Chris Wallace criticized Tucker Carlson for conducting a “softball interview” with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, describing it as lacking tough questions and being overly deferential.
Wallace contrasted this with his own 2018 interview with Putin, where he asked challenging questions.
Wallace said, “Tucker Carlson showed up in Moscow this week to interview Vladimir Putin. It turned out to be anything but an interview.”
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“Putin droned on for two hours and seven minutes while Tucker sat there like an eager puppy. Occasionally, but rarely, he got in a question,” he continued.
“But more telling than what Tucker asked is what he didn’t ask,” he explained.
“Nothing about why Putin invaded a sovereign country, nothing about targeting civilians, nothing about Russian war crimes,” listed Wallace.
“A reporter can ask Putin a tough question if he wants a real interview. Why is it that so many of the people that oppose Vladimir Putin end up dead or close to it?” suggested Carlson’s former colleague.
He accused Carlson of making a cynical decision to appeal to a certain political base and suggested that Carlson’s approach was aimed at gaining favor with Putin’s Kremlin.
Wallace said, “gullible Westerners who spread Soviet propaganda were dismissed as ‘useful idiots,’” during the Cold War.
“But calling Tucker that is unfair to useful idiots,” quipped Wallace.
“No, he’s made a cynical decision to chase MAGA’s affection for dictators ― and what better way to cash in than Putin’s Kremlin?” he concluded.
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