affiliated himself with the Jesse Helms Foundation, named after North Carolina’s longtime anti-gay and anti-civil rights senator.
Trinity, a liberal arts school in Hartford, Connecticut, confirmed the entry was real to The Wrap, but said the Dan White Society did not appear to exist at the school. The fact-checking blog Snopes could not find any mention of the Jesse Helms Foundation elsewhere in the yearbook either, perhaps indicating it, too, wasn’t a school-sanctioned group. www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-dan-white-yearbook/ www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-dan-white-society/
In a segment on his show Tuesday, Carlson claimed a media rival had been conducting “opposition research.”
Washington Post owner “Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we’d done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson alleged.
Wemple, the Post’s media critic, declined to address Carlson’s comments to The Hill. thehill.com/homenews/media/549438-tucker-carlson-blasts-washington-post-columnist
Carlson graduated from Trinity with a B.A. in history, according to his bio.
HuffPost did not immediately hear back from Fox News.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 26, 2021 8:40:43 GMT
HuffPost Pretend Journalist Tucker Carlson Calls Real Journalists 'Cowards'www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tucker-carlson-fake-journalist-210449319.html Sebastian Murdock·Senior Reporter, HuffPost Sat, April 24, 2021, 2:04 PM
Virulent racist and fake journalist Tucker Carlson said he is “disgusted” by U.S. journalists. www.huffpost.com/entry/white-nationalists-love-tucker-carlson-great-replacement-fox-news_n_6077470de4b0293a7edda566
Carlson, a Fox News host who proudly preaches white supremacist talking points and floats dangerous conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines, told sports website Outkick that journalists in the U.S. are “cowards.” www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-replacement-theory_n_6074f37ae4b02375ab428bcc www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-vaccine-doesnt-work_n_6076aff5e4b089e3a2c4b037 www.outkick.com/tucker-carlson-fox-news/
“I just can’t overstate how disgusted I am,” Carlson told the publication on Friday. “Not simply by the details of the lying of the medium, but disgusted by the emphasis. The media is basically Praetorian Guard for the ruling class, the bodyguards for Jeff Bezos. That’s the opposite of what we should have.”
“It just makes me sick. I really hate them,” he added, calling journalists “cringing animals.”
For all his chest pounding, Carlson is himself not a journalist. While that might be obvious to some, it was made official by Fox News’ own lawyers in a 2020 slander case. NPR reported at the time: www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye
Just read U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox’s lawyers: The ”‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2019cv11161/527808/39/
She wrote: “Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.”
Vyskocil, an appointee of President Trump’s, added, “Whether the Court frames Mr. Carlson’s statements as ‘exaggeration,’ ‘non-literal commentary,’ or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable.”
Carlson received attention recently after his bizarre meltdown over the Derek Chauvin verdict, which found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty of murdering George Floyd. www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/04/22/brian-stelter-tucker-carlson-derek-chauvin-verdict-ctn-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/business-media/
Tucker Carlson had a complete meltdown tonight in response to a former New York corrections officer who criticized Derek Chauvin for using excessive force on George Floyd. Here's how the interview (abruptly) ended. pic.twitter.com/mBOxrsbhaJ t.co/mBOxrsbhaJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 21, 2021
He was in the news again when a photo of his 1991 college yearbook appeared to list him as a member of the “Dan White Society.” Dan White was the man who murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official, in 1978. www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-yearbook_n_60828e18e4b0dff25404b38f
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-fake-journalist_n_60846fb5e4b05af50db6730bThe Guardian Tucker Carlson: US journalists are ‘cowards’ and ‘cringing animals’ www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-calls-mainstream-us-122137449.html Martin Pengelly in New York Sat, April 24, 2021, 5:21 AM
Mainstream US journalists are “cowards”, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Friday, without naming any such reporters whom he also called “cringing animals not worthy of respect”. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/23/tucker-carlson-yearbook-harvey-milk-killer-dan-white-society
Related: Tucker Carlson condemned by LGBTQ+ activists after yearbook page goes viral www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/23/tucker-carlson-yearbook-harvey-milk-killer-dan-white-society
The primetime host also called others in his chosen field “small-minded, status-obsessed, insecure, not that bright, just not impressive”.
“It just makes me sick,” he said. “I really hate them.”
