Carlson loves grievance. It's his thing. And he seems to love Putin. And Here's the amusing bit--the truth-telling that Carlson is running with? Is a lie. The figures he cites on his show from the leaked docs are doctored.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday rattled off seemingly made-up casualty figures from "leaked intelligence" to argue that Ukraine is losing the war with Russia.
But the actual leaked classified United States documents show that more than twice as many Russian soldiers as Ukrainian troops have been killed.
During his "Tucker Carlson Tonight" broadcast, the Fox News star said that the leaked documents show "Ukraine is in fact losing the war."
So it looks like he's doing two things here: making Texeira out to be a hero in the mode of Rittenhouse, Perry, Zimmerman and Babbit, while also promoting Putin's propaganda. But actually, there's a third thing he might be doing here--see, after telling us mishandling classified information is bad, actually, when Reality Winner does it, there's someone else who seems to have mishandled classified information lately:
Trump, who is likely to be charged under the Espionage Act. So I think the ground for pretending what Trump did is just fine is a part of this messaging as well.
God, Fox News sucks, and Carlson sucks harder.
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There was a meme going around while back showing Marvel's Black Widow w/ the Capron, "What people think a Russian spy looks like" and underneath was Fvcker Carlson captioned, "What an actual Russian spy looks like"
He's definitely an asset, although I don't know how witting--I feel like he might, like Trump, fall under the "useful idiot" category where they just do Russia's bidding without any real need for more than the least handling. That the little dopey darlings are now taking it on themselves to decide that giving Russia classified information is great, actually, and that more supposed "National Security Hawks" aren't screaming bloody murder makes me really nervous about the degree of "capture" Russia has over the GOP establishment, though. Where are the John McCains of yesteryear and all that.
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