This week, Tucker Carlson performed an interview with Vladimir Putin for his present on X. The interview, which is over two hours lengthy, was ostensibly an try and interview the Russian chief concerning the struggle in Ukraine. As an alternative of doing that, nevertheless, Putin as a substitute launched right into a prolonged digression about his personal model of Russian historical past earlier than razzing Carlson to his face.
I’ll say this: This interview is definitely the funniest factor I’ve seen all 12 months. Granted, it’s solely been six weeks because the begin of 2024, however Carlson’s awkward, bizarre discuss with Russia’s autocrat had me doubled over laughing a number of instances.
There are a number of layers to the humor. For one factor, Carlson was pressured to fly to the Kremlin to conduct this interview. This context, in and of itself, is humorous. Tucker is summoned to his interview topic’s royal palace, hoping, I’m positive, for an informative and thrilling dialogue that may lend itself nicely to his different/rightwing/infotainment type of net content material. What he acquired, as a substitute, was a comically boring historical past lesson about nationwide borders and an ongoing stream of insults. The dumbfounded look of confusion on Carlson’s face as Putin droned on incessantly is really one thing to be savored:
That mentioned, Tucker tried his darnedest to get one thing commercially viable out of his chat. At virtually each flip, nevertheless, Putin undermined these makes an attempt, opting as a substitute to mock Carlson and make him appear like an fool.
One of many extra memorable examples of this was when Putin informed Carlson, in so many phrases, that he was clearly too silly to get a job on the CIA (which Carlson ironically attempted to do previous to turning into an anti-Deep State shill):
At one other juncture, Carlson requested Putin if he noticed God’s design in world political affairs. With a bored look that appeared to indicate he was speaking to somebody with a under common IQ, Putin merely mentioned “no” earlier than explaining that worldwide legal guidelines ruled world occasions, not a deity.
There are clearly loads of issues you possibly can say about Vladimir Putin however that he’s unintelligent just isn’t certainly one of them. Putin’s demeanor all through a lot of the interview with Carlson is kind of that of a person attempting to elucidate algebra to a goat.
The memes impressed by the episode have been plentiful and hilarious. I preferred this one:
And this one:
And this one:
That Carlson wished to interview an influential world chief who’s at the moment engaged in a brutal struggle is commendable, although it’s troublesome to not really feel that Carlson’s content material is all the time beholden to a broader ideological narrative designed to rile up viewers with out giving them a number of context. I’d prefer to see a great interview with Putin, though this wasn’t it. It made me snigger although.
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