Mod: You might say that Fox News is a friend to our enemies. But then again, since its anti-American ownership is foreign, can you really say the intent is treasonous?Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson’s Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far (The Daily Beastlink): With Russian troops steadily massing on the Ukraine border and a looming threat of an invasion that the White House described as “imminent,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson would have you look the other way.
During the episode of his Monday show,
Carlson pondered: “Why is it disloyal to side with
Russia but loyal to side with
Ukraine?” Three years earlier,
Carlson admitted that he is rooting for
Russia in its conflict with
Ukraine. He said, in part: “Why do I care… what is going on in the conflict between
Ukraine and
Russia? And I’m serious. Why do I care? Why shouldn’t I root for
Russia, which I am?”
Facing criticism,
Carlson walked back his comments and claimed he was “joking.” In
2022, he is unabashedly pushing the talking points favored by the
Kremlin and no longer making excuses.
Carlson is going so far to support the
Russian propaganda narrative that prominent personalities on the
Kremlin-funded state television are concerned about his future in the
United States.
Last Sunday, one of
Russia’s most-watched television networks
Channel One played the clip from
Carlson’s show, where he argued that
Russia’s anger at
NATO’s alleged involvement in
Ukraine was well-justified.
Reporter Ivan Blagoy then noted the
Fox News host “is predictably being accused of playing along with
Moscow.”
Broadcasting the same translated clip of
Carlson last week on
Russia’s second most-watched TV network,
Rossiya-1, host of
60 Minutes Evgeny Popov fawned over
Carlson by describing him as one of the “
voices of truth and reason” and complained that the host of the most-watched show in all of cable news with millions of viewers is being “silenced and marginalized.” In 2020,
Popov demonstrated his affinity for
Carlson by introducing him as “
practically our co-host.”
Last Wednesday,
Russia’s
English-language state media outlet
Russia Today published an op-ed by
Irish commentator
Graham Dockery, who marveled: “Once considered a sewer pipe of neoconservative jingoism,
Fox News is now anti-war—or at least its top-rated host is... The picture is clear: When it comes to
Ukraine, pundits and commentators from the establishment left to the neocon right only disagree on how quickly and strongly the
U.S. should wade in to stop a potential
Russian invasion of
Ukraine.
Only
Carlson, considered far-right by
American liberals, is in complete opposition to
U.S. involvement.”
RT’s writer complained “the sole anti-war voice on prime-time cable happens to belong to a man whom liberals believe is a “white supremacist,” thus undermining his considerable influence.
Mod: The only reason Tuckyo Rose is "anti-war" is it serves the interests of his man-love Vladimir Putin. There is more at the link.
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