Posted on 02/08/2024 6:07:38 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Russian President Vladimir Putin spent the first 30 minutes of his two-hour-long interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson giving a revisionist historical tirade on the founding myths of Russia and Ukraine, the breakup of the Soviet Union and NATO expansionism.
From there, admonishing Carlson when he interrupted, Putin pontificated on everything from the war in Ukraine and relations with the United States, the case of imprisoned American reporter Evan Gershkovich, and even on artificial intelligence.
By the end of the conversation, it was clear that Putin had no intention of ending his brutal war against Ukraine. But Carlson, who was sacked from Fox last year, seemed ready to surrender. Putin offered to keep talking. Carlson, evidently exhausted by the Russian leader’s longwinded conspiracy theories and grievances against the West, thanked him and called it quits -- far short of the media coup that he had been touting.
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Carlson spent most of the two-hour interview in silence, or looking confounded.
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At several moments, when Carlson tried to interject, he was chastised by the president.
“I'll tell you, I'm coming to that. This briefing is coming to an end. It might be boring, but it explains many things,” said Putin in a condescending tone.
“It’s not boring. [I’m] just not sure how it’s relevant,” said Carlson. Putin responded that he was “gratified” and appreciated that.
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wapo so jealous
Señora Ebel sounds like a fascist control freak.
I know the Russian culture quite well, history effects all their policies.
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Tucker has the “interview skills” of Oprah Winfrey
LOL, the DC and MSM idiots think the only legitimate technique is for the journalist to argue, interrupt and castigate the interviewee.
People wanted to hear Putin — not Tucker.
In other words, nice job, Tucker.
Why does Sucker Carlson always look like my dog when he hears a strange noise?
Not jealous so much as they and others exposed themselves and are now trying to pretend they didn’t have the vapors over a pretty benign interview.
A 180 from a Sean Hannity Interview.
So in other words, Sucker is just a guy holding a microphone.
Yeah - good job /sarc
It was a really good interview.
Sorry Mucous, you lose one more time. This had over 2 million views on X when it was live. It will be watched even more in the coming days.
Did you enjoy Biden’s speech tonight?
Out come the knives. Can’t let the sheeple hear the truth. 😏
It’s alien to our journalists to ask a question and then listen to a long thoughtful detail filled answer.
They like the Hannity and MadCow technique of arguing and shouting down.
oops, make that 20 million
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