“Why do you make me hit you?!!”
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Not sure if your meme is true, but this was a horrible interview. As Tucker had claimed the other sellout western journalists to omit questions, he too did the same.
Perhaps Tucker was scared shirtless, he couldn't ask a proper question. Most of it was Putin rambling. I'm not from the west, so I'm not even sure if they were right about the history of Russia and Ukraine. I watched the first five minutes, then gave up, because it was that bad.
Reminds me of the Canadian Kumar interview with Modi: "Do you eat mangoes? How do you eat them?"
Agreeeeed. Didn’t understand the backlash for him to go interview Putin, who cares, anyone can if the Kremlin agrees (turns out they turned a lot away). Getting this out of the interview was so disappointing though.
At the very least ask some form of question. Tucker was emasculated by Putin in this interview. We gained nothing from it but memes about 3000bc.
Tucker had a chance to prove a lot of people wrong about him, but instead was shown to cower in the presence of Putin.
You didn't understand the backlash of Tucker helping Putin spread his propaganda to Tuckers audience?
Because everybody knew beforehand he is not gonna do a hard interview. Instead he went with a warmongering fascist dictator and let him ramble his worldview to his audience basically unchallenged and you don't see a problem with that?
It’s out there already for anyone who wants to see it. If you haven’t heard his views on the war you’ve been living under a rock. Almost all media outlets shared his 2021? Essay on Ukraine. Were you outraged at that too?
I’d say this was actually a great outcome of an interview as most people heard his ramblings, laughed at it, and turned it off. Further making Putin and Russia look bad. That’s a great outcome.
You do realize that critically commenting on his essay (which is what your linked article does) and sitting there with a stupid face letting him ramble about nonsense unchallenged for two hours are two very different things?
One is a responsible(ish) journalistic approach to a difficult topic, the other is just making yourself his vicarious agent for the sake of the outrage and money.
I wouldn't criticize that someone would interview him in a journalistic responsible way but that's not what happened, because Putin would not let that happen.
You yourself said in your first comment that the Kremlin turned a lot of journalists requests for interviews down - gee I wonder why? I wonder why they turned down people trying to interview him that have at least an ounce of journalistic integrity and instead invited someone who is repeating Russian propaganda for almost two years now.
I’d say this was actually a great outcome of an interview as most people heard his ramblings, laughed at it, and turned it off. Further making Putin and Russia look bad. That’s a great outcome.
Sure, you and I laughed about Putins nonsense, Tuckers stupid face and whatnot but Tuckers audience has been primed with Russian talking points for almost two years, those people will have open ears for this revisionistic bullshit. The outcome is not positive at all, it is dangerous, a grade A demagogue and puppeteer sat down with a puppet and was able to throw his ideological corner stones over the border of his own state controlled media and that is frightening.