Tucker Carlson Proves Useful Idiot For Putin In Sycophantic Sit-Down; Deal To Free WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich “Underway,” Russian President Insists
deadline.comTucker 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 abdicated 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.
On the handful of occasions when Carlson actually did try to get a word or a question in, Putin knocks him down faster than a shot of vodka at a wedding banquet.
Name-dropping Stalin, Dostoyevsky, the slow fall of Roman Empire, and “how Russian people think more about the eternal,” Putin rambled on and on for much of the interview with little interjection or fact checking from the bemused-looking Carlson.
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