Previously, Carlson said he had planned to sit-down with the Russia president while at Fox News but then called it off claiming the U.S. government was monitoring him.
“I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, and the U.S. government stopped me,” Carlson told the Swiss publication, Die Weltwoche back in September. “By the way, nobody defended me. I don’t think there was anybody in the news media who said, ‘Wait a second. I may not like this guy, but he has a right to interview anyone he wants, and we have a right to hear what Putin says.'”
Really makes you wonder what money is getting passed around on the back end to make these sniveling traitors kiss the ring of America’s biggest enemy since WWII.
I sure as fuck wouldn’t ask any unplanned hard hitting questions if I was an American reporter interviewing Putin in Russia. That interview is gonna be scripted as hell.
Fucker Carlson has never asked a hard question a day in his life. He’s there to get propaganda talking points directly from his boss since he can’t get them filtered through Fox anymore.
That’s also why nobody defended him. He’s a nazi PsyOps operative; not a journalist. Anything he asks is performative and only to serves his agenda. He doesn’t deserve defence. He deserves ridicule.
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Defended him from what exactly? He’s the only one claiming that the supposed interview was blocked.
It’s no different than me claiming that I was supposed to be the next president of Russia, but was blocked by the US government, and nobody defended me!
Nah, Putin’s too smart to script interviews. He knows that he can lie, straightfaced, and absolutely nothing will come of it. They’re already sanctioned to hell by basically every major country on Earth, he’s shipping thousands of Russian men to the Ukrainian front just to feed them into a meatgrinder that’s barely holding any ground at all, and still the Russian people do nothing because there’s nothing to do. Everyone who really, actually gave a shit about making a change is either jailed in some fortified cement block in Siberia, abroad and too scared of getting assassinated to come back, or has already been assassinated. So they rise up, so what? There’s a tide of oligarchs who will rush in to replace Putin at the head of the table, and most of them have their own military forces on speed dial.
Or komrompat. Or both.
What’s " komrompat"? Did you mean “kompromat”, short for “compromising materials”?
No, just got the first two syllables out of order. “Rom Com” Pat, a genre-specific movie critic who moonlights as an assassin for SMERSH.
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Did Russia finally realize you can just buy these assholes for a trifling amount of money?
It’s only like 50k or 100k each in Lobby bribes and these fuckers will vote (or not vote) how you want.
Given like 20 million, you’ve basically bought half of the US government for a few years.
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Another victim of return to the office
Joke of the year nominee here
“I guess I’m for democracy”
Cool. Now don’t let him come back.
How is this bitch not registered as a foreign agent?
Eh Ukraine! If y’all have any missiles aimed that way, now would be a great time to fire them off.
Two birds, one stone.
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Russian propagandists are fair game in war.
For sure - he poses a real, tactical threat to Ukraine. They’d be 100% justified in blowing his ass up.
Would be a shame if he had something trackable on him and they happened to fire a missile at him while he was interviewing Putin.
Guys, it was a job interview. He’s not a real journalist.
An interview? Yeah right, he’s going to get his and Trump’s orders.
So, now that he’s an employee of the Kremlin, he gets to stay there permanently, right?
With any luck they’ll keep him.
Unironically, how great would it be if that loser officially takes a job in the Russian agitprop?
It would probably not be good. He’s very good at swaying right wing folks here in the US. He’d have more leeway over there.
He can throw himself on the mercies of Russia and Ukraine at the same time.
Let him out. Don’t let him back in.
Good idea.
Best possible take.
While I would fucking love for Putin to even do an interview with an unbiased journalist that’s not afraid of falling out of a 14th story window, this is not what’s going to happen.
I loathe him so much. He really has a talent for speaking to rubes. His whole, “why should I dislike X? X hadn’t done anything to me, didn’t call me a racist,” perfectly speaks to his gullible idiots and verifies that it’s the world that is wrong and they’re correct and normal.
The heir to a massive family fortune acts like a man-of-the-people while wearing tailored suits and big-upping the wealthy and influential.
And his working-class Republican fans eat it up.
Just baffling.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Tucker [confused fart-smelling face]: “Is diversity truly our strength? What if I go to my hometown and there are people speaking Spanish on the streets? What if I go get a haircut and the barber cannot speak English?”
I can’t stand his “another person is talking” face. Close your damn mouth, pretend to listen and then unleash the torrent of verbal diarrhea that you invited your guest-prop on to receive.
Diversity has never been anyone’s strength. It’s an oxymoronic phrase. Straight diversity & random shit doesn’t automatically result in a stronger, superior, or better product; it is carefully calculated & rationed components that work towards an agreed upon, common goal that result in that result in strength or advantage.
“Diversity is our strength” is an unsubstantiated, mealy-mouthed, dumb as hell phrase to make everybody feel good. It’s not American, and frankly, not based in reality.
Threatening nuclear annihilation is all fun and games, but calling someone racist? That’s crossing the line.
The thing that freaked me out the most when I first heard him was how much he spoke like that villain from 1984 (I forgot his name). With doublespeak and shit, really freaked me out
I’d love to know who’s footing the bill for his trip.
Also, I thought the terms of is foxnews contract were such that he isn’t supposed to be doing any news anchoring type gigs - did something change?
Putin will be paying. This helps him.
I don’t think he works at Fox anymore, he’s got own thing going now in internet TV shit or something like that.
Sure, but I meant that after he was fired, he was/is still beholden to several contractual terms about non-competes for a set amount of time.
That is probably true and that is why he is doing his shit on twitter. Turns out that its very hard to enforce these contracts if nobody involved cares about the rules.
Fuck Tucker Carlson but also fuck non compete clauses, no one should care about them. I could be wrong, but I recall seeing something about them not even being enforceable anyways. A leaving worker can’t give up trade secrets or confidential information regardless of a non-compete, so the company already has protection for the stuff that’s justifiable.
I don’t even think Elon is paying since Tucker announced he was moving to his own streaming platform. But maybe this will be a Twitter video?
The us government would be stupid not to monitor him
The US government is stupid.
But the need to keep an eye on this guy anyway.
Because of course he is.
