The first western interview between Putin and Tucker Carlson was “the best thing that ever happened to Vladimir Putin” according to Belgium’s former Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt. The 2-hour interview was a love fest between the two men with Tucker hardly getting a word in as Putin took the reins and let loose.
This song comes to mind:
“You walked into the party
Like you were walkin’ onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte.”
Putin had neither the hat nor the scarf but he knew exactly what he was doing. This was his opportunity to rant or rather “free speech” on his terms. His 30-second history lesson became a 30-something minute rant as the world watched in disbelief or as a friend put it, “It was enough to make your toes curl!” The suspected war criminal went full steam ahead and wasn’t going to be stopped, not by the former Fox News host, Tucker Carlson. It was his time to shine on the world stage and with his essay about denying Ukraine’s existence as a sovereign state safely turned away in a vault somewhere, he didn’t need it, he had it memorized word for word. Delivering the message with his beady eyes burning with conviction, he marched on to his own drumbeat.
He ranted about any and everything because he had to keep the interview going for two hours and that evidently was no problem. He could have gone on much longer and it didn’t matter that most of it was far from actual facts or reality. It was Putin’s reality and truth and that folks was what the interview was about.
When the interview was over, Tucker blinked with a clueless look on his face and said, “Thank you, Mr. President,” at the same time tucking his tail between his legs. If ever there was a lap dog, well, you know what I want to say.
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