Tucker Carlson confirms he’s interviewing Vladimir Putin

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Right wingers would jump all over anyone claiming that Tucker Carlson was going to be used by Russia as a propaganda tool. Except, that is what Russian media figures are saying about Tucker Carlson.

thedailybeast.com

Kremlin Cronies: Putin-Tucker Interview Will ‘Blow Up’ U.S. Election

https://www.thedailybeast.com/authors/julia-davis

Russia’s state TV stooges believe a Tucker Carlson-Putin interview will boost Putin at home and help restore Trump to the White House.

Link:www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-cronies-...

This will be prime time viewing for Right wingers. Putin is more popular to Trumpers than Taylor Swift is to teenage girls.

It is strange, but notable, that libs are soooo freaked out by this. The only explanation is they are terrified that many of their lies will be exposed.

I'm no fan of Tucker, but it's good that he is sitting down and talking with Vladimir instead of all this tuff guy postering from the west which is getting us nowhere. We need someone to sit down with Kim Jung Un as well and get to the bottom of this tit for tat postering which is only increasing his nuclear arsenal while we posture in the Sea of Japan.

Is it important for journalists to cover this and cover it well? Certainly.

So does he routinely try to locate a diverse group of incredibly well-versed experts, and engage them in dialogue (you know, the kind of people who are so incredibly bright and knowledgeable, and who can respect each other in spite of their differences)? Grill them with an even hand? And then try to carefully craft that conversation into something understandable to a layperson?

Nope: How about just getting invited to sit down with a former intelligence officer adept at misinformation, a kleptocrat who rules with an iron fist and has a habit of making political opponents disappear?

I’m sure we’ll get straight answers from him that will provide an effective counterbalance to our own political chattering class.

This. The self anointed intellects of society are scared about so much, and often wrong about so much. And in recent years, it seems like they’re wrong about everything.

"I'm not a fan of...." Ding! Ding! Ding!

I don't know anyone that's freaked out by it. It seems very on brand.

What lies do you think Putin and Tucker will expose?

I hope he sits down with the leadership of Hamas next. Left wingers need to confront the reality of supporting this group.

The left knows exactly what Hamas stands for that's why they support them.

The idiots on campus supporting them just support whoever they're told they don't know anything about anything.

Ah. Of course there are posers and charlatans. So how do you distinguish between those who are “self-anointed intellects” and those who are genuinely capable, knowledgeable, and earnest about seeking improvements? The latter exist in all fields of knowledge, and they don’t all agree. So it’s incredibly likely that you’re bound to disagree vehemently with some of them (potentially in productive ways).

So how do you access that higher level of insight, draw personal edification from it, and try to have it disseminated more broadly to win out over the others?

Who cares what Russia does with the interview?

What relevance does that have to Americans?

The Russian media isn't any more biased than most of the American media. MSNBC is just as deep in the tank for the Democrats as Pravda ever was for the communist party.

Liberals in 2024 are completely illiberal.

Exposure to ideas they don't like is not something they can tolerate.

The irony of a lawyer posting a propaganda rag such as daily beast as some sort of validation to your delusion. We are living in a truly bizarre world.

Because I’m not the one over and over looking like a brain dead moron like liberals are, constantly.

Hey bud, your corpse of a President just met with Mitterand, who’s been dead for nearly 30years. You voted for him, and many of us knew not too. That’s just one example. There’s an astronomical amount of more examples.

Tucker is a Commie looking to damage America.

Sounds like some Republicans want to stop funding Ukraine. They should just say so instead of having Tucker explain taxes to us