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"CNN's Matthew Chance looks at how Russian state TV is reacting to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's coverage of President Joe Biden and the build up of Russian military along the Ukrainian border."
Like TC saying about Ukraine that Russia only wants to keep its western border secure. What a total turnaround from right-wing rhetoric of half a century ago. Right-wingers back then would have warned about repeating the appeasement deal with Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938, but now their position is, relative to that deal, that AH was justified in wanting to protect ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.
The CNN clip showed a Russian news show that featured people appreciating TC's position. Then Trump's Putin-loving. Russian TV is now anti-Biden. Then Julia Ioffe, a Russian-born journalist. She noted that US right-wing organizations started reaching out to Russia a decade ago, the likes of the World Congress on Families, and that it's become especially strong under Trump.
Russian state media and US right-wing media now talk to each other and reinforce each other, to the point where it can be hard to distinguish between Pervy Kanal ("Channel One") and Fox News. Like coverage of the BLM demonstrations of last year, that it was all looters and terrorists, that it was about humiliating white people, and the like, and Joe Biden being barely with it and having one foot in the grave and the like. Now saying that Democrats are socialists and radicals who want to imitate Soviet-style socialism and that the Republicans are sane. When it became public that some American intelligence agencies had concluded that some Russian intelligence agencies helped Trump win, self-described Republicans came to think much better of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
"CNN's Matthew Chance looks at how Russian state TV is reacting to Fox News host Tucker Carlson's coverage of President Joe Biden and the build up of Russian military along the Ukrainian border."
Like TC saying about Ukraine that Russia only wants to keep its western border secure. What a total turnaround from right-wing rhetoric of half a century ago. Right-wingers back then would have warned about repeating the appeasement deal with Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938, but now their position is, relative to that deal, that AH was justified in wanting to protect ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia.
The CNN clip showed a Russian news show that featured people appreciating TC's position. Then Trump's Putin-loving. Russian TV is now anti-Biden. Then Julia Ioffe, a Russian-born journalist. She noted that US right-wing organizations started reaching out to Russia a decade ago, the likes of the World Congress on Families, and that it's become especially strong under Trump.
Russian state media and US right-wing media now talk to each other and reinforce each other, to the point where it can be hard to distinguish between Pervy Kanal ("Channel One") and Fox News. Like coverage of the BLM demonstrations of last year, that it was all looters and terrorists, that it was about humiliating white people, and the like, and Joe Biden being barely with it and having one foot in the grave and the like. Now saying that Democrats are socialists and radicals who want to imitate Soviet-style socialism and that the Republicans are sane. When it became public that some American intelligence agencies had concluded that some Russian intelligence agencies helped Trump win, self-described Republicans came to think much better of Russia and Vladimir Putin.
