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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore in New York

‘Tucker the Untouchable’ goes soft on Putin but remains Fox News’s biggest power

Republicans in Washington have expressed concern that Carlson has veered too close to defending Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Republicans in Washington have expressed concern that Tucker Carlson has veered too close to defending the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Brian Cahn/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

Last week, two Fox News journalists died in Ukraine, and the news channel grieved along with the rest of the country amid anger at the Russian onslaught. Republicans, too, rapidly shed past views on Russia and some called for no-fly zones and supplying Ukraine with Polish MiG fighter jets as Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion ground on.

But the far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the alternately flabbergasted and outraged primetime host and Trumpist standard-bearer, carried on presenting his conspiratorial show with such a seeming lack of regard that the Kremlin itself reportedly considers his equivocations over the causes of the conflict vital to its propaganda apparatus.

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