Posted on 02/29/2024 2:25:46 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson bashed Russian President Vladimir Putin's justification for invading Ukraine, claiming that the "denazification" of the country was "one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard."
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Carlson also described his first impression of Putin as someone who "seemed nervous," telling Fridman that the Russian president "went into [the interview] like an over-prepared student."
Fridman specifically asked Carlson for his opinion on Putin's justification for continuing the war in Ukraine, which in part is to achieve the "denazification" of the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, has repeatedly dismissed the Kremlin's claims that Kyiv's government is openly "pro-Nazi."
"I thought it was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard," Carlson told Fridman. "I didn't understand what it meant."
"I hate that whole conversation because it's not real," he continued. "It's just ad hominem. It's a way of associating someone with an evil regime that doesn't exist anymore."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
who cares
TC haters butthurt most.
So is all forgiven? Do we love Tucker now?
he is just another self promoting loser looking for a headline
Diversity is nazi - fascism
Holy liberal warrior crusaders
Gog 666 usa
MaGog 666 nato / un
What was your first impression when you met Vladimir Putin for the interview?
Tucker Carlson
(00:03:58) I thought he seemed nervous, and I was very surprised by that. And I thought he seemed like someone who’d overthought it a little bit, who had a plan, and I don’t think that’s the right way to go into any interview. My strong sense, having done a lot of them for a long time, is that it’s better to know what you think, to say as much as you can honestly, so you don’t get confused by your own lies, and just to be yourself. And I thought that he went into it like an over-prepared student, and I kept thinking, “Why is he nervous?”
I’ll take an egg salad on whole wheat with a Diet Coke.
Tucker Carlson
He’s had some work done, for sure. He’s 71 or two.
Lex Fridman
(01:38:30) You mean visual purposes?
Tucker Carlson
(01:38:32) Yeah, I’m 54, he’s almost 20 years older than me, he looked younger than me.
Never stopped loving the man.
Under the bus......where he belongs.
This is a repost of the same article from Newsweak.
Tucker kinda looked like a simpleton at that moment in the interview. or at least catastrophically unprepared.
When nazism was mentioned, Tucker chimed in that nazism ended in 1945 with the defeat of Germany.
Putin seemed taken aback and replied that Nazi Germany ended, but the idea has not been completely defeated. He continued by pointing out that the coup government of Ukraine is building monuments to nazi heroes, naming streets after them etc.
Not Tucker’s smartest moment.
Putin’s health
Lex Fridman
(01:37:42) So you mentioned there’s a bunch of conspiracy theories about Putin’s health. How was he in person? What did he feel like? Did he look healthy?
Tucker Carlson
(01:37:52) I’m not a health person myself, so I can easily gain 30 pounds and not know it, so I’m probably not a great person to ask. But no, he seemed fine. He had his arm hooked through a chair, and I heard people say, “Well, he’s got Parkinson’s.” And Parkinson’s can be controlled I know for periods with drugs. So it’s hard to assess.
What Chasov Yar doink?
Kyiv in 3 days!
Tucker Carlson
(00:03:58) I thought he seemed nervous, and I was very surprised by that. And I thought he seemed like someone who’d overthought it a little bit, who had a plan, and I don’t think that’s the right way to go into any interview. My strong sense, having done a lot of them for a long time, is that it’s better to know what you think, to say as much as you can honestly, so you don’t get confused by your own lies, and just to be yourself. And I thought that he went into it like an over-prepared student, and I kept thinking, “Why is he nervous?”
I’d like a Chocolate egg cream and three stick pretzels.
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