Did not Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Ed Sullivan and Ann Louise Bardach (Vanity Fair) -- just to name a few -- have interviews with Fidel Castro? Besides the level of hypocrisy how is this different?
The value of Tucker going to Russia for this interview may not be in what Putin says or what Carlson asks but in what Carlson sees in Russia as he travels around.
My guess is that what he sees will be quite different than what we are being told by our minders.
“If that doesn’t make you smile, you have my sympathies on the loss of your sense of humor.
As a nation, we are losing that sense and much, much more.”
The poor saps (and I use that as a term of affection) in DC prison will make it out with their minds & souls intact to the extent they keep their sense of humor.
I did a 1 1/2 in a Federal Prison Camp. A day didn’t go by that something didn’t crack us up.
I don’t compare my experience to the Jan 6ers, in much the same way I don’t think my Vietnam-era service (USAF) makes me one of the boys when I’m around true war veterans. (Keep mouth shut, pick up the tab.). And I don’t pretend to know what life is like for the poor saps in that DC hellhole (which sounds an awful lot like the Hanoi Hilton).
But nonetheless, I know the power of a sense of humor in those circumstances.
But we too need to laugh in the face of the Devil. As SNL has gone downhill, the Libs & Dems & most Repubs & all of DC, are filling the void.
Ironic is too mild a word to describe the reaction of the "approved media" to Carlson's interview with Putin. At the same time they are all losing their shit over Tucker's scoop, they raise no objections to the failure of anyone in their peer group to interview Biden. When they do sit with him, they lob pre-approved softballs at him, so he can respond with his pre-approved and scripted answers. "Mr. President, how did you become so truly awesome?" "Mr. President, what do you think of that traitor, Donald Trump? Should he be imprisoned, hanged or exiled?" When Biden and his surrogates lie through their teeth about the economy, the situation at the southern border, the crime in our cities or anything else, the "approved media" smiles and nod their heads in agreement. It's the opposite of how they treated Nixon, whom they vilified, hounded and pursued out of office. And I am no fan of Nixon, believe me, but the stark contrast in the behavior of the approved media between the two presidents is remarkable, and even more so the contrast between their handling of Biden and Trump. The approved media is simply the propaganda service for the regime, and the regime is simply the American division of the global elitist cabal that seeks to grasp the entire world in its iron fist and crush out any and all dissent. The prophecies about the rise of anti-Christ are being fulfilled before our eyes.
It is maddening. I can't stand it. Watch an interview with Trump and before that GWB and the interview is more like an interrogation with nothing but scowls on their face. A complete 180 when interviewing Obama Clinton Biden etc.
Enemies of the people and they should be treated as such
That's exactly why I suspect the CCP has a lot of videotaped dirt on the Hunter Crime Family collected on Joe and Hunter and now being used as blackmail. How else do you explain the knee bending to them..
Don: Not QUITE true that FDR didn't give away anything. Yes, he made the Brits pay through the nose. (Helped his goal of ultimately extinguishing the British Empire.) But the USSR was a horse of a different color. We didn't charge Stalin (and he certainly didn't offer) a single kopeck for the massive amounts of aid we sent him during the war. It was all "on the house." Read the infuriating story in Sean McMeekin's superb revisionist history of WWII, "Stalin's War": https://a.co/d/f3otSy8
Just a different approach, Allies signed the IOUs, then 50 years later, after never paying back, US canceled their ‘debts’. Probably applied the forgiveness to their NATO 2-4% of GDP funding requirement to boot….
FDR was a socialist and proud of it. Weren't many of his subsequent appointments also left leaning? That cadre gave rise to the McCarthy hearings in order to root them out of government, I believe.
With his independent fighting spirit and backbone of steel, perhaps Tucker WOULD be a good choice for Trump's VP position. I wrote it off because he didn't have the experience in government business practices, but as we have read on this site, a non-government outsider may be just what we need. I would take Tucker over Noem.
I don't see the reason for Tucker as VP. These positions don't require congeniality contestant winners. Perhaps it's President Trump that has shown us, and quite well, that these positions of leadership REQUIRE people with a solid background to carry out those functions of government we need. What we've had so far has been disappointing. Hell, Biden and Kamala are prime examples of that.
It was just a thought, but a serious thought nonetheless. I am warming up to the notion we need outsiders - not seasoned politicians - making policy decisions. Trump is perhaps the best example of this since he went to DC without an ounce of experience in politics.. It isn't Tucker's congeniality that makes him stand out as a short-listed VP candidate. It is his refusal to back down from being totally honest. That would be a refreshing attribute in our future leaders.
