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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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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 224 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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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[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 207 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Another victim of return to the office

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 156 points 9 months ago

Cool. Now don't let him come back.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 129 points 9 months ago

How is this bitch not registered as a foreign agent?

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 84 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Remember when this cunt's show was cancelled by a single appearance of Jon Stewart

https://youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE?si=dxyotC_xBQud-16b

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 9 months ago

My favorite part of that incident is how Tucker keeps trying to get Jon Stewart to say something funny instead of something honest and Stewart just refuses to play that game.

Unfortunately, it only resulted in Tucker's career getting bigger.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago

"It's not so much that [your show] is 'bad'. It's that it's hurting America."

Prophetic words.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Russian propagandists are fair game in war.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

For sure - he poses a real, tactical threat to Ukraine. They'd be 100% justified in blowing his ass up.

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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.social 60 points 9 months ago

Guys, it was a job interview. He's not a real journalist.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago

An interview? Yeah right, he's going to get his and Trump's orders.

[–] undercrust@lemmy.ca 46 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

With any luck they'll keep him.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Unironically, how great would it be if that loser officially takes a job in the Russian agitprop?

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Let him out. Don't let him back in.

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[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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 doubt an interview will help. Any journalist doing that would be throwing their life away for nothing.

Putin gives interviews all the time, and he simply and plainly lies about reality. That is an essential part of Putin's power - he is showing Russian people, constantly, that he can lie to their face without consequences. If a journalist confronted him with facts, he would simply deny them. If a journalist challenged him, he is very well-trained to not react in a way that exposes discomfort or legitimizes the response.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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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[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 37 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 15 points 9 months ago

Putin will be paying. This helps him.

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think he works at Fox anymore, he's got own thing going now in internet TV shit or something like that.

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 9 months ago

Because of course he is.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The us government would be stupid not to monitor him

[–] AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

The US government is stupid.

But the need to keep an eye on this guy anyway.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed that he is arrested for drug trafficking

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

That only happens if he does something that displeases Putin. But Tucker won't do that because he's a cowardly worm.

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What makes me curious is, not that he went to Russia, but just how did he get there?

From what I read, he had traveled to Alberta Canada and then it looks like he just flew to Russia from there. I'm under the impression that there is no commercial air travel from the US or Canada to Russia. So where did he fly to after he left Canada? China? North Korea? Cuba? Taylor Swift's private jet?

[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah i just looked, I can get a flight to moscow february 11 for 1900 bucks out of Toronto

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[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can't kiss an ass from halfway around the world.

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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

There’s no reportedly. Pictures all over Reddit now.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 15 points 9 months ago

He's chosen his master, let him stay there.

[–] ExcursionInversion@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

An independent US journalist, ex-Foxnews host Tucker Carlson arrived in Russia for the first time and has spent three days in Moscow already. On the morning of February 1, according to social media, the former FoxNews anchor was spotted at Istanbul airport boarding a Turkish Airlines flight to Moscow. Unfortunately, the flight was delayed for two hours, but eventually Tucker arrived safely in the Moscow Vnukovo airport. Today he attended the ballet "Spartacus" at the Bolshoi Theater, social media reports

[–] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cucker Tarlson needs to find a little apartment to move into there.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

On the fifth floor, or higher. With a nice window view.

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

Tucker is just dying to lick those boots

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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