Carlson was speaking to Outkick, a sports and pop culture website. His complaints included that mainstream journalists’ work was not “aimed upwards”. www.outkick.com/tucker-carlson-fox-news/
“I just can’t overstate how disgusted I am,” he said, “not simply by the details of the lying of the medium, but disgusted by the emphasis. The media is basically Praetorian Guard for the ruling class, the bodyguards for Jeff Bezos. That’s the opposite of what we should have.
“I really hate them for it, I’ll be honest.”
Carlson has been broadly supportive of Donald Trump in and out of power, last October famously hosting a bizarre interview after the then president recovered from a bout with Covid-19. www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-medication-free-covid-19-recovery-tucker-carlson
One Washington Post columnist called Carlson “sycophancy-adjacent rather than entirely immersed in the MAGAverse”, a relative distancing made possible because “Trump shares many of his core philosophies, like preserving institutional power for white Americans”. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/24/tucker-carlson-outlines-post-trump-playbook/
Carlson regularly espouses the racist “replacement theory”, which says Democrats encourage immigration in order to win elections. Recent calls for him to be fired for doing so were rebuffed by the Murdochs – the immigrant family that owns Fox News. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/13/tucker-carlson-fox-news-murdoch-anti-defamation-league
On Friday, the Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent accused Carlson of peddling “a monumental scam with potential real world implications”. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/23/tucker-carlson-replacement-rhetoric-scam/
A recent poll, Sargent wrote, “found that nearly half of Republican respondents believe politics is about ‘ensuring the country’s survival as we know it’” and that “there is a ‘real sense in the Republican coalition today that they are under siege’”. www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-kristen-soltis-anderson-transcript.html
Carlson is seen in some quarters as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, should Trump chose not to run.
In an echo of controversy over comments in which he said immigration made America “dirtier”, the Fox News host also told Outkick: “Unrestrained mass immigration has also put a huge strain on the natural world. www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/18/tucker-carlson-immigrants-poorer-dirtier-advertisers-pull-out
“Just the amount of pollution and litter and destruction that’s generated by the movement of hundreds of thousands of people, unrestrained, across the border. That’s not a small thing to me. But you never hear that. I’ve never heard anybody mention that. And it’s so awful.”
Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 28, 2021 15:24:11 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 31, 2021 2:18:22 GMT
Carl Cameron sounds the alarm on Tucker Carlson's new series for Fox Nation about the January 6 Capitol riot.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 31, 2021 2:21:15 GMT
This is more like the truth:
PBS NewsHour A new Rolling Stone report claims multiple members of Congress helped plan former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss, and the Jan. 6 protests that ended in violence. Author Hunter Walker joins Yamiche Alcindor with more details.
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Post by the Scribe on May 21, 2022 16:08:17 GMT
The Guardian Tucker Carlson tried to use Hunter Biden to get his son into Georgetown www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-tried-hunter-biden-040139391.html Martin Pengelly Fri, May 20, 2022, 12:01 AM
As Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting his son into an elite Washington university in 2014, the Fox News host’s wife, Susie, reportedly wrote in an email: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”
Related: White House rebukes Trump after he calls on Putin to smear Hunter Biden www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/white-house-trump-claim-putin-hunter-biden
Since the 2020 election, however, Carlson has fueled rightwing attacks on Joe Biden’s son, particularly over business affairs in which he allegedly benefited from his father’s position.
The existence of emails about getting Buckley Carlson into Georgetown has been known for some time, thanks to a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden that was obtained by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and pushed to media in 2020.
On Thursday the Washington Post revealed new emails and said analysis by security experts confirmed their authenticity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/
The emails, the Post said, “reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyper-partisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack”. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/
“They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the ‘ruling class’.”
Carlson told the Post that in 2014, when Joe Biden was vice-president, “Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well.
“I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about. And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why his life is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”
He also said he would not comment on the emails, as they “were described by our [intelligence] community as Russian disinformation. So why would I? And I read that in the Washington Post”.
The Post said Carlson was “speaking with apparent irony”. He and others on the right charge that mainstream media willfully overlooked the Biden laptop in 2020, amid reports it could contain disinformation planted by Russia or other malign actors.
