Bill O’Reilly Defends Tucker Carlson—and Makes One Big, Embarrassing Mistake
The disgraced former Fox host questions the Kremlin memo advising Russian media to feature Carlson.
"Why would they leak a memo like that to an obscure publication, which nobody reads and very few have even heard of, Mother Jones? Why wouldn't they leak that to the Washington Post or the New York Times or a big publication?"
That is what disgraced former Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly had to say about my big scoop in March, when I obtained a Kremlin memo instructing Russian media that it was "essential to use as much as possible…the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson" in its propaganda supporting Vladimir Putin's illegal and horrific war in Ukraine.
The story made a huge splash. It was extensively covered on cable news and by other outlets. Several million people saw it on social media. Stephen Colbert amplified the story with parody. Here we had the Kremlin acknowledging that the most influential right-wing commentator in the United States was one of its best weapons in Vladimir Putin’s war on truth. Russian disinformation and the fake reality of the Trumpified right-wing media—it was merging.
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