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.
“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 interviews from large Western outlets but he said that 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’s who has dual U.S. and Russian citizenship and who was arrested in October while visiting Russia from Prague where she had been living.
God help us if a Democrat interviewed Putin. We’d never hear the end of it.
> Putin interview with Tucker Carlson shows Kremlin outreach to Trump’s GOP
Gosh: so did the intelligence agencies of five countries, if I recall correctly: the United States; Germany; Ireland; Japan; Australia.
GOP, the group of idiots who is working relentlessly to make the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax” real.
Can’t send honeypots via the NRA anymore huh? 😉
So like…. stuff like this that’s literally out in the open for everyone to see really baffles me. Somehow this is all conveniently invisible to Trump’s supporters. Any time you try to talk about how the right is obviously and heavily compromised by Russia as part of a deliberate effort on Russia’s part to subvert our democracy, it is immediately dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
I could sit here for hours and lay out concrete documented events that are a matter of public record that all lead you to an inescapable conclusion and it is all immediately ignored.
This is an issue that should go beyond Republican or Democrat. It’s an issue that should be sounding alarms for anybody that actually cares about our country. However, because it makes Republicans in particular look bad, it’s immediately dismissed.
Given the extensive media coverage and raw footage coming out of Ukraine there is literally zero “need” to give Putin a voice or get his perspective on the war he started.
Russia is and will always be 100% responsible for everything that’s happened.
Treason.
Smells like treason Batman!
is Tucker a russian asset
Our military weapons are commonly used to destroy Russian assets. Let’s just say I’m not opposed to this
Lost rich kid thinks Putin is his dad.
The GOP is completely complicit in Russian war crimes. Americans should not be fooled, the republicans are more beholden to Russia then they are to America
Republicans are such suckers.
Tucker Carlson is to Putin what Chanel Rion was to Trump…fawning lickspittles with not a single iota of journalistic credibility.
Tucker should be forced to register as a foreign agent.
Anyone feel like Tucker is just being used as a proxy go between between Putin and Trump to deliver messages, out of the prying eyes of US Intelligence, and the “interview” is just a secondary diversion ?
Like Rand Paul once was during Trump’s presidency
Since he’s in the region, will he interviewing Zelenskyy as well for his side? Fair and balanced, right?
Russia excels at finding useful idiots.
Ya think? World leaders were licking their chops when #45 took office. Putin’s secretary is capable of socially engineering the republicans. DJT was the perfect lap dog of these dictators, so eager for their praise and a lucrative target to compromise. World leaders openly ridiculed him when he attempted to bring his ‘rally game’ to the lectern at the UN. G7 and G20 leaders snickered behind his back, hot mikes picked up unflattering remarks from supposedly allied leaders. ..Putin continues the outreach today.
Why is our country so soft on criminals anymore? Remember the days that traitors were thrown in prison at minimum?
Traitors gonna trait…
So, as far as collusion with Russia, there’s nothing there? It’s been there since 45 came on the scene. The GOP maga are Russian assets.
I wish right wing voters would understand that “they’re the Nazis in this picture.” It might change their position.
Is it fair to say that Trump is a Russian plant and Tucker is the conduit?
Can we make him stay there? Please?
Its not unusual for two different criminal organizations to collaborate.
The guy rumored to be Trump’s VP pick just happens to sit down with Putin as a civilian prior to the election?
Make it make sense to me. Because it sounds like a “globalist conspiracy” from where I sit.
(R) stands for Russian
Putin’s interest in building bridges to the MAGA community? Putin fucking FOUNDED it.
Yes, Democrats have been saying this was going on for literally years. Remember when we used to call it collusion? Democrats have been right all along.
They should be put on the terrorist list, all of the maga
Can’t we just be honest and call it Putin’s GOP?
they don t even need to act like americans on reddit
they got their on American puppets now, the cancer is spreading…
Told you Trump was a Russian puppet
Outreach or suck-start???
I can’t believe cucker is rumored to be trumps vp pick…
There are still people who think Putin didn’t have his hands on the Trump campaign in 2016. Those people still vote. (At least the ones who haven’t been convicted of felonies associated with 1/6…)
Russian asset Tucker Carlson goes for his debriefing behind the illusion of an interview. Tucker is far from a journalist peddling all that propaganda for the GOP to gobble up and stew over.
Fucking rat bastard! Stay in russia you p.o.s.
“Russia, if you’re listening…”
It doesn’t take long if you ask yourself “what do both people have to gain out of this interview” to arrive at the conclusion that blame will be placed on Ukraine and Joe Biden. Trump and Putin are kleptocratic assholes and Putin would much rather have somebody who at least slightly aligns with him as US president, and Trump is still mad at Zelensky for not manufacturing dirt on Hunter Biden to help his chances in 2020. Putin blaming Biden and Zelensky will play directly to Tucker’s audience, further dividing the MAGA folks from the democrats, playing directly into Putin’s geopolitical strategy in the US. It’s transparent and shitty.
Within 24 hours of the interview, The kremlin bombed Kyiv.
Putin is using all the “tools” at his disposal.
Treasonous chode
The simple fact Putin himself would entertain this interview speaks *volumes* as to what he thinks of American politics. They can and have been bought and paid for already. Fuck this pos, he needs to be brought up on treason charges.
Interview shows aid and comfort to hostile governments.
Trump supporters are fine with this.
