Posted on 02/16/2024 7:53:47 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson has turned on Vladimir Putin in the wake of the shocking death of Alexei Navalny, just days after releasing a softball interview with the Russian president and a series of 'tourism board style' videos about the country's clean train stations and cheap groceries.
In an exclusive statement to DailyMail.com, Carlson said: 'It's horrifying what happened to Navalny.
'The whole thing is barbaric and awful. No decent person would defend it.'
It remains unclear whether the former Fox News host is still in Moscow.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Navalny died because he was so overcome with emotion by how beautiful Moscow’s subways are.
And how cheap the groceries are.
I was told Tucker would be arrested in Russia.
The bread smells great!
Are you serious?
Arrested?
I’m surprised he didn’t get the Order of Stalin.
I wonder how much Tucker contributed to Putin’s feeling of freedom from bad images.
“softball interview”?
Tucker was in Russia. He wanted to eventually return home.
Putin is a murderer. Best he play it easy.
Shawn Cohen no doubt would have pulled a stilleto knife out of his shoe and ended this global nightmare. Riiiight.
I’m sorry but I am a long time Tucker fan and I know how he operates.
He is very capable of saying that of course what Hamas did is terrible but we should not be involved in helping Israel.
He might drop some of his praise for Putin for a while or some of his statements that Russia isn’t as bad as we say but I predict he will be back to it soon.
And he definitely will not deviate from wanting to see Russia take over Ukraine this is how Tucker does it.
He’ll be saying Putin is a bad man but we still wanted to attack Russia and surround him with NATO and that’s why we have to let him attack the countries around him.
I hope I’m proven wrong by Tucker.
It is rather bad timing for Tucker that after Putin used him to get a lot of publicity among American conservatives, Putin decided it was a good time to finish off one of his political enemies.
What this says to me is that the Putin interview has not polled well. Apparently, the interview reached a wide audience. But so do trainwrecks.
Tucker’s standard response is “Putin is a bad man, but…”
I think we need more details. Navalny was a western style demonstration-organizer. I don’t blame the Russian authorities for cracking down on demonstrations and their organizers. Had the US done so in the 1960’s perhaps the US would not be going down the tubes like it is now.
If Navalny died as a result of a “hunger strike” then it was on him. If he died as a result of murder by another prisoner, consider that many US prisoners are murdered in prison. Jeffrey Dahmer was one. If he was murdered by the authorities, then that is too much.
He “turns on Putin”?
Russia intentionally timed the killing of Navalny to happen AFTER Tucker’s interview and Moscow travelogue, not before.
I see no one defending it. It is no different and equally horrible as it was to let American citizen Gonzalo Lira die in a Ukrainian prison for exercising speech.
You Trudeauists have no problem throwing pastors in the prison repeatedly for exercising their rights. At least the pastor wasn’t vigorously celebrating murderous nazis like your parliament and yourself.
So cut the virtue crap. It is nauseating.
I know Putin is evil, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t find looking at the Moscow subway or Russian grocery store interesting.
This constant polemic thought is exhausting, and is a sign of a weak national intellect and ethic.
The subways are amazing.
Has little to do with Russian mangemrnt, though.
Pretty much the last European city not infested with third or fourth world savages. All Western cities are cesspools now.
I was in London and never saw an actual Englishman for a day.
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