In Carlson’s interview with Putin, truth was nowhere to be found

[Michie]

In America, Tucker Carlson, unceremoniously fired last year from his bully pulpit at Fox News, is known for his biting sarcasm and derisive cynicism.

Yet, in Russia, he recently met, in the course of a two-hour interview, the master of gaslighting and Orwellian tactics, whose cynicism is uniquely insidious. It is, tragically, at the root of wars and genocide, crimes against humanity, the murders of journalists and opposition politicians. The “defender of traditional values” who belittles the morals of the West, and surreptitiously strives to shake Western, especially American, democratic foundations, has for a quarter-century led Russia, guided by the goal of a neo-imperial glory. And under him, Russia indeed remains a global leader — in abortions and divorces, alcoholism and suicide, and of course, systemic, pervasive, all-embracing state corruption.

So serpentine was his interviewee that Carlson himself was occasionally confounded, especially when he asked about the release of the imprisoned Wall Street Journal writer, Evan Gershkovich. Attempting to score political points back home, Carlson called for “the kid” to be released, receiving a barrage of sarcastic retorts.


There is a saying popular in the former Soviet Union: “Once you start playing cards with a cardsharp, you’ve already lost.” When two cardsharps play, the truth gets lost, because if one person lies and another speaks the truth, the truth is never in the middle. Actually, the truth is not a compromise between the left and the right, a middle road between speaker/position 1 and speaker/position 2. The truth is where it is. Throughout Carlson’s interview with Putin, truth was nowhere to be found.

Why Carlson?​

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In Carlson's interview with Putin, truth was nowhere to be found

U.S. television host Tucker Carlson speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview in Moscow Feb. 6. Archbishop Gudziak shares his thoughts on the interview.

www.oursundayvisitor.com

 

[chevyontheriver]

In America, Tucker Carlson, unceremoniously fired last year from his bully pulpit at Fox News, is known for his biting sarcasm and derisive cynicism.

Yet, in Russia, he recently met, in the course of a two-hour interview, the master of gaslighting and Orwellian tactics, whose cynicism is uniquely insidious. It is, tragically, at the root of wars and genocide, crimes against humanity, the murders of journalists and opposition politicians. The “defender of traditional values” who belittles the morals of the West, and surreptitiously strives to shake Western, especially American, democratic foundations, has for a quarter-century led Russia, guided by the goal of a neo-imperial glory. And under him, Russia indeed remains a global leader — in abortions and divorces, alcoholism and suicide, and of course, systemic, pervasive, all-embracing state corruption.

So serpentine was his interviewee that Carlson himself was occasionally confounded, especially when he asked about the release of the imprisoned Wall Street Journal writer, Evan Gershkovich. Attempting to score political points back home, Carlson called for “the kid” to be released, receiving a barrage of sarcastic retorts.


There is a saying popular in the former Soviet Union: “Once you start playing cards with a cardsharp, you’ve already lost.” When two cardsharps play, the truth gets lost, because if one person lies and another speaks the truth, the truth is never in the middle. Actually, the truth is not a compromise between the left and the right, a middle road between speaker/position 1 and speaker/position 2. The truth is where it is. Throughout Carlson’s interview with Putin, truth was nowhere to be found.

Why Carlson?​

Continued below.

In Carlson's interview with Putin, truth was nowhere to be found

U.S. television host Tucker Carlson speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview in Moscow Feb. 6. Archbishop Gudziak shares his thoughts on the interview.

www.oursundayvisitor.com

I suspect the CIA has poured over the interview hundreds of times by now. Putin is a player. A dangerous one. And he revealed himself. OK, he's still an enigma, but a bit less of one now.

One thing he revealed is how oppressed by Poland he feels, and by extension, how oppressed by Catholicism he feels.

 

[Love365]

Russia and Ukraine need seats in European Parliament.
Russia a major European power should have been
given EU seats in 1993.

Russia also needs seats in the Council of Europe.

Russia also needs seats in the European Political Community.