The Post also said emails showed Carlson helping Biden in 2015, amid reports about the state of Biden’s marriage. Carlson has confirmed doing so.
But the Post focused on Carlson’s apparent hypocrisy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/
Quoting Carlson accusing Hunter Biden of getting “lucrative jobs … because he had an important father”, the Post said the Fox News host did so without “disclosing that he had once enlisted Biden to help get his son into a prestigious private university”. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/
On the same January 2020 show, Carlson said: “In America today, there’s nothing illegal about paying de facto bribes by handing fake jobs to the unqualified family members of powerful people. And since it is perfectly legal, naturally, Hunter Biden isn’t the only one shamelessly cashing in on his family name.”
In another email reported by the Post, Susie Carlson wrote: “Tucker and I would be so grateful if you could write a letter or speak to someone in the Georgetown Admission’s [sic] Office about Buckley.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/
Biden reportedly agreed to write to the university president and said: “I will do anything you would like me to do.”
According to the Post, Tucker Carlson wrote: “I can’t thank you enough for writing that letter to Georgetown on Bucky’s behalf. So nice of you. I know it’ll help. Hope you’re great and we can all get dinner soon.”
Buckley Carlson went to the University of Virginia. Now communications director for Jim Banks, a House Republican from Indiana, he did not comment on the Post report.
Amid reaction online, the author Radley Balko wrote: “The story here is that Tucker Carlson is the living embodiment of the unearned, privileged elitism that Tucker Carlson derides on his show every night. The Hunter Biden part is just gravy.”
Rightwing accounts pointed to an NBC report which said Biden’s laptop and other sources showed that between 2013 and 2018, he and his company brought in about $11m from work linked to Ukraine and China. www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2023 6:25:20 GMT
GOP Group Puts Tucker Carlson's Putin Love Affair On Full Display In New Video www.yahoo.com/news/gop-group-puts-tucker-carlsons-041224582.html Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’: legal filingsScroll back up to restore default view. 241 Josephine Harvey Tue, March 14, 2023 at 9:12 PM MST
A conservative group has highlighted Tucker Carlson’s affinity for spreading Russian propaganda in a new video. www.huffpost.com/news/topic/tucker-carlson
The Fox News host has made a habit of leaning into Kremlin talking points and conspiracy theories since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Days before the war began, Carlson infamously defended Putin and said that Ukraine was “not a democracy.” Carlson’s mimicry has been so on point that on multiple occasions excerpts from his broadcasts have ended up on Russian state-sponsored TV. www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-biolab-propaganda_n_623d4023e4b0846e7c4c4d40 www.theguardian.com/media/2022/feb/25/tucker-carlson-fox-news-russia-putin www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/leaked-memo-tucker-carlson-russia-1320583/
The Republican Accountability Project put Carlson on blast in a new video, showing 96 seconds of the Fox News host “parroting Putin”:
Carlson has repeatedly sided with Russia over his own government, criticizing the U.S. for providing ongoing support to Ukraine and rationalizing Russia’s aggression. His views have taken root with the Republican base and some members of Congress, so much so that during a recent visit with Republicans in Washington to lobby for aid to Ukraine, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “amazed and horrified by how many people are frightened of a guy called Tucker Carlson.”
The Republican Accountability Project, a never-Trump PAC, targets members of the GOP who undermined democracy by supporting former President Donald Trump, his lies about the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack he incited at the U.S. Capitol.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 8, 2024 17:26:20 GMT
Putin interview with Tucker Carlson shows Kremlin outreach to Trump’s GOP www.yahoo.com/news/putin-interview-tucker-carlson-shows-163554772.html Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova Updated Thu, February 8, 2024 at 6:22 AM MST·7 min read
FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday. It is Putin's first interview to a Western journalist since the beginning of his full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
MOSCOW - As Russian state television propagandists salivated over Tucker Carlson’s interview with President Vladimir Putin, the first of Carlson’s falsehoods about his visit to Moscow was punctured, fittingly enough, by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who presumably helped arrange the whole strange venture.
Carlson, the conservative former Fox News host with a history of airing bogus “news,” claimed - falsely - that prominent U.S. newspapers and television outlets had refused to interview Putin since his invasion of Ukraine and were ignoring Russia’s perspective. Carlson labeled Western media as “corrupt” and accused them of lies on Tuesday in a video confirming that he was in Moscow for a Q&A with the president.
