A spokesperson for the Russian government clarified that it has rejected requests to interview Vladimir Putin from reputable media outlets
The Kremlin’s first public response to Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he’s landed an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin was to fact-check the former Fox News host.
On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Carlson had indeed interviewed Putin, but took issue with Carlson’s claim that “not a single Western journalist has bothered” to interview Russia’s president throughout the nation’s war with Ukraine, which has raged for more than two years.
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Putin’s refusal to sit down with most Western media outlets likely has less to do with accusations of bias so much as an unwillingness to be subjected to legitimate scrutiny of his government. Russia has been accused of committing atrocities and war crimes in its offensive against Ukraine, including the unlawful executions of civilians. Putin’s government is also infamous for its frequent detainment of political rivals and critics, as well as the cloud of mysterious deaths and poisonings of those in his orbit.
Whether Carlson will question Putin on any of these matters remains to be seen. The former Fox News host’s history of granting softball interviews to controversial influencers, political figures, and authoritarian leaders, indicates this is unlikely. Given everything we know about Putin’s propaganda machine, it’s clear that in Carlson, the Russian government sees a safe opportunity to broadcast its carefully crafted messaging to American viewers.
Republicans are very nearly all either (1) manipulative traitor cunts who amass power and money no mater the cost to others; (2) mentally defective degenerates, useful idiots.
I don’t think he’s a useful idiot, he knows exactly what he’s doing. 1980’s Trump was a useful idiot, advocating for the end of the Western international order because it made him look and feel smart and powerful.
Tucker is participating in a quid pro quo. He gets a major interview which makes him the center of the conversation for a while and gives him negotiating leverage in his next project, Putin gets his preferred message out to the American Right.
Yeah, but he’s definitely an idiot.
No, he’s intelligent, and that’s why he’s dangerous. He knows how to launder Russian propaganda and white supremacist talking points to a broader audience.
Your bar is so low. He simply panders to a very low iq audience. You know nothing of intelligence.
Manipulating idiots requires planning and calculated intent. Do not ascribe lack of intelligence to people who work very hard to hurt democratic ideals, whether they look like fools or no.
You are promoting a success fallacy. “Icons and leaders must be intelligent to have made it into positions of power and popularity” the fact is that a combination of chaos, charisma, privilege, and ignorance are actually more likely to permit a rise to power than intelligence. Don’t make assumptions about intelligence where there is no objective evidence. The words he speaks and the decisions he makes demonstrate emperic stupidity. Ascrbing a sense of evil calculating genius is unwarranted and empowers the stooges that follow him to presume that there is some sort of master plan with hidden potential for greatness.
I think he’s vying to up his VP cred. Would make him useful, but maybe less of an idiot. Immoral? Yes. Idiot… Not entirely.
That’s why we gotta watch out for him. He gets VP and Trump dies? I think it could be worse than many imagine.
I’m already on suicide watch if Trump is prez again. At that point you’d be foolish to hold on to hope. I don’t care if he picks Satan for his VP or even Satan’s boss MTG.
I’ve never seen a side shot of tucker Carlson that I can recall. Now I know why.
Where’s his chin?
Relevant Preacher
Same place as his conscience and humanity, presumably.
He used to frame it with a bow tie until Jon Stewart roasted it clean off his wattle
Why’s he so red
Probably vodka.
Must be hitting that Survival Shield x-2 from Infowars/Alex Jones
I wish Hunter S Thompson was still alive and could write a bit in his RS column about this…
I wish people would stop glorifying that guy. He was an addict, a drunk, abusive, a sexual abuser and creep.
Sure, but at least he would admit all that and was on the side of the people. You don’t have to be a perfect human being to shine light on bullshit and injustice.
Philip K Dick was a douchebag but his art was honest and very thought invoking. I love the way some people’s ideas and presentation makes me consider hard subjects.
Hunter S Thompson was a nightmare of a person. Can you imagine being in his cross hairs when he’s fuckin lit? But even when he’s seeing lizard people fucking each other in a Vegas Bar or having a lucid moment in the middle of a flooded hotel room and everywhere he looks he’s describing the extent of a 1960s drug experience. It’s absolutely fascinating! I don’t do drugs but how else would I get an honest experience except from someone who is intellectually honest with himself and his writing?
Would I want to hang out with either of those guys or Hemingway or any of those people with difficult histories? Probably not. Would I spend hours and hours experiencing the world through the lens of their world? Fuckin right I would.
Nobody is perfect. Quit expecting it. All your heroes have a major personality flaw. It’s human.
That’s some crazy waving away of someone’s crimes to justify liking them. I mean Noam Chomsky was great for me too until I found out about him and Epstein. Now I don’t really care what he says.
