To quote Private Cowboy from Full Metal Jacket, yesterday was a “Tough day for Handjob” as News broke of an interview Vladimir Putin did with a Russian Journalist in which he said he was disappointed with Carlson’s lack of aggressiveness and wryly criticized him for not asking “tough questions”.
Some days you kiss the bear’s ass, some days the bear eats your face:
“Tucker Carlson did all that he could to impress the Russian authoritarian Vladimir Putin: he asserted that Russia is not an expansionist power, claimed that Moscow is better than any American city, posed in a Buryat costume and lobbied against continued US aid to Ukraine.
Nevertheless, Putin was not impressed. He told interviewer Pavel Zarubin this week, “Sincerely speaking, I didn’t fully enjoy this interview.”
“Frankly, I thought he would behave aggressively and ask tough questions. I wasn’t just prepared for this, I wanted it!” Putin insisted.
The Russian president complained that Carlson’s failure to ask pointed questions “didn’t give him an opportunity to do what he was prepared to do” and therefore, this interview didn’t turn out to be as engaging or substantive as it could have been.”
Gee, Tucker, maybe you should have asked the butcher about the bombings of Ukrainian Apartment buildings, or the kidnapping of Ukrainian Villages or the massacre in Bucha or something after all, like a real journalist would have done.
It’s not likehe would have thrown you out a window or something.
No Putin, and likely co-conspirator drumpf, whom it was reported you texted “I hate him passionately” to an undisclosed Fox New executive – though you got away with that one did you? – are giggling together that Putin made you a public laughing stock rather than feeding you polonium-4 tea and cookies.
It was also a tough day for the Russian Television propagandist and head of RT who had actively campaigned for weeks to set up the interview:
“Head of RT Margarita Simonyan recounted that Carlson repeatedly contacted her since 2021, pleading for an interview with Putin—and his attempts intensified after Russia invaded Ukraine. Simonyan said that she went “from office to office, begging for what we [RT] believe is important for the country.” State media’s talking heads predicted that the interview would blow up the US elections and stun gullible Americans.
Instead, the sit-down was more of a monologue than a conversation, with Putin droning on about ancient and modern history, deliberately twisted to justify Russia’s revanchist aspirations with respect to Ukraine. The outcome was clearly underwhelming. Carlson’s softball endeavor was not only ridiculed in the West, but also rejected by Russian audiences.“
Too bad, so sad, Margarita, you are just learning that Vlad, just like the Dotard, rarely rewards anyone despite all their groveling. Stay away from windows and busy traffic, hon.
Russia critic Julia Davis and her followers had some fun with this development on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ruinwanderer/status/175797144006053894
Yup.
I can’t believe I actually agree with Putin on something. Gross. Thanks Traitor Tuck!
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack—Wortman (@AmoneyResists) February 15, 2024
Yeah, it kinda sucks…
Imagine being @TuckerCarlson and too much of a suck up, for Vlads taste?
— Denali Pac (@DenaliPac) February 15, 2024
Sad.
— Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴🇩🇪🇺🇲🇳🇱🇪🇺@🇺🇦 (@DucuGavril) February 15, 2024
🤣🤣🤣
Uh-oh Tucker’s headed to Siberia. pic.twitter.com/TxaNwhWgIH
— Tom Hutson (@DTHutson) February 15, 2024
We can only hope.
Nice way of deflecting any suspicion of him being a paid Russian asset. Just insult him a little and people won’t think this was a set up.
— Kathy_Sco (@kathy_sco) February 15, 2024
🤔🤔🤔
"I did not fully enjoy the interview." 😂
Right back at you Vlad.This made my day.
— WilferBell🌻 (@overit_fella) February 15, 2024
🤣🤣🤣
Tucker’s former employers weren’t impressed with him either. They all fired him.
•CNN (2000–2005)
•PBS (2004–2005)
•MSNBC (2005–2008)
•Fox News (2009–2023)— Purple Snowman (@SnowmanJoe25) February 15, 2024
Yup. That’s why he broadcasts from his basement.
If he really wants tough questions, all he has to do is stop rejecting every interview request from serious western journalists. I’m not holding my breath.
— Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@JimSDouglas) February 15, 2024
Not likely…
So it was worth the memes?!
😂https://t.co/zKDmjaMYS2— Kirby Fella (@Zeitenwende2023) February 15, 2024
🤣🤣🤣
Next time you are in your basement, Tucker, try interviewing your trash can.
It would likely be better TV.
My two favorite comments:
Andrew Wortman: I can’t believe I actually agree with Putin on something.
(Because that was exactly my reaction too!)
Kathy Sco: Nice way of deflecting any suspicion of him being a paid Russian asset. Just insult him a little and people won’t think this was a set up.
I’m thinking this really was, as Kathy Sco suggested, a way to deflect Tuck-Tuck’s (and Trump’s) status as “Russian assets.”
I didn’t read it beyond the blurb/headline but there was an article where Putin is claiming that Biden would be the better President as far as he’s concerned. The main reason I didn’t bother reading the actual piece was I knew that was just a way to keep all of Putin’s many bot farms from coming under immediate suspicion when they start promoting Trump’s aspirations (just like they did in 2016 and 2020). And the MAGAts will now have something to start up their own conspiracy theories when Biden wins his second term (as well as more ammunition to deny all the help that Russia gave Trump in 2016).
Putin may not have made it too high in the KGB before the USSR collapsed but he obviously learned the lessons he needed for effective spycraft.
You must mean James Woods, the actor playing Biden. lol.
Nick Fuentes (Rumble) wasn’t impressed either. 🤣
I don’t twitter but my response to all this is “Pootie wasn’t impressed by Tuck the Suck(up)”
He might as well have said Trump gave him better handjobs!