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HuffPost wrote:Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin was so soft that even Putin thought it was a letdown.

“To be honest, I thought that he would behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions,” he said told interviewer Pavel Zarubin, according to a Reuters translation. “I was not just prepared for this; I wanted it because it would give me the opportunity to respond in the same way.”

Carlson, who was let go from Fox News last year, released a two-hour interview with Putin last week in which he barely spoke at times as the Russian leader delivered lengthy monologues. When Carlson did get a word in, Putin frequently dismissed him and continued with his lecture.

Putin noticed that, too. “He tried to interrupt me several times, but still, surprisingly for a Western journalist, he turned out to be patient and listened to my long dialogues, especially those related to history,” Putin said, per a Google translation of a transcript posted on the Kremlin website.

That was a big disappointment for the strongman leader.

“Honestly speaking, I did not fully enjoy that interview,” he said with a laugh, according to a translated clip posted online on an X feed that monitors Putin’s comments.

Carlson, who has admitted to lying on his show, has frequently praised Putin and attacked U.S. support for Ukraine, which Russia invaded nearly two years ago.

When he was still on Fox News last year, Carlson often repeated Russian talking points. He was cited approvingly by Russian state television, which even seemed to offer him a job.

After last week’s interview, Carlson continued his love affair with the Kremlin, praising Moscow as “so much nicer” than any U.S. city.

“It is so much cleaner and safer and prettier aesthetically, its architecture, its food, its service, than any city in the United States,” he said.

Human Rights Watch notes that Putin is in the midst of an “all-out drive to eradicate public dissent in Russia” via laws attacking free speech, activism, independent journalism, and political dissent. The resulting crackdown has led to jail for opposition leaders and critics of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:23 am

Carlson is basically the modern day Walter Duranty.

The day before Navalny was murdered, he was in a grocery store in Russia, showing everyone how inexpensive everything was. Ya think?

The idea that Russia, with one of the worst life expectancies in the entire world, despite being a westernized country, should be a model economy is hilarious and stupid. Shame on Elon Musk giving him a platform.

Spock wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:22 pm

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:23 am

Carlson is basically the modern day Walter Duranty.

The day before Navalny was murdered, he was in a grocery store in Russia, showing everyone how inexpensive everything was. Ya think?

The idea that Russia, with one of the worst life expectancies in the entire world, despite being a westernized country, should be a model economy is hilarious and stupid. Shame on Elon Musk giving him a platform.

And suddenly, every liberal on the internet is an expert on Walter Duranty-90 years too late.

I wonder if the Pulitzer board will finally revoke Duranty's Pulitzer or, failing that, will the NYT finally return it?

Beebs52 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:14 pm

This is all fascinating. Never heard of Durant. Googled, etc. Don't thibk Carlson has the chops to compare...

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:33 pm

Beebs52 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:14 pm

This is all fascinating. Never heard of Durant. Googled, etc. Don't thibk Carlson has the chops to compare...

There's a very good movie from 2019 called Mr. Jones about a journalist named Gareth Jones in the 1930s who went to the Soviet Union and into Ukraine where he uncovered and was the first Western reporter to report on the Holodomor. At the time, Stalin kept Western journalists, including Duranty, in Moscow, where they got royally wined and dined and given carefully staged photo ops to report on how wonderful life was in the Soviet Union. Duranty actually won a Pulitzer for this type of "reporting." Jones had to sneak out and take a cattle car train into Ukraine to get the story. The movie is based on the true story. (George Orwell of 1984 fame is a minor character.)

The film is available on Starz, Hoopla, and Kanopy currently.

flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:32 am

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:33 pm

Beebs52 wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:14 pm

This is all fascinating. Never heard of Durant. Googled, etc. Don't thibk Carlson has the chops to compare...

There's a very good movie from 2019 called Mr. Jones about a journalist named Gareth Jones in the 1930s who went to the Soviet Union and into Ukraine where he uncovered and was the first Western reporter to report on the Holodomor. At the time, Stalin kept Western journalists, including Duranty, in Moscow, where they got royally wined and dined and given carefully staged photo ops to report on how wonderful life was in the Soviet Union. Duranty actually won a Pulitzer for this type of "reporting." Jones had to sneak out and take a cattle car train into Ukraine to get the story. The movie is based on the true story. (George Orwell of 1984 fame is a minor character.)

The film is available on Starz, Hoopla, and Kanopy currently.

Yes, Duranty was a reporter for the New York Times. The same New York Times that deliberately hid news about the Holocaust. And the same New York Times that is the chief propaganda venue for the left in our day. The same New York Times that people like trollboy base their worldview upon.

If we don't learn from history, we are bound to relive it.

Just like white people today are exactly the same white people in the 1860s who enslaved blacks, and bear the exact same moral culpability and responsibility to make things right.

Beebs52 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:02 pm

Y'all need to get a room. I agree with doc on the comparison, agree with Flock on something or other.
The swamp is rife with powerbrokers and idiots on all sides.
We will be fucked if no one tempers their ideas with common sense and no weird ass shit. Or senility.
Seriously, all grow up.
Don't think it'll happen, but I hope.

flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:26 pm

Beebs52 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:02 pm

Y'all need to get a room. I agree with doc on the comparison, agree with Flock on something or other.
The swamp is rife with powerbrokers and idiots on all sides.
We will be fucked if no one tempers their ideas with common sense and no weird ass shit. Or senility.
Seriously, all grow up.
Don't think it'll happen, but I hope.

I thought this was the room.