re: Tucker’s Vladimir Putin interview is live

You don’t need to be an “agent” to be an asset. The Russians are skillful, sometimes more than us, at exploiting what people really need and want.

Tucker is driven by resentment and anger at the elites who reject him. He tried to join the CIA and wasn’t wanted or taken seriously. He tried to be an important and thoughtful journalist and commentator and was laughed at. He thought he had respect from the Murdochs and the elite conservative class but they tossed him overboard.

And finally, the Russians. Who will tell him he is not just a real journalist, he’s the only real one. The one man in the West who might make a difference, who might shape history. The only one who can be trusted to tell the story of Vladimir Putin, the man with his finger on the button. The Tsar of All Russia.

It’s an old ploy. Despotic flattery.