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“Mr. Carlson is wrong,” Peskov said during his daily briefing for reporters. “We receive many requests for interviews with the president.”
Peskov conceded that the Kremlin routinely blocked media interview requests from large Western outlets, but he said it gave Carlson the nod because “his position is different” from the major “Anglo-Saxon media.” (Anglo-Saxon is a common blanket jab at the West even when mostly Americans are involved.)
Carlson’s assertion was astonishing, given that two journalists who are U.S. citizens are now jailed in Russia: Evan Gershkovich, of The Wall Street Journal, who was accused of espionage and seized by Federal Security Service agents last year during a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, and Alsu Kurmasheva, of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who has dual U.S. and Russian citizenship and who was arrested in October while visiting Russia from Prague where she had been living.
Carlson was sacked by Fox News last April.
The Kremlin’s decision to allow the interview demonstrated Putin’s interest in building bridges to the disruptive MAGA element of the Republican Party, and it seemed to reflect the Kremlin’s hope that Donald Trump would return to the presidency and that Republicans would continue to block U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
Halting aid from the United States, which is Ukraine’s biggest Western supporter, could provide Russia with a path to victory in the nearly two-year war. Although the war is largely at a stalemate, Ukraine is facing critical shortages of soldiers, ammunition and weapons as it battles a much larger and better-equipped Russian force.
Putin portrays himself as a guardian of traditional conservative values, showing common cause with MAGA conservatives, who have opposed gender-neutral bathrooms. Putin has made repeated, derisive references about the West’s promotion of transgender rights.
Putin’s government also has crushed free speech, banned any public expression of LGBTQ+ identity and jailed hundreds of antiwar activists, critics, feminists, lawyers and cultural figures for speaking out.
Pro-Trump Republicans are a natural ally for Putin on LGBTQ and other issues, but also because the Kremlin has long sought to exploit divisions in American society and to meddle in U.S. politics, including through the use of internet troll farms.
“Carlson is smart and his agenda is clear. He and Putin will work together brilliantly to reinforce the false narrative about Ukraine, weaken Biden, and strengthen Trump,” Janis Kluge, a Berlin-based Russia analyst, wrote about the likely U.S. presidential rematch. “This co-production of theirs may be the most effective and toxic propaganda clip yet created.”
Peskov said the Kremlin prefers Carlson’s to major Western media, which Peskov accused of bias, adding that there was “no benefit” to the Kremlin in giving interviews to established Western news outlets.
Nonetheless, Peskov insisted that Western media were eager to interview his boss. “When it comes to the countries of the collective West, we receive requests from large network media, traditional TV channels and large newspapers, which can in no way boast of trying to at least look impartial in terms of covering what is going on,” Peskov said.
“These are all media outlets that take a one-sided stance,” he added. “Of course, we have no desire to communicate with such media, and there is no benefit in giving them interviews.”
Peskov confirmed that Carlson interviewed Putin in person. Peskov also described Carlson as “pro-American.”
Carlson has often echoed Kremlin propaganda about Russia’s war on Ukraine, by attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and opposing U.S. military aid to help Ukraine defend itself.
Pro-Kremlin commentator Sergei Markov was among the jubilant voices celebrating Carlson’s Putin interview and its capacity to reach Trump Republicans, regurgitating Putin’s spin on the war.
Markov claimed falsely that Western governments have “banned” major Western news media from interviewing Putin, because “all Western governments know in principle that Russia is right.” He offered no evidence for the assertion
“This is the worldwide conspiracy that Tucker Carlson can partially destroy,” Markov said.
Konstantin Sonin, a prominent Russian economist and Putin critic who is now at the University of Chicago, said it was “amazing” that Carlson would go to Moscow “to find out what is going on,” instead of visiting Ukraine, which faces daily barrages of Russian missiles.
“How would a visit to Moscow, the capital of the aggressor country, 500 miles from the war frontiers … help in figuring out what is going on?” Sonin posted on X.
Others expressed similar dismay.
“Unbelievable!” posted prominent Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, who is a supporter of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and currently living in the United States.
