Tucker Carlson steamrolls Ukraine propaganda in new show

US corporate media outlets treat curiosity as the “gravest crime,” the former TV pundit has said

7 June 23 https://www.rt.com/news/577602-tucker-carlson-twitter-show/

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has released the first episode of his new series on Twitter, taking Western news agencies to task for one-sided reporting on the conflict in Ukraine and open hostility toward anybody voicing dissenting views.

Dubbed ‘Tucker on Twitter’, the show’s first ten-minute segment was shared on the social media platform on Tuesday night. The clip opened with a monologue on the alleged Ukrainian attack on a major dam in Russia’s Kherson Region this week, which Carlson dubbed “an act of terrorism.”

“Blowing up the dam may be bad for Ukraine, but it hurts Russia more, and for precisely that reason the Ukrainian government has considered destroying it,” he said. Carlson went on to observe that a Ukrainian general had admitted to planning attacks on the Kakhovka dam facility in comments to the Washington Post last December.

While Carlson said he had little doubt that Kiev was behind the incident, he noted that several American media outlets had already suggested that Moscow may have arranged the attack, claiming they view Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky as simply “too decent for terrorism.”

“Of all the people in the world, our shifty, dead-eyed Ukrainian friend in the tracksuit is uniquely incapable of blowing up a dam. He’s literally a living saint, a man in whom there is no sin,” he went on, describing the general attitude within the mainstream press.

The pundit drew comparisons to last year’s attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to carry natural gas from Russia into Germany. Though Carlson argued it was “obvious” that Ukraine had carried out the sabotage, he said US media outlets had little interest in investigating, helping to make Americans among “the least informed people in the world.”

“Not only are the media not interested in any of this, they are actively hostile to anybody who is. In journalism, curiosity is the gravest crime,” he continued, adding that while media outlets lie, “mostly they just ignore the stories that matter.”

Carlson parted ways with Fox in April, a major shake-up for the media giant, given the prominence of his prime-time program, ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’. He later announced that would move his content to Twitter, where he has released other stand-alone segments similar to his former show. In his signoff for Tuesday’s episode, the host voiced hopes that Twitter would be a venue with “no gatekeepers,” but vowed to leave the site should that turn out to be false.

June 9, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster, Ukraine

4 Comments »

Tucker carlson is a climate denier. Carlson is an overt racist. He is a tool of fascist politics. There are plenty of other sources of inforrmation, concerning the overt propaganda, being churned out by The usa, nato and the ukraine. The usa is an insane-hellhole. Some of it’s hellish nature, is attributable to monsters like carlson. Why legitimize, a creep like him or quote him, in any way. Putting anything up, with his name on it, just turns people off. You mght as well say, that if Hitler were alive, he would steamroll ukrainian propaganda. Its sadistic to those of us that struggle, in this awful hellhole, called the usa.
This is a great site. Not trying to be over critical.. The ukraine war could be, the end, for the earth. Climate change, racism, hate, fascism are all part of that.

Comment by Fascism is making it worse | June 9, 2023 | Reply
- to “Fascism is making it worse” Yes, you are right. Tucker Carlson as a tool of fascist politics – climate denier, racist – is not to be trust. I certainly don’t mean to “legitimize ” him. It’s just that, on this occasion, I came across in the news, something that needed to be said, needed to be heard- even if it was from Tucker Carlson.
  I think that Tucker Carlson might be an attention-seeking person (?like Jordan Peterson) who doesn’t care much about anything except having himself in the limelight. But he probably comes across as an independent thinker. We are in desperate need of truly independent thinkers – but yes – perhaps not ones who pretend this – but have no real care or conscience.
  
  Comment by Christina Macpherson | June 9, 2023 | Reply
  - Tucker Carlson wants to start a nuclear war with China. He is from a very rich rightwing family. He is no independent thinker. He preached overt racism, and hate propaganda, for Murdoch, for years. Murdochs ego, could not take the competiton, so Murdoch fired him. He continues his racist hate.
    Carlson took the side of mass shooters that killed many school children and innocents, in the large uptick of racist mass shootings and murders, that has occured because of, and since Trump started more rampages.
    Carlson defended anyone, being able to get military assault rifles. He has put so many children, black people, chinese people, brown people, women, gay people at risk for harm and murder, with his subtle and not so subtle bigotry and propaganda, that it it is beyond belief.
    Carlson has championed martial law, show trials for political enemies, fascist dictators, and other authoritarian governments. People in the Usa, know him
    https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-mass-shooting-male-privilege-fourth-july-parade-robert-crimo-1722071
    He blames women and minorities for many things. Typical fascist scapegoater. How can you say, a monster like him is an independent thinker?
    
    Comment by Char | June 9, 2023
  - Thanks for this clarification. As an Australian, I know little about USA media personalities. This will go up as a post on 10 June
    
    Comment by Christina Macpherson | June 9, 2023