The Denouement of The Tucker Show in Moscow Results in Embarrassing Interview

Putin lied freely and openly with zero pushback from the former hero of Fox News

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For years, Donald Trump was permitted to say whatever he wanted, and no matter how audacious the lie, the Fox News anchors never offered even a peep of pushback. Their systemic silence in the face of Trump’s lies meant only one thing for the millions of Foxified Americans: What Trump was saying was obviously the truth; otherwise, they’d be challenging him. 

The whole encounter in the Kremlin opened with a history lecture. Putin wrote a long essay before the war that denied Ukraine’s existence as a sovereign state. He now appears to have learned it by heart. He delivered his thesis, eyes burning with conviction, as Carlson’s own burned with boredom and disbelief. For fans who managed to stay tuned any longer, the reward was a re-run of Putin’s top, twisted arguments. He aired his regular grievance about Nato expanding east into what Russia sees as its area of influence. “We never agreed Ukraine could join Nato,” as Putin put it (Putin Takes Charge).

Let me take a chance here and do the job that Tucker Carlson failed to do.

“Mr. Shithead — I mean President, the United States during the Clinton administration never promised Boris Yeltsin that there would be no NATO expansion. Show this ‘promise’ to us. Where is it written? As a part of the ‘Partnership for Peace’ initiative, every country was permitted to decide whether they wanted to join NATO or not. You yourself, until 2003, flirted with the idea of joining NATO.”

What would have been Putin’s reaction to this direct reference to reality? The West never promised that there would be no expansion of NATO, and to suggest that there was such a promise is a bald-faced lie. Tucker? Do you wish you could get that moment back? 

Putin’s eyes were bulging in delight as he just randomly “made shit up.” He seemed to mock Ukrainians over the “mobilization hysteria” in the country as if to suggest that there was no reason for people to be flocking to the metro tunnels during the regular air raids — one that took place just two days ago, hitting apartment buildings in cities all over the country. 

Putin told a story that belonged on Russian television. He told a story that only Russians and non-thinking Putinists throughout the world could believe. In the runup to the interview, Carlson, in his usually over-confident manner that always seems just one syllable away from becoming sickly snarky, told the world that “Americans had the right to hear the truth from Putin about why this war commenced.” 

What Carlson got was a Suessian tale of bullshit, hearsay, and fantasy. Putin, in a world inhabited only by him and a handful of other insane cowards, announced smugly to the world that the Russian and Ukrainian peoples will again be friends — the relationship will heal.

It’s all part of how Putin justified his full-scale invasion almost two years ago — along with “de-Nazifying” Ukraine, which he claimed is still a work in progress. Kyiv fiercely disputes every word of it. At one point, Putin insisted that “relations between the two peoples will be rebuilt. They will heal (Putin Takes Charge)”.

Putin doesn’t speak with Ukrainians. He hasn’t had the ones forced out of their homes and country because of flying missiles over to his house for dinners. Russian-speaking Ukrainians are now making every possible effort to learn Ukrainian because no one in their country wants to speak the language of the enemy anymore. Before the war, this never would have happened. Putin drove them to this. Putin’s declaration that the countries will heal is pure lunacy.

Tucker Carlson fumbled any chance he might have had at getting Putin on some record concerning the multitude of war crimes he and his savages have committed. Carlson said nothing about Bucha. He said nothing about theaters full of women and children getting blown up despite the huge letters on the roof spelling the word: Children. 

“Mr. President, how are the children who were forcibly removed from their families in Ukraine doing out in Siberia?”

Surely, such a question would have ruffled the feathers of the sickly dictator. 

Carlson was nothing but a master of ceremonies for a roast of our common sense. Putin was roasting Ukraine. He was roasting reality, and Tucker Carlson sat there at times so quiet it almost seemed he was frozen — his mouth hung a little open to suggest that even he might be struggling to believe the lies being told to him as truth. Then, he dared to let Putin lead us into the favorite and most laughable topic of all: a discussion about the Russian soul. This is something people who don’t understand Russia always look to as being unique and rich. The Russian soul! 

From someone who lived there for 30 years, all I can say about the Russian soul is, “Please, don’t me laugh.” 

Carlson had to return to Putin’s Moscow when the interview was over. He had to return to a hotel room that was undoubtedly being monitored night and day by the FSB. He had to return to a Moscow, where every person he came across was undoubtedly part of the big Tucker Show. Like in the famous movie The Truman Show, a massive production crew, writers, and actors carefully cultivated everything poor Truman saw, heard, and knew. Tucker’s trip to Moscow was no different.

It was all just a great big lie, and now it has become a lie readily available and watchable for millions all over the world. In a shout-out to House Republicans refusing to approve any aid to Ukraine supposedly until a wall has been built on the Southern border, Putin gleefully asked Americans: “Why are you bothering yourselves with Ukraine? It’s so far away from you. What, you have no other problems in your country that you could be focused on?” His eyes lit up, and a grotesque smirk crawled across his face, the kind you want to remove with a cinder block to the head.

Tucker just sat there like a dope and nodded his head.