What’s America’s view on this Tucker Carlson?

  • eighthourlunch
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    281 year ago

    The only way I’d watch Tucker Carlson on purpose is in a cage fight with Mike Tyson. Pay-per-view is fine, but I’ll travel if I have to.

      • @Cinner@lemmy.worldB
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        121 year ago

        Alex is an unhinged junkie grifter, but Tucker is an evil arrogant pseudochristian grifter propagandist with a much larger fan base.

        • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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          31 year ago

          I fucking hate making fun of that horrible incident, I can’t imagine it’s easy for him to constantly be reminded about his ear being bitten on live tv.

          That being said, AJ’s sheer shock when Tyson handed him a mushroom gummy and Alex thought it was an ear and initially didn’t know how to react was pretty fucking funny.

          But fuck all these grifters.

    • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      521 year ago

      You seem awfully happy to talk about domestic American politics. Maybe you should take your own advice and shut the fuck up.

    • TooManyFoods
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      61 year ago

      I know that it was a mistake to let nazi germany have the sudetenland without a fight.

    • @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      It of interest, why has this been moderated and what rules did this comment break?

      I understand why people disagree with it and how it could upset them but I’m doubting whether it breaks any rules

        • @soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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          1 year ago

          That’s really sad if true. Mods feelings should be separate from the community rules they are volunteering to enforce.

          I’m the kind of guy who plays devil’s advocate but unfortunately I feel like I could get moderated or banned for even this commemnt (although I have not broken any rules)

                • Stamets
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                  11 year ago

                  If you would check my screenshot you would also see that your post was reinstated and then removed again, this time with the proper explanation. You violated Rule 7.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    51 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The American had touted his sit-down with Putin as a triumph for free speech, asserting that he was heading where no Western news outlets dared to tread.

    Carlson’s claim also ignored the fact that Russia’s president has spent the past two decades in power systematically stamping out free speech at home.

    He talked about a Russian “patriot” who had “eliminated a bandit” in a European capital, seeming to confirm previous reports that Russia is demanding a prisoner swap with Vadim Krasikov.

    It’s all part of how Putin justified his full-scale invasion, almost two years ago - along with “de-Nazifying” Ukraine, which he claimed is still a work in progress.

    “Sooner or later this will end in agreement,” was Putin’s message, arguing that Nato was coming to realise that defeating Russia on the battlefield would be impossible.

    The American did not push Putin at all on political repression at home, which includes locking up vocal opponents of the war in jail.


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  • brothershamus
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    211 year ago

    Remember when Lee Harvey Oswald defected to russia? And then changed his mind? I forget what happened after that.

    Yep. Mmm hmmm.

  • DigitalTraveler42
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    351 year ago

    My view as an American is that Tucker Carlson is a traitor, white supremacist, and known propagandist, fuck that guy, in the ass, with a cactus.

    • @Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “Well are we going to have a serious conversation? Because firstly I need to tell you about the 1647 agreement between the ethnic Russians located in the western Donbas who sent a letter signed gestures off screen to aide here see these letters, completely legitimate. Completely. They say that Ukraine belongs to Russia for ever and ever and they are Nazis because in 1806 the countries border was changed in the Crimean-Polish revolutionary conflict led by the Tsar of Russia.”

  • @Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The part where he claims to have asked Bill Clinton if Russia could join NATO was hilarious, whether he ever asked Clinton or not. Other than that most of the interview was “We’re just reclaiming Russian land from over a century ago” and “China is the real enemy”.

  • Orbituary
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    71 year ago

    Most sane people hate him. That’s why we will lose the election to Trump.

  • originalucifer
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    871 year ago

    The American had touted his sit-down with Putin as a triumph for free speech, asserting that he was heading where no Western news outlets dared to tread.

    its amazing that carlson points out his own purpose here is not ‘news’.

    • xor
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      1041 year ago

      Amusingly, even the russian government corrected him on that too - to paraphrase, “we have lots of requests to interview Putin, he just doesn’t want to do it”

      • Hyperreality
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        981 year ago

        “we have lots of requests to interview Putin, he just doesn’t want to do it”

        Because they’re actual journalists who would ask serious questions.

    • @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      The even more amazing part is that the Kremlin debunked him. They said they constantly get interview requests from journalists. They just never accept them.

      Edit: Just saw this posted as a response already.