Why, Tucker? Tucker speaks...

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-tribune/20240215/281612425318429

Opinion Piece

Watching Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin reminds me of the notorious reporting by former New York Times journalist Walter Duranty, who defended Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s policies and knowingly excused, covered up and lied about the mass murder and starvation in Ukraine deliberately fomented by Stalin’s policies in the 1930s.

Carlson’s willful and perhaps malign ignorance raises the specter of a Duranty in our times, who persists despite the many warnings that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

and

appalled by Carlson’s lack of basic knowledge about most of the subjects covered by Putin in the interview — Ukrainian and Russian pre-20th century history, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine’s independence, its 2004 Orange Revolution, and Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea and parts of the Donbas.

and

Carlson claims that Crimea is legitimately part of Russia, populated by Russians who held a referendum to join Russia. Really? He conveniently neglects the fact that historically, the principal inhabitants of the peninsula were Crimean Tatars who were then systematically exterminated or deported by the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The 2014 referendum that Carlson lauds has been largely condemned as a sham. However, there was a free and fair referendum held in December 1991 in which a majority of Crimean residents voted for Ukrainian independence.

[Renauda]

That is not first instance that the parallel between Duranty and Carlson has been drawn. Duranty was however only a print media journalist/propagandist. In Carlson’s on sensationalist TV and Internet visual presentations there is also the stylistic gossip of Walter Winchell’s radio reports and editorials. There’s also more than a just a hint of Fr. Charles Coughlin in FuCa’s style and substance as well.

[Axtremus]

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[George K]

[Jolly]

That would be interesting.

[Renauda]

Not so much interesting as just plain stupid.

[Mik]

I suspect he knew that when he went.

[Horace]

I just listened to a three hour interview with Tucker on Lex Fridman's podcast. Tucker is truly out of fucks to give about the social ramifications of his interview with Putin.

[Renauda]

I don’t think for a moment that that FuCa gives a fuck about anything other attracting attention and money.

Besides there are no social ramifications about the Putin interview to give a fuck about.

[Mik]

It's all about the brand.

[Renauda]

Wait, there’s more to come!

FuCa’s back in Moscow, this time to interview Russia’s Mr. Congeniality, Sergei Lavrov.

U.S. conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson said Wednesday he had returned to Russia for a “fascinating” interview with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the possibility of nuclear war.

“Are we headed toward an unprecedented conflict between Russia and the United States?” Carlson said in a video outside the Kremlin promoting his interview, which he said would air “very soon.”

Full story:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/04/tucker-carlson-interviews-russian-fm-lavrov-in-moscow-a87222

[George K]

@Renauda saw that yesterday, and thought, "Maybe I should give it a listen."

A second cup of coffee convinced me otherwise.

[Mik]

So he's willingly serving as their mouthpiece.

[Renauda]

@Mik

Either that or he is pretending that he is on a covert intelligence mission for Tulsi.

[Mik]

If there was a chance of learning anything Americans did not already understand I might feel differently. But the best one can hope for is a dishonest press release from Lavrov, couched in flowery but vaguely menacing language.

[Horace]

I'll listen to it. I don't intend to come out of it with any cognitive damage.

[Renauda]

@Horace

I will listen to it as well, for no reason other than to make disparaging and sarcastic posts about it in this den of cyber iniquity. Each post will steadfastly lampoon and target FuCa’s and Lavrov’s person, demonstrated professional incompetence and Kremlin propaganda in general.

[Doctor Phibes]

I will listen to it once I've listened to all the reviews of musical gear that I've got planned.

So, sometime after I'm dead.

[Horace]

Link to video

[Renauda]

@Horace

Interesting commentary. I too have noticed recently that Lavrov is losing his steam. He is no Gromyko by any means. Will definitely want to listen to again.

As to the commentary about FuCa….yeah, he pretty accurately breaks him down.

Still will watch the whole interview when available.