Opinion Tucker Carlson Goes It Alone on Putin
As Vladimir Putin commenced his slow-walking invasion of Ukraine under the guise of recognizing the “independence“ of Donetsk and Luhansk, only one major media commentator provided intellectual cover for the Russian leader’s adventure: Fox News Channel’s preeminent star, Tucker Carlson.
In his Tuesday evening broadcast, Carlson didn’t strike a pro-Putin pose as much as an anti-anti-Putin one. Putin, Carlson explained, has never done him — and by extension — the viewer, any wrong. Putin’s never called Carlson racist. Threatened to have him sacked. Never manufactured a lockdown-inducing pandemic. Never taught his children critical race theory or made fentanyl or attacked Christianity. So why does the Washington, D.C. establishment hate him so much?
It was a weird tack for Carlson, who is much smarter than this, to take. Sure, Putin has avoided doing a lot of naughty and retrograde things other people and nations have done. But finding him innocent of charges that nobody has leveled against him is an asinine way of demonstrating his guiltlessness. I’ve never beaten a kitten to death with my bare hands. Does virtuousness come with that?
As Carlson continued, the Putin-haters hate Putin because of the “border dispute” he has going “with a nation called Ukraine.” Border dispute?! In the civilized world, aggrieved nations usually present their border disputes before the United Nations for relief and adjudication and don’t surround their dispute partners with more than 150,000 well-armed troops. With this single head-juke, Carlson pasteurizes the abscessing conflict to the point that you could pour it down the gullet of a newborn with no ill effect. The pasteurization goes on, as Carlson claims Ukraine is not worth standing up for because it’s not, in his opinion, a democracy, and he literally reduces President Joe Biden’s position to “Putin bad, war good.”
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Carlson is a fucking idiot. That is all.
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