And that is why I think to her Carlson should remain just as he is a top commentator for the up and coming news source X. I support x which charges me $8 a month whereas my favorite blogger and Don, you need to be worried whenever I say favorite because I am going to have another one kind of like my favorite wife only I didn't do that, charges $5 a month stream of consciousness I am thinking about gifting that to my son-in-law who's going through some serious mental health and marital issues, which I didn't realize at the time I approved him is more important than I thought for approving a man as a marital prospect for my darling daughter.
The only traitors in this country are the Democrats and Republicans that have both forgotten the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights And refuse to defend it.
They are afraid that Mr Putin will come across as Sane and reasonable to the American Public. He will expose the traitors for who they are.
You've put your finger on it, Mark. Putin likely will be articulate and have some insightful things to say. The contrast between him and dementia patient Biden and entitled whiner Zelensky will be damning. Good.
TPG. Expect 3 revelations we all know from Putin:1.He was forced into invading Ukraine because of the actions of Biden Nuland and NATO ( violating agreement not to allow Ukraine in NATO). 2. Trump won in 20 but votes were switched by Deep State and Democrats 3. Shadow government being managed by Obama and run by nameless faceless individuals running Biden. American media will dismiss without looking at evidence
You nailed it. Without becoming a Putin lap dog, we can still gain valuable knowledge that we aren't getting from our intelligence community -- because that knowledge will IMPLICATE our intelligence community.
Remember all the Russia Russia Russia chatter began when Trump discussed in 16/17 that maybe US and Russia could be friends/partners etc. The military industrial complex saw world peace and detente as cutting into their pocketbooks. Now we have an illegitimate angry dunce as our “leader.” We have wars in Eastern Europe The Middle East and soon in China.
If the "American way" was used in a sentence, most Gen Z'ers wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. That concept was buried with Obama 2008 and thereafter.
I love it when you use big words: “All evidence points to their desire to lose so they can set up a totalitarian government.” Keep saying that while pointing to old and new evidence. Thank you.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Tucker is simply doing his job, a job which a lot of American journalists and opinion writers used to do before they drank the Commie-Democrat koolaid, took the laundered CCP and unlaundered Billionariat money, and start telling harmful fairy tales. The fact that it makes him remarkable in 2024 tells you how far our society has deteriorated. Tucker isn't a genius. He's brave, and intelligent, and he has resources that most independent media types would love to have, but mostly he's just a guy trying to report the news. Like Surber, he's a professional. The Left and the Never Trump cuckolds made him into an icon of the Right. I don't think he's even a registered Republican. He's just following the stories that matter.
I had wondered what that Peach icon meant that you usually put next to Trump 2024-- now I think I get it-- the Peach is orange, which means our favorite "Orange Man Bad". Or maybe the icon was actually an Orange and not a Peach.
Tucker should interview someone who puts his faith in God next. None of them seem to be in positions of power, so there might be little popular interest. But hearing what the faithful understand is happening in the world and out of it is certainly more newsworthy.
"Putin is evil, as was Hitler. Instead of showing any curiosity about Putin, the American press relentlessly repeats the narrative spun by the CIA and the rest of the government."
Okay, I plead ignorance or I misunderstand this statement.
I have watched interviews and speeches of Putin. I have also watched and read a great deal about Hitler, I see no comparison as it relates to "evil".
I cannot believe what our media reports about Russia and/or Putin because we, as American citizens, are not allowed full access to the goings on in that region.
I haven't believed most of what our government or media spews since I was a young nitwit, when my parents, especially my Dad educated all 7 of us of the daily lies coming through our government into the newsrooms and the news publications.
Why? Because he lived through their lies to farmers, and public service laborers from a young age.
He was shot, in the gut, during a barroom brawl, by the bartender and he was an innocent patron, minding his own business. He was attacked, the bartender was found "not guilty" of anything and my Dad died as the result of a bullet lodged in his gut, for 30 years. He died at the age of 65 due to gun shot wound in the gut. True Story.
I, along with many members of my immediate family, were employed in "community service" and/or "public service" jobs, which we competed for via written, oral and job performance tests. We were given zero credit for anything personal, but we had to work our way up any ladder of success. So, I have very little faith in our government, especially after witnessing my first paycheck at 15 years old and seeing how they robbed me of hard-earned dollars.
So, to get back to my original question:
How is Putin as evil as Hitler was?
OR I will bring this to present-day reality in our Great America: How is Putin more evil, same evil, or less evil as the tyrants controlling our everyday lives, right on down to the choice of yeast available for home-bakers? Or the choice of food(s) we can purchase and put into our bodies?
