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.
I’ve never seen a side shot of tucker Carlson that I can recall. Now I know why.
Where’s his chin?
He used to frame it with a bow tie until Jon Stewart roasted it clean off his wattle
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Why’s he so red
Probably vodka.
Must be hitting that Survival Shield x-2 from Infowars/Alex Jones
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.
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.
Why can’t they be both? (Gif of taco bell family goes here)
Edit: woof, sorry all, lesson learned with referring to the Taco Bell gif as “Latinx”. Fixed hopefully?
Latinx is not a term used by basically anyone of latin ethnicity. Stop trying to make it happen.
Imo (and my opinion probably doesn’t matter as a white man), it’s actually more bigoted to ignore the gendered-nature of Spanish and force English language rules onto another culture.
Latinx comes from students from Columbia or something. It’s a Latin American term.
You are so clearly well read on the topic that you cannot spell the name of a country you are accusing of creating the term. It was Pero Rico scholars that counted the term, and this it is a creation of the USA.
You are so clearly well read on the topic that you cannot spell the name of a country you are accusing of creating the term. It was Pero Rico scholars that counted the term, and this it is a creation of the USA.
Did you mean Puerto Rico…?
Indeed
Latino here. 93% of us polled either dislike, find stupid, or are not interested in the English language usage of the word “Latinx.” It’s use is a misunderstanding of the basic functional parts of the Spanish language.
Its usage presumes some sort of malicious gendering of words, however most languages, and in particular, Latin based languages like Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, all use gendering.
While only a small percentage prefer latinx, most don’t care. You’re misreading or misrepresenting the poll.
The majority (57%) said that a choice among the labels “Hispanic,” “Latino,” “Latinx” or another term didn’t matter to them, while another 23% preferred “Hispanic” and 15% preferred “Latino.”
All of it is silly. None of you speak Latin
Your mistake here is confounding the name of a language with the name of a culture.
Aside from Spanish and Portuguese language influences, what makes Central and South American cultures Latin?
I’ve also heard “Latine” used, how is that one doing in hispanic culture? I’m hispanic myself, but have lived mostly separate from the culture, so I’m unfamiliar if the terms get used or not.
That’s a different thing altogether. Its origins are in Spanish and attempt to do the same as “they/them” and is a attempt to be inclusive of gender fluidity.
Latinx is an entitled American white invention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That side shot reminds me of Piers Morgan! 😅
When a “journalist” says that “[X] all but happens” it can be interpreted reliably as “X did not happen”
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.
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?
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.
