pic.twitter.com/pGceMRn26t— Josh Pieters (@joshua_pieters) March 14, 2024In a clip of Carlson’s interview with Manners, he introduces him by saying: “We’ve done our best to verify that your identity is what you say it is.
You’re not a fake [Alexei] Navalny or doing a prank.” At the end of the interview, he said: “That was great, and it was really interesting, too.
I did not expect to be as interested in it as I was and that’s because you told such a great story.”In other news, last month Jon Stewart laid into Carlson for going to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin, the first Putin has given to a Western journalist since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Stewart savaged Carlson for failing to challenge some of Putin’s assertions, and for disingenuously arguing that Russian citizens have an advantage over Americans because groceries are cheaper, something that Carlson claimed made him feel “radicalised”.“You’re such a dick,” Stewart retorted.“It will radicalise you, unless you understand basic economics,” he continued. “See, $104 for groceries sounds like a great bargain, unless you realise that Russians earn less than $200 dollars a week.”“But that’s the kind of context that a – what did you call yourself earlier – a journalist would’ve provided.
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