Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Would’ve Been a Fawning Mess

American right-wingers are big fanboys of Russian autocrat

Tucker Carlson (Gage Skidmore/Wikipedia)

It’s difficult to keep up with FOX News commentator Tucker Carlson’s rapid descent to the bottom. So far, he’s been proved to be a liar for falsely accusing the NSA of monitoring his emails, continued to try and kill his viewers by spreading anti-vaccine disinformation and recently, he was cursed out in public by an angry shopper. But it’s only Monday, so there’s plenty of time for more screw-ups.

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But let’s go back to that thing about the NSA. Carlson was trying to secure an interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. However, Putin runs a thugocracy. Most of the people who work in and around the Kremlin are former spies and/or gangsters and that’s why Carlson might have shown up on the NSA’s radar.

Although it’s difficult to tell the difference between a Russian spy and a gangster these days. After the fall of the Soviet Union, many ex-spies reinvented themselves as gangsters and politicians. (Putin was a former KGB officer.)…