Rightist Traitors: Tucker Carlson viewers calling me to say US should back Russia, New Jersey congressman says

[Conservative News Network]

Russia has many fans in the America hating right.



A congressman from New Jersey has disclosed that he is receiving calls
from viewers of Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News show, expressing
distress at the Biden administration’s backing of Ukraine in the tense
military stand-off with Russia.


Democratic representative Tom Malinowski said in a tweet his office was
fielding calls from Carlson viewers “upset that we’re not siding with
Russia in its threats to invade Ukraine”.

The callers, he said, “want me to support Russia’s ‘reasonable’
positions”.

News of the effect of Carlson’s broadcasts doubting support for Ukraine
came as the Pentagon placed 8,500 troops on high alert ready to deploy to
Europe, amid fears that a Russian invasion could be imminent.

Nato allies have been struggling to project unity in opposition to the
Russian president Vladimir Putin’s belligerent amassing of more than
100,000 troops on the Ukraine border.

Carlson, the top-rated host on Rupert Murdoch’s rightwing news channel,
has been using his nightly bully pulpit to question the merits of
Washington’s backing through Nato of Ukraine in the face of Putin’s
expansionist threat.

On Monday night, his show screened an image of the White House with the
words “War Machine” stamped over it.

The host accused “neocons” in the Biden administration of “betraying our
country’s interests” and said a massive lobbying campaign by Ukrainian
politicians and American defense contractors was behind the strategy.

Ukraine was “strategically irrelevant” to the US, Carlson said.

In his analysis of the crisis Carlson made no mention of Putin or his
ambition to push back Nato from eastern and central Europe, nor of
Ukraine’s standing as a sovereign nation which achieved independence 30
years ago.

Ukraine is a country bigger in land mass than France, with a similar
population to Spain, now facing an unprovoked invasion from the
neighbouring power.

Carlson has used his show to express contentious views on Europe before.
For a week in August, he relocated Tucker Carlson Tonight to Budapest,
from where he broadcast glowing reports on the authoritarian leadership of
Viktor Orbán.

This week he indicated that he plans to return to Hungary soon for more
broadcasts praising the government’s tough stance on immigration.

Speaking to the Hill, Malinowski said: “People get their opinions by
watching the news, that’s nothing new. What is new is we have at least one
talkshow host with a huge captive audience that is not exposed to any
counter-programming elsewhere.

“I find that very concerning.”



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/tucker-carlson-russia-
ukraine-democrats

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