Bunker Bonus: How Victor Orbán is manipulating Tucker Carlson’s Hungary obsession

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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One of Tucker Carlson’s recent interviews is with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán. In the interview Orbán called for Trump to return to the U.S. presidency, among numerous other inflammatory statements. Why is Tucker so obsessed with Hungarian politics – and how does Orbán use the media to bolster his narrative? Chris Jones is joined by journalist for 24.HU, Zsolt Kerner. “It’s ironic to see Orbán, who often says other nations shouldn’t comment on domestic politics, calling for a change in U.S. President” – Zsolt Kerner “It’s a usual play in hungarian politics, to play with preconceptions about the U.S.” – Zsolt Kerner www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written, presented and produced by Chris Jones, with special thanks to Balint Bardi. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Audio editor: Simon Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.3	seen he's interviewed some pretty sketchy figures of late and one of his last and most watched
1:25.3	is with Hungarian Prime Minister and close ally of Vladimir Putin,
1:29.5	Victor Orbán. Tuker has a pretty strange relationship with Hungary and last year he even released a documentary if you can call it that, villainizing George Soros.
1:39.2	So what was the point of this latest interview? What did it achieve? What can we take away from it? Well to answer all those
1:46.1	questions I spoke to 24.h.h.J. journalist jolt kurner and I started by
1:51.3	asking him what he thought of the interview.
1:54.0	Well it wasn't surprising as much for Hungarian audiences because it's kind of expected.
2:00.0	Victor Ramer rarely does interviews with independent media in Hungary, and it's not by chance, it's by design.
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