From my own experience, OUR Government, has taken control of food production (as an example) and destroys ANY family-owned farmer from growing crops and or poultry, meat, fish, as they desire.
They will put YOU out of business if YOU do NOT COMPLY with government regulations of using chemicals and/or use of your own land in the process of growing crops and raising and slaughtering your own stock! (Just look at what they are doing to Amos Miller in Pennsylvania.).
So, from my point of view, until I see actual proof that Vladimir Putin is an evil man, an evil leader, I cannot differentiate him from the evil in Biden, Obama, HW Bush and W Bush, to name a few for brevity purposes only. Our government leaders, through laws, rules and regulations, are killing people on a daily basis, whether or not anyone accepts that truth.
I, along with many other Americans, have learned we do NOT have freedoms in this country, as our God-Given rights, we have those freedoms that our Government Tyrants are allowing us to have, which they have slowly taken away from us over many, many decades and we just didn't notice it.
So, be very careful, when you get outraged over a community issue and utter the words: "There outta be a law..." because there will be sooner than you can snap your fingers.
Did not Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Ed Sullivan and Ann Louise Bardach (Vanity Fair) -- just to name a few -- have interviews with Fidel Castro? Besides the level of hypocrisy how is this different?
Let's not forget Walter Duranty and his famous Stalin interviews pre WW2 for the NYT.
The value of Tucker going to Russia for this interview may not be in what Putin says or what Carlson asks but in what Carlson sees in Russia as he travels around.
My guess is that what he sees will be quite different than what we are being told by our minders.
I don’t trust our minders one bit after Covid.
Too bad it took COVID to open people’s eyes
And so we shouldn't
Putin is evil, as was Hitler.
Is he anymore evil than Biden? Obama? Bush 1 and 2? Johnson? Our CIA? The FBI
We literally have thousands of political prisoners in DC. Trump is being railroaded in show trials that would make Stalin proud.
I see the enemy and it is us
Pogo we have met the enemy and he is us. Walt Kelly
Great piece today, Don.
“If that doesn’t make you smile, you have my sympathies on the loss of your sense of humor.
As a nation, we are losing that sense and much, much more.”
The poor saps (and I use that as a term of affection) in DC prison will make it out with their minds & souls intact to the extent they keep their sense of humor.
I did a 1 1/2 in a Federal Prison Camp. A day didn’t go by that something didn’t crack us up.
I don’t compare my experience to the Jan 6ers, in much the same way I don’t think my Vietnam-era service (USAF) makes me one of the boys when I’m around true war veterans. (Keep mouth shut, pick up the tab.). And I don’t pretend to know what life is like for the poor saps in that DC hellhole (which sounds an awful lot like the Hanoi Hilton).
But nonetheless, I know the power of a sense of humor in those circumstances.
But we too need to laugh in the face of the Devil. As SNL has gone downhill, the Libs & Dems & most Repubs & all of DC, are filling the void.
So laugh and keep your powder dry.
Sevenfold Amen. Queue the choir.
Ironic is too mild a word to describe the reaction of the "approved media" to Carlson's interview with Putin. At the same time they are all losing their shit over Tucker's scoop, they raise no objections to the failure of anyone in their peer group to interview Biden. When they do sit with him, they lob pre-approved softballs at him, so he can respond with his pre-approved and scripted answers. "Mr. President, how did you become so truly awesome?" "Mr. President, what do you think of that traitor, Donald Trump? Should he be imprisoned, hanged or exiled?" When Biden and his surrogates lie through their teeth about the economy, the situation at the southern border, the crime in our cities or anything else, the "approved media" smiles and nod their heads in agreement. It's the opposite of how they treated Nixon, whom they vilified, hounded and pursued out of office. And I am no fan of Nixon, believe me, but the stark contrast in the behavior of the approved media between the two presidents is remarkable, and even more so the contrast between their handling of Biden and Trump. The approved media is simply the propaganda service for the regime, and the regime is simply the American division of the global elitist cabal that seeks to grasp the entire world in its iron fist and crush out any and all dissent. The prophecies about the rise of anti-Christ are being fulfilled before our eyes.
It is maddening. I can't stand it. Watch an interview with Trump and before that GWB and the interview is more like an interrogation with nothing but scowls on their face. A complete 180 when interviewing Obama Clinton Biden etc.
Enemies of the people and they should be treated as such
If you would allow me, "enemies of the people."
