by Leo Hohmann, Leo Hohmann:
The neocons in Washington and their establishment lackeys in the corporate media are all in a dither about Tucker Carlson going to Russia to interview that country’s president, Vladimir Putin.
I thought that was what journalists did: Travel to foreign countries to interview world leaders. God knows we’ve seen enough interviews with Mr. Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine who has shut down all opposition parties and banned all media that he considers unfriendly to his cause and yet somehow gets lifted up as a paragon of “democracy.” But we’ve heard nothing from Putin. Our Western media has blacked Putin out while at the same time assigning motives to him that may or may not be accurate. He wants to “restore the old Soviet empire,” said Mike Pence. That’s a refrain we hear over and over again. But is there any evidence of that?
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Some of the more low-IQ folks in the conservative media have never concerned themselves with evidence. They just like to pile on. And they’re all jumping on Tucker. The neocon warmonger William Kristol, who has for decades served as a water boy for the military-industrial complex, has even suggested the U.S. government should prevent Tucker Carlson from returning to the United States of America.
These crackpot politicians and fake journalists really do want Americans to only hear one side of the Russia-Ukraine story. They are terrified that the money-laundering gravy train that runs through Ukraine could come to a screeching halt if the people ever became informed on the historical backstory surrounding Ukraine, Russia and NATO.
Major newspaper outlets like the New York Times, USA Today, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph and the Washington Post, along with TV networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN and even Newsmax, are big on feeding us Western propaganda and little on facts.
But I did find one fair-minded article on the topic of Tucker’s visit to Russia. It was authored by Spencer Brown at Townhall, which I have reposted below, along with a video of Tucker Carlson speaking for himself on why he’s interviewing Putin.
Confirming reports and rumors that the former Fox News Channel anchor had traveled to Russia to interview President Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson released something of a preview on Tuesday before he conducted his interview with Russia’s president in Moscow.
“It’s our job,” Carlson explained of why he’d undertake such an interview while acknowledging “there are risks” involved in such a project. “We’re in journalism, our duty is to inform people,” he reiterated.
“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine, or what his goals are now,” Carlson continued. “They’ve never heard his voice – that’s wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they’re implicated in, and we have the right to tell them about it because we are Americans too,” Carlson emphasized in the video posted from Russia’s capital.
“Freedom of speech is our birthright,” Carlson said, contrasting Americans’ freedom with the bleak lack of individual freedoms in Russia. “We were born with the right to say what we believe, that right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House,” he noted. “But they’re trying anyway.”
One hopes this emphasis on journalism and a free press means Carlson will press Putin on Russia’s wrongful imprisonment of the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich who’s been held in the notorious Lefortovo prison for more than 314 days.
“Almost three years ago, the Biden administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked their contents to their servants in the news media,” Carlson reminded. “They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning. Last month, we’re pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again,” he revealed. “But this time we came to Moscow anyway.”
Speaking to the effects of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Carlson said that the “post-World War II economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast – and along with it the dominance of the U.S. dollar.”
Calling such impacts, along with the human lives claimed in the fighting, “history-altering developments” that “will define the lives of our grandchildren,” Carlson lamented that many Americans are not adequately informed on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and “think that nothing has really changed” as a result of the war.
