Tucker Carlson Freaks Out After Being Accused Of Spreading Russian Propaganda

Tucker Carlson's Fox News program has been promoted in Russia, thanks to Carlson's relentlessly pro-Russian stance on their invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin is even telling state-controlled media outlets to run his clips. But late last week, after a Republican member of Congress called out Carlson's propaganda, the Fox host became irate and went into a delusional tirade defending his program. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Fox news host Tucker Carlson has basically found himself in a weird position. These last few weeks, as Russia continues their assault on Ukraine. See Tucker has had the unique distinction among Russian media outlets of being featured on their programs on a regular basis. They just run his analogs, you know, translated into Russian of course, and they show the Russian people that Hey, even Americans think Ukraine is bad and that Russia's not that bad effectively. They're using Tucker Carlson's own broadcasts as propaganda in their own country, which I'm sure is very helpful for them since all their propaganda outlets in Europe and the United States had been shut down. But the Kremlin of course recently sent out a memo to the state run media outlets, encouraging them. And I put air quotes around that because if the Kremlin tells them to do something, they do it to run Tucker Carlson's clip.

So this is literally coming from Vladimir Putin's own government run Tucker's clips because he's doing our propaganda for us. Well, when this was pointed out to Tucker Carlson by a Republican member of the house of representatives, in fact, it was, uh, Republican representative, Michael MCCA, who is the ranking Republican on the house foreign affairs committee actually last week called Carl out, not to his face, unfortunately, but mentioned that. Yeah, this is Russian propaganda. What you're doing talker. Well, last Thursday night, Tucker Carlson absolutely lost it and went off on representative MCCA saying this in recent days, McCall has to hold a number of people that this show was an organ of Russian disinformation. That is not fine. That is slander. We don't care what the Russian government does. So you have to ask yourself, why are so many Republicans suddenly talking like Joe Biden? And the answer is because the big questions, the questions that matter, they agree with E each other. And you should know that

That's a lot of words to literally say nothing, right? Did you discern any point from what I just read that Carlson said on the air, in defending his own show against accusations of being Russian propaganda, like you literally go on Tucker does to kind of spew some Russian propaganda, like, ah, they're all in it together. These Democrats and Republicans, they just want us to think Ukraine is the victim. Ukraine is the victim here. Does that mean everything Ukraine has ever done is great. Wonderful, perfect. Absolutely not. Does that mean there's not horror, horrible people in Ukraine? Certainly. Doesn't we got horrible people here in the United States by the way, but that would never justify somebody coming in and trying to annex our own land. We wouldn't stand for it. Why should they?

But slander, nah. See, Republicans love to throw out words like that because slander of course is an illegal activity. So Carlson goes out there tries to accuse, not even tries. He accuses MCCA straight up of committing a criminal activity slander, which is illegal civilly, illegal against his own program. Um, you can't do that Tucker like you can't just go out. The, this is slander. It's not though MCCA was giving his opinion, but even if he had stated it as a direct fact, the fact that even the Kremlin and views it as pro Russian propaganda should tell you everything. You need to know. If the Russian government wants to use clips of you as propaganda against their own people, probably a good indication that you are in fact, spitting Russian, Russian propaganda. I have to imagine it's only a matter time before the Kremlin also starts to target some of these other, you know, little YouTube folks who are very clearly pushing Russian propaganda, anti Ukraine, propaganda, basically doesn't have to be pro Russia, just anti Ukraine. So yeah, maybe we can expect to see clips of those soon on Kremlin sponsored television.