I apologise for sowing confusion in my last post but one – EU fury as Tucker goes to Moscow – when I wrongly said the interview with the Russian President, featured below in its two hour entirety, would only be available for paid subscribers to the Tucker Carlson Network.
Meanwhile here’s a pretty representative sample of the response from our systemically corrupt media:
All three headlines assume the job of an impartial interviewer is to control or even dominate from the outset. That’s not how Moscow sees it, as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Pescov noted yesterday before the interview aired:
A Putin interview is a very important event, especially one with foreign representatives. It’s important for us that as many people in the world as possible be familiar with the mindset and point of view of the leader of the Russian state. Americans have the right to know about a war they are implicated in.
I agree, and note that none of my three samples followed their headlines and equally sour body text with links to the interview; an omission entirely of a piece with years of trashing Mr Putin while seldom if ever offering direct access to his unmediated voice.
No thanks to them, here’s your chance to make up your own mind. A time-line to key points is supplied but it seems you do have to “Join Team Tucker” at six bucks a month to get a transcript. I can manage without and so, I’m guessing, can you. Have a good weekend.
The Vladimir Putin Interview (tuckercarlson.com)
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Yep, it’s more than time to do without the fake news consortium and go straight to the source. Wonderful interview, this man stands far above all the scumbags and other sociopaths/ psychopaths in charge in the West.
There is a transcription at:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73411
I haven’t looked at it yet so not sure if it is all there or not, but there is no subscription required. Tucker will be annoyed.
Most of the below-the-line US comments at Larry Johnston’s site seem to be of the opinion that Putin showed as a consummate statesman while Carlson was revealed as a short-attention-span ill-prepared ignoramus. That seems to be a likely realistic summing up.
Similar below Yves Smith’s intro to the interview on Naked Capitalism. A few opined that Alexander Mercouris would have done a better job but that misses the point, surely. TC is a much bigger name, despite or because of his sacking from Fox News, and closer to the mainstream. More Westerners will see Putin uncensored than would have been the case on the Duran. And, which amounts to the same thing, not every organ of Western media would have come out mob-handed to vilify the interview. They’d have ignored it.
I’m still only half way through but it seems to me that the calibre of Mr Putin’s interviewer is irrelevant. The aim was to let the West see how the RF president sees things, when mainstream media daren’t do that and have gone into overdrive on vilifying both parties. I say mission accomplished.
As for the WaPo and ‘Independent’ (lol) there’s an old Irish proverb which goes: “What can you expect from a pig but a grunt”?
I’ve just finished listening to it (I wanted to do so in full before reading any opinions or commentary about it).
I thought it was excellent and very informative. There was nothing new there, of course, for those of us who have been following world events closely over the past few years. But it’s great value is in the fact that, by virtue of its huge online audience, a lot of people who are normally subjected to the lies of the mainstream media will be able to better understand things from a Russian point of view.
The great shame, though, is the perennial problem: those who *really* need to listen to this (namely the self-satisfied, virtue-signalling ‘liberals’ who seem to populate our ‘chattering classes’) will obstinately refuse to do so
Exactly so.
Hi Phil. Glad to note that so many comments are positive about Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Pres. Putin.
I got my version from Greanville Post since I don’t like listening to video and prefer to read.
My impression of Putin is that he has a wealth of knowledge that leaves most ordinary people like me seem ignorant on matters of history. I can’t vouch for the veracity of all he said, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
I’m with Steve Jack last paragraph regarding who will thumb their nose at the whole thing and who might actually wish to be better informed. Also liked Alains comment but unlike Jams I can’t access the link so went to Greanville.
Regards,
Susan 🙂