Tucker Carlson To Interview Putin In Moscow; Triggers Left-wing Media Meltdown

Popular American media personality and Tucker On X host Tucker Carlson has arrived in Moscow, to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former Fox News star's unannounced visit, has been widely praised by pro-free speech users of social media, and condemned by woke far-left media talking heads and Ukrainian officials.

Nearly two years into the Russia-Ukraine war, the news coverage in the west has been widely criticized as biased in favor of Ukraine, with President Volodymyr Zelensky regularly appearing in gratuitous interviews on western media outlets.

On February 1, Telegram channel Mash first reported that Carlson had arrived in the Russian capital, posting a photo of him boarding a flight from Istanbul, and another of him reportedly visiting Moscow's famous Bolshoi Theatre to watch the ballet Spartacus. The US journalist was also seen in his hotel restaurant with colleagues, according to footage by RT.

Earlier Carlson had been seen leaving his hotel in downtown Moscow as his team was loading equipment into a vehicle. He was later captured arriving at the Russian presidential administration in footage obtained by the Izvestia news outlet. On Monday, the car he used was also reportedly seen leaving the presidential administration.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, believed to have green-lighted an interview, said: "I am not commenting in any way on the movements of an American journalist.” Suggesting there may be more news later, he said: "At the moment, we have nothing to report.”

Izvestia released a clip of Carlson in his hotel speaking to a reporter. "I've read so much about Russia but I've never seen it before," he can be heard saying. "I wanted to look around and see how it's doing -- and it's doing very well."

Asked whether an interview with Mr Putin was among his plans, he replied: "Let's see."

The popular journalist later confirmed on Tuesday, in a video uploaded to X, that he would "soon" interview Putin.

Carlson called out left-wing reporters for engaging in “fawning pep sessions” when interviewing Zelensky, who the former Fox News host asserted he would like to earnestly sit down with. “At the same time our politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a foreign leader like he’s a new consumer brand,” he said, “not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict: Vladimir Putin.”

Western far-left talking heads in the media including CNN, have been having a meltdown on air with their shrill coverage of Carlson's visit. Some neoconservative and left-wing commentators, activists and politicians have called the popular journalist a traitor. Others going as far as demanding he be prosecuted.

On their part, Russian media outlets have mocked the western left-wing obsessive and frenzied coverage of Carlson's visit.

"In the West they're comparing this visit to actress Jane Fonda's visit to Vietnam in 1972, following which she ended up on the list of America's top ten traitors and the Hollywood blacklist," TV presenter and politician Yevgeny Popov told viewers of his 60 Minutes talk show.

Before Carlson confirmed plans to interview Putin, NTV, Russia's second most popular channel, promoted a post on X by Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that "Democrats and their propagandists in the media are spasming" at the prospect of Carlson interviewing Putin. "In Washington they suspect with good reason that the journalist didn't fly to Moscow to sightsee," NTV's presenter commented.

The visit however, has been widely commended on social media. X owner Elon Musk reposted Carlson's video explaining why he'd be interviewing the Russian leader.

Pro-free speech activists called out far-left media talking heads and neoconservative war hawks for their fascistic reaction to Carlson's journalistic work.

"The US was at war with North Vietnam," respected journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote on X, responding to discredited neoconservative pro-war globalist Bill Kristol who compared Carlson's visit to Jane Fonda's Hanoi visit during the Vietnam war. "The US is not at war with Russia, even though the neocons who now dominate and are beloved by the Dem Party wish it were. At least this warmongering maniac honestly describes himself as what he is: a Democrat."

The Kremlin has not commented on Carlson's visit or the upcoming interview with Putin - which would be his first one-on-one with a Western journalist since he launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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