Putin’s Propaganda Filibuster of Carlson, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post, Feb. 13, 2024

Tucker Carlson scored his biggest interview since establishing his own media company, and many in the legacy media are resentful.

Last week, former Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, who has successfully ventured out with his own media company after being summarily dismissed from his top-rated primetime show on the cable news station last year, scored one of his biggest interviews to date. Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.

Even before the interview aired, Carlson got pushback from various media pundits allegedly for deigning to platform one of America’s and Europe’s biggest adversaries. However, part of that outrage, whether feigned or genuine, likely stems from jealousy over the fact that Putin has granted no interviews with any media outlets mainstream or otherwise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago. …