Posted on 02/09/2024 7:54:39 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Prominent Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan said she wishes Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke more about "conservative values" during his interview with Tucker Carlson.
Carlson, a former host at Fox News before getting ousted by the network in the spring, released a two-hour interview with Putin on Thursday, the first that the Kremlin leader has given to a Western journalist since launching his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The conversation has received heavy amounts of criticism, with some labeling the interview as a propaganda opportunity for Putin.
The conversation spanned from an in-depth Russian history lesson to Putin's thoughts on the U.S. 2024 presidential election. But Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russian stated-owned broadcaster RT, lamented in a series of social media posts about one of the topics that was not mentioned during the interview—Russia's views on "woke" ideologies.
"It's a shame Tucker didn't bring up the conversation about conservative values," Simonyan wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter, following the interview's release. "This is his strong point—and the Chief's first and foremost, of course."
The "Chief" is in reference to Putin.
"This is the only thing on which Russia can and should now build an ideology externally," she added. "Just as the [Soviet Union] once built it on the ideas of social equality."
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Russian Telegram channels reported that the interview with Carlson and Carlson himself was not to Putin’s liking, and the interview itself was considered a failure:
“The Kovalchuk clan sharply criticizes the idea of an interview with the American journalist Carlson. They say that the problem is the unpreparedness of the interview arrangement - it was Gromov’s and Peskov’s mistake. Putin should have talked about conservative values, the creation of a conservative alliance, and moving on - but he went into history and platitudes about Ukraine. Naryshkin, who allegedly planted ideas with documents of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and nonsense with Poland, also played a negative role here. He set Putin up to the fullest. Medinsky would not allow such a thing.”
According to reports, Putin didn’t like Tucker Carlson - “a snob and a useful idiot who got a meaningful fee, but was lazy and lacked creativity.”
Kovalchuk family believes they could have done better with Tucker Carlson, but “everything was wasted.” There’s a wave of complaints in the Kremlin.
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What Avdeyevka doink?
Give it up, maxitroll. You got punked by The Tucker and The Putin.
What House supplemental discharge petition doink?
Is anyone surprised a Zeeper like you couldn't give a hoot about those issues?
How can it be propaganda?! Putin twitched his leg and was shown to be a boring pompous ass and looked like a complete fool.
Yknow… what everyone in the western press is saying while calling for the imprisonment of Tucker for betraying the ideals of liberty and freedom by using free speech.
Your boy in the House makink moves, Commie?
You are apparently the leader of the idiot brigade
“I bet you were thrilled Tucker didn’t bring those issues up because it would have revealed how much more moral Russia is than we and Europe are on issues like sex changes on kids, drag queen story hour and gay marriage.”
Agree, the Leftists DODGED A BULLET regarding social issues during that interview. They were damn luck.
Pretty sure that gluteus got a chubby when his boy Hakeem “HammieBoy” Jeffries in the US House started makink noises about fundink Hamas and the Ukie grifters with a slick Commie maneuver...
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