This guy ain’t in Tucker’s Fan Club!

Reporter Shot in Ukraine: No, Tucker. That’s Not How You Cover the War

Emil Filtenborg in Daily Beast

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Tucker Carlson claims he’s the only journalist bothering to report the truth about Ukraine. A real war reporter explains why his phony interview with Putin will do no such thing.

Three days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was bleeding out on a muddy lawn in front of a small salmon-colored house in Akhtyrka, north eastern Ukraine. I had been shot four times, two in the legs, one in the back and one in the left butt-cheek. My colleague Stefan Weichert, who had been shot in the shoulder, was trying quite desperately to save my life.

I’m telling you about this now because I was transported back to that moment when Tucker Carlson-the fired Fox News host—claimed he was a journalist swooping in to finally deliver “the truth” about what was happening in Ukraine via his interview with President Vladimir Putin.

“Here’s why we’re doing it,” Carlson explained in a video posted on X. “First, because it’s our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed.”

I’m sorry to tell you, Mr. Carlson, but Stefan and I were on the ground in Ukraine before this war even began, informing Daily Beast readers exactly what was going on. Thousands of other foreign correspondents have been doing exactly the same thing, informing Americans and the rest of the world all about Putin’s iniquitous invasion…