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Tucker Carlson Was Just Humiliated by Putin Over and Over Again and Americans Are Stunned (and Laughing)

Tucker is BIG MAD.

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It’s hard to imagine what else I might have in common with the President of Russia, but there’s at least this one little thing. We both have little use for empty-headed TV commentators.

And who’s the most useless of all? It’s Tucker Carlson. Tucker once was held in relatively high esteem, as the bowtied counterpart to Paul Begala on CNN’s Crossfire, a show meant to set a debate stage for daily events from both liberal (Begala) and conservative (Carlson) perspectives.

Then Jon Stewart showed up on their program one day about 20 years ago and upended Tucker’s career. His appearance on Crossfire was legendary in that he criticized the two so much for being partisan hacks on what was ostensibly supposed to be a news show that Tucker lost his cool.

“[You’re] more fun on your show, just my opinion,” Carlson said to Stewart, which prompted the reply that got Crossfire canceled just three months later: “You know what’s interesting, though? You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show,” Stewart said, live on air.

That would be far from the last time Tucker was humiliated on his own program.

His latest foray into pseudo-intellectual political punditry comes with a trip to Russia — Tucker perhaps saw himself getting a show on the country’s RT network after being unceremoniously booted from Fox News.

He scored the interview of a lifetime, or so he thought. Vladimir Putin was his guest.

But Putin turned host almost immediately.

After dispensing with pleasantries, Putin began to openly mock Carlson.

He made fun of Tucker’s “infotainment” style of “journalism”:

He laughed at Tucker’s attempt to join the CIA:

Even the Kremlin itself got in on the game before the interview ever began, calling out Carlson for lying about being the only Western journalist who’s “bothered to” interview the Russian President.

There’s a reason Tucker gets laughed out of every job he has. It’s because he’s an idiot, and he just can’t help but pat himself on the back while everyone tries to stifle a chuckle.

That sounds like a president we used to have a few years ago.

The reaction on social media was rather entertaining:

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