Or Polanski, great movies? I’ll never know cause I refuse to watch anything he puts out.
Waving away people’s awfulness cause they made art is how you end up with people like Victor Salva, a guy who was convicted of repeatedly raping his 12 year old child star, and after he gets out, he’s given more directing jobs and people praising his movies.
Polanski made some very good films with lots of people who did amazing performances. Your argument is weak and doesn’t deal with all the other people involved. Polanski should have gone to jail and I am not going to defend him personally but he didn’t make porn with children so his professional endeavors can be judged for themselves. He is a coward and disgusting but he also is a pretty good example of men of his generation.
The sexual assault charges against him were dropped due to a lack of evidence.
I won’t deny that he was a drunk and a junkie, but the evidence that he was also a predator seems… slim.
I can’t find any other instances of him being accused of being a creep. On the other hand, fake sexual assault reports aren’t common. I dunno, man.
Peskov claimed on Wednesday that Carlson’s position on the conflict with Ukraine is “not pro-Russian by any means, and it’s not pro-Ukrainian; rather, it’s pro-American. But at least it stands in clear contrast to the position of the traditional Anglo-Saxon media.”
Pffft hahaha, what a fucking racist dork. That’s some 4chan-level shit.
Also, while I think it’s overall a good article, I think calling Tucker a useful idiot is unfair. When I think of a useful idiot, I think of someone who means well, but is on the wrong side without realizing it. Tucker’s not a smart man, but he knows what he’s doing. If you ever watch his shit (which I only recommend to verify his grift), he’s not just disconnected from reality, but actively contrary to it. He’s trying to poison the well, while inoculating his viewers to reality and any argument based on it. He’s not simply wrong, he’s lying. He knows what he’s doing is wrong, but he’s doing it anyway, for his own benefit.
Useful to Putin and his puppets. Useless idiot as far as actual American interests are concerned.
why is he red
It was part of the deal to let him interview Putin
He’s a conservative
Lol didn’t notice it until you pointed it out
I’d almost put money on this useful idiot being used to funnel new information/strategy back to the orange lard and it’s lawyer
This is going to be on Tucker’s new streaming platform, right?
So at least almost no one will see it.
Except that everybody is talking about it, which is a success for both Putin and Carlson already.
I don’t know how it helps Putin for people to simply know he was interviewed. He can’t get his propaganda out unless they watch the interview.
I think it’s very likely all the media attention will translate to a whole lot of views. People will think it’s a rare chance to “hear what Putin has to say about the situation”, as if his propaganda hasn’t been on Russian television 24/7 for years now.
Yeah, but in order to do that, they have to pay to join Tucker’s streaming platform. And that is the thing which makes me think not too many people will watch it.
Not many, but way more than otherwise would have. And the rest will read about it somewhere else, spreading Putin’s propaganda independently of the stupidity of the platform.
Or maybe it’ll just expose Tucker as the complete hack that he is once and for all. But I kind of doubt those who haven’t seen it already can ever be convinced.
The interview has nothing to offer. It’s all about talking about the interview and how Tucker brings Putin back into the American sphere in a palatable way(to some).
I think Putin is paranoid about being near someone who is not FSB and having an “accident”, because that is how he operates. He is doing a Stalin speedrun, and I don’t think he’ll last much longer.
I’m also imagining the end being much like the comedy Death of Stalin…
He is doing a Stalin speedrun, and I don’t think he’ll last much longer.
FWIW Stalin died of natural causes.
falling out of a window is also a natural cause
it’s certainly NOT a supernatural cause - if that’s the alternative
As long as it’s something, there are only a few bad answers. Ghosts, gravity or a guard willing to do some good for their country can all get the job done and I’ll celebrate. Whoever runs the show next over there will determine how much there is to be happy about but one thing at a time.
Weren’t they replaying segments of his show on RT?
That side shot reminds me of Piers Morgan! 😅
I hope that Tucker asks all of the important questions that Putin has avoided until now and then promptly disappears to ‘play golf’ in Siberia for the next couple of decades.
The language of the article suggests the interview already happened but is not yet released. Could be a mistake, but I’m guessing they need to edit it, show the Kremlin for approval/final edit, then release.
Useful fat idiot.
When a “journalist” says that “[X] all but happens” it can be interpreted reliably as “X did not happen”
it literally quotes the minister saying they have deliberately denied access to “major” news organizations, and then draws the conclusion from Carlsons previous “softball” interviews that this was only approved because it’s useful to Russia.
What conclusion do you draw?
Yea this is such an awkward phrase that only confuses non native speakers, and even native ones that haven’t heard it. It reads like a school essay adding useless words trying to hit a count.
