American talk show host Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin caused a stir about a week ago. Although the Kremlin boss was able to spread his propaganda in the conversation without much resistance, he was still disappointed: he would have liked much sharper questions.
The interview provided ample material for discussion and criticism: it was characterized by long monologues by the Kremlin despot, Carlson rarely responded and also seemed overwhelmed by the many historical details with which Putin confronted him. The interviewee himself was clearly not impressed by the former Fox News host’s journalistic skills: “To be honest, I didn’t enjoy it,” Putin said a few days later.
Putin found Carlson ‘surprisingly patient’
“To be honest, I thought he would behave aggressively and ask so-called difficult questions. And I was not only ready for it, I wanted it!” Putin told Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin. The president is said to have welcomed this because it would have allowed him to respond “just as sharply.” for a different tactic. He tried to interrupt me several times but, surprisingly for a Western journalist, remained patient.”
Putin also said that sharper questions would have given the conversation a “certain specificity.” Nevertheless, he was grateful to the journalist; the interview gave Western government leaders the opportunity to “listen and watch”. The fact that direct dialogue with them is not possible is of course their fault, and not Putin’s.
In this bizarre post, Carlson explains how a Russian shopping cart works:
Carlson became fascinated with shopping carts during his visit to Russia
Carlson, on the other hand, is excited about his trip to Russia. The West has a completely wrong picture. Moscow is “so much more beautiful and safer than any city in my country.” The city is now cleaner, safer and more aesthetically pleasing than any city in America, Carlson said. However, he was quickly impressed, as an excerpt from a visit to a supermarket shows: He was fascinated by a shopping cart into which you have to push ten rubles – see post above. “It’s free, but there is an incentive to return it,” the American explains.
He was also impressed by Putin. Russia is a vast and very diverse empire. You couldn’t run this for 24 years if you were incompetent, ‘like it or not’.
Source: Krone
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