Tucker Carlson has announced he’ll be interviewing Vladimir Putin soon in a video designed to garner attention for the effort. But like a lot of things Carlson says these days, some of it is pure and obvious bunk. Take for instance his claim about being the first western journalist to bother interviewing Putin.
Speaking of western countries take on the war in Ukraine Carlson said, “Their media outlets are corrupt. They lie to their readers and viewers and they do that mostly by omission.” He continued, “Since the day the war in Ukraine began, American media outlets have spoke to scores of people from Ukraine and they’ve done scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Zelensky. We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zelensky and we hope he accepts. But the interviews he’s already done in the United States are not traditional interviews. They are fawning pep…