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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTucker Carlson Hoping We Can Just Forget About All The Times He Insisted Putin Was The Best
Right wing media and Republicans are once again in full blown gas light mode insisting that they were the ones seeking to strengthen NATO and were warning against Russian aggression.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-praise
If you happened to tune into Fox News on Thursday night, you might have seen something extremely strange: Tucker Carlson condemning Vladimir Putins actions in Ukraine, and suggesting that what Russia is doing thereactivities that have included shelling of a kindergartenis actually big deal. Its a tragedy, because war always is a tragedy, and the closer you get to it, the more horrifying it seems, he told viewers, adding, of the Russian president: Vladimir Putin started this war, so whatever the context of the decision that he made, he did it. He fired the first shots. He is to blame for what were seeing tonight in Ukraine. At this time, you might be asking yourself why its strange to denounce a country for waging an unprovoked war on its neighbor, or to place the blame squarely on the guy who made the decision to do so. And the answer is that its not strange, its what normal people who are not doing free P.R. for the Kremlin have been saying, but it is a tad odd given that, prior to Thursday, Carlson was this-close to inviting Putin on his show and asking him, Any chance we can get you to run in 2024? I know its a long shot but
Id love to see it.
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At least four times this week, Russian news reports have featured translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic U.S. representative . At 8 p.m. on Sunday, a primetime review of the weeks news presented by Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite, featured remarks from the opening monologue of Carlsons February 17 show, in which the American commentator trashed Ukraines government.
An hour later, the evening news program on Russias main state television channel used a longer excerpt from the same Carlson monologue and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News hosts attack on a Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only doing so because of donations from American defense contractors like Raytheon.
On Wednesday night, just hours before Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine to begin, two excerpts from Carlsons most recent program were featured in Russian state televisions 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. news broadcasts . Carlsons comments were so welcome in Moscow that an excerpt from that rant with Russian subtitles was quickly produced by the Russian-language service of RT, the government-funded network formerly known as Russia Today.
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At least four times this week, Russian news reports have featured translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic U.S. representative . At 8 p.m. on Sunday, a primetime review of the weeks news presented by Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite, featured remarks from the opening monologue of Carlsons February 17 show, in which the American commentator trashed Ukraines government.
An hour later, the evening news program on Russias main state television channel used a longer excerpt from the same Carlson monologue and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News hosts attack on a Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only doing so because of donations from American defense contractors like Raytheon.
On Wednesday night, just hours before Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine to begin, two excerpts from Carlsons most recent program were featured in Russian state televisions 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. news broadcasts . Carlsons comments were so welcome in Moscow that an excerpt from that rant with Russian subtitles was quickly produced by the Russian-language service of RT, the government-funded network formerly known as Russia Today.
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Tucker Carlson Hoping We Can Just Forget About All The Times He Insisted Putin Was The Best (Original Post)
TomCADem
Feb 2022
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(118,677 posts)1. He was on Putin's side for weeks. Too late.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,303 posts)3. Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin's War