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Chris Wallace: Calling Tucker Carlson a useful idiot is unfair to useful idiots (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2024 OP
Even the Kremlin called him out for being a tool. TwilightZone Feb 2024 #1
Thinking back to the cold war, and the Joe McCarthy era, I've never seen anything even close to this guy Walleye Feb 2024 #2
"Tucker Carlson: useless idiot" struggle4progress Feb 2024 #3
Nice. TwilightZone Feb 2024 #6
That'll work. calimary Feb 2024 #7
Burn! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2024 #4
Tucker Carlson is, and always has been, a useless idiot. Ocelot II Feb 2024 #5
Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark Devilsun Feb 2024 #8
Tuckums, a boy born into unimaginable American privilege and money, given every advantage... Hekate Feb 2024 #9
So when does he move to Moscow? KS Toronado Feb 2024 #10
IOW, he's an idiot, but not particularly useful Warpy Feb 2024 #11
Traitor Tucker that is all Nululu Feb 2024 #12
I don't trust anyone who worked for Fox News for 18 years. totodeinhere Feb 2024 #13

Walleye

(32,746 posts)
2. Thinking back to the cold war, and the Joe McCarthy era, I've never seen anything even close to this guy
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 02:21 PM
Feb 2024

I don’t think those uptight assholes from the 50s could’ve possibly imagine what the Republican party has turned into, especially with a prominent, influential, outright traitor like this as the slick American salesman for Russia.

Hekate

(92,596 posts)
9. Tuckums, a boy born into unimaginable American privilege and money, given every advantage...
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 04:07 PM
Feb 2024

…sucking up to a dictator.

Widdle Pucker: Useful Idiot.

Warpy

(112,248 posts)
11. IOW, he's an idiot, but not particularly useful
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 05:11 PM
Feb 2024

not even to Putin, who came off as what he is, a head of state surrounded by yes men and who has been driven completely bonkers by the job and thinks he's the reincarnation of all the notable Russian Czars, es0ecially the ones from 500 0r so years ago.

Even Tuck's pro Russian fanboys are looking at this and going "Whaaaa?" as they've tried to soldier on through two hours of Russian boilerplate about destiny and spiritual connections and all that other crap crazy motherfuckers use to justify genocide.

It did little to increase Tuck's relevance as any sort of a journalist since he sat there and did as he was told, rather than asking the questions we'd all like some answers to. I suppsee he didn't want his shorts starched with Novichok.

One takeaway from this non interview, however, is that Putin feels vulnerable for the first time in many years. I can't see him giving this interview with the tamest non reporter on the planet a year ago. He did it now and tried his level best to be persuasive to people who support Russia because they hate Democrats or the ruling parties in their own countries.

Putin's too much of a windbag for that, contrarian nitwits need snappy slogans and buzz words. He failed to deliver, and Tuck failed to conduct any sort of believable performance as an interviewer.

totodeinhere

(13,200 posts)
13. I don't trust anyone who worked for Fox News for 18 years.
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 05:41 PM
Feb 2024

I don't care what Chris says now. He went along with the Fox News propaganda for far too long.

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