Earlier this week, a comment made by Tucker Carlson promoting his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin received a Community Note fact-check on X. Keith Olbermann believes it’s clear Carlson isn’t trustworthy after the incident.
While discussing Carlson’s interview with Putin, the Countdown with Keith Olbermann host argued that it is difficult to retain your credibility when you’re being fact-checked by a dictator.
“Tucker Carlson got community noted by the Kremlin under his post promoting his flatulent, lap-sitting visit with the dictator. The Kremlin has disputed Carlson’s claim that no other Westerner has bothered to interview Putin. The Kremlin spokesman added there’s no way he could know this. Like that ever stopped Tucker Carlson before,” Olbermann said, sarcastically. “When the Kremlin is more credible than you are, Tucker, you just turned the rest of your life into a punch line.”
Keith Olbermann continued his takedown of Carlson by taking a shot at his tenure at MSNBC.
‘”A member of the European Parliament is talking about introducing a response to Carlson’s serving as Putin’s useful idiot by proposing a travel ban against Carlson in EU countries. Also, that phrase ‘useful idiot’? That’s how we used to think of Tucker at MSNBC. Only without the useful part.”
