Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin sent CNN host Chris Wallace into the ceiling. On his Saturday show, he said calling Tucker a useful idiot was an insult to useful idiots. He also called him an “eager puppy.”
This is an interesting tactic for Chris Wallace, since in 2017, he publicly criticized Fox News’s opinion hosts for bashing the media as unprofessional. See, it’s okay for Wallace to say someone’s not a journalist, they’re an eager puppy. But Tucker should never say that about oh, say, Brian Williams or Don Lemon.
This is also an interesting tack since it was his own father Mike Wallace who went to meet with Ayatollah Khomeini in his earliest days as the dictator of Iran, and American hostage-taker back in 1979. He’s remembered for describing the view of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat: “He called you, forgive me, Imam — his words,…
