Tucker Carlson and RT misled on Ukraine with same clips, claims on the same day

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https://novelscience.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-and-rt-misled-on-ukraine?s=w


Tucker Carlson’s March 9, 2022 show included claims, clips, and presentation that was remarkably similar to what RT published on the same day. The claims made were false or misleading and favored the Kremlin’s false presentation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in which Russia is indiscriminately killing civilians, including children. Carlson’s previous false claims about Ukraine have aired on the Russian state-controlled media channels like RT and Fondsk.ru.

Comparing the claims of Tucker and RT

In the segment Carlson says:

In 2014, Victoria Nuland engineered a coup in Ukraine in the name of democracy, of course. So, she is a highly informed source about Ukraine. So, she was having this colloquy with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida during her testimony, and at one point, Rubio took a tack that we were not expecting at all. He asked Nuland if Ukraine had biological weapons.

Here, Carlson repeats a false claim about the US orchestrating a coup in 2014 that is not the focus of the segment. The detail is given without qualification and is a lie also cited by the Kremlin as justification for its “security concerns.” A recent Sputnik article decried an alleged US-backed coup and cited the Ron Paul Institute, which repeated the false coup claim.

Carlson then presented partial evidence, leaving out critical details that make the situation appear suspicious. He explained the false bioweapons claims using the same talking points and even footage as Russian state media had earlier that day.


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[SunSeeker]

1. K & R for exposure.