"Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War"

"IN THE HOURS since Russia launched its military assault on Ukraine, the
news on Russian state television has been dominated by official
statements and reports from war correspondents. But in the days leading
up to the attack, as the state broadcaster worked to tarnish Ukraine and
cast American criticism of President Vladimir Putin as hysterical, its producers borrowed heavily from another source: Fox News.

At least four times this week, Russian news reports have featured
translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic U.S. representative, attacking the Biden administration."

"What’s more, one report broadcast on Russian television’s main channel Sunday did more than just quote Carlson: It developed and sharpened a
political attack on a prominent Democratic senator that Carlson had just
hinted at.

At 8 p.m. on Sunday, a primetime review of the week’s news presented by Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite, featured remarks from the
opening monologue of Carlson’s February 17 show, in which the American commentator trashed Ukraine’s government."

"“These people are so ghoulish,” Carlson said of U.S. officials who provided military aid to Ukraine. “Of course they’re promoting war,” Carlson continued, as his comments were translated into Russian, “not to maintain the democracy that is Ukraine. Ukraine is not a democracy. It
has never been a democracy in its history, and it’s not now. It’s a
client state of the Biden administration.”

The Russian broadcast cut away from Carlson’s monologue at this point to
show Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s appearance at the United
Nations that day. But that exactly echoed the next part of the original
Fox News broadcast, which also showed Blinken on screen as Carlson
mocked his warning that Russia might stage a false flag attack and blame
it on Ukraine as a pretext for war.

An hour later, the evening news program on Russia’s main state
television channel used a longer excerpt from the same Carlson monologue
and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News host’s attack on a Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested that
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only
doing so because of donations from American defense contractors like
Raytheon."
[snip]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-praise

"TUCKER CARLSON HOPING WE CAN JUST FORGET ABOUT ALL THE TIMES HE
INSISTED PUTIN WAS THE BEST"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald-coping-russia-ukraine-wrong-wrong-wrong.html

"How the Most Russia-Friendly Corners of American Punditry Are Coping
With the Ukraine Crisis"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald-coping-russia-ukraine-wrong-wrong-wrong.html

"Before the Invasion
1. Ukraine isn’t a real country or, at the least, one that anyone should
care about. This was Tucker Carlson’s argument on his highly rated
prime-time Fox News show: that the Ukraine crisis was a “border dispute”
in an “obscure” part of the world (he specifically belittled the idea
that Americans should care what happens to people in Moldova) and that
the country’s government is a sham administration that only exists to perpetuate Biden family corruption. (There’s more in this Washington
Post story about the impeachment-related background to the latter claim.)"

"2. U.S. liberals are hostile toward Russia because it isn’t “woke.”"

"3. The threat of invasion was overstated by hysterical NATO imperialists."

TB

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On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 1:17:43 PM UTC-8, Technobarbarian wrote:

"Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War"

"IN THE HOURS since Russia launched its military assault on Ukraine, the news on Russian state television has been dominated by official
statements and reports from war correspondents. But in the days leading
up to the attack, as the state broadcaster worked to tarnish Ukraine and cast American criticism of President Vladimir Putin as hysterical, its producers borrowed heavily from another source: Fox News.

At least four times this week, Russian news reports have featured
translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic U.S. representative, attacking the Biden administration."

"What’s more, one report broadcast on Russian television’s main channel Sunday did more than just quote Carlson: It developed and sharpened a political attack on a prominent Democratic senator that Carlson had just hinted at.

At 8 p.m. on Sunday, a primetime review of the week’s news presented by Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite, featured remarks from the opening monologue of Carlson’s February 17 show, in which the American commentator trashed Ukraine’s government."

"“These people are so ghoulish,” Carlson said of U.S. officials who provided military aid to Ukraine. “Of course they’re promoting war,” Carlson continued, as his comments were translated into Russian, “not to maintain the democracy that is Ukraine. Ukraine is not a democracy. It
has never been a democracy in its history, and it’s not now. It’s a client state of the Biden administration.”

The Russian broadcast cut away from Carlson’s monologue at this point to show Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s appearance at the United
Nations that day. But that exactly echoed the next part of the original
Fox News broadcast, which also showed Blinken on screen as Carlson
mocked his warning that Russia might stage a false flag attack and blame
it on Ukraine as a pretext for war.

An hour later, the evening news program on Russia’s main state
television channel used a longer excerpt from the same Carlson monologue
and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News host’s attack on a Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested that Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only
doing so because of donations from American defense contractors like Raytheon."
[snip]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-praise

"TUCKER CARLSON HOPING WE CAN JUST FORGET ABOUT ALL THE TIMES HE
INSISTED PUTIN WAS THE BEST"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald-coping-russia-ukraine-wrong-wrong-wrong.html

"How the Most Russia-Friendly Corners of American Punditry Are Coping
With the Ukraine Crisis"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald-coping-russia-ukraine-wrong-wrong-wrong.html

"Before the Invasion
1. Ukraine isn’t a real country or, at the least, one that anyone should care about. This was Tucker Carlson’s argument on his highly rated prime-time Fox News show: that the Ukraine crisis was a “border dispute” in an “obscure” part of the world (he specifically belittled the idea that Americans should care what happens to people in Moldova) and that
the country’s government is a sham administration that only exists to perpetuate Biden family corruption. (There’s more in this Washington
Post story about the impeachment-related background to the latter claim.)"

