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.'”

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    I’d expect the actual interview (which now happened) would be posted already, to be disected etc.

    Do you have any idea why that isn’t happening?

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        No way… ‘boring’ is their takeaway oneliner? i can only imagine that such headline is meant to steer the lazy reader away from actual thinking.

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      An “independent” “US” “journalist”, ex-Fox"news" host “Tucker Carlson” arrived in Russia for the “first time” and has spent three days in Moscow already.

      Not sure why the writer omitted those, I thought it was mandatory in the style guide when blatantly lying.

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      please explain images? Also third party mobile app made it impossible to reply to your message (not your issue) but context is always helpful.

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        The article says:

        On Saturday, Carlson reportedly attended the ballet “Spartacus” at the Bolshoi theater in the Russian capital. Pictures began to surface over the weekend showing Carlson at the theater and in the airport heading to Russia.

        And that looks like it’s probably those images

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    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.

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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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          Bingo, and citizens united gave them all legal cover to do so. When citizens united passed the countdown to the end of the empire accelerated exponentially. Worst decision maybe in our nations history

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          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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      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.

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        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.

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        Fucket 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.

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          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!

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            “I know the answer to this one personally but Mr. Putin why shouldn’t every American masterbait to topless photos of you?”

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    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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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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      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?”

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        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.

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        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.

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      Threatening nuclear annihilation is all fun and games, but calling someone racist? That’s crossing the line.

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    So, now that he’s an employee of the Kremlin, he gets to stay there permanently, right?