Chris Wallace: Calling Tucker Carlson Useful Idiot 'Unfair To Useful Idiots'

Chris Wallace and his panel on CNN this Saturday didn't mince words when it came to his former Fox colleague's disgusting excuse for an interview with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin. How bad are things when you've got right wing hacks like Wallace and The New York Times' Bret Stephens ripping you apart and comparing you to Tokyo Rose?

WALLACE: Tucker Carlson showed up in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin. It turned out to be anything but an interview. Putin droned on for two hours and seven minutes while Tucker sat there like an eager puppy. Occasionally, but rarely, he got in a question, like this one about the power of the deep state in Washington.

CARLSON: It sounds like you're describing a system that's not run by the people who are elected in your telling?

PUTIN: That's right, that's right.

WALLACE: But more telling than what Tucker asked is what he didn’t ask. Nothing about why Putin invaded a sovereign country. Nothing about targeting civilians. Nothing about Russian war crimes. A reporter can ask Putin a tough question, if, he wants a real interview.

Wallace cut to a clip of himself interviewing Putin for Fox back in 2018:

WALLACE: Why is it that so many of the people that oppose Vladimir Putin end up dead or close to it?

Wallace, along with his panel, then proceeded to tear into Carlson:

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