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President Vladimir Putin has criticized former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for not asking “sharp” questions during an interview in Moscow last week that the Russian president said was essentially a propaganda exercise for the Kremlin. This is also the latest example of Mr. Carlson being severely criticized for his actions.
The Kremlin has launched a crackdown on opposition to the war in Ukraine, handing down prison sentences to many critics of the military and Russian leadership. The Kremlin said Putin’s interview with Carlson meant he did not criticize Russian aggression during his Fox News appearance, which many news outlets have said about the Ukraine conflict, where Western countries have spent billions of pounds. This was because it differed from the “one-sided” reporting by the media. This is to help Ukraine fight Putin’s forces.
Despite the staged nature of the interview, in a conversation with pro-Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin, Putin offered Karlsson an opportunity to be more “aggressive” and respond at least as sharply. He said he wanted it. In his rare first interview with an American journalist since before Russia invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago, Putin lectured the host on history for about 30 minutes.
“To be honest, I expected him to act aggressive and ask so-called pointed questions. I was not only ready for this, but I wanted it. Because… gives me the opportunity to respond in the same way,” the Russian president said. he said in his first comment after the interview.
Putin said he was surprised the former Fox News anchor did not interfere further.
“Frankly, I wasn’t completely satisfied with this interview.”
Carlson may have criticized his conversations with Putin on the Tucker Carlson Network, a new streaming platform launched after he was fired from Fox News last year.
He said this on his new CNN show. of chris wallace show, Wallace said: “Tucker Carlson appeared in Moscow this week to interview President Vladimir Putin.
“After all, it was more than just an interview. Putin just kept talking absent-mindedly for two hours and seven minutes while Tucker sat there like an eager puppy.”
Occasionally, and rarely, the host will say, “I have a question for you.”
Wallace said right-wing TV hosts didn’t ask questions about why Putin invaded Ukraine, why the military is targeting civilians in the ongoing conflict, or about the country’s war crimes. He criticized the way Carlson asked questions.
“Reporters can ask Putin tough questions if they want a real interview,” Wallace said, adding that the show interviewed Putin and “why so many of the people who oppose Vladimir Putin are dying and… “Why do people die?” he said before cutting the clip. Is it close? ”
He continued: “But apparently that’s not why Tucker went to Moscow. During the Cold War, gullible Westerners who spread Soviet propaganda were looked down upon as useful fools, but calling Tucker a useful fool” It is unfair.”
The term “useful idiot” was used during the Cold War to refer to Westerners who themselves spread Kremlin propaganda, but Hillary Clinton said in a separate MSNBC interview before her sit-down with Putin aired that Used to refer to Mr. Carlson.
Karlsson, who has frequently been used by Russian state propaganda as a means of promoting Russia’s distorted view of the conflict, which began under the unsubstantiated pretext that Ukraine is led by neo-Nazis, This is a particularly galling allegation given that President Volodymyr Zelensky is a Jew and is Jewish. I lost a relative in the Holocaust.