Kremlin All But Admits Tucker Carlson Is a Useful Idiot
Kremlin All But Admits Tucker Carlson Is a Useful Idiot
Ahead of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin clarified that it has rejected past requests from reputable media outlets.
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.
112Why 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?
-6Latino 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.
23I gotchu fam
7Being manipulative requires the intelligence to know how and when to manipulate others.
Being manipulated requires low intelligence and emotional fragility.
Tucker was always going to be compromised in that regard.
4Not that it really matters, but the commercial is for Old El Paso.
1Hello fellow white person.
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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.
96Yeah, but he's definitely an idiot.
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I've never seen a side shot of tucker Carlson that I can recall. Now I know why.
49Where's his chin?
21Relevant Preacher
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17He 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
17Probably vodka.
7Must be hitting that Survival Shield x-2 from Infowars/Alex Jones
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I wish Hunter S Thompson was still alive and could write a bit in his RS column about this...
35I wish people would stop glorifying that guy. He was an addict, a drunk, abusive, a sexual abuser and creep.
-14Sure, 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.
19Philip 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.
11The 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.
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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.
31Useful to Putin and his puppets. Useless idiot as far as actual American interests are concerned.
19I'd almost put money on this useful idiot being used to funnel new information/strategy back to the orange lard and it's lawyer
14why is he red
13It was part of the deal to let him interview Putin
14He's a conservative
10Lol didn't notice it until you pointed it out
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This is going to be on Tucker's new streaming platform, right?
So at least almost no one will see it.
12The 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).
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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.
10I'm also imagining the end being much like the comedy Death of Stalin...
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Weren't they replaying segments of his show on RT?
9That side shot reminds me of Piers Morgan! 😅
7I 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.
6The 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.
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Useful fat idiot.
2When a “journalist” says that “[X] all but happens” it can be interpreted reliably as “X did not happen”
2it 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?
2Yea 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.
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