Tucker in Moscow
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And National Review weighs in.
Tucker Carlson seems unaware of how badly he is damaging himself.
The former Fox and CNN host followed up his interview of Vladimir Putin by touring Moscow and comparing it favorably with his own country, raving about its nice subway system and low grocery prices. Charlie and Dominic have ably dismantled this. Even in purely material terms, Russia is a poor country, and many of its people outside the capital live without things we consider the most basic of necessities, such as indoor plumbing.
This may be Tucker’s lowest moment yet. I’m not sure he has ever done anything so indefensibly auto-discrediting. The interview with Putin was at least formally defensible as journalism: It presented the views of a newsworthy world leader. And sure, this is far from the first time that Tucker has told his audience things that were false and/or morally depraved. But Tucker’s whole shtick is to be the guy who is skeptical of official explanations and institutions, in many cases to the point of plunging into the world of conspiracy theory. And here he is, in the capital of an authoritarian state run by a master of real conspiracies, and Tucker just swallows whatever the official, institutional propaganda line is, like he’s a gullible professor of literature with a Che poster on his wall taking a tour of the USSR and parroting whatever he’s told by the graduates of Patrice Lumumba University.
The guy who is usually just asking questions suddenly doesn’t seem to question anything. It’s not just bad as other things he has said and done have been bad; it’s dreadful for his brand.
You'd think that a journalist businessman would get it.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:
Good lord.
Don't tell me, the trains run on time, too.
What a fucking cunt.
And yes, I'm shouting slogans almost as stupid as him. And let me just say it feels quite good.
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He's really gone off the rails, hasn't he?
I saw it coming, sort of, when he claimed that he had evidence that his emails were being monitored by the FBI (NSA? CIA?) and assured us that he had evidence. That was two years ago, if not longer.
Still waiting for evidence.
He's transitioned from journalisming to trolling for clicks.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:
He's really gone off the rails, hasn't he?
I saw it coming, sort of, when he claimed that he had evidence that his emails were being monitored by the FBI (NSA? CIA?) and assured us that he had evidence. That was two years ago, if not longer.
Still waiting for evidence.
He's transitioned from journalisming to trolling for clicks.
"Treason" is of course meaningless hyperbole, but I'd say that what he's doing is pretty damn close to providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
We've really fallen through the looking glass when right-wing trolls travel abroad to extoll the virtues of Russia.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
I suspect he’s on Kremlin’s payroll.
It's weird, because he must earn a shit-ton of money, but he really does come across as somebody with a rather disturbing agenda.
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The Moscow metro stations have always been showcases. Many of the original stations are works of Socialist Realist art and architecture. The population does respect the stations and common folk do self police it in addition to the plain clothes police that are always present in the crowds.
Still, FuCa has no clue of what he witnessed.
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Maybe Tucker can visit Cuba next. I'm sure he'd be amazed at the price of food and hotels.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:
Maybe Tucker can visit Cuba next. I'm sure he'd be amazed at the price of food and hotels.
And the fact that infant mortality is lower than in the US.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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In fairness, the subways in Moscow and St Petersburg are quite nice. As long as you’re not carrying an anti-war sign.
ETA: as Renauda pointed out.
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Great line. Sort of his epitaph.
Tucker just swallows whatever the official, institutional propaganda line is, like he’s a gullible professor of literature with a Che poster on his wall taking a tour of the USSR and parroting whatever he’s told by the graduates of Patrice Lumumba University.
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One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
