Luckily for Tucker Carlson, his Putin interview didn’t need to be good
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Perhaps the most revealing moment in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin came toward the end, after Carlson — pretty obviously misreading the dynamics at play — had proposed having Russia release Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich into Carlson’s custody.
Putin rejected the idea, as you might expect, instead suggesting that perhaps Gershkovich could be freed in exchange for Vadim Krasikov, an assassin linked to Russia’s intelligence service. After all, the Russian said, Gershkovich had been caught with sensitive information.
“Are you suggesting that he was working for the U.S. government or NATO?” Carlson interjected. “Or he was just a reporter who was given material he wasn’t supposed to have? Those seem like very different things!”
Tucker, my guy: This is entirely the point. Putin does not recognize that distinction as important. He is not a guy who worries about how he is covered in the media because, worse comes to worse, he can just have offending reporters killed.
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