Turns out he did not, but really, no one would be surprised if he actually did do this.
This is the guy that in private said “I hate him passionately” about Ronald McDonald, but now is back to having his lips around Ronald McDonald’s little mushroom…
I don’t like Tucker Carlson, but he’s doing the most American thing he can possibly do.
Name anything more American than giving zero fucks about the moral/ethical/destructive/antisocial implications of an action and TAKING THE FUCKING MONEY?
That is literally our most cherished core value in practice, prioritized higher than any other claimed values we pay lip service to. We literally make children go hungry and leave their public schools in underfunded ruin to cut our most zealous profiteer’s taxes and call it horseshit like “fostering self-reliance.”
I don’t like that about us, I don’t like us period. But it’s who we are, balls to bones. People either fucking each other over for moooaaaaaar money, or fantasizing about getting to be the ones doing it, when we aren’t shooting each other at least.
Our practiced values are wrong, and fully explain the hell we’ve made for ourselves. Tucker/Trump/Jones/McConnell etc people exist in prominence precisely because we celebrate/worship/emulate greed and the greedy instead of throwing rotten fruit at them when they show their faces. We literally beg life advice of our antisocial greed lords.
If I was him, I’d be a little cautious about taking Russian money. It’s not about damaging your own reputation. (its already damaged anyway). Its about being subject to Putin and Russian oligarchs and getting unalived if failing to do certain things.
If this were all true we wouldn’t have Medicaid, Medicare, or social security. There wouldn’t be welfare, literally at all and Unions wouldn’t exist. Not to mention that slavery would never have been abolished.
There is a moral core that has run through this country since it’s inception that is currently being suppressed by the ultra wealthy in their race to gain more wealth and power through the use of social media platforms and most major media outlets. But there’s only so much their suppression can do before that moral core comes knocking at their doors and demands a reckoning.
To be fair this article is about Tucker’s media company denying that they have anything to do with this and all that’s been “produced” so far are Russian dubs of old episodes.
It will not shock me if it’s true but so far there is no evidence.
To be fair, he definitely knew this was happening and did nothing to stop it, at the least - because of course, he’s a willing prop for fascist dictators like putin
Correction 05/21/24, 1:10 p.m. ET: This article was updated to make clear there is no evidence the Tucker Carlson Network has done a deal with Russian state TV.
They changed the article title and comment to correctly reflect the report that Russia is just playing his crap which says enough about his ideology. But real lax initial reporting standards…
As a Swede I read news about the American prez ellection while on the bus home from work, and I just get madder and madder, then I suddenly realize that I am not a US citizen and don’t even live in the US, and I relax…
That won’t relax them. Other NATO countries don’t want to pay for defence. They want the US to organize it and do most of the defending so they can pay for social services.
I remember ribbing an english friend about brexit just before trump got elected. then I was all like, yeah but he will be gone in a few years. Now I am here with a decade later being just a few years away and looking down the barrel of him having taken one of the two parties that win elections over here.
How much more proof do people need that shows this fuck along with Fox News and the Republican Party that they’re Russian informants, propagandists, useful idiots or all the above? The critical thinking in this country is beyond abysmal.
People who can stand watching Tucker at all already have brain worms. What is that racist screed he did about diversity, didn’t it essentially boil down to, “what if I go to my hometown and hear Spanish? What if an ESL barber gives me a bad haircut?” Only a dimwit who has already chosen racism over thinking about anything would listen to that without recoiling in revulsion.
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