Your favorite media entertainer spouts anti-American rhetoric that Russia has latched onto for its propaganda value. Fox dismissing the entertainer as someone no rational person would believe does not take into account all the irrational people who form a feeding frenzy around his colostomy bag of tricks.
In the days before Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Fox News’s biggest star insisted that the brewing conflict was
no big deal. And in a series of monologues done with his trademark condescension,
Tucker Carlson insisted that Russia was in the right and Ukraine in the wrong—
or, at the very least, there was no discernible moral difference between a flawed democracy and the autocracy poised to invade it.
Despite the stark attention it was receiving from the U.S. government and media,
Carlson minimized the matter, characterizing it as a tempest in a teapot, a “border dispute.”
Ukraine, in Carlson’s view,
was “not a democracy” but rather a client state,
“a colony with a puppet regime” that was “essentially managed by the State Department.”...
... [O]n Wednesday, any expectation that Carlson and Fox News colleague Laura Ingraham would tone down the pro-Putin disinformation they’d been feeding their viewers quickly evaporated.
Instead, Carlson used Wednesday’s show to wave the flag not for the U.S. or its suffering ally Ukraine, but for Putin. Questioning why we should hate the autocratic and isolated Russian ruler, the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host discounted Ukraine as “a pure client state of the United States State Department.” (A blatant lie.]
That same evening, Ingraham blamed the conflict on the “weakness and the incompetence” of the Biden administration, a position echoed by a number of Republican elected officials, and called Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s desperate appeal for Putin to stop the attack a “pathetic display.” You read that correctly. She was mocking a last-ditch effort to save lives and country.
Along with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Carlson has downplayed Russian aggression against Ukraine and NATO. Thursday, he tried to change his tune.
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What the Fox News host’s flip-flop on the invasion of Ukraine says about his influence and read on foreign affairs.
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