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To the editor:
On Feb. 6, Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin asking only soft questions conspicuously similar to Sean Hannity’s interviews of Donald Trump.
Carlson stated to Putin when the Ukraine conflict started “you said that the U.S. through NATO might initiate a surprise attack on our country” then asked Putin why he believed the U.S might “strike” Russia?
Putin corrected Carlson asserting, “I didn’t say that. Are we having a talk show or a serious conversation?” Then completely dominated the entire “interview.”
Putin knows that Carlson is not a legitimate journalist. Carlson attempted to lay the groundwork for Putin to assert a self-defense justification for invading Ukraine based on a preemptive U.S. strike, but it failed. Instead, Putin denied that claim.
On Feb. 10, during a CNN panel discussion, former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called Tucker Carlson “a useful idiot” and Bret Stephens, an opinion columnist for The New York Times, described Carlson as the “Tokyo Rose of our day”.
Carlson’s anti-American objectives appear clear, support Trump’s claims that American leadership is weak without Trump as president, demoralize American support for Ukraine, prop-up the authoritarian strongman Vladimir Putin as a good guy, give the MAGA base the attention and praise for strongmen that they seem to desperately need and encourage Russia to aggressively help get Trump elected again.
The only thing Tucker didn’t do was wave the Russian flag.
Marc Bullaro
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