Interview Old Joe. Pump the room with oxygen, or whatever helps the drugs wear off, bring in a couple young girls, and wait for it to happen.
That's exactly why I suspect the CCP has a lot of videotaped dirt on the Hunter Crime Family collected on Joe and Hunter and now being used as blackmail. How else do you explain the knee bending to them..
They're collecting millions of dolllars
Don: Not QUITE true that FDR didn't give away anything. Yes, he made the Brits pay through the nose. (Helped his goal of ultimately extinguishing the British Empire.) But the USSR was a horse of a different color. We didn't charge Stalin (and he certainly didn't offer) a single kopeck for the massive amounts of aid we sent him during the war. It was all "on the house." Read the infuriating story in Sean McMeekin's superb revisionist history of WWII, "Stalin's War": https://a.co/d/f3otSy8
Just a different approach, Allies signed the IOUs, then 50 years later, after never paying back, US canceled their ‘debts’. Probably applied the forgiveness to their NATO 2-4% of GDP funding requirement to boot….
FDR was a socialist and proud of it. Weren't many of his subsequent appointments also left leaning? That cadre gave rise to the McCarthy hearings in order to root them out of government, I believe.
McCarthy was right. Hindsight is 20-20. Wish he had prevailed. Hollywood wouldn't be what it is today.
If only he’d gone after the State Dept. the world would be a different place!
PDJT is now times Sen Mc Carthy.
Amen Shrugged.
Straight out communists
Sony Piper, I have to chuckle at my secretary suggested spellings, excellent clarification.
With his independent fighting spirit and backbone of steel, perhaps Tucker WOULD be a good choice for Trump's VP position. I wrote it off because he didn't have the experience in government business practices, but as we have read on this site, a non-government outsider may be just what we need. I would take Tucker over Noem.
I don't see the reason for Tucker as VP. These positions don't require congeniality contestant winners. Perhaps it's President Trump that has shown us, and quite well, that these positions of leadership REQUIRE people with a solid background to carry out those functions of government we need. What we've had so far has been disappointing. Hell, Biden and Kamala are prime examples of that.
It was just a thought, but a serious thought nonetheless. I am warming up to the notion we need outsiders - not seasoned politicians - making policy decisions. Trump is perhaps the best example of this since he went to DC without an ounce of experience in politics.. It isn't Tucker's congeniality that makes him stand out as a short-listed VP candidate. It is his refusal to back down from being totally honest. That would be a refreshing attribute in our future leaders.
And that is why I think to her Carlson should remain just as he is a top commentator for the up and coming news source X. I support x which charges me $8 a month whereas my favorite blogger and Don, you need to be worried whenever I say favorite because I am going to have another one kind of like my favorite wife only I didn't do that, charges $5 a month stream of consciousness I am thinking about gifting that to my son-in-law who's going through some serious mental health and marital issues, which I didn't realize at the time I approved him is more important than I thought for approving a man as a marital prospect for my darling daughter.
The only traitors in this country are the Democrats and Republicans that have both forgotten the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights And refuse to defend it.
They are afraid that Mr Putin will come across as Sane and reasonable to the American Public. He will expose the traitors for who they are.
You've put your finger on it, Mark. Putin likely will be articulate and have some insightful things to say. The contrast between him and dementia patient Biden and entitled whiner Zelensky will be damning. Good.
TPG. Expect 3 revelations we all know from Putin:1.He was forced into invading Ukraine because of the actions of Biden Nuland and NATO ( violating agreement not to allow Ukraine in NATO). 2. Trump won in 20 but votes were switched by Deep State and Democrats 3. Shadow government being managed by Obama and run by nameless faceless individuals running Biden. American media will dismiss without looking at evidence
You nailed it. Without becoming a Putin lap dog, we can still gain valuable knowledge that we aren't getting from our intelligence community -- because that knowledge will IMPLICATE our intelligence community.
Yes. For all his faults, Putin will likely be more of a straight-shooter with us than our own so-called "leaders".
Remember all the Russia Russia Russia chatter began when Trump discussed in 16/17 that maybe US and Russia could be friends/partners etc. The military industrial complex saw world peace and detente as cutting into their pocketbooks. Now we have an illegitimate angry dunce as our “leader.” We have wars in Eastern Europe The Middle East and soon in China.
Was thinking about the Bizarro world of Superman. Remember truth, justice and the American way? Now it is lies, injustice and the Globalist way!
If the "American way" was used in a sentence, most Gen Z'ers wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. That concept was buried with Obama 2008 and thereafter.
And remember how smoke would literally come out his outsized ears whenever he heard the phrase, “American exceptionalism”?
