Whats wrong with interviewing Putin?

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  1. Pro_Line_FL

    Pro_Line_FL Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I have no idea. You ate it, not me, and you also seem to know what the MSM version tastes like, so I guess you'll lick just about anything.
     
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    Lmao.. Sorry, I don't subscribe to MSM, nite show and comedian news like the L's do.. But be sure to post up one of Dem fifty line parrotings of all their, then your talking points..

    I'm on the edge of my seat with anticipation :pc:
     
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  3. Lee Atwater

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    The question I ask myself is why would Putin grant the interview unless he thought he was going to benefit from it? Ordinarily, knowing that the interview is likely to be to Putin's advantage I would ask myself why Carlson would want to air it. But that is a question that doesn't need to be asked when Tucker is involved.
     
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    They have a " right " to kill American journalist? This is beyond the plethora of ridiculous statements you have ever expressed here.

    :rolleyes: :thumbsdown: :toilet:
     
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    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    Nothing is wrong with interviewing Putin. A Putin-praising, pro-fascist idiot "interviewing" Putin in order to help him spread his propaganda is what is wrong. How is this a mystery?
     
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    All it really does is give the murderous liar a megaphone to manipulate more people. I think Tucker has the right to do it, but I can understand why people are upset by it. I mean how would jews have felt if Hitler was given an interview by a prominent American media person (in the alternate reality that he survived the war and wasn't able to be prosecuted)? Hitler would argue about how the jews had it coming and he was just trying to make the world a better place - and that position would be given a platform. Probably about the same as how Ukraine feels.
     
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    yardmeat Well-Known Member

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    You'd have to go further than that. It would have to be a prominent American media person who openly supported Hitler in order to be comparable.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not to mention the fact that Carlson has an audience eager to hear what Putin has to say. An audience more likely to believe Putin than Biden.
     
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    modernpaladin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Is that how you feel when Russia does it?
     
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    I think some people don't like Putin and don't think he should get any publicity, or express himself.
    I don't care for Putin or Carlson, but I also don't care if Carlson interviews Putin. From what I've read, Carlson wasn't really happy with the interview after it started, which by all reports, Putin went on an almost hour long monologue of disinformation, but we'll see when it is released, which Tucker has stated will be released in it's entirety, so the 'bad parts' should be available.
    Putin's actions regarding Ukraine are inexcusable, so I don't care what he says is his reasoning. Hundreds of thousands dead, more injured, and mulit-millions affected, displaced, etc. isn't a good enough reason. Not sure why the Russian people haven't ousted him, but it is their country.
     
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    Where the **** did you get that from?
     
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    Alex Jones and InfoWars..... They fall for it every time.
     
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    Does what?
     
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    Just as much as we have.
     
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    Sounds like another example of Alex Jones was right (or, at least, close enough) according to ...not infowars.

    "Myrotvorets is a running list made in 2014 by an independent organization called the Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker) Center, which keeps track of people it believes have committed crimes against the “national security of Ukraine"
    ...
    "The site does list Carlson’s interview with Putin as another offense against Ukraine, along with a 2022 statement he made on Fox News, saying Ukraine’s army was too small to win a victory against Russia."
    ...
    "Despite not being government-run, Ukrainian secret services reportedly keep “close ties” with the website, and the former Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov supported the site, while former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned it, according to the U.S. Department of State."
    ...
    "Myrotvorets has received criticism from Western countries for exposing journalists. After Western journalists’ personal information was leaked on the site, G7 Ambassadors stated they were “deeply concerned” about the leak. They worried threats made against the journalists were a result of the leak, and called for the personal information to be taken down. The United Nations urged Ukrainian police to investigate personal data leaks on Myrotvorets and remove the data from the site. The U.S. State Department also regularly includes Myrotvorets in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, identifying the various times journalists’ personal information was leaked on the site. A Ukrainian journalist’s personal data was leaked after a story she wrote led to the firing of a Ukrainian official, which reportedly led to her receiving threats, according to the State Department’s 2022 report."

    Was Tucker Carlson Put On A Ukrainian 'Kill List' After Putin Interview? Not Exactly--Here's What We Know. (msn.com)
     
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    Even your own link says he wasn't put on a kill list. So, as per usual, Alex Jone is a raving lunatic, at best. I've had the misfortune of meeting him in person twice. How are those gay frogs doing? Shouldn't he be getting back to sicking his psychopaths on grieving parents and chasing them out of their hometown just because his idiot followers pretend the parents don't have dead kids?
     
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    Little wonder Putin revealed nothing of import. Tucker is just to amateurish (and biased ) to deal with some one like Putin.
     
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    Would you have expected Putin to do anything else than justify his crimes? People listen and make up their minds.

    “Your Democratic Party” is getting close to being a fascist party which misuses the FBI and the Justice Department.

    If you had lived through the Germany of then early 1920s and then the beginning of the Great Depression, you might have been fooled by a Hitler. The German’s people’s lives during that period were hell. Just think if all the savings you had built up over a lifetime suddenly became worthless. That’s what happened to them when 100,000 mark notes were worthless.

    Your party doesn’t have a Hitler yet as a dangerous leader, but you do have a mindset about big government and the police power that it can use which is very scary. Perhaps Newsom will be your devil in disguise. Perhaps it is the leader who controls Biden.

    Is Trump dangerous? Perhaps, but so many people dislike and distrust him, it’s hard to believe that he could become the dictator that your friends on this blog claim he will become if reelected. I can’t see it happening. If anything, Trump’s second term will be spent fighting off one impeachment after another.
     
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    He was only there as a useful idiot for the Kremlin.
     
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    Selling excrement to an intelligent , well informed, open minded public is difficult. Putin has an even worse public image problem than Trump, because Putin is every bit as bad as his image. Therefore he faces an impossible task when he tries to sell himself to the American public.

    The main skepticism that some Americans have about war in Ukraine is how well is our aid being spent? Is it going to defeat the Russians or is it walking out the door to thieves? If the answer is thieves, we are wasting our money. That is a legitimate question.
     
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    I am much more concerned about Carlson's motivation for the expression of that right.
     
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    Perhaps that explains the ease with which excrement is sold to The Following.
     
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    That's not what we have at all though. We are quite tribal and biased. To be fair, I am not sure if any country has ever had that in the majority of the population. But we don't. The main weakness now is that Putin has seen allies in the Trump faction of republicans, and is trying to influence that group. Tucker helps him to do that more effectively as he has credibility with such people.
     
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    I don't know about that. The Trump side of the "conservative" movement eats up Putin's public image propaganda like candy. As this interview helps demonstrate.
     
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