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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Tucker Carlson’s Glorification of the Putin Regime
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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Ziemowit Gowin discuss Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin, and Carlson’s attempt to undercut America by whitewashing life in Russia.
Among the topics covered:
Mainstream media’s reaction to Carlson’s interview;
How interviewing dictators gives them an undeserved sense of moral legitimacy;
How the interview only repeated Putin’s stale propaganda;
Why it’s absurd to think that the only way to be informed about events in Russia and Ukraine is to interview a dictator;
That Carlson...