Putin, in rambling interview, barely lets Tucker Carlson get a word in

[BigOleDummy]

"Russian President Vladimir Putin spent the first 30 minutes of his two-hour interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson giving a revisionist historical tirade on the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine, the breakup of the Soviet Union and NATO expansionism.

From there, admonishing Carlson when he interrupted, Putin pontificated on everything from the war in Ukraine and relations with the United States, the case of imprisoned American reporter Evan Gershkovich, and even on artificial intelligence.

By the end of the conversation, it was clear that Putin had no intention of ending his brutal war against Ukraine. But Carlson, who was sacked from Fox last year, seemed ready to surrender. Putin offered to keep talking. Carlson, evidently exhausted by the Russian leader’s long-winded conspiracy theories and grievances against the West, thanked him and called it quits — far short of the media coup that he had been touting."

Read more at : [link:https://wapo.st/495kuPp|

Guess Putin doesn't have a "base" that tucker can suck up to......

[Mike Nelson]

1. I did not see it...

... guess it was on Twitter. I do know that people tend to "clam up" in the presence of someone they idolize. Tucker probably spent the first 30 minutes in awe.

[moondust]

2. Did Tucky ask him about this?

International court issues war crimes warrant for Putin

[hlthe2b]

3. Tucker better watch his diet (and tea sources)... Not that Putin would necessarily bother with him

but he might see the fear create by dispatching this very public (useless) idiot as quite the benefit for the future.

[Dr. Shepper]

4. So, not a journalist

Then?

[usaf-vet]

5. Tucker knows his place when the puppetmaster is in the room. Keep your mouth shut and show reverence.

[Irish_Dem]

7. I wonder how much money Tucker has received from Putin in the past and currently?

[Irish_Dem]

6. This is confirmation that Putin is very dangerous.

He sounds delusional and a very typical narcissistic sociopath. Exactly the same kind of people he likes to install into the US federal government. They are very dangerous bunch.

[Lonestarblue]

8. David French had an interesting article in yesterday's NYT about why the MAGA Party hates Ukraine and loves Putin.

I am now calling Republicans the MAGA Party because Trump is their party. Free link below.

“First, if you’re stumped by the notion that Ukraine is a villain, you may need reminding of a conspiracy theory that is now largely forgotten but was prevalent on the right at the time of Donald Trump’s first impeachment. In his infamous conversation with Zelensky — the one that triggered the impeachment — Trump asked Zelensky about a “CrowdStrike” server allegedly being held in Ukraine.

This is a reference to a longstanding MAGA claim that it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered with the 2016 election. There’s no evidence of any kind to support the allegation, and Trump’s own advisers repeatedly debunked it. But my Times colleague Scott Shane described how the theory gained purchase on the right nonetheless. “On 4chan and pro-Trump spaces on Reddit, on websites like ZeroHedge.com and Washington’s Blog,” he wrote in 2019, “you can find plenty of speculation about evil manipulation by CrowdStrike and secret maneuvers by Ukrainians — often inflamed by Mr. Trump’s own statements.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/opinion/why-maga-loves-russia-and-hates-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE0.jE0W.zD7bJfecjKmu&smid=url-share

[TSExile]

14. MAGA party, Grand Old Patriarchy, same thing.

The Republican party that my grandparents and their peers (aka The Greatest Generation) supported is long gone. At least what it appeared to be is long gone.

[twodogsbarking]

9. I hope they gave him something to drink.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Sounds like Tucker got a lot of unusable footage.

It'll be two hours pared down to 20 minutes. Mostly digs at Biden Zelinsky, and the Sec of Def.
Carlson got played.

[samsingh]

11. tucker very much admires the dictator

and wants to be his lapdog

until the dictator tires of tucker's stupidity and has him executed

[Midnight Writer]

12. Hope Tucker explored the poverty problem of Russia, the economic inequality, the crappy infrastructure,

the failing economy, the homeless problem, the crime situation, the smothering authoritarian government that means nobody but Putin has any rights at all.

That is how Tucker sees the USA, the country he hates. Do his tight, tanned testicles allow him to see how the country he loves, Mother Russia, is worse in every way. Will the scales fall from his eyes?

[Kennah]

13. Tucker's lips were otherwise occupied