It viscerally enraged him. Funny - and infuriating at the same time.
I love it when you use big words: “All evidence points to their desire to lose so they can set up a totalitarian government.” Keep saying that while pointing to old and new evidence. Thank you.
Sundance is also doing similar now at Conservative Treehouse, meeting with EU dont-wanna-be-serf farmers in Germany, Poland, etc
Actually EODMom, it scares the hell out of me cuz I too believe he's right. And I love big words too, if only I could spell them correctly. lol
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Tucker is simply doing his job, a job which a lot of American journalists and opinion writers used to do before they drank the Commie-Democrat koolaid, took the laundered CCP and unlaundered Billionariat money, and start telling harmful fairy tales. The fact that it makes him remarkable in 2024 tells you how far our society has deteriorated. Tucker isn't a genius. He's brave, and intelligent, and he has resources that most independent media types would love to have, but mostly he's just a guy trying to report the news. Like Surber, he's a professional. The Left and the Never Trump cuckolds made him into an icon of the Right. I don't think he's even a registered Republican. He's just following the stories that matter.
Trump 2024
Vote Big Orange
I had wondered what that Peach icon meant that you usually put next to Trump 2024-- now I think I get it-- the Peach is orange, which means our favorite "Orange Man Bad". Or maybe the icon was actually an Orange and not a Peach.
Correct. Vote Bigly 🍊🫡
Tucker should interview someone who puts his faith in God next. None of them seem to be in positions of power, so there might be little popular interest. But hearing what the faithful understand is happening in the world and out of it is certainly more newsworthy.
True. I'm trying to figure out if this is Ezekiel's list or Daniel's.
“If that doesn’t make you smile, you have my sympathies on the loss of your sense of humor” My Sense of Humor passed doctor Surber’s test.
"Putin is evil, as was Hitler. Instead of showing any curiosity about Putin, the American press relentlessly repeats the narrative spun by the CIA and the rest of the government."
Okay, I plead ignorance or I misunderstand this statement.
I have watched interviews and speeches of Putin. I have also watched and read a great deal about Hitler, I see no comparison as it relates to "evil".
I cannot believe what our media reports about Russia and/or Putin because we, as American citizens, are not allowed full access to the goings on in that region.
I haven't believed most of what our government or media spews since I was a young nitwit, when my parents, especially my Dad educated all 7 of us of the daily lies coming through our government into the newsrooms and the news publications.
Why? Because he lived through their lies to farmers, and public service laborers from a young age.
He was shot, in the gut, during a barroom brawl, by the bartender and he was an innocent patron, minding his own business. He was attacked, the bartender was found "not guilty" of anything and my Dad died as the result of a bullet lodged in his gut, for 30 years. He died at the age of 65 due to gun shot wound in the gut. True Story.
I, along with many members of my immediate family, were employed in "community service" and/or "public service" jobs, which we competed for via written, oral and job performance tests. We were given zero credit for anything personal, but we had to work our way up any ladder of success. So, I have very little faith in our government, especially after witnessing my first paycheck at 15 years old and seeing how they robbed me of hard-earned dollars.
So, to get back to my original question:
How is Putin as evil as Hitler was?
OR I will bring this to present-day reality in our Great America: How is Putin more evil, same evil, or less evil as the tyrants controlling our everyday lives, right on down to the choice of yeast available for home-bakers? Or the choice of food(s) we can purchase and put into our bodies?
From my own experience, OUR Government, has taken control of food production (as an example) and destroys ANY family-owned farmer from growing crops and or poultry, meat, fish, as they desire.
They will put YOU out of business if YOU do NOT COMPLY with government regulations of using chemicals and/or use of your own land in the process of growing crops and raising and slaughtering your own stock! (Just look at what they are doing to Amos Miller in Pennsylvania.).
So, from my point of view, until I see actual proof that Vladimir Putin is an evil man, an evil leader, I cannot differentiate him from the evil in Biden, Obama, HW Bush and W Bush, to name a few for brevity purposes only. Our government leaders, through laws, rules and regulations, are killing people on a daily basis, whether or not anyone accepts that truth.
I, along with many other Americans, have learned we do NOT have freedoms in this country, as our God-Given rights, we have those freedoms that our Government Tyrants are allowing us to have, which they have slowly taken away from us over many, many decades and we just didn't notice it.
So, be very careful, when you get outraged over a community issue and utter the words: "There outta be a law..." because there will be sooner than you can snap your fingers.
Amen MT.
Putin is no more evil than Biden and the rest of his democrat leadership cabal.