Tucker is a mix of Squealer from Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and Two Minutes of Hate from ‘1984’.
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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.
“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 interviews from large Western outlets but he said that 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’s 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.
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God help us if a Democrat interviewed Putin. We’d never hear the end of it.
> Putin interview with Tucker Carlson shows Kremlin outreach to Trump’s GOP
Gosh: so did the intelligence agencies of five countries, if I recall correctly: the United States; Germany; Ireland; Japan; Australia.
GOP, the group of idiots who is working relentlessly to make the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax” real.
Can’t send honeypots via the NRA anymore huh? 😉
So like…. stuff like this that’s literally out in the open for everyone to see really baffles me. Somehow this is all conveniently invisible to Trump’s supporters. Any time you try to talk about how the right is obviously and heavily compromised by Russia as part of a deliberate effort on Russia’s part to subvert our democracy, it is immediately dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
I could sit here for hours and lay out concrete documented events that are a matter of public record that all lead you to an inescapable conclusion and it is all immediately ignored.
This is an issue that should go beyond Republican or Democrat. It’s an issue that should be sounding alarms for anybody that actually cares about our country. However, because it makes Republicans in particular look bad, it’s immediately dismissed.
Given the extensive media coverage and raw footage coming out of Ukraine there is literally zero “need” to give Putin a voice or get his perspective on the war he started.
Russia is and will always be 100% responsible for everything that’s happened.
Treason.
Smells like treason Batman!
is Tucker a russian asset
Our military weapons are commonly used to destroy Russian assets. Let’s just say I’m not opposed to this
Lost rich kid thinks Putin is his dad.
The GOP is completely complicit in Russian war crimes. Americans should not be fooled, the republicans are more beholden to Russia then they are to America
Republicans are such suckers.
Tucker Carlson is to Putin what Chanel Rion was to Trump…fawning lickspittles with not a single iota of journalistic credibility.
Tucker should be forced to register as a foreign agent.
Anyone feel like Tucker is just being used as a proxy go between between Putin and Trump to deliver messages, out of the prying eyes of US Intelligence, and the “interview” is just a secondary diversion ?
Like Rand Paul once was during Trump’s presidency
Since he’s in the region, will he interviewing Zelenskyy as well for his side? Fair and balanced, right?
Russia excels at finding useful idiots.
Ya think? World leaders were licking their chops when #45 took office. Putin’s secretary is capable of socially engineering the republicans. DJT was the perfect lap dog of these dictators, so eager for their praise and a lucrative target to compromise. World leaders openly ridiculed him when he attempted to bring his ‘rally game’ to the lectern at the UN. G7 and G20 leaders snickered behind his back, hot mikes picked up unflattering remarks from supposedly allied leaders. ..Putin continues the outreach today.
Why is our country so soft on criminals anymore? Remember the days that traitors were thrown in prison at minimum?
Traitors gonna trait…
So, as far as collusion with Russia, there’s nothing there? It’s been there since 45 came on the scene. The GOP maga are Russian assets.
I wish right wing voters would understand that “they’re the Nazis in this picture.” It might change their position.
Is it fair to say that Trump is a Russian plant and Tucker is the conduit?
Can we make him stay there? Please?
Its not unusual for two different criminal organizations to collaborate.
The guy rumored to be Trump’s VP pick just happens to sit down with Putin as a civilian prior to the election?
Make it make sense to me. Because it sounds like a “globalist conspiracy” from where I sit.
(R) stands for Russian
Putin’s interest in building bridges to the MAGA community? Putin fucking FOUNDED it.
Yes, Democrats have been saying this was going on for literally years. Remember when we used to call it collusion? Democrats have been right all along.
They should be put on the terrorist list, all of the maga
Can’t we just be honest and call it Putin’s GOP?
they don t even need to act like americans on reddit
they got their on American puppets now, the cancer is spreading…
Told you Trump was a Russian puppet
Outreach or suck-start???
I can’t believe cucker is rumored to be trumps vp pick…
There are still people who think Putin didn’t have his hands on the Trump campaign in 2016. Those people still vote. (At least the ones who haven’t been convicted of felonies associated with 1/6…)
Russian asset Tucker Carlson goes for his debriefing behind the illusion of an interview. Tucker is far from a journalist peddling all that propaganda for the GOP to gobble up and stew over.
Fucking rat bastard! Stay in russia you p.o.s.
“Russia, if you’re listening…”
It doesn’t take long if you ask yourself “what do both people have to gain out of this interview” to arrive at the conclusion that blame will be placed on Ukraine and Joe Biden. Trump and Putin are kleptocratic assholes and Putin would much rather have somebody who at least slightly aligns with him as US president, and Trump is still mad at Zelensky for not manufacturing dirt on Hunter Biden to help his chances in 2020. Putin blaming Biden and Zelensky will play directly to Tucker’s audience, further dividing the MAGA folks from the democrats, playing directly into Putin’s geopolitical strategy in the US. It’s transparent and shitty.
Within 24 hours of the interview, The kremlin bombed Kyiv.
Putin is using all the “tools” at his disposal.
Treasonous chode
The simple fact Putin himself would entertain this interview speaks *volumes* as to what he thinks of American politics. They can and have been bought and paid for already. Fuck this pos, he needs to be brought up on treason charges.
Interview shows aid and comfort to hostile governments.
Trump supporters are fine with this.
Tucker is a mix of Squealer from Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and Two Minutes of Hate from ‘1984’.