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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm going to predict that this evening we may have one of the biggest internet |
0:05.9 | sensations of all times. Tonight Tucker Carlson is going to release his |
0:11.1 | interview of Vladimir Putin. I think it may just |
0:15.1 | break the internet. This is him talking about that feat. Take a look at this. |
0:18.8 | We're in Moscow tonight. We're here to interview the president of Russia of |
0:23.0 | Vladimir Putin since the day the war in Ukraine began American media |
0:26.8 | outlets have spoken to scores of people from Ukraine and they have done |
0:31.2 | scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Selensky. |
0:35.1 | We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Selensky and we hope he accepts. |
0:39.3 | But the interviews he's already done in the United States are not traditional interviews. They are |
0:43.4 | fawning Pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelensky's demand that the |
0:48.3 | U.S. enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it. That is not journalism. It is government propaganda, |
0:56.8 | propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people. At the same time our |
1:01.7 | politicians and media outlets have been doing this, promoting a foreign leader like he's a new consumer brand, |
1:07.0 | not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict, |
1:13.6 | Vladimir Putin. |
1:15.4 | Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine, |
1:18.6 | or what his goals are now. |
1:19.8 | They've never heard his voice. |
1:21.6 | That's wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can about |
1:25.8 | a war they're implicated in. And we have the right to tell them about it because we are |
1:29.9 | Americans too. Freedom of speech is our birthright. We are not here because we love |
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