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Tucker Carlson Proves Useful Idiot For Putin In Sycophantic Sit-Down; Deal To Free WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich “Underway,” Russian President Insists
Tucker Carlson‘s just released interview with Vladimir Putin shows the former Fox News host has left shameless behind for pure sycophancy. It would be one thing if the much hyped sit-down from the Kremlin was merely fawning, but instead Carlson abdicates any sense of being a significant participant in the interview to let the internationally […]
It would be one thing if the much hyped sit-down from the Kremlin was merely fawning, but instead Carlson abdicates any sense of being a significant participant in the interview to let the internationally scorned Russian president deliver what is for all practical purposes a stump speech. Having set off a firestorm of criticism since he revealed earlier this week that he was in Moscow to talk to Putin ahead of Russia’s latest preordained election, perhaps Carlson was only after the attention the interview has garnered him and his new-ish TCN platform. What is clear from the praise Putin’s interview is receiving from state media in Russia is that Tucker Carlson has proved to be a useful idiot, to note that old Russian expression for someone easily manipulated, to amplify the man in the Kremlin’s version of reality.
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