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REPORT: Rupert Murdoch and Son Lachlan Secretly Met With Ukrainian Dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy Before Ousting Tucker Carlson
Gateway Pundit ^ | May. 1, 2023 | Cullen Linebarger

Posted on 05/01/2023 9:22:59 AM PDT by Kazan

Did Tucker Carlson’s outspoken criticism over Joe Biden’s Ukraine policy and opposition to foreign aid to the country play a role in his ouster from Fox News?

On Monday, Semafor reported that Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch held a previously unreported call with Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this spring. The two men discussed the war and the anniversary of the deaths of Fox News journalists last March.

Zelenskyy also had a conversation with Lachlan Murdoch on the same subject. Semafor notes Zelenskyy mentioned this as an aside during a national broadcast last month.

These talks came weeks before the Murdochs pulled Tucker off the air, though he still remains under contract.

The report from Semafor also mentions that Tucker has been openly criticized by some of Zelenskyy’s top aides.

While it is unclear what role Tucker’s opposition to endless Ukrainian aid played in the Rupert Murdoch’s decision to pull him off the air, the family patriarch has long been “disturbed” by Tucker’s outspoken America First position according to the Washington Post.

Moreover, support for the Zelenskyy is a major litmus test for the Murdoch family. The family mouthpieces, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, regularly bash politicians who dare to oppose perpetual aid to the notoriously corrupt country.

Opposition to America’s role in Ukraine is also a huge issue for Tucker. The Gateway Pundit reported in March that Tucker sent a questionnaire on the subject to every announced and potential GOP presidential candidate.

President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis aligned themselves with Tucker’s position while others like Mike Pence reiterated the Uniparty line.

Globalist politicians such as Mitt Romney (RINO-UT) openly celebrated Tucker’s downfall.

He spoke to the Hill after Tucker was ousted.

There have been some that have argued that he was setting foreign policy for the Republican Party, which I find to be bizarre. Certainly not for me.

To the primary [Republican] voter, the active participant, the grassroot voter, he’s a person they listen to and has a big influence.

Without the most powerful antiwar conservative voice on air, GOP politicians have less to fear from their voters when it comes to selling out America to foreign nations. No doubt the Murdochs are pleased over the development.


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To: Kazan

Yes clearly Murdoch is a neo con warmonger. His side would have had us remove Assad and allow Syria to turn into another failed state.


21 posted on 05/01/2023 11:08:09 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Kazan

Ukrainian dictator Zelensky was elected by 72% of electoral vote in 2019.


22 posted on 05/01/2023 11:10:16 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: Kazan

FReepers support Tucker over Zelensky.

And Zelensky is tied at the hip with Soros, Vindman, etc.


23 posted on 05/01/2023 11:10:28 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: exinnj

He wasn’t elected in the US so who gives a RATs behind?


24 posted on 05/01/2023 11:12:26 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Kazan

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-position-fox-board-reign-in-trump-report-2019-9?op=1


25 posted on 05/01/2023 11:13:31 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: Widget Jr

Conservatives support Tucker over Zelensky.


26 posted on 05/01/2023 11:14:25 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: ConservativeInPA
Fox News is the controlled opposition. Their opposition comes from approved scripts and the script readers have a spiked bit in their mouths. The reins connected pull a tightly controlled media horse in front of the cameras.

Tucker shed the bit in his mouth.

27 posted on 05/01/2023 11:20:48 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: exinnj
Zelensky ran on and was elected to be the peace candidate in Ukraine. He did just the opposite and sided with the Biden regime and globalists and accelerated efforts to wipe out the ethnic Russian population in Donetsk and Lugansk.
28 posted on 05/01/2023 12:29:13 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Widget Jr; marcusmaximus; SpeedyInTexas; Monterrosa-24; ought-six; familyop; dennisw; tlozo; ...

When rhe first 12 comments are all pro Russia and to an article posted by a frequently posting Pooty Pal we know where this is coming from. When Gateway Pundit provides an article titled “Ukranian Dictator Zelensky” about an elected official whose term has not yet expired, we can guess where GP is coming from. Does anyone know where Cullen Linebarger is coming from?


29 posted on 05/01/2023 12:47:34 PM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: Regulator

There’s a lot of money, technology and power in the arms business.

War is big business.


30 posted on 05/01/2023 1:10:39 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: gleeaikin

Does anyone know where Cullen Linebarger is coming from?

hint: Cullen Linebarger titled this article not GP.


31 posted on 05/01/2023 1:13:46 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Never the less GP chose to run it even though the designation of an elected leader who is still serving his term as “Dictator” is careless editorial choice.


32 posted on 05/01/2023 1:29:05 PM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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To: gleeaikin

Editor just agreed with the author - else it would have been shopped elsewhere. No careless, intentional.


33 posted on 05/01/2023 1:35:16 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Kazan

“””Zelensky ran on and was elected to be the peace candidate in Ukraine.”””

So you post an article describing him as the “dictator” of Ukraine.


34 posted on 05/01/2023 1:51:34 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

It was such a top secret meeting that Zelensky mentioned it in a national TV broadcast.


35 posted on 05/01/2023 1:52:44 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: ansel12
What else would you call someone that shuts down all opposing parties and media outlets, imprisons opposition leaders and destroys churches.

I guess you don't think Xi Jinping is dictator, either.

36 posted on 05/01/2023 4:37:59 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

First, he is in his first term as the elected president, and second, he didn’t do that.


37 posted on 05/01/2023 4:42:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: exinnj

Yes, that’s after half the country split off following the American led coup resulting in making Russians like the Jews of Nazi Germany.

Watch Ukraine On Fire by Oliver Stone on Youtube


38 posted on 05/01/2023 5:07:51 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: ansel12
Sure and Ukraine isn't the epicenter of neo-Nazism in the world.
39 posted on 05/01/2023 5:23:22 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: ansel12

You and your fellow neocons truly in alternate universe and everything in it is a lie.


40 posted on 05/01/2023 5:25:37 PM PDT by Kazan
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