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?