Fox News personality Tucker Carlson on Thursday accused a Texas congressman of making slanderous remarks about Carlson’s show, Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Carlson said that Re. Michael McCaul (R-TX) “has told a number of people that this show is an organ of Russian disinformation.”
“In other words,” Carlson continued, “not only are we wrong—which is fine—we are disloyal Americans. We’re doing the bidding of a foreign power.”
“That is not fine,” Carlson said. “That is slander.”
Tucker: McCaul has told a number of people that this show is an organ of Russian disinformation… That is not fine. That is slander… So you have to ask yourself why are so many Republicans suddenly talking like Joe Biden? pic.twitter.com/N9ZoiwH7df
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 18, 2022
McCaul has been a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and has referred to the Russian president as a “war criminal.”
“History will judge us for how we respond, and we must continue to support Ukraine with lethal weapons and air defense,” he tweeted on Thursday.
Putin will be remembered as a war criminal, and this footage shared by @ZelenskyyUa in his address to Congress is proof. History will judge us for how we respond, and we must continue to support Ukraine with lethal weapons and air defense. pic.twitter.com/bTdx0evb3w
— Michael McCaul (@RepMcCaul) March 17, 2022
Carlson argued that his show is “only and narrowly interested in the interest of our own country,” adding that “we don’t care what the Russian government says, we only care what the United States does.”
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has requested that state-friendly media broadcast as much of Carlson’s program as possible.
“It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who sharply criticizes the actions of the United States [and] NATO, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, [and] the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the Western countries and NATO towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally,” the Russian government wrote in a memo earlier this month.
Here’s how people are reacting to Carlson’s defense:
It’s not slander if it’s the truth, @TuckerCarlson.
And as you know, it is the truth. pic.twitter.com/M9gsdWOd7q— August (@SaftyInNumbers) March 18, 2022
I am also baffled as to why these people would say that people on your shows are spokespeople for the Russian propaganda…..oh wait… pic.twitter.com/IItxDKIGaZ
— Pragmatic Pessimistic #Vaccinated (@cagomez) March 18, 2022
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck..
— Nougat (@mayfair_rowan) March 18, 2022
If it’s slander, he’s welcome to start suing people.
— That’s HEDLEY! (@HedleyLamarr23) March 18, 2022
— GARY HARTMAN (@GARYHARTMAN) March 18, 2022
🤷🏼♀️ The truth is not slander. Good luck winning that case Carlson.
— JbeeMD🇺🇦🌻 😷 (@Jillsey11) March 18, 2022
“That is slander,” says chief propagandist of billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s disinformation network.
The same network whose lawyers argued in court that no one takes Carlson seriously.
And whose CEO lawyered up in April 2020 to fend off covid lawsuits https://t.co/n7MSFNmmNM pic.twitter.com/jdNfQVXOUJ
— riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་ (@riwoche) March 18, 2022
Walking the Dog
Who is this “we” Trucker is always talking about? Does he have a gerbil in his pocket?
Fname Optional Lname
Oh he’s got a gerbil but it’s not in his pocket!
MarcyMayer
When you have the highest rated talk show – by far – on cable, you can say whatever you want.
TVNewser: “Tucker Carlson Leads Fox News to Wins in Demo, Total Viewers”
Heywood Jablowme
“Tuckyo Rose” is a big hit on Russian TV too!
Cam
The very first instinct of Republicans and Fox news was to side with Putin and attack the American government.
MarcyMayer
Biden, your fuhrer – praised the Republicans for opposing Putin just yesterday.
Den
Some have. Very many, encouraged by the men that you idolize, and whose feces you eat have not. What a stupid little hetero man you are! You are the one who worships those most likely to fit the description of “fuhrer”, the one who would gladly be a traitor to democracy.
Far right men, like you, are scum. A detriment to the US.
man5996853
Oh, MarcyMayer, you are just so precious.
MarcyMayer
Oh Den:
You really do hate – and are threatened by – strongly opinionated transwomen like me. You’re very sad.
Bromancer7
@MarcyMayer Nah bish, we have no issues with trans women. We do have issues with right wing nut jobs regardless of their gender, race, or sexuality. Republicans are sociopaths. If you align with them that makes you a sociopath too. Facts are facts, hunny.
GentlemanCaller
It’s not slader if it’s true, sweetie.
butchqueen
YOU BEAT ME TO IT!!!
GayEGO
Well, we are a democracy so we don’t persecute Putinites!
THAT Steve
If they get to enjoy the consequences of their free speech that’s hardly persecution.
Ronbo
Seth Myers takes these douchs down on a regular basis. Watch.
How many people took the time to contact their Senators and Representatives to ask us to stop providing the weapons that our client state Saudi Arabia has used to kill 350,000 innocent people in Syria over the past 10 years? If you didn’t, please do so now.
Fahd
Effort to promote Russian propaganda? It was actually RUSSIA that has bombed much of Syria into smithereens, rubble rarely seen except after World War II. Crazy czar PUTIN is repeating what he did to the historic city of Aleppo, Syria (now really no longer there) in his attacks on and destruction of residential neighborhoods in Ukraine. Putin and his Russia are attacking civilians, women, children and the elderly and handicapped instead of confronting the Ukrainian military. Putin is a murderous assassin and war criminal. Also, not a fan, but calling Saudi Arabia a “client state” during the rule of MBS is also just flat-out Russian propaganda.
Everyone and the website should keep an eye on the screenname Ronbo who apparently is a Russian troll spreading Russian misinformation.
BaltoSteve
Wait.. is that just voicing an opinion? (which I personally think is true, but that’s neither here nor there) I thought TC was a huge proponent of “Freedom of Speech.” Oh wait… never mind.
Joshua333
Snowflakes (Republicans) only believe in Freedom of Speech when it applies to them and their bigoted hate speech.
dadhc
Mr, Faux Outrage: long past his shelf life
paul dorian lord fredine
just because his clips are regularly used on russian t.v. doesn’t mean i’m a putin-loving stooge. but, yeah, it’s slander to call me that and i’ll get really mad once i pry my lips offa vlad’s ass.
wikidBSTN
It’s not slander if it is true.
Joshua333
Since when was the truth slander?
sbsfo
This f^cker Tucker isn’t just a Russian propagandist, he’s a communist sympathizer and foreign agent whose pro-Putaine screeds are being replayed on state-approved media (including RT) to shape Russian public opinion in favor of the war against Ukraine and the West. (Yes, just listen to Putaine’s recent speeches and you will understand that he has declared war on all of the West… singling out gay people and ‘gender freedom’ (his words) as evidence of the moral decay in Western culture.)
He’s been featured on pro-Putaine (that means ‘wh0re’, by the way) media not just this one time, but many times… read for yourselves:
theintercept dot com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/
Sorry, Tucker-f^cker snowflake: if the shoe fits, wear it.
Herman75
There are plenty of GOP that support Putin, especially at the recent America First Political Action Conference, where one video clip shows a speaker cheering for Russia, and audience member chanting Putin, Putin, Putin.
Tucker Carlson shouldn’t whine so much!!! The poor baby.
DCFarmboy
“So you have to ask yourself why are so many Republicans suddenly talking like Joe Biden?”
The reason that Republicans and President Biden are saying the same thing is because Americans are united in support of Ukraine and against Russian aggression. Well, most Americans, “but not all”, as Christ said about Judas. (John 13:10)