"2. U.S. liberals are hostile toward Russia because it isn’t “woke.”"

"3. The threat of invasion was overstated by hysterical NATO imperialists."

TB

That pasty faced dweeb has become our own home gown "Tokyo Rose"! How anyone claiming to be a "Patriot" would pay attention to his prattle, is testimony to the world being upside down! What a weaselly shitbird, to be a shot caller for Republicans!
WTF is wrong with those people?

A. Lincoln VIII

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On 3/2/2022 7:14 PM, film...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 1:17:43 PM UTC-8, Technobarbarian wrote:

"Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War"

"IN THE HOURS since Russia launched its military assault on Ukraine, the
news on Russian state television has been dominated by official
statements and reports from war correspondents. But in the days leading
up to the attack, as the state broadcaster worked to tarnish Ukraine and
cast American criticism of President Vladimir Putin as hysterical, its
producers borrowed heavily from another source: Fox News.

At least four times this week, Russian news reports have featured
translated clips of Tucker Carlson or his guest Tulsi Gabbard, a former
Democratic U.S. representative, attacking the Biden administration."

"What’s more, one report broadcast on Russian television’s main channel >> Sunday did more than just quote Carlson: It developed and sharpened a
political attack on a prominent Democratic senator that Carlson had just
hinted at.

At 8 p.m. on Sunday, a primetime review of the week’s news presented by
Dmitry Kiselev, a bombastic Putin favorite, featured remarks from the
opening monologue of Carlson’s February 17 show, in which the American
commentator trashed Ukraine’s government."

"“These people are so ghoulish,” Carlson said of U.S. officials who
provided military aid to Ukraine. “Of course they’re promoting war,” >> Carlson continued, as his comments were translated into Russian, “not to >> maintain the democracy that is Ukraine. Ukraine is not a democracy. It
has never been a democracy in its history, and it’s not now. It’s a
client state of the Biden administration.”

The Russian broadcast cut away from Carlson’s monologue at this point to >> show Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s appearance at the United
Nations that day. But that exactly echoed the next part of the original
Fox News broadcast, which also showed Blinken on screen as Carlson
mocked his warning that Russia might stage a false flag attack and blame
it on Ukraine as a pretext for war.

An hour later, the evening news program on Russia’s main state
television channel used a longer excerpt from the same Carlson monologue
and shaped its own report to amplify the Fox News host’s attack on a
Democrat. In the original Fox News broadcast, Carlson had suggested that
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
who worked to arm Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, was only
doing so because of donations from American defense contractors like
Raytheon."
[snip]

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/tucker-carlson-vladimir-putin-praise >>
"TUCKER CARLSON HOPING WE CAN JUST FORGET ABOUT ALL THE TIMES HE
INSISTED PUTIN WAS THE BEST"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald-coping-russia-ukraine-wrong-wrong-wrong.html

"How the Most Russia-Friendly Corners of American Punditry Are Coping
With the Ukraine Crisis"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/tucker-carlson-glenn-greenwald-coping-russia-ukraine-wrong-wrong-wrong.html

"Before the Invasion
1. Ukraine isn’t a real country or, at the least, one that anyone should >> care about. This was Tucker Carlson’s argument on his highly rated
prime-time Fox News show: that the Ukraine crisis was a “border dispute” >> in an “obscure” part of the world (he specifically belittled the idea
that Americans should care what happens to people in Moldova) and that
the country’s government is a sham administration that only exists to
perpetuate Biden family corruption. (There’s more in this Washington
Post story about the impeachment-related background to the latter claim.)" >>
"2. U.S. liberals are hostile toward Russia because it isn’t “woke.”" >>
"3. The threat of invasion was overstated by hysterical NATO imperialists." >>
TB

That pasty faced dweeb has become our own home gown "Tokyo Rose"! How anyone claiming to be a "Patriot" would pay attention to his prattle, is testimony to the world being upside down! What a weaselly shitbird, to be a shot caller for Republicans!

WTF is wrong with those people?

A. Lincoln VIII

It's not all that unusual. A big part of the orange idiot's appeal
is that he represents the traditional isolationist wing of the
Republican party. Build walls, don't get involved in foreign disputes
that don't concern us, etc, etc. One of the things people forget is that
what we now call appeasement, was very popular after the bleeding of
WWI. People seriously wanted the promised "peace in our time". The
easiest lies to sell are the ones people want to believe. We also have
all sorts of ways to spread mis-information and propaganda now.
Everyone's propaganda is becoming more sophisticated all the time.

OTOH people continually amaze me. I'm gobsmacked that people are
willing to die to prove their faith in their cult. The Ukrainians amaze
me. The truck convoy supposedly headed to DC amazes me. While all this
is going on they plan to try to jam up traffic around our Capitol
because small steps to protect Americans. I'm looking forward to it.

https://www.rawstory.com/dc-trucker-freedom-convoy/

"‘Rife with the potential for violence’: Despite obstacles, truckers
convoy headed to DC this weekend"

TB

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread
winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the
false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as
your knowledge.”

― Issac Asimov

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