“I am like hundreds of Russian journalists who have had to go into exile to keep reporting about the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine,” Albats wrote. “The alternative was to go to jail. And now this [jerk] is teaching us about good journalism, shooting from the $1000 Ritz suite in Moscow.”
Ukrainians were deeply offended by Carlson’s interview, posting images on social media of Kyiv residents sheltering with their pets in the subway as Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday.
Putin for months has asserted that he is ready for peace talks and has blamed Zelensky for the continuing war. However, in suggesting talks, Russia continues to demand Ukraine’s total capitulation, including the surrender of territory that Russia is trying to seize. Moscow is also demanding Ukraine’s “neutrality,” which means it would have to abandon its aspiration to join the European Union and NATO, as well as “demilitarization” and “denazification.” Putin has accused Ukraine of being led by a Nazi regime but provided no evidence of that.
Moscow officials have been steeling Russian citizens for a long war of attrition, despite shocking casualties on both sides and growing fatigue among Russians, the majority of whom want a swift peace deal that does not return occupied land to Ukraine, according to recent opinion polling.
Such a deal, however, would be unacceptable to Ukrainians, including many living in occupied areas.
A Russian media channel on Telegram, Ostorozhno Novosti, reported that Russian state media have mentioned Carlson more than 2,000 times in recent days. Some outlets have even tailed his vehicle, reporting where he ate, with whom he met and where he visited.
Local media reported that Carlson visited the fast-food outlet, Vkusno i Tochka, which replaced McDonald’s when the chain left Russia.
“Such attention to the U.S. citizen has led to the appearance of jokes in social networks about state propaganda’s love for a foreigner who came to the Russians,” Ostorozhno Novosti reported.
Pro-war Russian state television military reporter and blogger Yevgeny Poddubny, who is popular among Russian nationalists and has more than 700,000 Telegram subscribers, said Carlson’s interview with Putin was proof that in the West, “our truth is in demand like never before.”
State television propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, one of the Kremlin’s anti-Western attack dogs, seemed to suggest that Carlson’s interview would torpedo any last hope for approval of new American military aid for Ukraine.
Solovyov said Carlson’s visit came “at the worst possible time for the West,” and he begged Carlson to join the Russian Union of Journalists, which Solovyov heads.
Another pro-Kremlin propagandist and prominent TV host, Olga Skabeyeva, simply posted a stark black and white image of Carlson’s face next to Putin’s with the words: “Thank you. We are waiting.”
Yuriy Hempel, a pro-Russian lawmaker in Crimea, called on Carlson to fly to Crimea, the Ukrainian territory illegally invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014.
Independent Russian journalist Dmitry Kolezev noted that Putin has given numerous interviews to American television in past years, and no one really cared.
“But now an interview with a presenter with a particular reputation is apparently seen as an unprecedented breakthrough,” Kolezev posted on X. “Literally the second coming happened,”
Kolezev joked that Carlson had been “naive” to claim on his video Tuesday that Russia had invaded Ukraine, adding that Putin would correct him with the Kremlin’s official version: “that Putin did not invade anywhere; it was NATO that attacked Russia.”
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 9, 2024 21:44:49 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 14, 2024 1:52:07 GMT
Tucker Carlson: Moscow ‘so much nicer than any city in my country’ www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-moscow-much-nicer-164433063.html Dominick Mastrangelo Tue, February 13, 2024 at 9:44 AM MST·1 min read
Pundit Tucker Carlson called Moscow “nicer” than any city in the United States and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin’s governing of the massive world superpower.
“And the most radicalizing thing for me in the eight days I spent in Moscow was not just the leader of the country,” Carlson said during a recent interview at the World Government Summit, calling Putin “capable.”
“What was very shocking, very disturbing was the city of Moscow, where I’d never been … it was so much nicer than any city in my country,” he said, calling the Russian capital “so much cleaner, and prettier aesthetically — its architecture, its food, its service — than any city in the United States.”
Carlson held an exclusive interview with Putin in Russia last week, which the president used to spread propaganda about the ongoing war he is waging on Ukraine and criticize the American government.
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Carlson, during his remarks at the summit, blasted the U.S. government for what he characterized as rampant crime, out of control inflation and overall failure of government, saying similar decline as occurred in European cities such as London and Paris.
When asked if he considers himself anti-American, Carlson said, “No, I am the most pro-American.”
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